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Cruising & Destinations

Making Memories

The steel-hull Nightfall, designed by William Garden, connects generations of this family through a love of cruising.

Special Edition

Mulder Shipyard celebrates its 85th year with a highly customized Favorite 1700.

Embracing the New

Selene Yachts returns to U.S. shores with its stylish and contemporary 60 Ocean Explorer.

A New Path

With the N51, Nordhavn created a turnkey production boat for long-distance cruising. The owners of Hull No. 1 are the perfect couple to test the concept.

Second Summer

With preventive maintenance now, a few more months of excellent cruising can follow prime boating season.

Elevating Your Cruise

Adapting to new technology may be harder for some boaters than others, but it’s the way of the future.

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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