
Riding Solo: How I Learned To Love Singlehanded Cruising
Couples cruising can be fun, but it can be equally romantic just sitting by yourself at anchor under a full moon.

Couples cruising can be fun, but it can be equally romantic just sitting by yourself at anchor under a full moon.

A partner who doesn’t know enough about boating isn’t going to enjoy boating with you.

Living aboard is an intensity test for every couple’s skills, nerves and patience.

Arthur is heading our way as we’re anchored in Connecticut, which leaves us to play a game of “find the boat hidden in the storm radar.”
“This is home now.” That was several thousand miles ago, but my husband’s words and that first day aboard Heron, our 1981 Grand Banks Classic 42-foot

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.

With her vertical bow, reverse raked windshield and indoor-outdoor living space, the Galeon 430 EXP defies categorization.