Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2015 i Yachting

YOU MIGHT THINK owning a 228-foot motoryacht that can take as many as 26 guests would be enough for one man. Not for Jan Verkerk. He owns Sherakhan, a charter yacht that he converted from a training vessel in 2005 and that has taken him everywhere from St. Tropez to Antarctica, and he has now decided that he wants to do much, much more. This summer, he will launch Legend, a 254-foot expedition yacht that will be the only Class A1 icebreaker for charter on the planet. He plans to base her in Antarctica starting each December and in Norway and Greenland starting each May — to chase the polar summers across Earth. “What I learned in the years spent transforming Sherakhan into the megayacht that she is today and…

ENGINES 2 x 250 HP OUTBOARDS FUEL 225 GAL. DISPL. (LOADED) 9,000 LB. LOA 32'1" DRAFT 1'6" (HULL) 2'1" (PROP) BEAM 10'6" You will never forget your first ride in a Hunt yacht, no matter what the size. Each one feels secure in the roughest waters you care to dare. I’ve taken these boats across bays in a tall, stiff chop and ticked off coastal miles in 4- to 5-footers that few will even go out in. The ride is solid and balanced, all because of the deep-V as C. Raymond Hunt Associates imagined it — and that appears on the new 32cc. • ONLY ON THIS BOAT: The 32cc blends Hunt Yachts’ trademark style with the functionality of a day boat — one that fishes as well as it…

ON FEB. 1, 1905, a young Slovak named Jossef Galvanek arrived in New York City aboard Slavonia. According to the ship’s manifest, he was 16 years old with $10 to his name, trying to reach his father in Carteret, New Jersey. The fact that Jossef’s record exists at Ellis Island means he likely crossed the Atlantic as a passenger in steerage. Had he been in first or second class, he would’ve been able to skip the lines that sometimes grew as long as 5,000 immigrants per day. A year later, on March 30, 1906, 18-year-old Anna Tomalla came from Hungary on Rhein. Her job was listed as servant, and she didn’t have a penny. She too was bound for Carteret, and apparently desperate to get there. Her name is first…

The competition was safely astern. A fresh 25-knot breeze was piping over the port quarter, and Mar Mostro — Puma Ocean Racing’s entrant in the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race — was smoking along under a full sail from Alicante, Spain (and the race’s start) to Cape Town, South Africa. Skipper Ken Read had just come of watch when his ears were jarred. Bang! The noise sang out from the rig. Mar Mostro stood up on her lines as boat speed plummeted from 23 knots to zero. “The mast is down! The mast is down!” shouted crew member Ryan Godfrey from the cockpit. The sailors could barely react before the stopwatch to salvage their race campaign, and perhaps much more, started. Boaters in the 21st century live in a world that…

PERFECTLY PERSHING This exclusive look at the newly launched Pershing 108 grabbed the attention of our Facebook fans, garnering more than 3,000 likes. See what some people had to say. I’ll send you my berth address in GordonI’s Bay :) DIETER SIEBER I want one. KEVIN RODGERS What a beautiful work of art! JOSUE CARRO Amazing. SHAUN MIZZI Holy cow! Beautiful! Wow! JUDY-CHARLIE HOFFA CREDIT DUE Our review of the Huckins 45 Wombat (June) should have credited Bill Prince Yacht Design Inc. for its role in designing and engineering the fi rst new Huckins with pod propulsion. We apologize for the omission. Looking for photos and news of new yachts? Get social with Yachting; visit facebook.com/yachtingmagazine. READER FEEDBACK Send comments or questions to: letters@yachtingmagazine.com Send mail to: 460 N. Orlando…

TIARA Q 44 A LUXURY SUV ON THE WATER THE FIRST Tiara Q 44 is expected to launch this summer, kicking off a whole new line called the Q Series. The Michigan- based builder, long known for powerboats from 31 to 58 feet length overall, designed the Q 44 on the hull of the Tiara 44 Coupe with features meant for bold, venturesome cruising, no matter how owners define fun. “The Q Series will create an entirely new market segment of adventure yachting, a luxury SUV of sorts, ” said Tom Slikkers, president and CEO of Tiara Yachts. “We expect to deliver several models in this class.” The Q 44 is designed to appeal to cruising couples, families doing day cruises and even avid anglers and divers. Full walk-around decks…

