In their prime, Holiday Mansions were popular with lake boaters and coastal cruisers from the Chesapeake Bay down to Florida's coast.

Holiday Mansion houseboats have a loyal following among lake boaters and coastal cruisers alike.

Of the motor yachts, the largest is Nostromo, a fifty-six-foot Bluewater coastal cruiser; and it was to this boat that I was headed.

No, it's a coastal cruiser.

The Lord Jim, though solidly built, is a 36-foot motor sailer, a "coastal cruiser" with a high wheelhouse that "made her vulnerable."

You know he's built four coastal cruisers?

Besides, the Fugitive's a coastal cruiser.

Long Island Sound is glassy this morning, the breeze a steady whisper, and Bruce Kirby's two-masted, 26-foot coastal cruiser is cutting the waters just off Rowayton, Conn.

PAE made one foray away from its oceangoing trawler heritage beginning in 2000: the Nordhavn 35, billed as a fast coastal cruiser.

In early 2012 the PAE announced plans for a 52-foot "coastal pilot" aimed at a different market: coastal cruisers.