Author Peter Janssen

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Highfield To Launch 2 New RIBS in Lauderdale

Highfield just announced that it will launch two new sport RIBs at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, starting Oct. 26. For the U.S. market, Highfield will introduce the Sport 900, an almost 30-foot company flagship, and the slightly smaller 25-foot Sport 760. Highfield has been making premium aluminum-hulled RIBs from 10 to 30 feet in China since 2011; they are now sold in 38 countries around the world. The company actually is launching a total of five new models for 2023. They have military-grade, high-tensile chromated and powder-coated aluminum hulls, based on Highfield’s commercial Patrol series, with enhanced stability, seaworthiness…

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Shark Kills U.S. Tourist in Bahamas

An American tourist was attacked and killed while she was snorkeling with her family in the Bahamas on Tuesday. Caroline DiPlacido, 58, who lived near Erie, Pennsylvania, was on a seven-night cruise on the Harmony of the Seas with her husband and three children. The liner left Port Canaveral on Friday. When it docked in Nassau, the family took an excursion with a local tour company for a snorkeling trip. The family was snorkeling near Rose Island when police said a bull shark attacked DiPlacido. Her husband and children rushed to her aid, along with employees of the tour boat…

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Evoy Launches 300-hp Electric Outboard

Evoy just launched its new Storm 300+hp electric outboard at the Cannes Yachting Festival; it’s the most powerful electric outboard in the world. Evoy, a Norwegian company, also announced that it’s formed partnerships with three boat builders, in a major move forward in the drive to replace fossil-fuel motors with electric motors that are quiet and produce no fumes or emissions. The market leader for high-performance electric motors, Evoy now makes inboard and outboard electric motors from 120-hp to 400-hp for recreational and commercial vessels. The Evoy 300+hp offers 225kW of continuous power, it weighs just 363 pounds, and it’s…

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Silent Yachts Making 60-Knot Electric RIB

Silent Yachts just announced that it’s creating a new line of electric-powered performance boats, starting with a 60-knot Speed 28 RIB. The new 28 will be powered by two 200kW electric motors that provide a range of 70 nm at 30 knots. Silent made the announcement at the Cannes Yachting Festival this week. The first hull of the Speed 28 is scheduled to be launched in October. The new RIB has futuristic looks, embedded solar cells, and foils for performance. It can be used as a superyacht tender, or it can be trailered anywhere to function as a high-performance, all-around…

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New Sanlorenzo SP110 Turns Heads in Cannes

The stunning new Sanlorenzo SP110 with its open plan and massive two-tier aft deck and beach club is getting a lot of attention at the Cannes Yachting Festival this week. The SP (for Smart Performance) 110, with its sleek, low, minimalist super-modern look is modeled after the Bluegame, a Sanlorenzo brand, but it takes the open aft deck idea to a new level. The two main decks both open to the aft deck, in effect creating a two-story atrium. Then the transom folds out in several steps to create a huge beach club all the way aft. A Williams jet…

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Four Winns Launches New 36-foot Cat

Four Winns, now part of the massive Beneteau Group, just unveiled its totally new TH36 catamaran at the Cannes Yachting Festival. Based in Cadillac, Michigan, Four Winns says the TH36 is the first in a new line of power catamarans. The TH36 has two cabins, with two heads, below and can be powered by twin 300-hp or 350-hp outboards. The new cat is a truly international effort. Four Winns hired the Garroni Design studio in Italy to develop the lines for the TH catamaran series, and French naval architect Marc Lombard to create the stable and efficient hull shape. “At…

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Boat Hits Channel Marker in Keys; 1 Killed, 3 Hurt

Four high school girls were seriously injured when the 28-foot Robalo center console they were riding in with 10 other people hit a channel marker near Boca Chita Key in Florida and capsized. One of the girls, Lucy Fernandez, 17, a well-liked senior, died of her injuries the next day. The Coast Guard said the accident occurred about 6:30 Sunday night on the Intracoastal Waterway in Biscayne Bay about ten miles south of Boca Chita. Boca Chita itself is about ten miles below Key Biscayne. Miami-Dade Police Marine Patrol boats were first to reach the scene. “Police arrived first and…

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Dale Launching New Classic 37 Cruiser

The new Dale Classic 37, a bulletproof blue-water cruiser, will make its world debut at the Southampton boat show, starting Sept. 16. With its standard power of twin 220-hp Volvo diesels and straight shafts, it has a top speed of 18 knots, and a range of 250 nm. The new 37 is built by Dale Motor Yachts in Milford Haven, Wales, who have been in business for 60 years and have earned a reputation for creating boats with strong hulls, classic lines, and impeccable joinery. Artisan builders, Dale can customize each boat heavily per the owner’s wishes. Dale started working…

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New Study: How Whales Share Their Songs

Humpback whales, it turns out, are creating individual songs and then sharing them with other whales. A new study says the songs can pass from one whale population to another, and even from the Pacific to the Atlantic. “Half the globe is now vocally connected for whales,” said Ellen Garland, a marine biologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the author of the study, “and that’s insane.” Her study was just published in the Royal Society Open Science journal. Her eight-year study found that whales off Australia pass songs to whales in French Polynesia who pass them…

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Riva Unveils First All-Electric Runabout

Riva, the glamorous and iconic Italian builder, just unveiled its first electric boat at a private event at the Monaco Yacht Club. The new boat, named Riva El-Iseo, is a fully electric, 27-foot runabout prototype. The name comes from Lake Iseo, in northern Italy, where Rivas are made and where Riva is celebrating its 180th anniversary. “El-Iseo is a glorious new chapter in the challenge that only Riva can experience every day,” said Alberto Galassi, CEO of the Ferretti Group, Riva’s parent company, “that of combining its legendary history with cutting-edge technology to generate beauty and style that will never…

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