Potential LED Interference With VHF, DSC, and AIS Communications (Video)
August 21, 2018
The USCG issues a Marine Safety Alert on this potential issue after numerous reports of degraded radio communication
The USCG issues a Marine Safety Alert on this potential issue after numerous reports of degraded radio communication
A video from a few years ago is making the rounds. Watch it here.
It’s important to know the rules because safety is not an option
Understanding our responsibilities for operating in narrow channels with large ships
Are you captain material? Take our quick quiz on Navigational Rules to find out.
An important Seamanship article from our friends at Soundings Magazine regarding COLREGS Rule 5.
Seamanship columnist and Boaters University Instructor, Robert Reeder, talks about the importance of maintaining a proper lookout
Two Navy destroyers; two tragic collisions. Capt. Bill Pike investigates what went wrong in the Pacific.
Analysis of the collision between the Washington State Ferry Chetzemoka and the yacht, Nap Time.
Lessons from attending a seminar with Terry Sparks author of Radar Made Simple for Cruisers
We follow the path of explorers who ran the Northwest Passage over a century ago, but our journey is a lot more fun
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.
