On the Water

Sweet.  Comar's new little dual band AIS receiver not only outputs NMEA 2000 but is powered off it. Could there be a simpler install?  In fact, the AIS-2-2000 doesn't even have NMEA 0183 plotter or PC ports.  But the way things are going... …Read More

Well, they don’t come any hotter than this.  These photos were taken overnight when the future queen of the Nordhavn fleet was released from her molds at the factory in China.  I’m going to let the photos speak for themselves, but I think you can get from them a couple of things — first, this [...] …Read More

Just when I think the discounts can't go any deeper for serious charter yachts in the Mediterranean this summer, another offer lands in my in-box that makes my jaw drop. Earlier this week, I told you about Ocean Independence announcing a €40,000 bre... …Read More

Recent sales figures indicate that aluminum boats are outselling fiberglass. We wanted to find out why. …Read More

The phone rang at 0511 and what followed was a truncated conversation with a strong-sounding Ronnie Simpson who was “inside the Gate” and—he’s now ashore—safe, after his borrowed 30-footer dropped its keel 800 miles off the coast on the return from the Singlehanded Transpac. Warrior’s Wish was returning from Hawaii to San Francisco Bay, a distance [...] …Read More

Maybe I'm missing something, but the Isatphone Pro seems every bit like the game changer Inmarsat claimed it would be.  I've made calls from the boat and backyard, sent myself text messages and emails, and replied to them, but have yet to detect a... …Read More

MarineMax to carry Nautique Boats in Georgia. …Read More

Ronnie Simpson and Ed McCoy have crossed the 200 mile mark in their tip-toe journey home to San Francisco Bay after losing the keel from the 30-foot sloop, Warrior’s Wish. It’s not as though either of them has had a “night’s sleep” since, living in the cockpit with life raft and ditch bag at the [...] …Read More

You need help with a fiberglass repair, epoxy mixes, resin formulations, or other similar questions? Who wouldn’t? When I became involved in my first substantial fiberglass project years and years ago (building and mounting a new center console for my fishboat) I learned purely by trial and error. I turned my shed into a fiberglass [...] …Read More

I've been telling you all summer about the 130-foot Christensen motoryacht Lady Zelda and her escalating discount offers. First, there was the mid-June announcement that if you booked two weeks of charter in the Western Mediterranean, you could save 25... …Read More