PassageMaker

PassageMaker Magazine (PMM) is the market leader covering the boats, people, gear, and destinations for the trawler and cruising-under-power lifestyle. Over the years it has evolved to connect the marine industry to consumers through print, digital, online, and in-person brands (Trawler Fest, Trawler Fest University, and Trawler Port)

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PassageMaker

The $100 Burger • One of the best reasons to cast off the lines and go cruising is that you have no reason at all.

Rover 29

Marlow Voyager 100V

Worse-Case Planning • Sure, you’ve read plenty about how to anchor, but what happens if you become unanchored?

Love at First Sight?

Power On Tap • Understanding how your alternator does its work will keep the electricity flowing.

BEYOND THE GREAT LOOP

CROSSING THEIR WAKE • We’d like to recognize and congratulate those boaters who have completed the Great Loop in 2022. Those vessels with a asterisk crossed their wake for a second time and became Platinum Loopers, with Francesca, a 39-foot Bayliner, completing the Great Loop for the third time. Cheers to the AGLCA-Verified Fleet of 2022!

OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS • A WEST COAST BOATING FAMILY DISCOVERS STORIED VILLAGES AND EASY CAMARADERIE ON NEW YORK’S HUDSON RIVER.

IMMORTAL WORDS, HISTORIC BOAT • THE PURSE SEINER CELEBRATED IN THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING LITERATURE OF JOHN STEINBECK RETURNS FROM DERELICTION TO WORKING LIFE.

OF SARDINES & STEINBECK • THE WESTERN FLYER LAUNCHED IN JULY 1937 AS A COMMERCIAL PURSE SEINER, BOUND FOR THE BOOMING SARDINE FISHERY OUT OF MONTEREY, CALIF. THE BOAT HAD A FIR KEEL WITH WHITE OAK RIBS.

STEEL WILL • THE LYNX 27 CROSSOVER IS A CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-EXCURSION PLATFORM POISED FOR THE LONG HAUL.

PARTING SHOT