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Deal Killers

Buying or selling a boat can be exciting, but stressful.

Bluewater Prep

Prepping a boat for bluewater travel is an order of magnitude more challenging than typical weekend boating or even coastal cruising.

Cool Ideas

A battery-powered setup gives you air conditioning without the noise of a genset. Just be careful about the details.

Vital Fluids

Understanding fuel-flow and filtration systems is vital to diagnosing and fixing engine-power loss.

Slippery Situations

Whether it’s too high or too low, oil pressure that’s off can mean a slew of engine-room problems.

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.

An exterior dusk photograph looking through the large side windows into the illuminated, warm cherrywood salon and helm area of a Sabre motor yacht as the sun sets over the water.

South by Down East

A brisk November run from Connecticut to New Jersey showcases just how comfortable the Sabre 51 Salon Express really is.

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