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Personalities

A Labor of Love

Meet Pete Langley, the salty sailor who saved Washington’s historic Port Townsend Foundry.

The Lives of Harbormasters

National Harbormaster Appreciation Day is coming soon, but most people don’t realize everything that harbormasters do.

Hitting Close to Home

Craig LeBlanc is facing a challenge he never before fathomed: running a marine retail operation amid a global pandemic. Here’s his COVID-19 story.

Who is Ben Ellison?

I showed up late at Ben Ellison’s house. It was mid-June and already dark. I could tell Ben was up past his usual bedtime considering

Tony Fleming Given Lifetime Achievement Award

TrawlerFest and PassageMaker magazine were proud to present Tony Fleming with a lifetime achievement award, recognizing his indelible contribution to the world of power cruising over the past 30 years.

Alt Text: A close-up view of two polished stainless-steel windlasses and anchor gypsies mounted on the white foredeck of a yacht under a partly cloudy sky.

Anchors Aweigh

Windlass and ground tackle maintenance can make all the difference in an emergency.

A Garmin marine chartplotter display screen showing a digital nautical map with AIS vessel tracking, route waypoints, and navigation data overlay.

Understanding AIS

Good seamanship means using every available tool, but never relying on any one alone.

Three side-by-side screenshots from the Navionics app showing nautical charts of Hell Gate and Wards Island, contrasting a correct manually plotted water route on the left with two flawed AI-generated routes on the middle and right that erroneously plot course lines directly across land.

A Suspicious Plot

I used AI to chart a course through a notorious waterway. The results were unusable.

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