Author Peter Janssen

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New 59-foot Evo: Push a Button for More Room

The new Evo R6 Open is a striking boat underway, bound to turn heads wherever it goes. But it really will get attention when it stops. (See the video below.) Push a button and the boats “XTension” bulwarks fold out to increase the deck space by 40 percent in just 30 seconds. And the aft swim platform has a Transformer platform that extends out and manages to rotate 270 degrees to help with boarding, or diving, or water sports. The 59-foot yacht, made in the Evo yard in Naples, is nothing if not versatile. It can hold 16 passengers out…

Cruising Life
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Yacht Burns, Sinks, Off Costa Smeralda; 17 Safe. See Video

Lady MM, a 155-foot Italian superyacht, caught fire and sank Tuesday morning about 50 miles off Costa Smeralda in Sardinia. All 17 people on board, nine crew and eight passengers, escaped uninjured on a tender. You can see a video of the fire and sinking below. The Italian Coast Guard in Olbia, on the north coast of Sardinia, picked up a distress call at 6 a.m. saying the yacht was on fire. It dispatched two patrol boats and a helicopter. A few hours later, someone from the yacht made an additional radio call, saying everyone had abandoned ship. A Coast…

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Seven Best Beach Bars in Antigua

Antigua is one of the most beautiful, and cruiser-friendly, islands in the world. Indeed, serious cruising people have been heading there since Lord Nelson arrived in 1784, at a spot that is now known as Nelson’s Dockyard. Antigua also is home to some 365 beaches, one for every day o the year, as the tourist people point out, and most of them are gorgeous. Just in case you need another reason to go to Antigua, here’s a list of the seven best beach bars you’ll find there, from the people at The Moorings. (The picture above obviously is not on…

Electronics
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ACR Launches New Self-Testing for EPIRBs and PLBs

We all know that it’s a very good idea to have a working EPIRB or a PLB on a cruising boat, but how do we know that they’ll work in an emergency when we actually need them? Now, ACR Electronics, the safety and survival device company in Fort Lauderdale, has an answer for that – a new 406Link that lets you test your device in advance. The 406Link is meant to give you peace of mind, and to reassure you that search and rescue services can find you when you need them most. It gives 406 MHz beacon owners, people…

On Watch with Peter Janssen
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New Bering 70 Takes 1,200-nm, 12-Day Summer Cruise

In a successful effort to show what’s possible in a 12-day cruise, the leaders of Bering Yachts took a new Bering 70 steel-hulled expedition yacht on a 1,200 nm trip around Turkey’s Turquoise and Aegean coasts earlier this summer. With a two-person crew moving the yacht at night, they spent the days exploring historic sites, visiting waterfront restaurants, swimming in remote coves, and generally having the time of their lives. (See the video below.) Berings are built in Antalya, Turkey, and the cruise started and ended there. Alexey Mikhailov, the company’s president, said, “We wanted to demonstrate that a fast…

Destinations
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Boat Harbour Marina in the Abacos Now Open Again

Here’s good news for those of us who love cruising in the Bahamas (and I think that’s just about all of us): Abaco Beach Resort and Boat Harbour Marina in Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island are open again, offering some of the best cruising, fishing, and just plain boating fun you can imagine anywhere. Over the years, I’ve been to the Abaco Beach Resort many times, and each one was memorable, but in particular I remember a cruise with Scott Porter, the president of Formula, on one of his new boats, and fishing with Eddie Smith, the founder of…

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New 50-knot Platypus Swordfish with Submersible Pod

Here’s something that you haven’t seen in, or under, your favorite cruising grounds yet: The new French-built 40-foot Platypus Swordfish, a 50-knot planing boat with a submersible pod that holds up to eight passengers. The new concept boat is a creation of Francois-Alexandre Bertrand, founder of Platypus Yachts, and L2 Concepts. It will be built at a subsidiary of L2 Concepts in Antibes, with construction scheduled to start early next year and the first hull in the water next summer. In its planing mode, the Platypus Swordfish functions as a stable trimaran with a 12-foot beam. In the submerged mode,…

Cruising Life
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New Wealth Report: Who Owns Yachts, Private Jets, Art

It’s not news that the pandemic has changed the way we live, but a new report on how the wealthy spend their money around the world gives us some new, and perhaps surprising, details about where they’re spending now. It also spells out about the differences among people who buy private jets, yachts, and art. All this is in a new report, the Wealth-X Global Luxury Outlook 2020. Wealth-X has been publishing data on the wealthy since 2010. It defines wealthy as people with at least $5 million, and it has a separate category, called ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) for people with…

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Want To Dry Stack Your Bertram 46? No Problem

A new high-tech, fully automated dry-stack marina is coming to Fort Lauderdale, and it is large enough to accommodate a 46-foot boat that has 17 feet above the waterline. And it’s sophisticated enough to deliver your boat to you in five minutes. The new F3 Marina will be at 1335 SE 16th Street, near the 17th Street Causeway (see the map, above), and it’s being built by Miller Construction of Fort Lauderdale. It will have 240 racks in a 59,000-square-foot building that’s 130-feet high. It’s due to be completed in September, 2021. The building will have a 1,750-ton steel frame,…

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Coast Guard Releases 2020 Reading List; Pull Up a Chair

The Coast Guard just released its 2020 reading list, and it couldn’t come at a better time when a lot of us are not leading our normal social and work lives. Time for a good book. The new 2020 Coast Guard Professional Development List is based on recommendations from more junior members, officers and enlisted personnel, and the books cover a variety of topics that are relevant to the Coast Guard today. The books include I Don’t Want to Talk About It, by Terrance Real, a psychotherapist; Leadership in Turbulent Times, by Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and The…

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