Author Peter Janssen

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Curious Whale Nudges Woman on SUP. Video

Here’s an incredible video of a curious southern right whale seeming to play with a woman on a standup paddleboard in Puerto Madryn, in northern Patagonia, Argentina. At one point, the whale pushes the board forward gently, and then swims under it to see what’s happening. Maximiliano Jonas, who filmed it, says “These whales surely love paddleboards. Every time they spot one floating on the water they get all excited and approach it but not in an intimidating way.” This is the middle of the whales’ migrating season in Argentina. Marcos Grosso, Puerto Madryn’s tourism secretary, said that 1,600 whales…

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Cape May, NJ: A Cruisers’ Crossroads

If the old saying that the three most important things in real estate are location, location,  location can also be applied to cruising, then Cape May, New Jersey, is about as good a spot as you’re going to find. Cape May is particularly important this time of year, as more and more snowbirds are planning their cruises south for the winter. At the very southern tip of New Jersey, it’s where you make a choice about whether to continue offshore down to Norfolk, Virginia, or take the longer, but more scenic, route up the Delaware Bay, through the C&D Canal,…

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Runaway Boat Threatens Swimmers. See Video

A runaway boat near St. Pete Beach in Florida caused some havoc as a boat from the local sheriff’s office rescued the driver from the water while officers in a helicopter overhead urged swimmers to head for shore. You can see all the action in the sheriff’s video below. The rescue started when the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office got a call that the driver had been thrown from his boat about half a mile off Pass-a-Grille Beach, just south of St. Pete. The sheriff’s office then launched a boat and a helicopter to the scene. They found the driver treading…

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New Reports: Right Whales Nearing Extinction

North American right whales are in trouble. In fact, according to several new studies by marine scientists, they are in danger of becoming extinct. Three recent research papers say the whales’ problems are caused by a combination of climate change and increasing interactions with ship and fishing gear. Climate change means the waters of the Gulf of Maine, the right whales’ traditional favored waters, are warming faster than any other marine ecosystem on earth. And right whales are increasingly the victims of being hit by ships and getting entangled in fishing nets and other gear. The North Atlantic right whale…

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Nouvoyage 33: Amphib Tender for Megayachts

For me, the Monaco Yacht  Show was always fun. Forget about playing James Bond at the Casino in Monte Carlo, the really outrageous action was down on the docks at Port Hercules, where the megayachts and the helicopters and the toys were usually way over the top. I’m not at the show this week – the pandemic and all – so I haven’t seen the latest, a 33-foot-long amphibious limousine tender that fits in the garage of a megayacht (a large megayacht). The new tender, the Nouvoyage 33, answers the problem of how to get from your jet to your…

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Kadey-Krogen, Summit, Building New Cruisers

Kadey-Krogen and Summit Motoryachts, its new brand, just announced two new boats at the Newport show. Building on the reception to the Kadey-Krogen 50 Open, the company will introduce a new 60 Open, with the same living concept joining the salon and galley area with the pilothouse. And Summit will launch a new 54 Coupe (see rendering, above) to add on to the 54 Motoryacht it just displayed in Newport. Kadey-Krogen has a rich history, having built more than 600 cruising yachts in the past 44 years in its yard in Taiwan. Full-displacement, blue-water trawlers, they have earned a reputation…

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Boat Hits ICW Nav Aid in New Jersey. 6 Hurt

Six people were rescued from the water after their Bertram 25 ran into a fixed navigation aid just after midnight Sunday on the ICW near Beach Haven, New Jersey. They were taken to area hospitals with various injuries. The Coast Guard says a Good Samaritan called them at 12:18 a.m. to report hearing a loud crash and calls for help near Ham Island, which is just north of Beach Haven on the Waterway. (Beach Haven is about half way between Atlantic City and Barnegat Light.) The Coast Guard launched a 29-foot response boat from Beach Haven and a Dolphin helicopter from…

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Hylas Building New 49 Motoryacht for U.S. Owner

Hylas Yachts, which makes high-end cruisers at the Queen Long yard in Taiwan, just delivered a new M44 motoryacht to an American owner in the Chesapeake and is finishing up a new M49 motoryacht for another American owner on Lake Michigan. Andy Huang, the Hylas CEO, said the M44 “has been an evergreen model for Hylas, with good levels of interest shown across the boating world.” Hylas has sold ten M44s since it started the model in 2015. The new M49 is a larger version of the M44, with more room in the cockpit and in the accommodations area below.…

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Autonomous Tug Ready for 1,000-nm Cruise

A 35-foot totally autonomous tugboat is ready to start a 1,000-nm cruise around Denmark controlled by captains operating a computer system with 300 main processors back in Boston, Massachusetts. The tug, named Nellie Bly, was made by the Damen yard in the Netherlands, and it is run by Sea Machines Robotics in Boston. The goal of the cruise, named Machine Odyssey after Homer’s epic poem, is to determine if such a voyage, including stops at 14 ports along the way, is possible for a commercial vessel. The tug is scheduled to leave Hamburg, Germany, on Sept. 30. It will have…

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Hunt, Huckins, Back Cove Big Winners in Newport

The Hunt 63, the Huckins Sportsman 38, and the Back Cove 39O were big winners at the Newport boat show, all collecting awards in various categories. The electric outboard by Flux Marine won an award in the show’s green products category. The awards are part of the show’s Newport For New Products showcase, open to domestic and foreign products that were launched in the U.S. after April 1, 2021, that made their debut at the Newport show. Winners were selected by a panel of judges, industry experts, on the basis of innovation, value to the consumer, safety, and aesthetics. An…

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