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Azimut Launching New Magellano 60 Cruiser

Azimut will launch its new Magellano 60, the smallest yacht in the Magellano long-range cruiser series, at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September. The new 60 joins the 66, 25M and 30M yachts in the Magellano lineup, and it carries all the DNA that has made the larger yachts so appealing in the cruising community. The 60 may be the baby in the series, but it’s still a 60-foot cruising yacht, with all the Italian style and comfort that Azimuts are known for. The Magellano 60  was designed in collaboration with Ken Freivokh, the UK superyacht designer, and it has…

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Eastern 27: User-Friendly Pocket Cruiser

The outboard-powered Eastern 27 Islander a user-friendly, no-frills, Down-East styled pocket cruiser. It’s also the top of Eastern’s fleet of 10 models from 20- to 27-feet. Easterns have been made in Milton, New Hampshire, since 1981.The company now also makes Rosborough Boats and Seaway Boats. The Eastern 27 Islander is designed as a couple’s cruiser, with a V-berth below plus an extra berth (or storage area) tucked under the helm deck. The V-berth can be converted to a settee with a table. There are also shelves, a hanging locker, and an enclosed head with shower. The helm deck can be…

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Aegean Explorer 26M To Debut at Cannes

Denison Yachting will show the first hull of the Aegean Explorer 26M long-range cruiser series at the Cannes Yachting Festival starting Sept. 13. The second hull in the series is under construction at the Aegean yard in Bodrum, Turkey. The 85-foot Aegean 26M has a steel hull and aluminum superstructure for a combination of strength and light weight. It’s powered by twin 650-hp MAN diesels, with a top speed of 12.7 knots and a range of more than 3,500 at a slower speed. Explorer and adventure yachts have become a popular category in the past few years. The Aegean 26M…

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New Powerdock With Solar Panels

Faroboats, a fairly new company in Lisbon, has a creative idea about how you can recharge the batteries on your electric boat. They’ve just launched the Faro Powerdock, a floating dock with solar panels.  The Powerdock will work with any electric boat, but it will charge a 16-foot Faro5 electric boat in less than three hours. The Powerdock’s roof holds four 450-watt solar arrays of four panels each, with a total output of 2.7 kW. You also can order it with wind turbines to help produce more energy than just the solar panels. Under sunny conditions, the batteries on the…

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New Leopard 40 Makes U.S. Debut

The all-new Leopard 40 power catamaran just made its debut in Fort Lauderdale, with a cruise along the ICW and a then a run over to Bimini. Leopards are made in Cape Town, South Africa, by Robertson and Caine. The company calls the new 40 a third-generation power cat, following the Leopard 46 and Leopard 53. The Leopard 40 is a three-cabin, three-head, stable and seaworthy cruiser The Leopard’s beam is 21’ 8”, slightly more than half its length, so it has vast amounts of usable space inside and out. The salon is full of light from large side windows,…

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101 Degrees in Florida Bay; Atlantic Near “Tipping Point”

Sea water temperatures hit a scorching 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit earlier this week for the first time in history off south Florida, threatening coral reefs and all marine life. Meanwhile, a new study says that the major currents in the Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf Stream, could weaken and hit an irreversible “tipping point” as soon as two years from now, affecting sea levels and weather patterns in the U.S., Canada and Europe. In the Florida Keys, unprecedented ocean temperatures have caused a mass bleaching of coral reefs. Marine scientists say many reefs are now completely bleached, or already dead. They…

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Rescue Swimmer Wins Bravery Award

Caleb Halle, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, will receive the IMO 2023 Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea for saving seven crew members of a disabled tug in a storm off the coast of Maryland in January. The annual International Maritime Organization Award is the highest award for bravery in the maritime industry. The IMO received 47 nominations from its 18 member states for the award this year. Halle’s story starts about 3:30 a.m. last January 14 when the Coast Guard received a call from the tug Legacy that had been towing a 290-foot barge from New Jersey to Guyana.…

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Nordhavn Launching New 71

Nordhavn just finished its first new 71, the company’s largest long-distance cruiser built for an owner-operator, and it’s scheduled to splash at its factory in Taiwan next week. (The 71 actually was set to splash this week, but a typhoon got in the way.) After that, the 71 will head for its new owners, a couple in Seattle who are fairly familiar with the brand. Indeed, they have already owned three Nordhavns in the past 20 years – a 50, 57, 68. They plan to cruise their new 71, named Luna, in the Pacific Northwest and up to Alaska. Nordhavn…

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Freedom To Open 400th Boat Club

Freedom Boat Club, which claims to be the world’s largest boat club, just announced that it will open its 400th club next month in Jupiter, Florida. Freedom now has 90,000 members in its locations across the  U.S., Europe, and Australia; about one-third are women. Cecil Cohn, the Freedom Boat Club president, said it would continue to expand its territory “as we continue to democratize boating by providing access and training to new boats.” Freedom has thousands of boats in its fleet; most are single-engine outboards. The idea is that you pay a one-time membership fee and then a monthly fee…

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Speeding Boat Crashes into House. Driver Charged

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a high-performance boat somehow went airborne last Saturday night on the Lake of the Ozarks and crashed into the side of a house. The eight people on board were thrown from the boat; six, including the driver, had serious injuries. The Highway Patrol charged the driver, Adam J. Ramirez, 47, from Huntington Beach, California, with suspicion of boating while intoxicated. He was released for medical treatment. The accident occurred just before midnight. The boat, a 2014 Nor-Tech with three 300-hp Mercury outboards, was heading east and crashed into the home on the Osage Arm…

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