Canvas Care Essentials
January 12, 2022
Don’t let folks judge your boat by its covers. Here’s how to bring old vinyl back to spec.
Don’t let folks judge your boat by its covers. Here’s how to bring old vinyl back to spec.
That is the question, and it vexes all trawler lovers—especially at boat-show time.
A great varnishing job is a blend of smart preparation and time-sensitive application. Here’s the right way to do it.
Smart maintenance will ensure that nasty stenches can’t collect in the bilge.
Gelcoat, like everything else on the boat, needs smart maintenance on a regular schedule.
This old-school system for managing maintenance tasks still holds up today.
To navigate a bridge safely, do your homework and proceed with caution.
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.
