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A magazine cover for Passagemaker featuring the bold headline "EXPEDITION GREENLAND." The cover photo showcases a striking, bright orange long-range expedition trawler navigating vibrant turquoise water dotted with small chunks of floating ice. In the background, a steep, dark rocky mountain rises into low-hanging fog and dense grey clouds. Subtext below the headline reads, "A FAR NORTH CRUISE REVEALS ICEBERGS, SEVERE WEATHER AND NATURE'S STARK BEAUTY." A golden 30th-anniversary logo is displayed in the bottom right corner, just above the issue date "JULY/AUGUST 2026".
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The Road Less Traveled: Summer Cruising In Vacationland

August 18, 2015

I’m a former resident of Newport and will always have a tight bond with the town … err, well, except during the summer when the streets overflow with steroid-fueled meatheads, every decent restaurant is packed shoulder to shoulder, and 120 decibels is the normal level of conversation. Great for commerce; bad for folks looking for less confrontation and more peace. Solution: Head north to Portland, Maine until the summer crowds subside.

Thoughts From Sea

November 21, 2011

During lengthy summer cruises I habitually make notes about topics that might be worth writing about. They are never stuffed into the same hiding place,

Part 2: Venture II Ventures North

March 2, 2011

As we crisscrossed our way over, through, and under the Faroes (pronounced the same as the pharaohs of Egypt), I found it exceedingly difficult to

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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