In Praise of Going Slow
January 8, 2026
Why this seasoned captain favors full-displacement boats over fast trawlers.
Why this seasoned captain favors full-displacement boats over fast trawlers.
A Connecticut couple contributes to the design of the first
Ocean Series 63 by Hunt Yachts and creates a cruiser on a
which they are completely at ease.
A family learns that remote cruising can make dockside fast friendships even more important.
Since deciding on a used Fleming 55, this couple are realizing their passagemaking aspirations while cruising the Australian coast.
Buddy boating can be a great experience, as long as everyone understands its limitations.
That is the question, and it vexes all trawler lovers—especially at boat-show time.
When “fate” made an 86-year-old boat available to the Saiget family, they suddenly found themselves caretakers of a legacy.
National Harbormaster Appreciation Day is coming soon, but most people don’t realize everything that harbormasters do.
For empty nesters Bill and Joan Nieman, the next chapter—living aboard their 42-foot Kadey-Krogen—has allowed them to keep dreaming big.
We can spend years planning for a bucket-list trip and then life gets in the way. Go now.
Splashing later this year.
Karly and Evan Nietzel—aka YouTube’s @Navigating Nietzels—tailored their careers for remote work after buying a trawler, moving onboard and completing the Great Loop. Along with their pup, Ripley, they’re just getting started.
This aluminum vessel’s throwback design belies its modern systems, all installed for a Great Loop cruise.
The three-stateroom, semidisplacement model has a range of power options and a low air draft.
A solar-power system on our classic trawler lets us spend time moored or anchored with more than enough juice to meet our energy needs.
America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association has been helping boaters complete the ultimate voyage for a quarter century.
The steel-hull Nightfall, designed by William Garden, connects generations of this family through a love of cruising.
Larry Graf, the founder, designer and lead engineer of Aspen Power Catamarans, talks about Aspen’s proa hull designs and adventure cruising on his own creations from the Arctic to the Sea of Cortez.
With her vertical bow, reverse raked windshield and indoor-outdoor living space, the Galeon 430 EXP defies categorization.
