Cruising Life

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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New Study: How Whales Share Their Songs

By Peter Janssen on September 6, 2022 Cruising Life

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…

Riva Unveils First All-Electric Runabout

By Peter Janssen on September 5, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

New Caracat: 28-foot Boat/Camper

By Peter Janssen on September 5, 2022 Cruising Life

If you want to go boating in a lot of different spots, or if you just want to have fun on the water in a different kind of vessel, take a look at the new Caracat electric catamaran that you also can tow behind your SUV and use as a camper. The Caracat is 28’ 2” long and it has the basics for a day or a night on land or on the water. It transforms from a water vessel to a land-based camper via a patented design of two pontoons that swing out or retract at the push of…

New Vandal Explorers: “Less is More”

By Peter Janssen on August 31, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Vandal Marine in The Netherlands just announced that they’re introducing a new Explorer series at the Cannes show, starting Sept. 6. The new 46-foot offshore boats have foils for speed and fuel efficiency. They also embrace the company’s philosophy that “less is more” with a cool, industrial-chic look and without any of the extraneous bells and whistles that have been added to a lot of other new boats recently. The company says the new Explorers “enhance the sense of adventure by removing unnecessary complications,” and that they have everything you need while eliminating everything you can do without. The result…

New Study: Sea Levels To Rise 10 Inches

By Peter Janssen on August 30, 2022 Cruising Life

Melting ice in Greenland could result in a 10-inch rise in sea water around the world, more than twice the increase previously believed, according to a new study. The problem is what researchers call “zombie ice,” or ice that is no longer getting replenished from glaciers that are receiving less snow because of global warming. It is basically doomed ice that eventually will melt and raise sea levels. A new study just published in Nature Climate Change looked at Greenland’s melting ice sheet and said the sea levels would raise by at least ten inches even if we stopped burning…

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