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Boating Safety

Eyes on the Water

Watchkeeping is an underappreciated skill that should always be part of operating the boat.

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.

Forecasting Trouble

Practicing safety drills for a range of emergencies will let you tap into a mental playbook on how best to react.

Solo Passagemaking

The risks are numerous when single-handing a medium- to large-size cruising boat.

Battery Monitors

Many options are available to obtain the state of charge on a boat’s battery banks.

Balance of Power

DMS Holland’s MagnusMaster System doesn’t use Active-Fin or Gyro Stabilization. Instead, it works with the Magnus Effect.

Stop, Thief!

Follow these three tips to keep the boating bad guys at bay.

Buddy Boating

There are a litany of good reasons to travel with other vessels, but due diligence is required to have realistic expectations.

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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