Indholdsfortegnelse for March 2018 i Yachting

RUNNING UP a near-empty Tampa Bay on a Friday morning aboard the Cruisers 42 Cantius felt a bit odd given the yacht’s Euro styling and big-boat sensibilities. The Florida waterway, with its winding, shallow channels, is mainly the province of bay boats and center consoles. This latest addition to the Cruisers five-model Cantius line, which ranges in size from 42 to 60 feet length overall, would almost look more at home in St. Tropez or Miami. Once I got her into the bay, with her bow pointed toward downtown St. Petersburg, the Cantius looked positively majestic. “Our goal was to create a boat with a balance of European curves and American ergonomics,” says Patrizio Facheris, whose eponymous studio designed the Cantius line. “We wanted to supersize the volume of the…

210 NAUTICAL MILES MAXIMUM CRUISING RANGE AT 32 KNOTS TALK ABOUT LONGEVITY … Riva has come a long way since Pietro Riva first repaired his brick-damaged wooden boat on Italy’s Lake Como in 1842. Today, Riva has 13 models and designs across its Open, Flybridge, Coupe, New Projects and Superyachts divisions, ranging from 27 to 295 feet length overall. DÉJÀ VU I REMEMBER THE 53 RIVALE blowing me away when she joined Riva’s portfolio in 2003. We flung her around the Bay of Cannes off the South of France during what was known then as the Cannes Boat Show. Here we are now, 15 years and an extra 3 feet later, with the next-generation model: the 56 Rivale, which I stepped aboard this past September at the Cannes Yachting Festival.…

AVON’S EJET 14-foot-8-inch RIB, introduced last year at the Cannes Yachting Festival, combines an 80 hp Torqeedo Deep Blue electric motor with a new Avon RIB hull form. The boat pushes across the water via jet drives rather than props. Deep Blue is a high-voltage, brushless motor with NMEA 2000 and J1939 CAN interfaces that give the helmsman battery data, available range and other critical information on a helm display. The vessel’s 32 kWh BMW battery, first used in BMW’s i3 series cars, should provide 90 minutes of run time at the eJet’s estimated 26-knot top-end with two people on board. Avon also is estimating seven hours of run time at a more leisurely 5 to 6 knots. The builder says the RIB’s standard cruise speed will be around 20…

TOY STORY Did you get a chance to see CRN’s latest 282-footer? She truly has room for all your water toys and tenders, from your go-fast boat to your sailboat. Head over to Yachting’s Facebook page to take a video tour of this fun-filled superyacht. GADGETS & GILHICKIES My favorite gadget was a 1-by-2-foot piece of wood long enough to reach into the bilge. The stick had a galvanized nail through it near the bottom (a hole for the nail was drilled to avoid splitting the wood). I reached down with the stick and used the nail to lift the float switch, to see if it was working. Easier on the back and a very quick test of the switch. READER FEEDBACK Looking for photos and yacht news? Get social…

01. ARCADIA SHERPA The 60-foot Arcadia Sherpa made her U.S. debut at the Miami Yacht Show on Collins Avenue. All of those solar cells you can see in the photograph above generate enough power to run many of the yacht’s instruments and systems. When paired with the builder’s semiplaning hull and Volvo Penta IPS600 engines, Arcadia says, the setup results in “extremely low fuel consumption.” Arcadia also designed the Sherpa to keep air-conditioning bills low, with sky-lounge windows that lower from the hardtop, allowing ocean breezes to cool the deck on warm days. 02. SABRE 45 SALON EXPRESS This Down East design has two staterooms and two heads for weekends afloat. A utility space can hold laundry, a wine chiller or whatever owners want. 03. TIARA 38 LS She has…

NO MATTER HOW big their rides, sometimes even mega-yacht owners need to take spatial constraints into consideration. The Mini Venetian Limousine Tender from Maine’s Hodgdon Yachts is a customizable 21-foot-4-inch Michael Peters design that, according to the builder, is the smallest limo tender on the market. The boat seats eight in a climate-controlled salon, with entrances both forward and aft. Sightlines are 360 degrees, letting guests take in the view as they cruise toward rarefied ports where the name of the game is to see and be seen. • Whom It’s For: Owners and guests aboard mega-yachts up to 200 feet length overall who want an elegant, pocket-size way to get to shore. • Picture This: You take your Westport 112 out to the Abacos for a long weekend, and…

