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Important pointers in docking your boat in order to avoid any incidents.

Important pointers in docking your boat in order to avoid any incidents.

Safely picking up a mooring will put you in the heart of harbor scenes that only boaters can enjoy.

It’s not just your mooring lines that require attention. It’s also what you tie them to at the dock.

Nothing is worse than boats going crash in the middle of the night, learn to anchor respectfully.

Here’s a useful tip: you can learn a great deal about a cruising yacht by seeing how she rides on the hook. Spending a day
For me, it is hard to recall the first “let’s buy a boat and cruise the world” conversation. I can tell you that it wasn’t

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.