The 50-foot flybridge cruiser was reflecting light much like the surrounding skyscrapers as I approached the New York City marina. She was mine for the next four days, and I wanted to be prepared.
Important pointers in docking your boat in order to avoid any incidents.
Handling the lines while docking at a marina is a skill as important as handling the boat itself.
If you address the dual challenges of communication and sightlines, docking becomes a whole lot easier.
Right NOW is the best time to go boating with your loved ones and Dockmate will make your experience even more enjoyable!
There are docking skills and then there are “docking” skills. As they say here on the Chesapeake: “It’s an Eastern Shore thing; you wouldn’t understand.”
Here’s what to do when your dinghy becomes the tow boat.
Loose mooring lines tax USCG with needless search-and-rescue missions
During Trawlerfest in Stuart, Fl this year, we learned about the Dockmate remote controlled docking system.
Raymarine and Mercury’s preview of semi-autonomous docking assist
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.
