Cruising News

This review is excerpted from the original that ran in BWS in 2005. The Tartan brand is now under new ownership and management by the principles […]

The Seaward 32RK was designed and for years built by Floridian Nick Hake. The design is now part of the Island Packet company which builds the […]

Designing a cruising boat in the 30-foot range is a special challenge for yacht designers. The builder and their customers want everything aboard that you would […]

By Lynn Hoenke, Communications Coordinator The Homeward Bound Flotilla has come to a close, and all 184 boats have safely made landfall in the US or […]

Boat builder and entrepreneur Phil Lambert launched his Outbound Yachts with the Outbound 44 20 years ago. The 44 was a Carl Schumacher design that was […]

Over this winter, Tartan Yachts in Ohio, which celebrated its 60th year in business this year, was bought by Seattle Northwest Yachts and began a new […]

The Maritime Executive newsletter has a story this week of some truly strange anomalies going on with the worldwide AIS system aboard ships and boats of […]

Lyman-Morse, based in Thomaston, Maine, has long been known as one of America’s premier builders of custom and semi-custom yachts. This spring, the company introduced a […]

Our old family friend, Bobby Little, lived in Ohio but loved to cruise the Maine coast, something his lovely wife Ann was not eager to do. […]

The new Oceanis 30.1 is the little sister to all of the boats in the Oceanis line but in particular it is most closely related to […]