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U.S. Couple Buys New Boat, Sight Unseen, in Italy

A California couple, searching for a boat to use as a second home and workplace, bought a Princess F50 in San Remo, Italy, sight unseen, during the pandemic and are now shipping it back to the U.S. Cindy and Ariel Poler are lifelong sailors, and members of San Franciso’s St. Francis Yacht Club. They had lived in San Francisco, but when their youngest son went to college they sold their house there and moved to Stinson Beach, across the bay in Marin County. But they wanted to keep their ties to the city. According to a story in Britain’s Motor…

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Maritimo Building New M60 Flybridge Blue-Water Cruiser

Maritimo, the highly regarded Australian builder, just announced that they’re planning an M60 Flybridge Motor Yacht that will be launched early next year. The luxurious new M60 Flybridge Motor Yacht is the latest iteration of the company’s first motor yacht, the Maritimo 60, launched in 2004. It was then selected as Cruiser of the Year and Australian Boat of the Year. “It has since gone on to earn a reputation as a standout blue-water cruiser with diehard following,” said Tom Barry-Cotter, Maritimo’s design director. The new M60 Flybridge Motor Yacht provides luxurious living on board with the company’s fabled blue-water…

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Burger Launches New 50 Cruiser with IPS

Burger, the fabled custom and semi-custom builder, just launched its new 50 Cruiser, with an aluminum hull designed by Vripack and power from twin Volvo 600-hp IPS800 pod drives. The boat’s now for sale at Burger’s yard in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan. The Burger 50 comes with an interior by De Basto Designs in Miami. It has two staterooms, with en suite heads, below, and a large open salon and galley with unobstructed views all around. The boat was designed by Vripack naval architects in the Netherlands. It has Vripack’s patented Slide Hull, which reduces pounding and offers less…

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Canadian Border Now Open, But with Rules

The good news, the very good news, is that the border to Canada opened to U.S. boaters on Aug. 9, meaning that fully vaccinated Americans can cruise up the Inside Passage and British Columbia on the West Coast, along the shores of the Great Lakes, and up the Rideau Canal, the Thousand Islands, the St. Lawrence or Nova Scotia on the East Coast. But…and there’s a big but. The Canadian government has set some restrictions and guidelines, so it’s not quite like the good old days, the time before Covid. Fully vaccinated U.S. citizens can enter Canada on their boats…

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New Strand Craft V8; PWC on Steroids

Kurt Strand, the Florida-based Norwegian yacht designer, is building the Strand Craft V8 Daytona GT, a jet ski beast that he calls “the ultimate personal watercraft.” Strand, who usually designs large yachts, says he’s been working on the V8 Daytona GT for the past five years. It’s 16’ 6” long and weighs 1,250 pounds and will be powered by a 6.7-liter supercharged aluminum V-8 engine with a high-performance water jet.  We don’t have any details about speed or range yet; it will have a 22-gallon fuel tank. The hull will be either fiberglass or aluminum and the jet ski “marries…

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New CMY 57 Powered by 3 Diesel Outboards

Compact Mega Yachts, a start-up from Finland, is building two new cruisers powered by three 300-hp OXE diesel outboards. The company says the boats will have a top speed of 27 knots, and when they’re driven by just one outboard in an “adaptable powering” mode they will have a range of about 3,000 nm. The two boats are the CMY161 at 53 feet LOA, and the CMY173 at 57 feet LOA (pictured above). The two are essentially the same, except the CMY173 has a third cabin in the accommodation deck below because of its extra length. The three outboards, developed…

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Father and Son Cruise Solar/Electric Boat to Alaska

When we last wrote about the father-son team of David and Alex Borton at the end of May, they had just left Bellingham, Washington, on their 27-foot solar/electric boat Wayward Sun, headed for Alaska. They wanted to be the first to take such a vessel all that way, without using any fossil fuel at all. And they succeeded. Using only the sun for power, the Bortons cruised 1,216 nm from Bellingham to Ketchikan, Alaska, and then up to Glacier Bay and finally to Juneau, in a total of 45 days. They actually were underway for 38 days, averaging 32 nm…

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Good Samaritans, NOAA, Save Stranded Orca

A group of Good Samaritans, with some help from NOAA, helped rescue a 20-foot-long orca that was stranded on the rocks on Prince of Wales Island, just above Ketchikan in Alaska. They poured water on the 13-year-old orca for about six hours until the tide turned, and the whale, known as TD146D, a member of the West Coast transient orca population, was able to swim out to sea and rejoin its pod. The Coast Guard received the first call about the stranded whale at 9 in the morning.The orca was at least four feet above the waterline then, and the…

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NOAA Hurricane Update: Not Good News

This year’s Atlantic hurricane season has gotten off to a bad start, and now NOAA says things may get worse. Indeed, in its annual mid-season update, NOAA now says there’s a 65 percent chance that we’ll have above-normal activity for the rest of the season, which ends on Nov. 30. “A mix of competing oceanic and atmospheric conditions generally favors above-average activity for the remainder of the Atlantic season, including the potential return of La Niña in the months ahead,” said Matthew Rosencrans, the lead hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. The center says the chance of a near-normal…

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Numarine Launches 37XP with 6,000-nm Range

Numarine, the Turkish builder, just launched the first hull of its 37XP expedition yacht in Istanbul. It’s now on its way to the south of France for its showing at the Cannes Yachting Festival, starting Sept. 7. With a steel, full-displacement hull, the Numarine 37XP is powered by twin 800-hp CAT diesels, giving it a top speed of 14 knots and an ocean-crossing range of 6,000 nm at 8 knots (it holds 13,472 gallons of fuel). The 121-foot yacht is larger than what we usually cover, but I think it’s interesting to see what’s out there in the long-range, expedition…

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