RIVA 76 CRUISE-WORTHY COUPE IN A PHRASE, Riva’s 76 is über chic. The perenially popular builder’s elegant and sporty coupe meets performance- yacht enthusiasts at the intersection of form and function. This yacht’s racy profile and sense of movement, even while dockside, comes via a collaboration between Mauro Michelli and Sergio Beretta from Officina Italiana Design, who help create the entire Riva range, and Ferretti’s in-house engineers and product experts. LOA 75'5" TOP SPEED 33 knots Her sharp-looking lines are accentuated by elongated windows along her hull side and superstructure. A dramatically raked, wide and sweeping forward windshield adds drama to her aesthetic while enhancing lower helm visibility and enabling natural light to brighten the interior space. As Michelli says when referring to the Riva 76’s design mission, “Light, space,…

SANLORENZO’S COMPANY MOTTO SAYS IT ALL: “MADE TO MEASURE.” SO A TEST AND REVIEW OF A YACHT FROM this Italian builder is rarely about standard features because, well, the features aren’t really standard. We like to think of Sanlorenzo as an Italian tailor, which made our introduction to O, the name of the first SD112, all the more revealing. Sanlorenzo has been building yachts since 1958. It created its first fiberglass vessel in 1985. The SD line, which includes the 112 seen here, launched in 2007 with the SD92. Today, the builder’s composite yachts stretch to 126 feet in length. It also builds yachts in alloy starting at 131 feet in length and up to 203 feet. First you should know that the SD112 as a model fills a gap…

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS don’t commonly break apart on radar screens, but that’s what we thought we were beholding as we plied the fog-choked waters of Muscongus Bay, en route from Port Clyde to East Boothbay, Maine. This was 1988. My dad and I studied the black-and-white monitor of our then-contemporary radar, eyeing a massive vessel maybe 3 miles off our starboard bow. Minutes later, we watched — horrified — as our presumed “aircraft carrier” fractured into 15 tightly packed targets. Rushing above deck, we heard voices in the fog and realized we had passed a small power boat flotilla, no boats of which were likely aware of our presence. Our radar guided us through the pea-soup fog, but its lack of target separation made for some memorably unnerving moments. Flash forward…

WHO: Diana and Les Shapiro FROM: Sarasota, Florida TRAWLER: Outer Reef 630 THE BIG QUESTION facing us on the morning Tropical Storm Ana approached was whether to run the Intracoastal Waterway from Morehead City, North Carolina, to Norfolk, Virginia, wait out the storm, or head out into the Atlantic and try to outrun it. We trusted our Outer Reef, Guided Discovery, and chose the Atlantic. Some perspective: On another trip, we’d encountered a frontal passage at Cape Hatteras, and within 20 minutes the winds were gusting up to 54 knots. All of a sudden there were 7- to 9-foot waves and it was 10 o’clock at night. In this case, Ana’s winds were gusting above 60 knots nearly 100 miles to our south. Even with a fairly good forecast we knew we’d have about 12…

SWIM AND SEEK When stalking fish, today’s game puts equal demand on hardware and software. Raymarine’s line of blackbox sonar modules embodies this ideal, using advanced algorithms to filter noise, remove clutter and process imagery, which is then displayed on compatible Raymarine MFDs. The CP370 ($699) is aimed at coastal fishermen, while the CP470 ($1,199) is for coastal and off shore anglers who want broad-spectrum CHIRP sonar. The CP570 ($1,999) is for pros. Raymarine, 603-324-7900; raymarine.com SALTY SOUNDS Fusion’s Signature Series speakers are built to deliver crisp, rich sounds in the marine environment. The 6.5-inch ($399, 230 watts) or 7.7-inch ($449, 280 watts) units come in several colors. A subwoofer ($349) and voltage regulator ($99) are optional. The speakers use CURV cone technology, in which extruded polypropylene tapes are woven…

Looking at the sprawling 1,750-square-foot terrace on the stern on the 180-foot X-Easy, you might think the “X” stands for extra, as in “Extra Easy.” But designer Stefano Pastrovich, a longtime pilot and fan of aeronautic design, puts an X in front of all of his concepts, just like some aircraft manufacturers do. While the X-Easy has aerodynamic curves, the designer’s primary goal was to create a palatial beach house. Many builders have jumped on the “beach house” concept, with simpler, less formal interiors, but X-Easy’s massive cockpit terrace, complete with a barbecue fire pit, joining to the 550-square-foot swim platform establishes a new paradigm. “On most yachts, you have a large separation from where the one deck goes up and the other goes down,” says Pastrovich. “Our goal was…