
Steel the One
On the eve of 75 years in boatbuilding, Holland-based Linssen Yachts continues to craft classically styled, full-displacement vessels.

On the eve of 75 years in boatbuilding, Holland-based Linssen Yachts continues to craft classically styled, full-displacement vessels.

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

A 2016 build is born anew after a son enlists Zimmerman Marine to improve his late father’s launch.
For recreational maritime editors, Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show is the last stateside boat show of the year, with just a few months before January’s “how did they get these colossal yachts indoors?” boot Düsseldorf in Germany.

Nostalgia about old boatbuilders, designs and marine shops is a romantic memory for many of us cruisers.

Editor in Chief Andrew Parkinson sits down with Scott Helker of Helmsman Trawlers.
Grand Banks is well known to anyone interested in cruising powerboats, the brand moniker, Dependable Diesel Cruisers, has been associated with trawlers, and our lifestyle, for
Four years ago we published a concept article on catamaran-style trawlers (PMM, Fall ’97). Author Graham Pfister explored the possibilities and advantages of a cruising
LOOKING BACK ON IT, THE SIGNS WERE CLASSIC. WE’D MADE OUR WAY DOWN ONE PATH, only to find our needs had changed when we got
The last few days before a passage are such a high! With energy and emotions running wild, bursting with anticipation, my mind exults at the

We follow the path of explorers who ran the Northwest Passage over a century ago, but our journey is a lot more fun

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.