Tag: "John Marshall"

A New Nordhavn 55 Arrives by Freighter in New Zealand for Delivery - Photo PAE

A Nordhavn 55 Delivery to South New Zealand

Nordhavn Australasia sales manager Peter Devers wrote recently on the Nordhavn website about a delivery he made of a new Nordhavn 55 to Picton [...]

Jun 04, 2010 | 0 comments View Post
New Blog Write On The Water

Writers on the Water

Okay, so it’s not quite as memorable (yet?) as “Riders on the Storm,” the 1971 hit by The Doors, but a new blog by writers Christine Kling and Mike Jastrzebski  called Write on the Water, is a place to talk about the intersection of writing and living and working on the water. I was the guest [...]

May 05, 2010 | 0 comments View Post
Tuggy Products' Anchor Buddy Elastic Dinghy Anchoring Line

Second Great Technique for Dinghy Anchoring

Our recent piece by Jeff Siegel of ActiveCaptain about a novel dinghy anchoring technique stimulated quite a bit of discussion from readers and we even heard about another, possibly even better, technique from John Marshall, owner of the Nordhavn 55 Serendipity. Marshall discovered a particular product that makes the process of anchoring the dinghy off [...]

Mar 25, 2010 | 0 comments View Post

Outfitting the Nordhavn 55 with Computers – Part 2

This is Part 2 of our new series on outfitting the Nordhavn 55 with computers instead of, or in addition to dedicated marine electronics such as chartplotters.  In the first installment we covered the boat itself, along with some comments about the boat from an actual owner, John Marshall.  In this article, John gives us [...]

Jan 09, 2010 | 0 comments View Post
Nordhavn 55 Starboard Running -- Photo Courtesy of PAE

Outfitting the Nordhavn 55 with Computers

With this article, we are beginning a new series that illustrates how the Nordhavn 55, one of the most popular of the globe-girdling Nordhavns built by Pacific Asian Enterprises, might be equipped with computers for navigation and other chores.  Earlier this year, OceanLines ran an extensive series of articles on outfitting the Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition [...]

Jan 08, 2010 | 0 comments View Post
John Marshall's Nordhavn 55 Serendipity - Photo Credit: CJ Walker

A Philosophy of Adventure

The following paragraphs were written by a dedicated cruiser and passagemaker, John Marshall, who is the owner of a particularly beautiful Nordhavn 55 — Serendipity.  John has expressed his view of one of the biggest opportunities for cruisers — the ability to get extremely close to elemental nature, yet be able to retreat to the [...]

Nov 05, 2009 | 0 comments View Post