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Unicorn Sighting

A former fighting craft keeps her pugnacious profile with a makeover that fits her singularity.

Lush Life

A Dutch-built steel fishing trawler is reborn to pursue a life of leisure as Project PM-8.

Chesapeake Rising

The Chesa 44 aims to reinvigorate the classic deadrise workboat for recreation.

New Classic

Husk, a classic trawler, has modern features and amenities in a traditional package.

A Word About Design

Rowing through anchorages helped establish my pretty-boat rating. It still holds water.

A Classic, Reimagined

Here’s how the Grand Banks 32 could look with a few feet added at her transom and an updated layout.

Character Matters

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

Archipelago 47

This new, U.K.-based builder seeks to combine the best qualities from commercial boats with yachting.

Mirror, Mirror

A different approach leads a designer to make updates to the Devlin 37 while retaining her essence.

Graphic novel illustration panel showing seasickness causes and remedies, including looking at the horizon, acupressure wristbands, ginger, and steering a boat.

Why Seasickness Happens

Feeling queasy on the water happens to all of us. Here’s how to identify the early signs and counter them.

Split photo featuring boaters wearing "The 71 Percent" t-shirts on a trawler yacht next to the Trawler Talk podcast logo.

A 10,000-Nautical-Mile Delivery

Nathan and Lindsay of the 71 Percent—the can’t stop, won’t stop power cruisers—completed a “wrong way” crossing of the Pacific Ocean.

Organized set of chrome combination wrenches in foam storage tray inside a boat toolbox.

The Right Toolkit

A traveling boat’s toolbox is never full. Try to equip yours to handle any issues that might arise.

Side profile of the bright orange and black custom expedition yacht Vanguard floating in calm blue arctic waters, perfectly reflected on the surface against a backdrop of massive white and ice-blue glaciers under a pale blue sky.

Tangerine Dream

A small crew finds the adventure they wanted on a bucket-list journey to Greenland aboard a custom aluminum yacht.

Diagram showing how AIS signals travel from ships via satellites and shore stations to a central database server.

Power and Perils

AIS networks are a mighty addition to any onboard suite of electronics. They have significant value, but also limitations.

Close-up of a white marine diesel engine heat exchanger with a metal cap during routine preventive maintenance.

System Crashers

If you give your engine and generators regular love and attention, they won’t let you down.

A white Jeanneau Sea Loft 480 monomoran yacht cruising across blue open water, showing its solar-panel roof, open deck salon, and sunbed on the bow.

Jeanneau Sea Loft 480

A loft-like open layout and a choice of power-train options let buyers choose their own adventure.

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