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How It’s Made: Ship-in-a-Bottle

This video, from PassageMaker Magazine, was filmed at the 2016 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, where Jeff Simmons was revealing a seafaring mystery, how

Cats Out Of The Cradle

Although there are many new boats coming on the cruising scene these days, the majority are built to appeal to the upper end of our

Have It Your Way… The Grand Alaskans

Many of today’s cruising powerboats come from production yards, most of which offer more than one model in an attempt to satisfy various budgets and

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

Cold Hard Steel

Heavy Metal, cold to the touch. Everything under foot feels solid, secure. A dropped platter of hors d’oeuvres shatters on impact like a fragile glass

Growler Launches

Growlers is in the water! We are just now stepping into the various projects that will transform her from a working commercial boat into a

Heart Tugging

Tugboats are contagious. I know. From my ground floor office in a house on Fidalgo Island, Washington, I spend too much time watching tugboats at

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

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.

An exterior dusk photograph looking through the large side windows into the illuminated, warm cherrywood salon and helm area of a Sabre motor yacht as the sun sets over the water.

South by Down East

A brisk November run from Connecticut to New Jersey showcases just how comfortable the Sabre 51 Salon Express really is.

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