15 Tips for Buying a Sailboat
If contemplating a used sailboat for extended cruising, consider this hard-earned advice before signing a check and taking the plunge.
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If contemplating a used sailboat for extended cruising, consider this hard-earned advice before signing a check and taking the plunge.
These experienced monohull cruisers made the jump to a 46-foot cruising cat, and they’re never going back. Here’s why.
How can you find a reputable marine surveyor whose advice you’d trust with your investment and your family’s safety?
If you’re shopping for a boat, start by thoroughly disrupting your own assumptions about what constitutes the best one for you.
Many sailboats built two decades ago or earlier still have plenty of life left in them. But their engines may not. Should you rebuild the existing engine? Or repower with a brand-new engine?
Now, as we survey the field of marine financing, we find a smaller band of players humming a happier tune. “We’re seeing historically low rates in marine finance,” said Don Parkhurst, senior vice president of the Marine and RV Finance Division at SunTrust, in Virginia. Still, money doesn’t come easy.
These experienced monohull cruisers made the jump to a 46-foot cruising cat, and they’re never going back. Here’s why. A multihull feature from our June 2010 issue
There’s no shortage of good reasons to climb aboard a catamaran
Nowadays, cruising catamaran owners may enjoy a discount on their insurance premiums because their loss ratio is smaller than monohulls’. This favorable ratio has nothing
An overview of catamaran characteristics
Catalac, Cherokee, Iroquois, and Prout are cruising catamaran names that live through the decades. Bill Ware of 2Hulls brokerage in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says, “Generally
After 10 years of vicarious voyaging, we were about to embark on the journeys that we dreamed about while singing Jimmy Buffett songs during those
If contemplating a used sailboat for extended cruising, consider this hard-earned advice before signing a check and taking the plunge.
These experienced monohull cruisers made the jump to a 46-foot cruising cat, and they’re never going back. Here’s why.
How can you find a reputable marine surveyor whose advice you’d trust with your investment and your family’s safety?
If you’re shopping for a boat, start by thoroughly disrupting your own assumptions about what constitutes the best one for you.
Many sailboats built two decades ago or earlier still have plenty of life left in them. But their engines may not. Should you rebuild the existing engine? Or repower with a brand-new engine?
Now, as we survey the field of marine financing, we find a smaller band of players humming a happier tune. “We’re seeing historically low rates in marine finance,” said Don Parkhurst, senior vice president of the Marine and RV Finance Division at SunTrust, in Virginia. Still, money doesn’t come easy.
These experienced monohull cruisers made the jump to a 46-foot cruising cat, and they’re never going back. Here’s why. A multihull feature from our June 2010 issue
There’s no shortage of good reasons to climb aboard a catamaran
Nowadays, cruising catamaran owners may enjoy a discount on their insurance premiums because their loss ratio is smaller than monohulls’. This favorable ratio has nothing
An overview of catamaran characteristics
Catalac, Cherokee, Iroquois, and Prout are cruising catamaran names that live through the decades. Bill Ware of 2Hulls brokerage in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says, “Generally
After 10 years of vicarious voyaging, we were about to embark on the journeys that we dreamed about while singing Jimmy Buffett songs during those
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