Vancouver Boat Show Best In Show Awards
February 8, 2019
Hometown heros and industry giants all took home awards for their products.
Hometown heros and industry giants all took home awards for their products.
Last month Aspen Powercat Founder, Larry Graf, accepted a challenge issued by Pacific Yachting to circumnavigate Vancouver Island, non-stop. Relive those moments with Larry’s person account of the voyage.
The year was 1995, and the out-of-the box 38-foot Eastbay by Grand Banks was blasting through winter fog on Seattle’s Lake Washington. There were two people aboard-a failing boat broker
Those who say their boats don’t roll are liars…or they never leave the marina. Rolling is a fact of cruising life, especially on offshore passages.
I thought we were flying. The bottom of the boat was firmly and properly in contact with the sea, but as I swung the wheel
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.
With her vertical bow, reverse raked windshield and indoor-outdoor living space, the Galeon 430 EXP defies categorization.
