Author Peter Janssen

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New Jersey Couple Ride the Great Loop on Their Yamaha WaveRunner, and Love It

When most people start planning a cruise on the Great Loop, they have to decide whether they want to do it on a 30-foot, 40-foot or even a 50-foot boat or more. Not John Cacciutti, a builder of luxury vacation homes from Ocean City, New Jersey. Cacciutti thinks outside the box. He and Barbie Evangelisti, his riding partner, are doing the 5,800-mile Great Loop on their Yamaha WaveRunner. And they’ve already put 1,700 Loop miles behind them. Cacciutti and Evangelisti are not the first people to do the Loop on a PWC. Indeed, Larry Harcum completed the Loop in 87…

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For an Exotic Charter with Incredible Water and Easy Cruising, Try Thailand

It’s a long plane ride to get there, but chartering in Thailand is definitely one of the more exotic things to do. The colors, islands, beaches and food there aren’t like anything you’ll find closer to home in the U.S., and the sense of adventure is hard to overstate. If you want to cruise in a tropical paradise, where most of the navigation is still line of sight and where moorings are plentiful and the people are friendly, Thailand should be at the top of your list. The island of Phuket, off the west coast of Thailand in the Andaman…

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New Colorized Pictures of the Titanic Show the Luxury of Life on Board, and the Tragedy of the Sinking

The tragedy of the Titanic, the ship, not the movie, continues to grasp us even today, some 107 years after the largest and most luxurious cruise liner ever built at that time hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank, carrying more than 1,500 people to their deaths. Only 705 people, primarily women and children who made it to the lifeboats, survived. Another liner, the Carpathia, heard the Titanic’s SOS calls and arrived at the scene in only three and a half hours to rescue them. Now Popular Everything has colorized pictures of life on the Titanic before it sank. Somehow…

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Azimut Introduces New 78 Fly, with Three Volvo IPS Drives and Lots of Privacy for Guests

Azimut just introduced its new 78 Fly, the latest version of the luxury Italian builder’s carbon tech models. Azimut originally introduced the boat as a 76 Fly at the Miami boat show in February, but then added two feet to create more privacy on board for the owner and guests. The resulting 78 Fly is the first in Azimut’s flybridge line to have three Volvo IPS pod drives for performance, fuel efficiency and low noise levels. With four cabins (plus one for crew), all with en suite heads and showers, the 78 Fly will be built with a high level…

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Ten Tips for Getting the Best Boat Loan This Spring from BoatUS

Here are ten tips for getting the best boat loan fromBoatUS, just in case you’re still looking for a new ride for this summer. Or print this out and take it with you to the shows next fall. It will help make the boat-buying process a lot easier. 1.Undeerstand the basics. A fixed-rate, simple-interest loan is the most common, with the same monthly payment for the life of the loan, usually from ten to 20 years, after a 10 percent to 20 percent down payment. Variable rate loans usually offer a fixed rate for a few years, and then a…

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Three Dead, One Injured, When Boat Hits Miami’s Government Cut Jetty at Night

Three people were killed and one injured when their center console crashed into the north jetty of Miami’s Government Cut at 9:30 on Saturday night. The accident occurred at the same place where Miami Marlin’s star pitcher José Fernandez and two of his friends died in October, 2016, when his boat ran into the jetty at night. In the latest crash, Christopher and Elisaine Colgan, a married couple from Lighthouse Point, were celebrating a birthday on Saturday night when their 32-foot Cape Horn hit the jetty and turned over. (Elisaine would have been 39 on Sunday.) Miami-Dade Fire Rescue found…

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How To Leave a Dock Using Spring Lines. See Diagrams and Video

Even in an age of joystick docking, with pods and bow and stern thrusters on many new boats, you still may find yourself needing to use spring lines to get off a dock. First off, your boat may not have all those useful devices, and second, they may not always work. In any event, you’ll be a much more confident skipper if you – and your crew – know how to use springs, particularly if you’re in a tight situation or facing adverse wind or current. Here’s a great story, with diagrams and video, about how to leave a berth…

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Torqeedo Launches New, More Powerful, Super-Quiet, 3-hp Electric Outboard

Torqeedo has just launched a new, more powerful and super-quiet 3-hp electric outboard that’s aimed at the dinghy and RIB market. It can power boats up to 3,000 pounds. The top-of-the-line Torqeedo Travel 1103 C motor has new direct drive and a high-capacity 915 Wh lithium-ion battery that give it 10 percent more power and longer range than previous Torqeedos. And it’s quiet, producing only 33dB (the noise level of normal conversation is 50 to 60dB). “The Travel 1103 C does everything a small combustion outboard can do but it’s lighter, much quieter, easier to use, cleaner to handle and…

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Salty Dawg Announces Cruising Rallies to Rockland, Maine, and Bras d’Or Lake in Nova Scotia

Salty Dawg, the non-profit cruising group, has just announced two rallies this summer, first from the Chesapeake up to Rockland, Maine, and then the second on up to the Bras d’Or Lake on Cape Breton Island at the top of Nova Scotia (see the picture above). The rallies are open to both power and sail boats. Cruisers can join one rally and continue on, or just go on one, or even join a rally somewhere along the way. Each rally makes several stops to visit local harbors and sample the local food and drink. But the main attraction is the…

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Retired Vancouver Couple, Veteran Boat Owners, Cruise Gulf Islands on New Axopar 37

Klaus and Mary Priebe from Vancouver, British Columbia, are hardly new to boating and cruising. Over the years they’ve owned a Nordhavn 62, an Ocean Alexander 55, a Sabre 48 and a Grady-White 36. Now that they’re retired (he was a lawyer, she was an accountant), they’re cruising the gorgeous Gulf Islands on a new Axopar 37 Cabin. And they’re loving it. When they started looking for a new boat, the Priebes decided to go with outboard power. Klaus said he wanted a boat that “required no more crawling around in engine rooms any longer.” The Axopar 37 is powered…

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