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Tony Fleming Given Lifetime Achievement Award

TrawlerFest and PassageMaker magazine were proud to present Tony Fleming with a lifetime achievement award, recognizing his indelible contribution to the world of power cruising over the past 30 years.

Skinning A Cat

Ever since I can remember, boats have fascinated me. During World War II, I visited my godfather at his summer house on Fire Island, N.Y.

Lure Of The Bahamas

“The Elephants are marching!” reported my husband, Denis, after he reconnoitered the situation from a third floor vantage point at Fort Lauderdale Beach. This condition,

Tuff Baby

When Dave and Margi Grow decided to make the switch from their Columbia 50 sailboat, Stampede, to a cruising powerboat, they decided to aim for a

A Lot To Like About Cats

Four years ago we published a concept article on catamaran-style trawlers (PMM, Fall ’97). Author Graham Pfister explored the possibilities and advantages of a cruising

Viva Ensenada

Paific white-sided dolphins frolicked and fed all around the 12-foot rib carrying the two California dudes and me across the Bay of All Saints. There

Founding Father

There I sat, at a table with the great Charley Morgan, one of the founding fathers of fiberglass, as he tried to explain the nuances

Stowaway!

NO ONE APPRECIATES AN UNINVITED GUEST ON A LONG passage, especially the slithery, fang-laden type. So when my husband, Wayne, and I discovered a four-foot

Absolute 70 Fly

Absolute 70 Fly Reviewed

Twin 1,000-hp Volvo Penta D13s and 285 nautical miles of range give the new Absolute 70 Fly the room and speed to roam.

Twin delivery captains Assen and Nikolay Alexandrov standing on the bow deck of a motor yacht docked alongside a pier.

The Twins

After more than 500,000 nautical miles as yacht delivery captains, Assen and Nikolay Alexandrov are still bringing boats home.

Alt Text: A close-up view of two polished stainless-steel windlasses and anchor gypsies mounted on the white foredeck of a yacht under a partly cloudy sky.

Anchors Aweigh

Windlass and ground tackle maintenance can make all the difference in an emergency.

A Garmin marine chartplotter display screen showing a digital nautical map with AIS vessel tracking, route waypoints, and navigation data overlay.

Understanding AIS

Good seamanship means using every available tool, but never relying on any one alone.

Three side-by-side screenshots from the Navionics app showing nautical charts of Hell Gate and Wards Island, contrasting a correct manually plotted water route on the left with two flawed AI-generated routes on the middle and right that erroneously plot course lines directly across land.

A Suspicious Plot

I used AI to chart a course through a notorious waterway. The results were unusable.

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