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Bluewater Cruising

Wherever You May Roam

Circa Marine’s new 24m sleek, efficient, all-aluminum adventure vessel has a low carbon footprint and all-weather capability.

Greek Goddess

Discover the Omikron OT-60, a sleek, fuel-efficient motoryacht blending sailing heritage, modern design, and long-range cruising capability.

Steel-Hull Yacht: Outer Reef Adventure 780

Outer Reef unveils the Adventure 780, a steel-hull yacht merging innovation and luxury. Explore its robust design, spacious interiors, and adventure-ready features.

Bering B60

The B60 from Bering Yachts promises the best attributes of a cruising cat in a hardy, aluminum, customizable package.

Go Big or Stay Home

We took our 60-foot Selene to Alaska’s Prince William Sound and the Kenai Peninsula, and enjoyed a blissful month of cruising.

The Go-Anywhere Office

Boaters nationwide, on all kinds of vessels, say new technology is making it easier than ever to work and homeschool from on board.

Sea Wolf

The 77-foot Van der Valk Explorer Felis is a long-range cruiser with transatlantic capability.

Are You a Helm Hog?

Relinquishing the navigational duties while on longer passages benefits everyone on board.

Night Flight

After-dark cruising can be a rewarding way to hone navigation skills.

A Test of Mettle

Archipelago Expedition Yachts has a prototype for a speedy, stable, all-aluminum powercat capable of long-distance cruising.

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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