Summering In Alaska At 6 Knots
October 15, 2024
Soundings Deputy Editor Pim Van Hemmen joined boatbuilder Sam Devlin on a summer cruise in Alaska aboard Puffin, Devlin’s 1966 wooden trawler.
Soundings Deputy Editor Pim Van Hemmen joined boatbuilder Sam Devlin on a summer cruise in Alaska aboard Puffin, Devlin’s 1966 wooden trawler.
Sam Devlin has run Devlin Designing Boat Builders since 1978. An active proponent of wood/epoxy boats throughout his career, Sam is the author of the 1997 best seller Devlin’s Boat Building on the stitch-and-glue method.
A cherished family boat for adventures far and wide, Honker inspires a new design to cruise portions of the Great Loop.
The Dynamo Too concept is a stich-and-glue version of William Garden’s plank-on-frame Dynamo.
There are few folks like Sam Devlin—artist, perfectionist, and dreamer caught in the profession of boatbuilding.
Is the Albacore 40 a truly classic design? The way my eyes see her makes it hard for me to tell.
A father, a son, and a dream of zero-impact passage making culminates in a record-setting 1,400 mile voyage.
The idea for this Oso Blanco 54 springs from a bucket-list cruising itinerary.
The double-ended Tyee 33 underscores why two sterns can, sometimes, be better than one.
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.
