
It’s About Time
Things can move surprisingly fast between making an offer and closing the deal.

Things can move surprisingly fast between making an offer and closing the deal.

PM’s brokerage expert Jeff Merrill explains how a maritime attorney can help you understand the legal aspects of trawler ownership.

Be as sure about financing and expenses as you are about the trawler you’re buying or selling.

Insurance shouldn’t be an afterthought. It should be a top priority in any trawler purchase.

Nordhavn 57 owners invited PM’s Trawler Transactions columnist Jeff Merrill to crew with them on a “short” hop offshore between San Diego and Mexico.

In this episode, Jeff Merrill (JMYS) and Kevin Althoff (Burr Yacht Sales) reveal how you can be more savvy in any trawler transaction.

As the Covid-19 pandemic wears on, the process of
buying new and brokerage boats is moving online.

The owner of Jeff Merrill Yacht Sales discusses brokerage during a pandemic—and offers tips for current buyers and sellers to succeed.

Brokerage experts say the market for trawlers and long-range cruisers is shifting. Buyers may hold an advantage.

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.