They say hosting an event aboard a yacht at the Monaco Grand Prix or Cannes Film Festival requires a level of planning on par with a 250-guest, black-tie affair on Oscars night in Hollywood: You need at least a year to organize, extra security deposits will be required, and the canapés had better be Michelin-star mouthwatering, because Steven Spielberg just might show up. ¶ In the case of a film fest or Grand Prix charter, there’s also the matter of snagging one of the limited number of prominent slips in the harbor, as well as a yacht to put in that slip — one rated to take all the guests you hope to welcome at the quay. The biggest superyachts that can pull off the best parties book fast, especially…

WITH ABOUT 4,600 MILES OF COASTLINE and one of the largest populations of any country in the world, Brazil has been recognized as a potentially hot yacht market for American and European builders since the early aughts, when Goldman Sachs unleashed its BRIC thesis upon the world. Hype has since cooled around the concept — BRIC theory posited that by 2050, Brazil, Russia, India and China would be the world’s dominant economic powers — but interest in the Brazilian boating market has not. Enter Okean Yachts and its new 50, a Brazilian-built cruiser poised to put its builder on the map. ¶ The Okean 50 is being treated as a trawler by some because of its dual-mode hull (more on that later), yet thanks to Italian yacht designer Paolo Ferragni,…

WILEY SHARP SAYS THE BUYER approached him, of all places, on YouTube. “I have my own YouTube channel pertaining to my specialty area, which is catamaran sales, and I kept getting people asking me on YouTube if they could use cryptocurrency to buy a yacht,” the sales broker says. “After the third or fourth one, I decided I should learn what this is.” By cryptocurrency, this particular buyer meant bitcoin, which Sharp’s company, Denison Yachting, has accepted since December 2014. A recent spike in bitcoin value has left a lot of early adopters flush, and this one wanted to buy a 48-foot Leopard that Denison had listed for sale. “We told the sellers, ‘We’re going to make you an offer in bitcoin,’” Sharp says. “He’s old-school, he’s actually an ex-FBI…

IT’S A FEW DAYS BEFORE THANKS GIVING when I speak to Stephanie Rovers at her home in Upstate New York. Her grandchildren are laughing and playing in the background as she multitasks prepping a family feast with our interview, as well as planning for her and her husband, Adrian’s, next adventure: a five-month, around-the-world cruise on a 900-passenger ship. The voyage will take the enterprising duo from Cuba to Thailand, arriving home by spring, just in time to launch their beloved Galeon 510 Skydeck for another summer of cruising around their backyard of Lake Champlain and beyond. The Roverses are seafaring enthusiasts through and through. In fact, in the two years since buying the 510 Skydeck, the couple has amassed 600 hours on her motors and thousands of nautical miles…

RED-GREEN COLORBLINDNESS carries significant disadvantages for yachtsmen. I, for one, have always struggled to identify navigation lights. Take the night that our crew was approaching the western entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca aboard a J/160. The horizon was a confusing scene of lit-up squid boats and sailboat-crushing container ships. While we had a full crew and a navigator to provide situational awareness, the waterway would have been a visual nightmare had I been alone. Fortunately, today’s top-end radars employ solid-state power amplifiers — not cavity magnetrons — that facilitate Doppler processing and boost collision-avoidance tools. ¶ Furuno made headlines in 2016 when it introduced the first radome-enclosed, Doppler-enabled, solid-state radar. The 25-watt DRS4D-NXT employs a 24-inch antenna, transmitting on X-band frequencies (7.0 to 11.2 GHz). It also…

Nordhavn’s first n63 launched in 2010. Fifteen more have splashed to date, all plying the seven seas. With a nearly transatlantic range at 7 knots, the N63 is a vessel for those who have a “second star to the right and straight on till morning” spirit. Notable features: The N63 shares its full-displacement hull design with the builder’s earlier 55- and 60-footers. Nordhavn says the N63 is an aft-wheelhouse version of the 60, with an extended cockpit and boat deck. Cruise speed: 8 to 9 knots. • Belowdecks: The N63 comes with two or three staterooms and two or three heads. • Availability: At press time, three N63s were for sale, ranging from $2.2 million for a 2013 to $2.8 million for a 2017. FROM THE ARCHIVES “The beating heart…