
Northern Marine Resumes Course
World-class builder Northern Marine gets back to business, constructing long-range expedition trawlers in Anacortes.

World-class builder Northern Marine gets back to business, constructing long-range expedition trawlers in Anacortes.

In May 2014 Bäden sank upon launch in Anacortes, Washington, exacerbating a spate of bad luck for CEO and general manager Andy McDonald, who had just returned to work after an extended illness.

Our trip aboard a new Ranger Tugs 31 from Anacortes to Bremerton in the Pacific Northwest demonstrates why the company and their products are a force to be reckoned with.

So what constitutes a trawler and why would there be a festival to celebrate whatever the heck a trawler is? I have a concept in my head of what I think a trawler is, but it’s only a concept.

Chicken soup may be good for the soul. But a proper boat, weather of travel-brochure quality, and congenial cruising friends do more to keep me

Just think of the opportunity: Use the best high-technology design and innovative construction techniques to produce an all-new yacht whose good looks, performance, and efficiency
Back in the mid-1970s, Jerry Husted was building a lovely ketch-rigged sailboat called the Ingrid 38 in Woodinville, Washington, a semirural community east of Seattle.

Peter Whiting was showing off. No question about it. From the lower helm of the Northwest 45, he set the single engine at idle, turned

It was 2 p.m. on a brilliant blue September day in the Pacific Northwest as I made the turn out of Saratoga Passage, heading for

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.

It is called a razor because it shaves away unnecessary complexities, providing a simple solution to complicated questions.

Remembering Lifelong Marine Journalist Chris Caswell

A Master of Quiet Cruising

This imposing 55-footer is a comfortable, well-appointed coastal cruiser primed to take on more ambitious journeys.