
Cruising With The Chilbergs: Dreams Can Come True (BLOG)
For years, I drove real estate clients around the Nashville, Tennessee area. I always enjoyed asking the man, “What is your dream of how you’d like to spend the rest of your life?”

For years, I drove real estate clients around the Nashville, Tennessee area. I always enjoyed asking the man, “What is your dream of how you’d like to spend the rest of your life?”

I did not want to hit anyone, but I will admit that I had less concern for the $150K Sea Ray than the $1 million Hatteras and the $2 million Burger. Sorry, but I was thinking of my insurance agent!

The cruise up Hawk Channel from Rodriquez Key to Key Biscayne is only about 30 miles, but the two places are a world apart. Basically we went from a floating Benedictine Monastery of serenity at Rodriquez to a whitewater Woodstock at Key Biscayne!

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.

It is called a razor because it shaves away unnecessary complexities, providing a simple solution to complicated questions.

Remembering Lifelong Marine Journalist Chris Caswell