Innehållsförteckning för July 2022 från Yachting

38'5" LENGTH OVERALL 11'5" MAXIMUM BEAM Lomac’s GranTurismo 12.5 Cruiser builds on the hull of the company’s previous cruiser of similar length but adds interior volume. The Milan, Italy-based builder converted that volume into an upgraded accommodations plan. The RIB’s hull is built using isophthalic vinylester resin and a vacuum-infusion process, while its tubes are built using a strong and lightweight multiaxial fabric. Owners can spec their rides with two or three outboards (up to 900 max horsepower), which hang just abaft an aft-deck seating area. A center console with a windshield provide protection when the boat is underway, and the bow area is a great location for relaxing when the anchor is set. Whom It’s For: Anyone seeking the performance of a coupe and the sensibilities of a sport…

One bad day led to a really great boat. It wasn’t even a stormy day, or an unusual day of any kind, when the couple pulled in their nearly 40-foot powerboat for refueling. They’d done the drill before, having cruised around Puget Sound, Washington, and other parts of the Pacific Northwest with their three kids. But on this day, the wife had made an unfortunate footwear choice. She slipped out of her sandals while stepping ashore. “Her leg went up onto the dock and got caught under a cleat,” the husband says. “She ended up hanging in the water, with her head 2 feet underwater, and her leg was caught in the cleat. She figured, this is how it ends. She was pinned in between the dock and the boat,…

On Board the Princess Y72 Yachting got a closer look at this new yacht with Princess Yachts America at the 2022 Miami International Boat Show. Cane & Abe Summer Storm You’ll find a video with a recipe for a Summer Storm made with Cane & Abe brown sugar cane rum. Balancing Innovation & Practicality Jay Coyle ponders this question with regards to yacht building in his regular Yachting column. Exploring Dry Tortugas Fort Jefferson is just one of the many attractions boaters can experience during a visit to Dry Tortugas. Water Toys for Summer Hobie’s new iTrek inflatable kayaks and paddleboard are portable, easy to stow, assemble and use. Image Courtesy Hobie St. Lucia’s Literary Heritage While it may not ever rival the Pitons or Pigeon Island as a top…

54' LENGTH OVERALL 17'3" MAXIMUM BEAM ACROSS ITS 54 feet length overall, the Hatteras 54 Convertible has three staterooms and two heads for overnight runs as a capable fishing machine. The build for bluewater duty includes a solid fiberglass hull bottom with Divinycell coring in the hull sides, deck and superstructure. Twin 1,550 hp Caterpillar C30 diesels provide a 32-knot cruise speed. The 149-squarefoot cockpit has a Release fighting chair for big-fish battles. At press time, eight Hatteras 54 Convertibles were available, ranging from $749,000 to $879,000. FROM THE ARCHIVE “Everyone in our five-member crew found a place on the fully outfitted flybridge. Small touches such as drip moldings above all compartment doors keep interior spaces dry. Rod stowage is plentiful under the two settees. An optional electronics console drops…

262'5" LENGTH OVERALL 2025 DELIVERY DATE Mega-yacht design has always been a playground for some of the most fertile minds on the planet. Construction, in turn, routinely represents an evolution in engineering. All of that and more is on display right now around the world, with numerous projects that are nothing short of mind-bending. ¶ In March, Royal Huisman in the Netherlands turned the Alustar aluminum hull on Project 406, which is on its way to becoming the largest sport-fisher yacht ever to ply the world’s waters. Building this 170-foot-long, six-deck machine would be enough for any shipyard to create headlines, but the Dutch builder—the same month it turned that hull—announced that it also had inked a deal to build the world’s largest sloop, the 280-foot Project 410. ¶ “It…

INDOOROUTDOOR STYLISH COMFORT Generally speaking, two types of furniture have always been aboard yachts. Some designers pluck sofas and chairs from home stores and bolt them through so they will stay put in a seaway, while other designers create custom, built-in boating furniture. Both solutions work in their own ways, with the home pieces often being more stylish, and the built-ins generally offering more practical features such as undercushion stowage. ¶ The new Jacques-Yves line of modular furniture is aiming to be both. It’s the brainchild of the team at Zuccon International Project, which has long worked with yachtbuilders such as Ferretti Group and Sanlorenzo, and the team at Poltrona Frau Custom Interiors, which increased its focus on the yachting sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.¶ “Boats, and yachts in particular,…

