Author George Day

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De Antonio Introduces Flagship D60

De Antonio Yachts, based in Barcelona, Spain recently launched its new 60-foot flagship, which they intend to debut at the Cannes Festival of Yachting in September.  As an outboard powered family cruiser, it will be interesting to see how well the now-recognized De Antiono design aesthetic works in a boat of this size. The boat has the builder’s signature stepped hull, slab sides with stylish glazing and a plumb bow, all very much family resemblances. The salon is based around the full side decks for easy access to the lounge at the bow, while the cockpit features a near full-width…

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Hinckley Yachts Opens Advanced Inside Storage and Service Facility

Yesterday, August 14, Hinckley Yachts based in Portsmouth, Rhode Island held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newest addition to the company’s expanding storage and service businesses  The building that was the focus of the event is a brand new 24,000 square foot steel structure that was designed and built to withstand the winds and floods of a hundred-year storm. Hinckley’s CEO Gavin McClintock addressed the crowd with a vision for the company’s future. “After almost 100 years in business, the Hinckley company is investing heavily in the future, and this new structure is a significant part of where we…

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Xquisite Announces New Sporty, Two-Cabin Powercat 40

Tamas and Sara Hamor launched the Xquisite Yacht company in South Africa in 2014 and have spent the last 11 years bringing truly innovative, luxurious sailing and now power cats to the market. To date, they have delivered 47 truly unique yachts to happy customers. For 2025 they are introducing a sporty 40-foot power cat that will be a fine warm weather cruiser. A two cabin, two head boat, the new 40 has a ton of outdoor space and open-air living area. On the wide deck between the hulls up forward, you’ll find two wide sunbeds with tilt-up back rests.…

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Sirena to Introduce New 60-Foot Family Cruiser at Cannes Festival of Yachting in September

Sirena Yachts, based in Turkey, announced at BOOT Dusseldorf that the builder was launching the design of a new Sirena 60. The new boat will replace the Sirena 58 that has proven so successful in the mid-range cruising market and will debut at the Cannes show in September Sirena celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024 so they are kicking off their second decade with a stylish new 60 footer. The new yacht, designed by German Frers, carries all of the design DNA that has made the company such a world-wide success, including the plumb bow, extended swim platform and huge…

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First All-Electric Greenline 40 Lands in North America

This week, Yacht Sales International, the U.S. representative for Greenline yachts announced that the first all-electric Greenline 40 had been delivered to its new owner in Annapolis, Maryland. This innovative family cruiser from the European builder is the fruit of a unique partnership. “This yacht is the result of true collaboration between a customer with vision, a boatbuilder committed to sustainability, and a propulsion partner at the forefront of marine innovation,” said Udo Willersinn, Co-Founder of YachtSalesInternational.com. “With the Greenline 40 Electric, we’re not just delivering a boat—we’re delivering the future of yachting.” “Ingenity’s Twin Drive mCrate System is such a…

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Let’s Go FLOOP’in on Florida’s Southern Loop

We all know the Great Loop, one of America’s most famous year-long cruising adventures. And, we know the Great Eastern Loop that leads from New York City up the Hudson River and then out the St. Lawrence Seaway and around the Canadian Maritimes before closing the circle back in the city. But what about the FLOOP or what’s better known as Florida’s  Southern Loop?  For snowbirds heading south in the fall along the Intracoastal Waterway to the Sunshine State, the FLOOP is a natural cruising attraction. Why stay plugged into a marina all winter when you can go exploring and…

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Nordhavn 41 Meraki European Cruising Adventures Continue

We first ran into Jan and Tom Newman soon after they had taken delivery of their new Nordhavn 41 Meraki at the Nordhavn factory in Turkey. They were, as they said then, setting out to live their cruising dreams after years of working, saving and planning. We can report now, almost three years later, that those dreams have come true. Tom and Jan spent their first two years cruising the northern Med before pointing their bow northward to France’s Rhone River and the canals that would take them to Scandinavia. Along the way they thorough explored Turkey, Greece, The Adriatic,…

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Living the Dream Aboard an American Tug 41

Steve Olsson was introduced to the cruising life by his parents  who, when their four children were young, moved the family aboard a 34-foot steel, modified work boat and spent a month cruising from their home in San Diego, California to San Francisco and back. “I remember that trip as just being amazing and fantastic and it was summer and we went up the Sacramento River,” Steve said. “I vividly remember Morro Bay and going under the Golden Gate Bridge. I remember swimming ashore and picking blackberries and coming back and my mom would bake pie and all this stuff…

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Boat Burns Off Santa Cruz, Two Men Rescued

Last Wednesday, a 45-foot fishing boat with two men aboard caught fire a mile off Santa Cruz, California. At 7:40 a.m., Coast Guard Sector San Francisco received an alert that the boat was on fire and immediately issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast to all vessels and rescue teams in the area, The Coast Guard station in Monterey dispatched a boat crew and the Santa Cruz Harbor Patrol and a fire boat raced to the scene.  Despite the huge blaze and billows of black smoke, the Harbor Patrol crew were able to rescue to the fishermen from the burning boat…

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A Personal Locator Beacon with AIS Capability Will Save Your Life

On September 10, 1982, three passengers aboard a light aircraft crashed into the sea off the Canadian Maritimes. They were able to deploy their life raft and they had with them the earliest version an Emergency Position Indicating Beacon (EPIRB). They switched it on and set in motion the very first COSPAS-SARSAT rescue. They were found and rescued in a matter of hours instead of the days such search and rescue missions took before the satellite rescue system was in place. Since then, more than 50,000 people have been saved from a watery end by EPIRB technology. For those of…

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