
Summer Sojourns
Planning a trip away from your home port? These tips will help along the way.

Planning a trip away from your home port? These tips will help along the way.

Maryland startup Dockshare helps boaters find docks and dock owners make extra income.

Craig LeBlanc is facing a challenge he never before fathomed: running a marine retail operation amid a global pandemic. Here’s his COVID-19 story.

Regulations for shore power pedestals are more stringent under the new 2020 guidelines. See how it might affect you.

Great Loopers can drop anchor at new state-of-the-art marina in 2021 in the Windy City.

Ben Ellison frets about Hurricane Florence’s impact on the marina’s he favors in the Carolinas.
THE TEAK DECKS ON OUR 1980 GRAND BANKS 42 were starting to look a bit shabby, as well as beginning to leak in the aft

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.