
Trawler Q&A: A Steering Gear Snafu, Anchors Behaving Badly & Broker Ethics
Your technical questions answered by some of the most experienced trawler minds on the water.

Your technical questions answered by some of the most experienced trawler minds on the water.

Your technical questions answered by some of the most experienced trawler minds on the water.

Your technical questions answered by some of the most experienced trawler minds on the water.

I have a Mainship 34 with a Yanmar 6LYSTP. In 2018, I noticed rust spots on top of the exhaust elbow…

Your technical questions answered by some of the most experienced trawler minds on the water.

Your technical questions answered by the most experienced trawler minds on the water.

Q: I have an outboard. Does prop walk apply to me or not?

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.