About Us

Long-range cruising is a lifestyle that demands real knowledge — not the sanitized version. Passagemaker Mag covers trawlers, passagemakers, and the liveaboard cruising life with the honesty and detail that only comes from people who have actually made long passages and lived aboard full-time.

Our contributors are ocean-crossing cruisers, trawler owners, marine surveyors, and systems technicians who understand what it takes to keep a vessel self-sufficient for weeks at sea. When we review a trawler fuel range or assess an engine room layout, it comes from crawling through those spaces and running those systems — not reading the brochure.

Vessel coverage focuses on the trawler and passagemaker classes that define long-range cruising: their hull designs, fuel efficiency at displacement speeds, system redundancy, and liveability for extended voyages. Our comparisons address the questions that matter to serious cruisers: tankage, watermaker capacity, generator runtime, storage accessibility, and the build quality details that determine whether a boat is a coastal cruiser or a true ocean-capable vessel.

Systems content goes deep into the mechanical and electrical infrastructure that long-range cruising demands: diesel maintenance at sea, battery bank management, watermaker operation, stabilizer systems, and the redundancy planning that experienced passagemakers build into every critical system.

We also publish passage planning guides based on actual routes completed by our contributors, liveaboard lifestyle content addressing the financial and practical realities, and community-sourced knowledge from cruising rallies and trawler rendezvous events.

We only publish content grounded in first-hand experience, original research, or expert community knowledge. Long-range cruising rewards preparation and punishes shortcuts — and so does our editorial standard.