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Trawler Talk

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.

New Horizons

A s a journalist covering the boating business, I get to go where the yachts are. That often means locations well outside most people’s daily purview.

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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