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A Fine Fleet

Soundings

The Last Nautical Miles • SO MANY FAMILIES STRUGGLE WITH A BELOVED BOAT’S END-OF-LIFE OPTIONS. FOR SUSAN GIBBS, IT WAS A 990-FOOT PROBLEM

Quell The Swell • A NEW GYROSCOPIC STABILIZATION SYSTEM FROM DOMETIC MARINE TAKES THE UNCOMFORTABLE ROLL OUT OF THE RIDE

Salty Lessons • DECADES AFTER WORKING ON A COMMERCIAL TUGBOAT, THE AUTHOR SIGNS ON FOR A MARINE TRAINING COURSE TO TEST HER SEAGOING METTLE

Water Can Be a Dangerous Thing • TO CRUISE SAFELY, WE MUST BETTER UNDERSTAND THE AQUEOUS WORLD

A Big Moment • SCOUT UNVEILS ITS 670, A BOAT DESIGNED FROM THE START TO SET A NEW STANDARD FOR OUTBOARD-POWERED MODELS WORLDWIDE

Albin 48 North Sea Cutter

Diamond in the Rough • You’ll find a pretty cruising ground where Narragansett Bay meets Block Island Sound. Point Judith also happens to be a great fishing destination

THE ISLAND BRIDGE • LIFE ON AN ISLAND CAN BE HARD, BUT MAINE SEACOAST MISSION’S M/V SUNBEAM AND HER CREW MAKE IT A LITTLE EASIER

Boats & Notes • Bertram Levy’s passion for boatbuilding and music inform the discipline he applies to both crafts

an Obsessive Sort of Sailor • As both a novelist and gun smuggler, Erskine Childers was a cruiser with an intense sense of purpose.

DOWNEAST MUSE • A self-taught photographer says coastal Maine’s scenery inspired him to pick up a camera

Living Legacy

Keeping Your Feet on the Deck • SELECTING THE RIGHT ANTI-SKID DECK PAINT FOR YOUR BOAT DEPENDS ON NUMEROUS FACTORS

The Day’s Catch