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1912 Tugboat Liveaboard

Discover how Stewart Brand restored the 1912 tugboat Mirene into a floating home, blending history, craftsmanship, and a life of adventure on the water.

Young at Heart

With systems that wouldn’t look out out of place on a superyacht, the nearly 40-year old Martina represents the highest pedigree of Doggersbank refits.

Lush Life

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

The Luddite Club

Call me a codger, but I believe we have reached the point of over-teching everything.

A Class of Her Own

The V/Class combines a quintessential profile atop a sturdy steel hull.

Chesapeake Rising

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

My Mental Marina

The fleet of my dreams contains some seriously memorable craft.

The Purpose-Driven Yacht

A former North Atlantic scallop dragger undergoes an extensive refit for its new life of leisure.

Absolute 70 Fly

Absolute 70 Fly Reviewed

Twin 1,000-hp Volvo Penta D13s and 285 nautical miles of range give the new Absolute 70 Fly the room and speed to roam.

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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