Author George Day

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14 Mid-Range Cruisers to Debut at the 2025 Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show

If you have never been to the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show it may be hard for you to imagine its scale. It’s the largest in-the-water boat show in North America and over five days next week starting on Wednesday a quarter of a million people will walk the docks and hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent on new boats and yachts. Every year builders of fine motor yachts from around the world come to FLIBS, as it is known, to introduce their newest designs. From America we have dozens of local builders including famous name brands like…

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Yacht Ownership Made Easy. One Couple’s Story

Here’s a story from the Moorings about a different way to own and enjoy a cruising power catamaran. Richard and Deborah Heinegger, who haul from Kanasa City, have been life long boat owners and at one point lived aboard and cruised they 76-foot motoryacht. When the big boatwas soild and the couple were reensconced in Kansas City, the hankering to own a boat and reconnect with the cruising life was just too strong to ignore. Their solution? Dive into a yacht ownership program with The Moorings.  Here’s their story. For Richard and Deborah Heinegger, life has always been closely tied…

Cruising Life
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Solving the Riddle of Rogue Waves

Anyone who has spent extensive amounts of time at sea, particularly in the higher latitudes, will tell you that rogue waves do indeed exist but until recently the rare phenomenon has not been given a clear scientific explanation and was largely relegated to myth. It seems hard to fathom but the first rogue wave to ever be scientifically measured was along the Norwegian coast in 1995.  The Draupner wave, as it was called, was a true beast. In gale conditions with swells running at up to 40 feet, the Draupner wave stood an amazing 84 feet tall. “It confirmed what…

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New Rustler 41 Will Become an Instant Classic

The British boat builder Rustler Yachts has been creating finely finished and classic-looking sailing boats for five decades and is one of the U.K.’s most respected yacht companies. So, it is with some anticipation that we waited for their first-ever motorboat to hit the water and show us what it can do.  The wait was worth it. The new Rustler 41, like its sailing sisters, has a subdued and elegant look deeply rooted in the finest yachting traditions. Nothing trendy here. The stepped hull, designed by Tony Castro, has very full sections forward for buoyancy and interior volume. The sheer…

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What Do You Really Want In a Cruising Yacht? Hunt Yachts Dares To Ask

In an era when most boatbuilders disdain customizing their products,  Hunt Yachts invites clients to bring it on. “By the time you get to considering a boat of 56 feet or more,  (Hunt’s model range is 56 to 76’) you likely have enough experience to know what it is you want, and you certainly have an idea of how you’ll use the boat.  We want to accommodate that completely, and that drives us to offer a custom-building experience.  We will alter the layout, engineer different systems, add the amenities that make life aboard comfortable,” says Peter Truslow, Hunt’s Managing Director.…

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Catalina and True North Yachts Pause Boat Building Operations

Since April 30 when Michael Reardon, founder of Daedalus Yachts, announced that he had purchased Catalina Yachts, which also builds True North motorboats, rumors have been circulating about the health of the business and the status of the boat building operations. This week, Catalina’s president Patrick Turner issued the statement below to bring America’s boating community up to speed on the current state of affairs at one of America’s oldest and most respected boat building companies. I want to share an important update directly with those who matter most to this company — our owners, future owners, and the…

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Odd Marine Facts: Why Sperm Whale Heads are Built Like Battering Rams

At the end of Herman Melville’s great novel Moby Dick, after doing battle with Captain Ahab and drowning him, the white whale turned it malevolence on the whaling ship itself. Ramming the Pequot at high speed, the whale sent its tormentors to a watery grave with only one survivor, the story’s narrator, Ishmael. While the tale is often thought of as an allegory, it is in fact based on two very real incidences of whales in the South Pacific sinking whaling ships, the Essex and the Ann Alexander. A survivor of the Essex sinking, Owen Chase, wrote a memoir of…

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New Azimut Fly 82 Defines Elegance In Inimitable Italian Style

Italian builder Azimut has long been a style leader among Mediterranean yacht constructors with new models reinventing what it means to exude marine brio and duende.  The new Fly 82, which is the flagship of the Azimut Fly series, does just that. With shapely lines and a strong sheer, the 82 looks like it is in motion even when tied to a dock. The stepped bow design, which is an Azimut staple, not only looks good it deflects spray and eases the hull up onto a plane. The cabin has a severely angled wind screen and the line of that…

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Tragedy in North Carolina’s Treacherous Bogue Inlet, 88-year-old Man Lost

Last Sunday, in fair weather, Arthur Furtney, 88, and his companion Paul Brown set off in Furtney’s 23-foot center console to transit Bogue Inlet, which cuts between Bogue Sound, North Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean. The Inlet is known to be swept by strong currents, and it appears that the 23-foot was caught in choppy waves and flipped throwing both men into the water. Furtney did not survive the accident and drowned. Brown was able to stay afloat and swam to the inlet’s Buoy #1 where he was able to hang on until help arrived. Help did arrive in the…

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With the New Administrator Confirmed, Is NOAA in Good Hands Under Dr. Neil Jacobs?

Here’s a story we have been following from time to time because weather forecasts are such an essential element of our lives on the water. NOAA is at the epicenter of those forecasts. This week, the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr, Neil Jacobs to be the new Administrator of NOAA, the umbrella agency that supervises the National Weather Service, the National Hurricane Center and dozens of other agencies dedicated to earth science, weather and climate issues. Dr. Jacobs is eminently qualified for the position as a scientist and a veteran of NOAA. Under Trump 1.0, he served as the acting administrator,…

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