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autopilot

Redundancy

Ideas to help make your boat more operationally redundant.

Pilot Line Autopilot, Unfinished Business

At the end of his career, a very experienced engineer came up with what he believes to be a superior autopilot technology, but it will never become available to boaters unless someone new carries the project forward.

One-Of-A-Kind: Ulysses

Most boating people dream of adventure, the fantasy of excitement and travel on the high seas. It is our nature, it is what makes us

Switch It Off… Not!

As you read the boat tour in this issue, you’ll see a comment made that the owners of this bluewater passagemaker believe it is best

Spooky Boat

I’ve been aboard beautiful boats, and ugly ones. I’ve toured luxury yachts costing millions and steampowered tugs. Sailboats, fishing boats, passagemakers and paddleboats have been

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.

An exterior dusk photograph looking through the large side windows into the illuminated, warm cherrywood salon and helm area of a Sabre motor yacht as the sun sets over the water.

South by Down East

A brisk November run from Connecticut to New Jersey showcases just how comfortable the Sabre 51 Salon Express really is.

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