Cannes Yachting Festival Names Its 2026 Innovation Route Award Winners, From a Mooring App to the Azimut Grande 44M
The Brief · Boat Shows Cannes · 2026 Cannes Yachting Festival · Innovation Route Awards · 2026 Cannes Yachting Festival Names Its 2026 Innovation Route Award Winners, From a Mooring App to the Azimut Grande 44M The festival’s second Innovation Route Awards recognized five projects spanning navigation software, anti-corrosion coating, a hybrid catamaran, an artificial […]
An 80 Meter Steel Hull Reaches Livorno, and Benetti’s Custom Strategy Comes Into Focus
The Brief · Shipyards Livorno · July 2026 The FB291 hull in full profile, under construction at Livorno. Benetti · Custom 80M An 80 Meter Steel Hull Reaches Livorno, and Benetti’s Custom Strategy Comes Into Focus Project Iron Man enters outfitting at the Group’s steel hub. The figure that matters is not the length, but […]
The California Coast, in Three Movements
Scroll Cruising · Pacific Coast The California Coast,in Three Movements From the warm marinas of the south to the cold green water under the Golden Gate, the Pacific edge of the state reads less like a route than a piece in three tempos. USA Onboard Editorial·Feature · 2026·Reading · 8 min There is no single […]
A Summer Lived Aboard
A Summer Lived Aboard | Widget 1 | USA Onboard Scroll Onboard Living · Cruising A SummerLived Aboard Not a weekend, and not a lifetime, but a season: weeks spent moving from one anchorage to the next, where the boat stops being a vessel and becomes, for a while, the whole of home. USA Onboard […]
A Day Measured by Water
A Day Measured by Water | Widget 1 | USA Onboard Scroll Onboard Living · Lifestyle A Day Measuredby Water There is a particular rhythm to a day spent aboard at anchor, set not by the clock but by the light, the tide and the temperature of the water. An hour-by-hour account of how that […]
Navigating Connectivity
Signal at Sea Scroll Onboard Systems Navigating Connectivity The boat has become an office, a living room, and a navigation desk all at once. Staying connected offshore is no longer a luxury; it is the layer the entire vessel runs on. A field guide to how the signal actually arrives. USA Onboard Field Guide Reading […]
The Docking, Resolved
Assisted Docking — Widget 1 — USA Onboard Scroll Onboard Technology · Maneuvering The Maneuver,Resolved Why docking, the three-minute sequence that decides the temper of every passage, has become the most contested frontier in marine electronics. USA Onboard Editorial · Feature · 2026 · Reading · 12 min A yacht owner remembers two moments from […]
Buying a Used Boat
Due Diligence Scroll Ownership Buying a Used Boat A used boat can be a smart entry to the water or a slow, expensive lesson. The difference lives in what you inspect, what you verify, and what you walk away from. USA Onboard Field Guide Reading · 10 min Every used boat tells two stories. One […]
When the Boat Needs a Crew
The Question of Crew Scroll Ownership · Crew When the Boat Needs a Crew There is a point at which a boat asks for more hands than the owner can supply. Knowing when you have reached it, and who to bring aboard, is one of the quiet arts of ownership at scale. USA OnboardField GuideReading […]
The Art of Changing Course Gracefully
Scroll Cruising Philosophy · Tech Report The Art of ChangingCourse Gracefully Weather shifts, anchorages fill, engines disagree with the calendar. The cruiser who reads the itinerary as a draft rather than a contract is not improvising — they are practising the oldest and least discussed discipline at sea. USA Onboard Editorial · Tech Report · […]