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Dead Reckoning

The Lost Art of Dead Reckoning

For all the precision of modern technology, sometimes there’s no substitute for the tried-and-true art of dead reckoning.

Bye, Bye Birdie: Dead Reckoning

Successful navigation is really just answering three simple questions: Where am I? Where am I going? How do I get there from here? Even when

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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