The Best Part About Boat Shows

A Trawler Yachtbuilder's Owner Blog Community

No, it's not the boats, although there are lots of pretty vessels on display, along with booth after booth of accessories, gear and gadgets. The best part of a boat show is the people you meet.

First of all, they're boaters, or at least seriously interested in boating, which means we share many of the same types of experiences.  It turns out that many of these boaters share a darker secret with us — they are writers!  And they write on the water!  I met a prolific blogger in the elevator in my hotel at the Miami Boat Show last week and between the lobby and the 10th floor she managed to tell me all about her blog and pass me the URL.  That was one of the, eh, most unexpected conversations I've had in a hotel elevator.  But it got me thinking about how many of them there are now doing the same thing.

Seriously now, there is an explosion underway of boating bloggers and writers and they are adding to the Internet's collection of sea stories at a remarkable rate.  Yes, the writing is a little. . .uneven, but some of it is really good and all of it represents a mother lode of nautical storytelling and raw material for new stories.

Here are some good places to start looking at these blogs.

Pacific Asian Enterprises, builder of the Nordhavn brand of bluewater passagemaking trawlers, keeps track of as many Nordhavn owner-bloggers as it can HERE.

Kadey-Krogen Yachts, which also builds full-displacement, ocean-going trawlers, has a list of its owners who blog HERE.

Sailblogs is a website that lets sailors establish a blog for free.  Not all of the blogs listed here are active all the time, but there are some jewels in the list HERE.

This list is just a tiny sample of what's out there.  As you explore these and others, you'll see that not all are the products of gifted writers, but many are and you might find some storytelling inspiration out there.

If you know of other blog collections, or especially noteworthy individual blogs, let us know in the comments.

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