Author Peter Janssen

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New Reina 44 “Houseyacht” Heading for Miami

The first in a new line of what the company calls luxury houseyachts, the Reina 44 will arrive in Miami from the factory in Turkey next month and make its global debut at the Fort Lauderdale show in October. Reina says it has launched a new category of boat that combines the best of a yacht, a power catamaran, and a houseboat. The new Reinas are built to serve both as a yacht and as a luxury home on the water. The builder, Reina Boats, was founded by Hayri Dayi and Emin Günal, who saw the leap of interest in…

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Fossil of 200-Ton Whale Found in Peru

You think whales are big now? You should have been here 39 million years ago. That’s when a 200-ton whale, the Perucetus, swam the coastal areas of the world, with its flexible body moving slowly in waves from head to toe. Paleontologists found a fossil of the giant whale in Peru and they say it is probably the heaviest animal that ever lived. In fact, it is two or three times heavier than the blue whale, the largest whale today. “This is a weird and stupendous fossil, for sure,” Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist at the Smithsonian, told The New York…

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New Sunseeker Makes Global Debut in Newport

Sunseeker will hold the global debut of its new 88-foot luxury cruiser at the Newport International Boat Show, starting September 14. The upscale British builder will also display its new 65 Sport Yacht and a Manhattan 55 at the show, the start of the fall boat show season on the Atlantic coast. The new Sunseeker is called the Ocean 182, and it has a large, multi-purpose enclosed skylounge up top and five cabins, all with en suite heads, on its lower deck. There’s also a day head on the main deck, in the space separating the salon seating area from…

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American Publisher Killed in Amalfi Boat Crash

Adrienne Vaughan, a prominent American book publisher, was killed in a boating accident off the Amalfi coast in Italy when the chartered 29-foot power boat she and her family were riding on hit a 130-foot sailboat that was not moving. Vaughan, 45, had been sun bathing on the bow of the power boat at the time. She was thrown overboard in the collision and then was hit by the boat’s propellers. Her husband, Mike White, was also injured. Their two sons were not hurt. Passengers on the sailboat, who were celebrating a wedding, said two doctors on board jumped into…

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Dominator Launches New 35 Mini-Superyacht

Dominator Yachts just launched its new Midi Ilumin 35 luxury cruiser at a private event in Montenegro. The new 35 shares the lines – and a lot of the over-the-top superyacht touches – as its big sister, Dominator’s 92-foot Ilumen 28M. The head-turning 35 has the same no-nonsense reverse angle windshield and sweeping buttresses, glazed bulwarks and carbon-fiber hardtop as the 92-footer. It also has a hand-laid teak deck, polished stainless steel accents, bookmarked gray marble walls, and hand-stitched Nubuc leather in the cabin. On the lower deck, the head on the starboard side is separated by an electrochromic smart…

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New, Fast AquaDart Nano Scooter

Here’s something fun for the rest of the summer, or beyond. The new AquaDart Nano underwater scooter that the company says is lighter, faster and more powerful than the competition. The new AquaDart Nano is the latest from iAQUA, a Hong Kong company, and it’s nothing if not versatile. You can use it as a fun underwater scooter in its own right or carry it on your yacht as one more accessory It also can be used for water safety and search-and-rescue operations. The 48.5 pound AquaDart Nano is powered by the company’s new Dual-Jet Technology that  produces speeds of…

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24 Hours Offshore on Swamped 12-Foot Boat

The Coast Guard rescued a 25-year-old man after his 12-foot jon boat was swept out to sea off St. Augustine, Florida, and he was missing for a day and a night. The boat was half-filled with water and bobbing up and down 12-miles offshore when a Coast Guard search-and-rescue plane spotted Charles Gregory, 25, who had thrown his outboard motor overboard earlier in an effort to stay afloat. .Gregory, an experienced fisherman, left the Lighthouse Park boat ramp at 4 a.m. on Friday. But the tide rose faster than he expected, a wave hit the boat (a flat-bottomed aluminum craft)…

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Saxdor Launching New 400 GTO Flagship

Saxdor Yachts will launch its innovative new 400 GTO flagship at the Cannes Yachting Festival next month. The sleek, low, cruiser with its minimalist lines is the latest from Saxdor, a company with a creative DNA that opened its doors in Finland just four years ago. The Saxdor 400 GTO is marked by its folding out terrace that runs about half the length of the boat. In the past few years, many boats have built terraces that fold down from aft bulwarks, creating more usable space in the cockpit. Saxdor’s is different because of its length; it far exceeds the…

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How To Cruise Like a Viking: CCA

The Cruising Club of America just published a new book that follows the routes of the Vikings across the treacherous waters of the North Atlantic hundreds of years ago, written by club members who have recently cruised there themselves. The book is the CCA Essential Passage Guide to the Viking Route, and it includes the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Labrador. It’s edited by William Strassberg, MD, who has cruised the Viking route himself, with the help of other club members who have also cruised all or part of it. The guide is unique in that it covers the specific…

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Girl Killed When Thrown from Boat by Wake

An 11 year old girl was killed last week when the wake from a passing boat threw her and eight others off their 23-foot boat on the Intracoastal Waterway just north of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The girl, Olivia Knighton, the daughter of retired Major League Soccer goalie Brad Knighton, was hit in the head by her boat’s prop. She was taken to McLeod Seacoast Hospital in Little River, where she died. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said the boat Olivia was riding in “was rocked by a large wake caused by another boat, resulting in nine of…

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