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Cruising By All Means

Four intrepid women spent over two months on a cruise up the Inside Passage of British Columbia on a North Pacific 28.

Talking Gratitude

This family spent several years cruising throughout Europe after crossing the Atlantic on their Nordhavn 64.

Becoming a Long-Range Power Cruiser

James Waters and his wife nearly purchased a 63-foot trawler. But the jump was too big for insurers. So they bought a smaller vessel and cruised far and wide, learned its many systems and earned sea time with the goal of a life as liveaboards on a proper trawler.

The Life Aquatic With Stephenie Hollyman

A longtime liveaboard, Hollyman was a New York harbor tugboat cook, a Fulbright scholar and a photojournalist for major TV networks. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Aquila 50 Video Walkthrough

Powercat Alert: Aquila just debuted their 50 Yacht, a stunning boat that’s bound for private ownership and charter that’s pushing the boundaries of multihull design

Summering In Alaska At 6 Knots

Soundings Deputy Editor Pim Van Hemmen joined boatbuilder Sam Devlin on a summer cruise in Alaska aboard Puffin, Devlin’s 1966 wooden trawler.

Pursuing Freedom On A Monk 36

Joe Lovejoy figured that life as a liveaboard would suit his tastes and found his new home, a 1982 Ed Monk 36, near San Diego. Lovejoy details his search, the work he’s done to her, the people that have helped him along the way and more.

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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