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The Gatekeeper

A properly installed and maintained seacock can last a lifetime.

Stress Free Anchoring

Over the decades, my wife Terrie and I have anchored literally thousands of times in about every conceivable type of bottom. Early on in our

How It’s Made: Ship-in-a-Bottle

This video, from PassageMaker Magazine, was filmed at the 2016 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, where Jeff Simmons was revealing a seafaring mystery, how

A Lobster Boat Alternative

Four and a half years. Six days a week. Eight hours a day, everyday. All told, roughly eight thousand hours of personal commitment. It’s not

MOB Recovery

He cast off the painter, a quick flick of the wrist, and he was off. The sailing dinghy slowly gathered way as he smiled to

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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