THE DEFINING MOMENT of any passage for an off shore sailor is landfall: when the destination island or port finally looms upon the horizon. But when we set off from the Caribbean island of Petit St. Vincent into the teeth of the staunch easterly trade winds late last winter, we were instead aiming for a “sea fall”—an arbitrary set of coordinates somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean where we’d turn around and power-reach back to the Grenadines. We were on a voyage to nowhere. ¶ My pal, sailing author and raconteur John Kretschmer, had conceived of the sea-fall concept during the pandemic. “Kretsch” makes his living conducting training trips for fledgling cruising sailors aboard his Kaufman 47, Quetzal. Those trips account for many of his 28 transatlantic voyages. When COVID-19 sidelined…

BLUENAV’S BLUESPIN retractable motors are electric drives that fit aboard vessels with outboard engines. They give owners a hybrid propulsion system that uses the boat’s internal-combustion engines (ICE) for high-speed work, as well as the electric motors for slow-speed work (up to 8 knots). In electric mode, operations are silent and vibration-free, such as around marina docks. ¶ The electric motors are powered by lithium-ion batteries. The propeller and lower unit retract into a cassette-style trunk for improved hydrodynamics when the vessel is operating in ICE mode. ¶ The biggest design challenge was creating a solution for the marine environment, says Hervé Frouin, BlueNav’s founder and chief technology officer. “In a single BlueSpin, there are four electric [motors], which have to live in the seawater” or other types of water,…

48'9" LENGTH OVERALL 14'11" MAXIMUM BEAM Boating clubs that introduce people of all ages to the joys of boating have become increasingly popular in recent years. One such club is Barton & Gray Mariners Club, which offers skippered cruising along the East Coast and Great Lakes aboard iconic brands such as Hinckley Yachts and Boston Whaler. ¶ Now comes the Daychaser 48, which launched from Boston BoatWorks this past spring as a purpose-built model for Barton & Gray members. Longtime designer Doug Zurn was tasked with combining classic yacht styling with the modern cruising sensibility of a shared onboard experience. ¶ “The large swim platform will appeal to a lot of members,” Zurn said, explaining one of numerous features that should work well for longtime boaters and newcomers alike. “It…

80'4" LENGTH OVERALL 32'6" MAXIMUM BEAM SILENT-YACHTS and VisionF Yachts have collaborated to create the former’s first hybrid-powered boat: the Silent VisionF 82. It’s an aluminum catamaran with three driving modes: electric, hybrid and power. A fully electric model is also available; there are 34 solar panels atop the 82. Top speed is reportedly 13 knots. ¶ In terms of size, the 82 is most comparable to the Silent 80: The 82 is 6 inches longer than the 80 while surrendering about 3.5 feet in beam. According to the builder, on the 82, more space is allocated to the foredeck and its “sunken lounge area” with a table, an L-shaped settee for four to port and an overhead shade from the extended flybridge deck. There’s also space for four personal…

Sea trials are often relatively calm affairs: Run the boat on reasonably smooth water, grab the performance numbers and get a sense of the boat. My run on the Azimut Yachts Verve 42 was a bit more lively. ¶ First, as we headed out the Port Everglades inlet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I could see mountains moving in the Gulf Stream just off shore. Second, the skipper was Federico Ferrante, president of Azimut Benetti USA and clearly an aspiring Formula One driver. Before we cleared the inlet, he grabbed a fistful of throttles for the triple 450 hp Mercury Racing outboards, and we were off on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. I’ve run the Miami-Nassau powerboat race from Florida to the Bahamas and taken less abuse than we tried to give…

WHEN IT COMES to situational awareness, John Ellis understands the value of a bird’s-eye view. While he uses Dragon, his Furuno-equipped Nordhavn 68, for sport fishing, diving and extended Pacific Ocean cruising, he often uses an inexpensive DJI unmanned aerial vehicle to gain perspective. “I can use it for backing into slips,” he says, adding that he also flies the UAV to count whale sharks or locate birds off shore. The key to making the UAV effective, he says, involves networking one of his yacht’s four 24-inch pilothouse displays with Apple TV. Then, the UAV wirelessly shares its data with Ellis’ iPhone, which in turn pushes this imagery to the Apple TV and the networked display. “You can’t see this without a drone,” he says. ¶ While contemporary marine-electronics manufacturers…

MONTSERRAT THE CARIBBEAN LIKE POMPEII OF OLD, Montserrat is the modern reference point for volcanic destruction. The island is part of the Lesser Antilles, as well as a British overseas territory. As director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory, native islander Graham Ryan keeps a close eye on the Soufrière Hills volcano that devastated the island in 1995 and has remained active ever since. ¶ “One thing that makes this volcano unique is that it is so long lived,” Graham says. “These kinds of volcanoes usually last two or three years on average. It’s also episodic, which makes it difficult for us to know when the activity is over.” ¶ The veteran volcanologist knows Soufrière Hills well. He was an intern at MVO during the historic 1995 eruption and a staff…