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Making Waves Through History
Whether you’re underway on a family boating trip, stuck commuting, or just home cooking a meal, stories can transform where you are, taking you to different times and worlds you’ve never experienced. And for those of us who particularly want to plung
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Middle Of The Channel
Being in the middle gets a bad rap it doesn’t always deserve. No one wants the middle seat on the plane, and they don’t hand out medals for finishing in the middle-of-the-pack. Yet here I am, enjoying my current view from the middle ground. This pers
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Elling E6
It was the sort of darkness where it’s hard to discern the boundary between ocean and sky. The fog didn’t help. It condensed on everything, requiring the intermittent hum of the wipers, a metronome for monotony. Daylight was coming, but so was the ic
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VisionF 82
Where do you even start with the VisionF 82? Size, performance, construction, opulence? I think it probably starts with a design brief along the lines of, “We want to throw the party to end all parties.” Passagemaker Editor-in-Chief Jeff Moser and I
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Grady-White Canyon 386
In the boating world, you sometimes come across an “updated” model that offers little more than a new hull color or some other insignificant changes. The Grady-White Canyon 386 definitely does not fall into that category. While it’s built upon the co
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A Christmas Story
What’s the greatest present Santa ever brought you? For me, there were a few. At age seven, the Christmas tree sheltered a huge Tonka Winnebago camper with a fold out roof/awning and an action figure family that included a pet collie. My next ultimat
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Secret Stowaways
When you look at the old, green, dilapidated Danish fishing boat, the first word that comes to mind might not be hope, but that’s exactly what Thor personifies. She was one of the last of the World War II-era boats left on the harbor in the port city
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Life on Orla
Johnny Sturgeon is unassuming. You wouldn’t look at him and think “TikTok influencer.” Dressed simply in a worn sailing cap, old jeans and trainers coated in marine insulation foam, he defies traditional influencer conventions. He’s warm and friendly
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Vandal 46 Explorer
The waves weren’t very big—maybe only two to three feet. But they were steep and tightly spaced. They’d been generated by a steady southeast wind and were shoaling through 10-to 15-feet of water to the stern quarter of the 46-foot power catamaran who
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One Step At A Time
There are yacht designers and there are “yacht designers.” Some “yacht designers” are really interior decorators who whimsically wave wrists and arms while theatrically obsessing over whether the throw pillows match the Fenda-Sox. Some are exterior s
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Holy Torpedoes Batman!
Back in 1966, 20th Century Fox reached out to executives at Austin, Texas based Glastron. ABC’s Batman had been a runaway hit and now a feature length movie was planned. Batman’s crown jewel was the fire-breathing Batmobile—built by the iconic George
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Too Much Boat?
Like every boat-crazy teenager growing up in the 1960s, I had a bad case of the hots for a Donzi 16 Ski Sporter, a sexy babe magnet that, at a little short of $5,000 with a 165-horsepower Eaton Interceptor engine and a few options, was beyond my high
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Bluegame BGM75
Bluegame has never shied away from the experimental. Sanlorenzo’s ever-soslightly down-market brand has always shown off the builder’s attentiveness to eye-pleasing aesthetics and Italian elegance, but they’ve done it in a way that’s a bit different
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Sun Powered, Coast Guard Approved
Former physics teacher David Borton has always taken an interest in two things: science and the water. Growing up, he spent a lot of his time on the lakes of New York’s Adirondacks and began earning his freshwater sea legs around the same time he lea
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Are Hobbies Dying?
Like many of you, I spent a fair amount of time over the holidays connecting with family, friends and former colleagues. After dozens of conversations with friends in their 30s, I walked away with an alarming, but not-too-surprising, realization: mos
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Against the Odds
The five shipwreck survivors clinging to the eleven-foot inflatable Zodiac were in the trough of a 30-foot swell and looked up into the green walls of water. That’s when they saw the sharks. Brad Cavanaugh, age 21, could clearly see three sharks, and
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Elevated Experiences
You won’t find mention of “Tesla of the Sea” anywhere on the Tyde website. That’s because Tyde founder Christoph Ballin doesn’t like the reductionist, predictable, click bait-y branding that is attached to seemingly every new electric boat debut onli
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PRESIDENT GARY DESANCTIS PUBLISHER WADE LUCE 949-491-5256; wluce@aimmedia.com NORTHEAST SALES PAUL SMITH; 914-467-8729 MID-ATLANTIC & MIDWEST SALES JOE ILLES; 757-254-5660 SOUTHEAST & CARIBBEAN DISPLAY SALES DAVID PARKINSON; 954-232-4064 EUROPEAN SAL
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The Captain And The Kid
I was working at a dive shop one summer and while I’m doing that, I was also a fishing machine. I meet this captain at the tackle shop one day and he asks if I want to go out with them. He said, ‘You can come out, but you just got to wash the boat wh
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Sunseeker Ocean 182
The English are a hardy sort, and they have to be to enjoy boating on the English Channel. That can be one seriously nasty piece of water—I know, I’ve sailed there. The Channel has also kept a long list of generals from invading across it, from Medin
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Bootlegged Boatbuilding
In a small, half-moon Quonset hut built on an old farm in Winsted, Minnesota is a man who builds wooden boats, one at a time, twice a year. The Quonset dweller’s name is Kevin Fitzke and his current creation goes by the name Miss Moonshine. Fitzke an
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Four Winns TH36
I’ve had some great cruising experiences on power catamarans. Those trips introduced me to beautiful islands and were always aboard chartered boats—vessels that averaged 45 to 50 feet in length and stretched as wide as 21 feet. The beam felt tremendo
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Get Moving
Like almost everything, including people, boats stay in good working order when they get used frequently, and they fall into disrepair when they don’t. Metal parts corrode, hoses and V-belts get dry and brittle, fluids leak and wiring mysteriously br
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Apreamare Gozzo 35 Speedster
The modern fashion for plumb bows is the bane of boat show crews on a choppy day. However careful the helmsman might be, at some point in even the shortest demo ride, those bluff forward sections are going to raise a cloud of salty spray, and the boa
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Deadboats
2023 was a tough year. Contracts that were signed before the post-pandemic free-for-all on labor and material cost, driven by pure greed, bit us in the ass. Bit us hard. Please don’t hand me that supply and demand crap. It was a power grab coupled wi
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A Madman’s Dream
Were you around in the early 1900’s, you would have likely known the name Garfield Wood. Born to a ferryboat operator in 1880, the entrepreneurial “Gar” made a tenuous early living as a skilled and intuitive repairman. Then one day in 1911, he watche
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Time Machine
Where has the time gone? It’s been 12 years since we pulled away from the commissioning yard, at the helm of a dream manifested into 90,000 pounds of resin, fiber, steel and plastic. The emotion that day was indescribable. It was the culmination of y
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So, You Want to Be a Captain?
This story’s been a long time coming. It started on a freezing California morning back in February of 1999. I had flown from my home in San Clemente up to an infamous Bay Area surf spot called Mavericks to cover the Quiksilver Men Who Ride Mountains
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Power & Motoryacht on YouTube
As we’re preparing to head to the Miami boat show, it’s occurred to us that we’re likely to surpass our 500th YouTube video. Power & Motoryacht has had a YouTube channel since way back in 2007. Since that time, our writers and editors have created ha
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