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Great Lakes 33
“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote in 1842. But in the early 1980s, Canadian sailor Nick Aitken’s thoughts sprung toward trawlers, and that’s how the Great Lakes 33 was born. Aitken and s
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Nonskid decks. How boring, right? Well, not anymore. There has been a revolution in marine flooring that started over a decade ago with the introduction of adhesive-backed foam nonskid material and it is trending. As with many boating trends, it star
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We Wore it Well
Boaters once put on cork life jackets and canvas shoes when heading out to sea, but six decades of innovation have dramatically changed what we wear. Here, we briefly explore how we dressed then, and what we don today when stepping aboard boats. Some

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