Author Peter Janssen

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High School Girl Dies in Cape Cod Boat Crash

A 17-year-old lacrosse player was killed last Friday night when the Regulator center console she was riding in with five others crashed into a stone jetty on the north shore of Cape Cod and she was thrown into the water. The Dennis Fire & Rescue dive team recovered the body of Sadie Mauro, a rising senior at Dover-Sherborn High School, about 11:30 p.m. The crash was reported about 9 p.m. in a series of 911 calls after the boat hit the jetty in Sesuit Harbor in Dennis. A teenage boy on the boat was taken to Cape Cod  Hospital in…

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Solaris Building New 52 Open Flagship

Solaris just unveiled its 52 Open flagship powerboat that’s bound to get a lot of attention when it makes its debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival on September 12. The new Solaris Power 52 Open looks like a larger version of the Solaris 48 Open that won the European Powerboat of the Year Award three years ago and the 44 Open that was nominated for the same award two years ago. Solaris has been making sailboats in its Italian yard since 1974. It started a powerboat line in 2008 and now makes a Lobster Boat line and the Open line.…

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Aquila 32 Sport: Versatile Power Cat

The new Aquila 32 Sport catamaran provides an easy and comfortable platform for enjoying day cruises, water sports, picnics, or just a fun and social time on the water. Standard power is two 225-hp Mercury Verado outboards. With optional twin 300-hp Verados, the Aquila 32 tops out at about 44 mph, with a range of 240 miles.  The larger outboards come with joystick control for easy docking and maneuvering. The Aquila 32 has a cabin sleeping two people in the lower port hull, and a head and shower on the starboard side. Air conditioning is optional. Two more people could…

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Beneteau Unveils New Antares 12 Flagship

Beneteau just unveiled the new Antares 12, the flagship of its outboard-powered Antares line. With two or three cabins and two heads, the new, 42′ 7″ Antares can be powered by three 300-hp V8 Mercury Verado outboards, or two 400-hp V10 Mercury outboards. The large teak swim platform has extensions on both sides that flank the outboards for easy boarding or access to water sports. You enter the cockpit via a gate on the starboard side. The bulwark on the starboard side drops down to provide even more social space or water access. An L-shaped lounge, facing a table, runs…

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EJET Builds Electric Tender with 40 nm Range

EJET has just launched its new 4X 12’ 9” high-performance electric tender that has a top speed of 35 knots and a range of 40 nm. The company says it’s the “world’s first” electric jet tender, and that it outperforms all others on the market. The 4X packs a lot of power, an electric motor providing 60 kW of continuous power, in fact, managed by an electric control unit that has three different efficiency modes on the tender’s 7-inch touchscreen: Eco, Normal, and Power. If the battery gets too low, the 4X will automatically switch to the Eco mode to…

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Greenline 58 Fly: New Hybrid Power

The new Greenline 58 Fly hybrid will make its debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September. The 58 represents the start of a new partnership involving Greenline, Marco Casali of Too Design, and MICAD engineering. Casali drew a fresh exterior with clean lines for the new 58, and MICAD worked with Greenline on a new hybrid power system with a pair of 25kW electric motors and an adaptable hydraulic clutch that can be connected inline to any shaft-drive engine. Power options start with twin Cummins diesels from 610- to 715-hp, available on their own or with the hybrid drive.…

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Picchiotti Building 24M Gentleman’s Yacht

Picchiotti is trying to touch a nerve to the past with its new line of Gentleman’s Yachts, starting with a 24 Meter (78’7”) model that it’s building in Viareggio, Italy. The new Gentleman 24 is the start of a line of semi-displacement yachts with classic lines developed by Yacht Moments and Luca Dini Design, combining an aluminum hull with a glossy mahogany superstructure. The idea is to blend the charm of iconic gentleman’s yachts, going back to the 1920s and ‘30s, with modern technology. Picchiotti is building a limited number of the Gentleman’s series. It’s already working on hull number…

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Coming: New ROCK 78 “Compact Explorer” Yacht

ROCK yachts in Turkey is now building a new 78-foot “compact explorer” yacht, designed by the Dutch firm Vripack with a range of 3,000 nm. ROCK says the 78, like its other models, is an SUV of the water, in this case meaning “sea utility vessel.” Indeed, Vripack designed the company’s first model, an 85-footer, with lines meant to evoke those of a Ranger Rover. “Vripack introduced us to the concept of an SUV yacht and it was love at first sight,” says Ali Sayakci, who owns the company. The steel and aluminum 85 (pictured above) was launched at the…

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Nordhavn Planning Versatile New 112 Yacht

Nordhavn just announced that it’s planning a new, versatile, 112-footer that will have all the amenities of a superyacht but at a size that’s manageable for a large group of owners. In a sense, the new Nordhavn is the Goldilocks of yachts, not too big; not too small. And just right for Nordhavn owners who look to the builder to fulfill their dreams of adventure and cruising the world. Nordhavn says the idea for the new 112 came Jeff Leishman, the company’s design director, when he saw a Nordhavn 120, the largest yacht in the Nordhavn fleet, docked next to…

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Palmer-Johnson’s Time Scuttled for Reef

The 125-foot yacht Time, the largest aluminum yacht ever built when it was launched in 1987, was scuttled off Fort Pierce, Florida, last Saturday in an effort to turn it into an artificial reef. Time received a lot of attention when it was built at Palmer-Johnson in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. PJ was one of the premier American builders at the time. And the exterior design was by Tom Fexas, a well-known designer then. The interior was by JC Espinosa Design, a relative newcomer at the time. The yacht has three staterooms for six guests, plus quarters for five crew. With…

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