Yachting August 2017

The specification of highest quality materials is at the heart of every Marlow Explorer® built, both seen and unseen. As example the specification of 316L stainless steel for cleats, chocks, stanchions, rub rails and other hardware yields provides the magnificent finish and corrosion resistance well beyond the common. In the engine room the same materials grace the exotic carbon fiber main stringers with beautiful custom made engine mounts on premium vibration isolators by Trelleborg. In lieu of mass produced offthe shelf components by hundreds of vendors, insuring a yacht that is beautiful, durable and easy to maintain continues throughout. Far more of a Marlow is built by Marlow’s own full time artisans in our own shops to create the fit, finish and perfect function we believe Marlow owners deserve and…

Icould hear the waves all night, their white, frothy tops rolling over and onto themselves, sliding down the wave face and lifting the 65-footer up like a balloon. Sometimes the boat floated back down. Sometimes she sat suspended, momentarily, before gravity repossessed control of the situation and she plunged into flybridge-high troughs. The boat’s spine repeatedly hyperextended as our crew’s spines compressed. Welcome to October in the North Atlantic. The offshore forecast had projected seas that would max out at 5-footers, completely comfortable for the boat. But 100 miles from our nearest port, things escalated quickly. The wind intensified, and the seas grew. Those 5-footers were now at 10 to 12 feet, and then grew to 15. Waves with razor-sharp teeth broke over the bow as our captain kept the…

Under deferred importation, owners of foreign-flagged brokerage yachts would pay the same tax — but at a different time. Nearly 90 years ago, at a time when motorcars had just become the standard replacement for horses and buggies, the United States enacted the TariffAct of 1930. With it, lawmakers seeking to safeguard American jobs and businesses at the start of the Great Depression increased the tariffs on more than 20,000 imported goods. “It was designed to protect U.S. shipping interests,” says Paul Flannery, president of the International Yacht Brokers Association. “At the time when this law was enacted, there were a couple of European royalty and some robber barons who had yachts, and that was it.” Today, Flannery says, the law is stopping $2.4 billion worth of brokerage yachts from…

PA S S GO. COL L EC T $20 0 M I L L ION. Geoffrey Parker, the British maker of luxury casino games, garden games and other types, offers this Billionaire Monopoly set (about $12,500) with custom options. The inlaid leather playing board can have streets embossed in silver or gold, with surrounds made from 13 colors of calf leather ranging from classic ebony and slate to vibrant tangerine and bubble gum. Alligator, ostrich and exotic skins are available too. The sterling-silver-gilt tokens include an Aston Martin, a helicopter and even a Riva. geoffreyparker.com…

M ost people who put serious thought into Kevlar sails don’t also spend time considering how the sails might affect everyday business meetings. Antonia Undurraga does think about both. She’s an industrial designer who used to turn sails hoisted for yacht regattas into wallets, bags and more. She liked the stories behind the sails — the adventurous places the yachtsmen had cruised and raced, especially southern Chile — but she wished the recycled products had more elegance, a style that an executive might be proud to carry into a conference room. “I realized that if I used a little piece of sail, the story is the same and the product looked more elegant and sophisticated,” she says. “Imagine this: You are a lawyer, anything, in a meeting in an office,…

A 20-knot nordhavn? That’s what this builder — long known for full-displacement passagemakers — says could be the top speed for its 59 Coastal Pilot. Twin 715 hp Cummins diesel inboards and a new semidisplacement hull form are said to be key to the perform ance equation. But the builder isn’t sacrificing its reputation for constructing long-range, bluewater vessels either. In the case of the 59CP, owners can pull back the single-lever throttles to maximize the yacht’s 1,100-gallon fuel tank. Nordhavn says the 59CP has a 777-nautical-mile range at a 9.3-knot cruise, and a 255 nm range at her 20.3-knot top-end. When it comes to ruggedness, the builder says the foundation is a solid fiberglass hull bottom supported by full-length longitudinal stringers and a series of transversal supports to add…