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Barton & Gray Launches First Daychaser

By Peter Janssen on September 13, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Barton & Gray Mariners Club just launched their first Daychaser, an elegant 48-foot luxury day boat, designed specifically for club members by Doug Zurn. Until now, the club’s fleet has included almost 70 Hinckleys, spread among 30 ports around the country. The club, founded in Nantucket in 2006, has been growing rapidly. It now forecasts a record number of 12,000 outings this year. Members, who pay a base fee of $39,500, usually use the boats for one- to four-hour cruises; the boats come with a captain and concierge service. A few years ago the club realized that it needed a…

La Niña To Hit U.S. for 3rd Straight Year

By Peter Janssen on September 12, 2022 Cruising Life

La Niña, the temporary cooling of waters in the central Pacific that has the greatest influence on weather in the Northern Hemisphere, lives on, and on, and on. Indeed, the world’s leading meteorologists just predicted that La Niña will enjoy a “triple dip” this year, making it the first time this century when it will persist for three straight winters here. “It is exceptional to have three consecutive years with a La Niña event,” said Petteri Taalas, secretary general of the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. “Its cooling influence is temporarily slowing the rise in global temperatures, but it will not…

What Those Numbers Mean on a Chart

By co_admin on September 11, 2022 Cruising Life

Here’s some great advice from Skipper Tips about how to read a chart – electronic or paper – showing numbers, including some with underlines or enclosed by parentheses. Here’s how to read these symbols to keep off the rocks and navigate safely: Nautical datums are stated in two ways. Look in the title block area (that area of a chart just beneath the title) to the “Chart Datum”, or soundings (depths). These will be stated as feet, fathoms, meters or a combination such as fathoms and feet or meters and decimeters (tenths of a meter). Next determine the “Height Datum.”…

Lazzara Designs New 60-Foot Outboard Cat

By Peter Janssen on September 11, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Joe Lazzara, of the iconic Lazzara yachting family, has designed a new 60-foot catamaran powered by four 600-hp Mercury Verado V12 outboards. It’s a Legacy LC-60, part of the Legacy Superyachts by the Lazzara Family group, and it’s an aluminum cat with an efficient planing hull with some innovations designed to make boating more user-friendly. The Legacy cat has a steady and wide platform, with a lot of carbon fiber for strength and light weight. With the four outboards, top speed is set for 45 knots, with a cruising speed of 30 knots. The new cat is marked by its…

Highfield To Launch 2 New RIBS in Lauderdale

By Peter Janssen on September 10, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

Shark Kills U.S. Tourist in Bahamas

By Peter Janssen on September 8, 2022 Cruising Life

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…

Silent Yachts Making 60-Knot Electric RIB

By Peter Janssen on September 7, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

New Sanlorenzo SP110 Turns Heads in Cannes

By Peter Janssen on September 7, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

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

By Peter Janssen on September 6, 2022 Cruising Life

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…

Dale Launching New Classic 37 Cruiser

By Peter Janssen on September 6, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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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