In the Wake is our archive of articles that have been posted as features on the JMYS home page. Once in print everything is immediately out of date, but much of what we have written about still has some relevance. We have been asked to keep these stories available by many followers who wish to take a short dock walk down memory lane and hope that people new to this website will also enjoy reading about people and events that have influenced our growth. For most of us it is fun to reminisce, and these articles serve as a chronological record of what we have been doing since JMYS was founded.
Occasionally we are able to find and organize previous boating related articles penned by Jeff in other publications, as well as articles that were started and shelved, but still want to be told. These will be completed out of order but will be filed by the date they occurred. So, if you come back in the future to browse, you may find something new from the past!
Jeff wrote a lot of stories for the www.nordhavn.com site during his fourteen year career at PAE and we have most of those available at this link: https://jmys.com/trawler-lifestyle/nordhavn-com-articles-by-jeff-merrill/
Additionally, we do have a separate section for the Ocean Navigator Dialing-In-Your-Trawler stories: https://jmys.com/trawler-lifestyle/ocean-navigator-magazine/
PassageMaker magazine gave Jeff a column, Trawler Transactions, and those articles are posted here: https://jmys.com/purchasing-a-trawler/trawler-transactions/
As demonstrated by our logo, our direction is to keep the bow pointing forward…but it is also fun to pause, reflect and look behind to see where we have been.
Articles
Listing Sold – American-Tug-435-Odyssey
SOLD! The American Tug 435 Odyssey has closed.
New on Trawler Vision: TrawlAboard Episode 14
TrawlAboard everyone! This is the fourteenth episode in our new TrawlAboard series – a collection of trawler tours filmed during the Ft.Lauderdale TrawlerFest in March 2025.
New on Trawler Vision: TrawlAboard Episode 13
TrawlAboard everyone! This is the thirteenth episode in our new TrawlAboard series – a collection of trawler tours filmed during the Ft.Lauderdale TrawlerFest in March 2025.
New on Trawler Vision: TrawlAboard Episode 12
TrawlAboard everyone! This is the twelfth episode in our new TrawlAboard series – a collection of trawler tours filmed during the Ft.Lauderdale TrawlerFest in March 2025.
New on Trawler Vision: TrawlAboard Episode 11
TrawlAboard everyone! This is the eleventh episode in our new TrawlAboard series – a collection of trawler tours filmed during the Ft.Lauderdale TrawlerFest in March 2025.
Dock Walk and Talk – Anacortes Washington – TrawlerFest 2025
TrawlerFest Anacortes 2025 brought trawler owners, buyers, and boating enthusiasts together for five packed days on the docks of Cape Sante Marina in Anacortes, WA, from May 14–18.