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ABYC

ABYC Training Goes Virtual

Digital session aimed to help surveyors and technicians earn continuing education credits required to maintain membership.

Boatbuilding Standards Made Easy

From USCG to ABYC, this crash course in the various standards, codes and certifications of boatbuilding will bring you up to speed.

Fire Suppression Systems

Fire in the engine room is an experience most owners would rather not have. It is a frighteningly dangerous proposition, and one that can prove

Diesel Heat

A decade or so ago, I joined a friend for a cruise to Newfoundland aboard his 47-foot cutter, Paloma. The passage lasted four months and afforded

LP Gas Systems

Installation And Safety Part II In Part I of this series on LP gas systems, we reviewed the properties of LP gas, tank and valve

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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