Prepping a boat for bluewater travel is an order of magnitude more challenging than typical weekend boating or even coastal cruising.
A battery-powered setup gives you air conditioning without the noise of a genset. Just be careful about the details.
Understanding fuel-flow and filtration systems is vital to diagnosing and fixing engine-power loss.
Understanding the way marine electronics communicate can help you troubleshoot failures.
Your technical questions answered by some of the most experienced trawler minds afloat.
Whether it’s too high or too low, oil pressure that’s off can mean a slew of engine-room problems.
Overheating isn’t the only concern with engines. Running too cool can also lead to problems.
Your technical questions answered by the pros
Your technical questions answered by some of the most experienced trawler minds afloat.
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.
