
Departures: As Far Out as it Gets
St. Helena, in the remote South Atlantic, offers once-in-a-lifetime memories for those able to cruise the long way there.

St. Helena, in the remote South Atlantic, offers once-in-a-lifetime memories for those able to cruise the long way there.

On the Adler Suprema 76, it’s what you don’t hear that makes all the difference.

Innovative hulls and cruise-anywhere characteristics have become synonymous with Vripack designs.

Living aboard is an intensity test for every couple’s skills, nerves and patience.


An encounter off the Eastern Seaboard serves as a scary reminder about safe offshore practices.


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.