Passagemaker

10 stories

PassagemakerTrawler Talk: The No Regrets Lifestyle Paul Bates’ plans of sailing around the world was a dream deferred by a corporate career.

10.23

PassagemakerReflections On The Hudson The epic beauty of New York State in the autumn is matched by charming riverside towns rich in history and elevated cuisine.

10.20

PassagemakerWhen Bilge Pumps Aren’t Enough The misunderstanding begins when owners expect them to perform a job they were never intended to do.

10.19

PassagemakerAspen C110 The three-stateroom model has one-level living, remarkable fuel efficiency and four-season comfort.

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PassagemakerBurn Notice It’s vital to know how to treat the most common burns on board, and when to seek onshore help.

10.14

PassagemakerTarga 41 Overbuilt in its native Finland, this reliable sea companion is ready to leave the dock when other boats won’t.

10.12

PassagemakerGoddess of the Sea With a substantial shipyard expansion, new models on the horizon and a growing fan base, Selene Yachts is headed for 1,000 hulls launched.

10.08

PassagemakerDiverging Paths From the Editor’s Desk: Complicated legacies

10.06

PassagemakerPassport to the World Doting owners with a vision, and the Pacific Coast’s master shipwrights, all helped to make Paspatoo a special boat.

10.05

PassagemakerBetter Together A flotilla to Desolation Sound taught me a lot about the area, and about the benefits of cruising in a group.

10.02

A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay