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Costs of Cruising

Working With A Boatyard

As a boat owner, you have the power to insist that boatyards do the right thing and you have the option of going elsewhere if

Selecting The Right Boat

Matching The Trawler To The Dream As the trawler community has evolved and expanded over the past decade, the choices in boats have exploded beyond

A “New” Boat

Here’s a story with a happy ending for an older boat and her owners. It’s also about a boating entrepreneur who found a market niche

Simple Big Yacht…Is That An Oxymoron?

Many people feel that increasing the size of a trawler equates to increased complexity, greater expense, and a much higher level of maintenance. A smaller

All Decked Out

THE TEAK DECKS ON OUR 1980 GRAND BANKS 42 were starting to look a bit shabby, as well as beginning to leak in the aft

There is No One Perfect Cruising Boat

My family has been living aboard and cruising full time since 1979, averaging several thousand miles each year. Our cruising and lives have been enriched

Absolute 70 Fly

Absolute 70 Fly Reviewed

Twin 1,000-hp Volvo Penta D13s and 285 nautical miles of range give the new Absolute 70 Fly the room and speed to roam.

Twin delivery captains Assen and Nikolay Alexandrov standing on the bow deck of a motor yacht docked alongside a pier.

The Twins

After more than 500,000 nautical miles as yacht delivery captains, Assen and Nikolay Alexandrov are still bringing boats home.

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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