
A Family Affair
Rebuilding this 45-foot workboat brought all of us closer together on and off the water.

Rebuilding this 45-foot workboat brought all of us closer together on and off the water.

An anchoring tip from Chuck Hawley’s new Boaters University course: Anchors and Anchoring.

At some point, we’re all forced to endure ‘that guy’ in the anchorage. If ‘that guy’ happens to be you, here’s some sage advice to help make fewer enemies on the water.
USUALLY, CRUISING IS REWARD ENOUGH FOR THE EFFORT AND investment involved in taking a boat to sea. But now and then an added attraction-a stunning
The best time to visit Alaska’s Prince William Sound is early May, everyone had promised, and we were believers as our small charter yacht, Faithfully,

I’m floating facedown in 82-degree water, wearing swim trunks and snorkel gear, watching colorful fish I can’t name and wondering when the next curious sea

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.