Author George Day

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East Bay 44 is a Timeless Classic

The East Bay line of family cruisers was launched in 1993 by Grand Banks to enter the performance cruising market with a sleek Downeast sedan. Traditional Grand Banks boats of that period were eight to 10-knot trawlers that did not compete well against the modern cruisers built by Sabre, Back Cove and others. Today, East Bay builds two models, the flagship 60 and the mid-range 44. The smaller boat has been given many upgrades by the new owners of Grand Banks yet still is endowed with the classic features that made the original East Bay 38 such a popular boat.…

On Watch With Peter Janssen
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Co-Captains Set New Grear Loop Record of 11 Days, 21 Hours

On September 18, Captains Dustin Kidd and March Crutcher set a new speed record by completing the 4,280-mile Great Loop in 11 days, 21 hours and  51 minutes.  They circled the loop aboard a brand new Highfield Sport 800 inflatable named White Lightning powered by twin Yamaha 200 outboards. Popular with long-range cruisers, the Great Loop is a waterway circuit that circumnavigates the Eastern U.S. and parts of Eastern Canada. White Lightning beat the previous Great Loop Record of 12 days, 18 hours and 10 minutes, set in 2025 by Peter Hajas and crew on Lady Lor, by 20 hours…

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Annapolis Powerboat Show 2026 Preview of Brand New Boats

The 2026 Annapolis Powerboat Show gets underway next week. This year there is a host of new boats that will have their Annapolis debuts and six of them fit neatly into the trawler, sport cruiser and luxury cruiser categories that Cruising Odyssey focuses on. Herewith a brief preview of the six new stars in the power cruising firmament. Askari 65 Crafted in Cape Town, South Africa, the Askari 65 P Long Range Aluminum Cruiser is engineered for global exploration. She offers a comfortable cruising speed of 10 knots and has a range of approximately 2,500 nm. This marine-grade aluminum vessel…

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The Solara 310 SB Is a Powerful, Pintsize Couple’s Cruiser

The Solara brand was introduced by Fluid Motion nearly a decade ago and has proven to be a real hit with America’s performance cruiser aficionados. Built in the U.S. by the builder of Ranger Tugs and Cutwater Boats, the Solara style is that of a classic American sport cruiser. The B in its name stands for the flybridge, a feature seldom seen on boats that are only 31-feet long. The builder likes to emphasize that the 310 SB is a multi-purpose boat. It can take you offshore for sport fishing, it can run the family to the beach for an…

Cruising Life
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Bahamas Update: Cruising Permits and Fees for 2026

With the fall season well underway for those cruising south to Florida and the Bahamas for the winter, it is time to revisit the changing regulations, permits and fees that the Bahamas have recently  enacted for foreign boats visiting the country. On July 1, 2025, the Bahamian government put In place dramatic increases to the fees it chargesqwass visiting boats. These were onerous enough that marina owners and the operators of marine facilities and chandleries ganged together to protest the new rules. Their point was the higher fees would reduce traffic from the U.S. and seriously cut into their winter…

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Lyman-Morse and Ray Hunt Design Continue Nearly Four Decades of Innovation with New Lyman-Morse 70 70

At the Newport Boat international Show on Thursday morning, I ran into Winn Willard, president of Ray Hunt Yacht Design, aboard the new Hunt 56 by DiMillo’s which he and his team designed. While we were admiring this handsome new cruiser, which we have reviewed, Winn mentioned that Lyman Morse was at work building a custom Lyman-Morse 70. That pricked my interest, so I wandered over to the Lyman-Morse stand, where they are showing the new Hood LM 42, also recently reviewed, and ran into Drew Lymam, president of LM. Yes, indeed, he is building the new Lyman-Morse 70 and…

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Teen Miraculously Rescued from Overturned Boat in Deadly Capsize off Alaskan Coast

Last week, the U.S. Coast Guard reported that a 15-year-old boy was rescued from his overturned fishing boat in a capsize that caused the deaths of his two fishing companions. In an interview with ABC News after the rescue, the Coast Guard pilot who found the boy said that he and the rest the crew were on “an emotional roller coaster” as they swept Alaska’s Bering Sea looking for survivors. Lt. Commander Jonathon Resch said, “We are beyond excited and beyond grateful that we found him, and at the same time, we are overwhelmingly remorseful that we didn’t find the…

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Hinckley Introduces Design for New 41 at Newport Show

This week at the Newport international Boat Show, Hinckley Yachts of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, introduced their new 41 with triple V10 Mercury outboards. The Doug Zurn design follows on the incredibly successful debut at the 2025 Newport show of the Hinckley 39 with the brand’s first bow-lounge configuration. The 41 will also have a large bow lounge with seating for six. This space accompanies the outside lounge area in the cockpit and the interior social area in the small salon. As Hinckley’s Director of Marketing Scott Bryant has noted, “Our owners tend to use their boats mostly for day drips…

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Nine New Power Cruisers Make Their Debuts at the Newport International Boat Show Next Week

Next week in Newport Rhode Island, cruising enthusiasts from all over the Northeast will make their annual pilgrimage to the ity by the Sea to attend the Newport International Boat Show. The show has grown in size and importance over the last decade and is now the place for many boat builders to debut their newest models. Here’s a look at nine new cruisers and trawlers that are having their debutant parties in Newport next week: Hunt 56 by DiMillo’s The new Hunt 56 marks the first model introduced under Hunt Yachts by DiMillo’s, pairing the legendary Ray Hunt Deep-V…

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Outer Reef Launches New 540 Adventure Sport with Quad Outboards

Here’s an innovative new model for Outer Reef, the respected builder of luxury cruising and expedition yachts. In league with their Dutch partners, the OR team has taken the proven 540 Adventure motor yacht and spiced it up with four, 12-cylinder, 500-horsepower Mercury outboards. You might think an expedition quality aluminum cruising yacht being adapted for outboards was something of an oxymoron.  But that would be missing the point. What OR is offering is a high-performance sport cruiser that is also a long range pasagemaker with a range of 2,000 miles or more. Outboards can be quieter yet faster than…

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