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January/February 2026

The Real Deal

To sell your boat in a buyer’s market, be honest and consider working with a professional broker.

Steadier Seas, Classic Lines

How one liveaboard crew found comfort and confidence by choosing paravanes over high-tech stabilization systems.

Bulbous Bow Basics

Boats designed with these appendages, as well as retrofitted models, enjoy a wealth of benefits.

In Build: Nordhavn N46 Mark II

With the N46 Mark II, Nordhavn reimagines the first model the brand’s founders ever designed entirely on their own.

Sirena 60

Sirena 60

The three-stateroom model replaces the 58 with a host of interior and exterior upgrades.

La Dolce Vita

Day-tripping aboard a modern Gozzo cruiser reveals Italy’s historically vibrant and delectably delicious Amalfi Coast.

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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