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Character Matters

In Sam Devlin’s last column for Passagemaker, he shares what makes any boat the right boat.

Something Borrowed

The Dynamo Too concept is a stich-and-glue version of William Garden’s plank-on-frame Dynamo.

Arctic Apparition

The idea for this Oso Blanco 54 springs from a bucket-list cruising itinerary.

Planting the Bug

Passion ignites young people to join the industry, but creating it requires early exposure.

Steve Dashew Design: Helm Ergonomics

While the Dashews have retired from designing and building, FPBs Steve Dashew is still perfecting his personal designs aboard his own FPB 78.

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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