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Worse-Case Planning

Sure, you’ve read plenty about how to anchor, but what happens if you become unanchored?

My Name is Anchor

Anchors provide freedom, the ability to go and stay places far and wide, and the chance to explore places of remoteness and quiet. It is time to regain some of that freedom.

Boaters University: Anchors and Anchoring

Does anchoring make you nervous? Not sure about spending the night on the hook? Learn the ins and outs of anchoring with anchoring specialist, Chuck Hawley in this new course from Boaters University.

The Right Stuff: Chain Reaction

Steve Zimmerman goes over best practices for storing anchors while underway and broaches the controversial topic of anchor swivels.

Stress Free Anchoring

Over the decades, my wife Terrie and I have anchored literally thousands of times in about every conceivable type of bottom. Early on in our

Hold Fast

Recently I took a walk down a dock that had a number of trawler-yachts tied up alongside. I was struck by how lightweight the anchors

Absolute 70 Fly

Absolute 70 Fly Reviewed

Twin 1,000-hp Volvo Penta D13s and 285 nautical miles of range give the new Absolute 70 Fly the room and speed to roam.

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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