April 2019

PassageMaker

PassageMaker Magazine is the market leader covering the boats, people, gear, and destinations for the trawler and cruising-under-power lifestyle

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Same Destination, New Waypoints
Editor-in-Chief Walking the Miami boat show a few weeks ago, innovation was in the air. New technologies were busting out everywhere, designed to make boating easier, safer, more accessible and more fun for a wider range of people than ever before. F
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Crosstalk
Last summer, we endured the long slog up and down Jervis Inlet to see Princess Louisa (pictured at left) for the first time in nearly 25 years. Over those years, we hadn’t been willing to devote the time when we had the scent of Desolation and beyond
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New Boats, Trends And The Best Of The Cruising Lifestyle From Around The Globe.
Sporting an LOA of 100 feet, the newest line of Voyager Class yachts to be constructed by Marlow Yachts. This 100 line, dubbed “Ice,” joins the “Vagabundo” Voyager Class series introduced in 2010. With a 3,500-nautical-mile range at 9 knots and the a
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Honey, Let’s Get a Boat
Ron and Eva Stob’s Honey, Let’s Get a Boat: A Cruising Adventure of America’s Great Loop documents the couple’s one-year adventure cruising the famed Loop. When the Stobs started out, they had almost no boating experience between them. Regardless of
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Dag Pike
The ocean is an unpredictable place. But with seasoned navigator Dag Pike at the helm, you’ll never be lost at sea. Pike cut his teeth as a teenager in the Merchant Navy and had already stashed multiple circumnavigations in his pocket by the time he
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Tried, True and Brand New
When you hear phrases like “dual hybrid propulsion” and “vacuum-infused urethane acrylate resin, Core-Cell and E-glass,” you’re probably not picturing a boat with art-deco styling, one that would look right at home in a black-and-white photo of a 195
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Blind Spots
Early in the morning of November 8, 2018, the Norwegian frigate KNM Helge Ingstad collided with the 820-foot crude-oil tanker Sola TS, as the latter was departing the oil terminal at Stura, Norway, 30 miles northwest of Bergen. The hull of Sola TS wa
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A Compass Course
As with many products that we take for granted today, the magnetic compass was once a revolutionary technology. Early mariners knew how to navigate their vessels using a knowledge of basic astronomy, but in overcast conditions they had no way of know
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BLOW-BY, PUKE JUGS & CCVS
Compare the volume of the waste fumes generated by a working diesel engine to the quantity coming out of the exhaust and you’ll always find a small diff erence. While almost all the fumes the engine produces exit through your exhaust system, managing
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Back Cove 34O
To call the new outboard-powered 34O from this traditional Down East builder a design departure would be short shrift. This is a new model, after all, from Sabre’s not-so-little sister company that has made their bread and butter building dependable,
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Gagliotta Lobster 35
Cantieri Gagliotta may not be a household name in the United States, but the family-owned shipyard with a penchant for speed on the water has been building boats since 1952 in Naples, Italy. With its first foray into the U.S. market, the builder seem
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Best Of Loops Cruising
The Down East Circle Route 54 The Great Loop 50 The Florida Mini-Loop 56 Loop routes make the best voyages. Whether you’re on foot or traveling by car, by train or by boat, a circular route avoids the retracing and the inevitably anticlimactic ending
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Backwaters Of The Great Loop
Depending on which routes you take, the Great Loop will put anywhere between 5,000 and 7,000 miles under your keel. Depending on your vessel, the full loop can be completed in as little as two months. But for most of us, the excitement of embarking o
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The Down East Circle Route
To some, the term “Down East” means “blue water,” but the Down East Circle Route is in no way a bluewater trip. Land is always in sight and you’ll never be more than a half day from the nearest port or anchorage. The 2,400-nautical-mile route loops a
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The Smugglers’ Run
For over 200 years the southern tip of Florida has been a hangout for pirates, smugglers and thieves. Still considered the most porous border in the U.S., mile for mile more illegal drugs pass through southern Florida than any other border area. But
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Pacific Powerhouse
It’s a foggy and still November day in Port Townsend, Washington, and a childhood friend is taking me and my colleague Brian for a quick spin on his 58-foot schooner, Singawing. Matthew Mortensen is his name. He and his wife, Andrea, operate Great Be
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Chasing Saints
For centuries the Mediterranean has been one of the great harbors of human endeavor. Artifacts of great historical relevance can be found in nearly every seaside village regardless of size. Unlike many of the other cultural markers, those that trace
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The Song Of Summer
The plan was simple, at least on paper: Meet up with a Sargo 31 Aft Door cruiser in Finland, cruise her to Sweden, cut across Sweden on the famed Göta Canal, then run down the coast of Denmark to Brunsbüttel, Germany, and ship the boat to the United
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Stronger, Faster, Farther
Tony Fleming, the founder and driving force behind Fleming Yachts, closes his personal memoir, Riding the Tide, with a clarion call: “Aim high, stay focused, and never give up!” If the boats he builds are any indication, Fleming lives by this mantra.
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Caswell’s Casual Guide to Cruising Etiquette
In a calm anchorage at dusk, the peace is broken by a cellphone ringing in the cockpit of one of the boats. It rings, stops, then rings again because the caller can’t believe everyone doesn’t have their phone with them constantly. After a half hour o
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Wonder Fruit
My grandmother put large chunks of avocado in every green salad she ever made. Like synchronized swimmers, my dad, my brother and I would push these chunks to the very edge of our respective salad plates, hoping no one would notice—or care—about the
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Kittiwake
LOA: 75ft. 2in. Beam: 20ft. Draft: 7ft. 10in. Speed: 10 knots/8 knots (max./cruising) Builder: Washburn & Doughty Price: $1,550,000 Listing URL: goo.gl/yuSiG6 Brian Commette, CPYB, Northrop & Johnson Location: Newport, RI Phone: (401) 965-5226 In 200
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Isles of Scilly
If you follow the northern coastline of the English Channel westward there is a finger of land pointing out into the Atlantic. This is Land’s End. If you then keep heading west for another 20 miles, you will reach a group of tiny islands called the I
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Easy Does It
Growing up on the wide expanse of the lower Potomac River, just off the Chesapeake Bay, I learned to row before I could read. My oars and my arms took me around the local bays and up the tributaries, allowing me to learn about boats and boating at a

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