Innehållsförteckning för June 2016 från Yachting

Yachts anchor all across Beaufort Channel on the closing Sunday of the annual North Carolina Seafood Festival in Morehead City. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters alike watch from their cockpits as the procession begins. Sometimes the parade of commercial fishing boats is 50 strong, with those skippers having run from as far away as Maine to attend. Songs are sung. Prayers are offered. When the blessing of the fleet ends, some yachtsmen gently lay wreaths in the current. This happens just off shore from The Carolina Sounder, the statue shown at right by Douglas Alvord. The North Carolina Fisheries Association commissioned it about 20 years ago. “There was controversy building back then about commercial fishing nets,” recalls association president Jerry Schill. “We wanted something that showed history and tradition.”…

LOA 144' CRUISE SPEED 11 KNOTS The ocea nemo 44 mt is called a “sport-utility yacht,” but that’s underselling the 144-footer’s ability to transport tenders, personal watercraft, toys or anything else an owner wants. Designer Fulvio De Simoni created a mega-hangar under the raised aft deck, measuring 28 feet by 30 feet, with long side bay doors and side-lifting cranes. The hangar can hold 28- and 15-foot tenders, plus PWCs and several lockers of scuba gear. When tenders are in the water, the hangar is a shaded-but-open social area, connected to the beach club at the transom. The upper deck is designed for a second group of tenders, including two 27-foot sailboats, with masts up. Italy-based MCYCO says a seaplane, personal sub and even a hotair balloon are not beyond…

She’s absolutely perfect,” Jim said as he sipped Stoli on a rock. He might have been blathering about a favorite grandkid, but he was talking about his boat. “There’s nothing like her. She’s one of a kind.” “She certainly is,” I offered while I tried to make sense of her profile. An enjoyable pinot noir relieved my eyestrain. Having designed boats and conducted quite a few sea trials, I might have guessed Jim’s boat was “special.” But I didn’t have to guess. I’d already heard the dock chatter. In a modest chop at speed, the boat could shake loose a filling. Given the gentlest zephyr, she was wetter than a South Florida summer. God help you if her stabilizers crapped out. She could roll the peanut butter out of a…

YACHTING DEVELOPMENTS in New Zealand is working toward a 2017 delivery for this 127-foot Michael Peters design, expected to set a world record the minute she splashes. Both the shipyard and the designer are confident she will be the biggest sport-fish yacht ever built entirely of carbon. She’s also going to be the biggest Peters design ever constructed, anywhere. “We’re taking the building of a carbon structure to a new level in the sportfishing field,” says Ian Cook, managing director at Yachting Developments. Yachting Developments specializes in carbon-fiber construction, which it has used extensively on sailing yachts built to race and cruise. The same proprietary technology is being used on this sport-fish, which is for an owner who previously commissioned Peters to design the 86-foot sport-fish yacht Lanakai II. “YOU…

In 1965, the marine aluminum Committee of the Aluminum Association trade group revealed that slightly more than 52 percent of the 378,000 inboard- and outboard-powered boats constructed that year were aluminum, including larger custom builds, dinghies, prams, skiff s, jon boats and more. The proliferation of the material’s use in boatbuilding led to Yachting’s April 1966 article “Aluminum Construction.” The metal served as an appealing alternative to wood and fi berglass. Assembly line-style production kept prices comparatively competitive for smaller builds, with arguably easier usage by owners. “For these small craft, the light weight of aluminum is a major advantage. They are easy to launch and retrieve.” At the time, there wasn’t enough volume for measurable cost savings in the midsize boat business. An alternative was to use riveted construction,…

I FIRST SAW THE PHOTOGRAPH AS A KID WHILE SNOOPING AROUND A NEIGHBOR’S WORKSHOP HARD BY BARNEGAT Bay, New Jersey. A classic Orvis fly rod was too pretty not to handle — I picked it up and started a chain reaction that would make Rube Goldberg proud. When the dust settled, amid the scattered fishing gear was the January 1970 issue of Yachting. Its cover model was blasting through the sea on her milky-white hull. Marine photographer Peter Barlow had captured the Hatteras 50 in her element, running hard and fast. I was awestruck. About 12 years before Barlow had snapped the shutter, a nor’easter had grounded Willis Slane and his fishing buddies yet again in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Looking at the storm blowing stink off Diamond Shoals, Slane…

1. THE LINE Viking Yachts, which celebrated 52 years in business in April, has no fewer than 13 convertible models ranging from 42 to 92 feet length overall. The 80 is also available as an enclosed bridge. DURING THE PAST 20-PLUS YEARS, I’ve reviewed many of the sport-fishermen that have slipped down the ways at the Viking facility in New Gretna, New Jersey. I have even been on the production line of some of those very boats. I reported on the advances in technology and building techniques that have allowed Viking CEO Patrick Healey and his designers, technicians, workers, installers, captains, and sales and support staff to live up to the Viking mantra: building a better boat every day. Proving the point anew is the builder’s Viking 80C. To be…

THE SUN CRACKS the horizon. Warm salt air is at once intoxicating and relaxing. The still water ripples as you approach your fishing spot. It catches your gaze. Wavelets roll infinitely in all directions. Opportunity lies ahead. Where will your quarry pop up next? You slow down to neutral. Scanning the surface, you see ripples again. Quietly, you look around the boat for that go-to rod, perfect reel and must-have lure. You cast. A strike. Game on. That’s the thrill. It’s a heartbeat. It’s why we fish. Beneath your feet for this give-andtake fight is your vessel. Your platform for piscatorial pursuits. And the choice is as personal as that lure you just threw. GRADY-WHITE CANYON 336 A HUNT-DESIGNED variable-deadrise hull form and rugged hand-laid fiberglass construction should keep everyone…

FEW PRIORITIES RANK HIGHER IN MY LIFE than finding time to sail with my dad, a challenge compounded by the geographical reality that my wife and I live in Seattle while my parents call Connecticut home. All parties put great effort into our too few and far between sailing days, so our frustration was understandable that (perfect) fall day when the boat’s engine quit just as we were leaving the mooring. A clogged fuel filter was the culprit, but we squandered valuable time troubleshooting the problem. We had the necessary spares, but I wondered if there wasn’t a faster way to diagnose onboard issues. Flashforward almost two years, and GoFree’s new Track modules, which are compatible with Simrad products, provide that capability plus much more. Telematics refers to wireless technologies…

LOA 70'10" MAX BEAM 18'8" It’s been nearly 15 years since Bertram debuted its 670 Convertible at the 22nd annual Bertram-Hatteras Shootout, having announced the model less than a year earlier at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Following her launch, the angler-friendly 670 had an eight-year production run from 2001 until 2009. Standard features: The cockpit measured 168 square feet, and Hull No. 1’s engine room housed 1,800 hp MTU 16V 2000s that provided a 37-knot top hop. Belowdecks: The erstwhile Bertram flagship carried her beam far forward, allowing for a four-stateroom, four-head layout. Availability: At press time, about a half-dozen 670 Convertibles were for sale from $1.1 million to $2.6 million. FROM THE ARCHIVES “One of the 670’s most unique features is a spiral staircase from the cockpit…