Author Peter Janssen

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Omaya, New Power Cat Brand, Building a 50

The world of large power catamarans just keeps growing and growing. One of the latest entries comes from Omaya Yachts, a new brand from the three-decades-old Elica Group with its yard on the Danube in Bulgaria. The new Omaya 50 is scheduled to be launched this summer. Elica says it started Omaya Yachts to build luxury power cats for the worldwide private and charter market. Like the 50, they will be designed by i-Yacht in Hamburg, and will have large beams to provide room for comfortable cruising or living on board. Indeed, the beam of the 50 is 27’ 5”,…

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Yacht Hits Drain Pipe, Sinks off St. Augustine

The Coast Guard and the St. John’s County Fire and Rescue saved two people on Saturday morning after their 80-foot yacht hit a submerged drain tank and sank three miles off St. Augustine Beach, Florida. The Coast Guard says it heard a call at 11:37 on channel 16 from the operator of the yacht Atlantis saying it hit something and was taking on water. The Coast Guard sent a boat to assist and coordinated with the St. John’s County team and a nearby good Samaritan vessel. The Coast Guard told the operator to turn on the boat’s EPIRB to help…

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First Superyacht with Methane Power

Sanlorenzo just launched the first superyacht in the world with methane power in a ceremony at its yard in La Spezia, Italy. The new 164-foot Almx will use methanol fuel cells to produce emissions-free power to run its hotel load at anchor without having to turn on its diesel engines or generator. The methane power can produce up to 100kW of carbon-neutral electricity, greatly extending the time the yacht can spend at anchor without using any diesel fuel. Massio Perotti, the head of the Sanlorenzo Group, said that with the launch the company “celebrates a fundamental milestone in its history,…

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Zodiac Launches 32-Foot Hybrid Flagship

Zodiac has just launched a new 32-foot X10CC, the largest its ever built. It’s something of a hybrid, designed to combine the advantages of a conventional RIB with those of a fiberglass center console. The X10CC (Center Console) represents three years of R&D from the French builder, once a worldwide force in the RIB universe. It has high freeboard (something missing from most RIBs) with a rigid hull surrounded by tubes that offer both protection and floatation. Zodiac said it listened to RIB owners and potential owners, and realized that the market was changing. “They’re looking for bigger and bigger…

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Ritz-Carlton Building New Luxury Cruise Ship

If you’re looking for a cruising vacation where somebody else does all the work, you can always charter a wide variety of power and sail boats with a crew in most of the popular yachting areas around the world. But if you really want to kick back and relax, move up a notch and take a look at the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection. Ritz-Carlton already has one ship, the Evrima, in operation, but it’s building a second one, the Ilma, that’s bigger and has more living and relaxing space, at a yard in Saint-Nazaire, France. It’s scheduled to make its maiden…

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Hunt Launches First (Colorful) 63 Express

Hunt just launched its first 63 Express, built for an owner who wants to take it around the Great Loop, and beyond. With its Awlgrip Vivid Red hull, it certainly won’t be lost in the crowd. The Ocean Series 63 Flybridge is one of Hunt’s most popular models, large enough for comfortable cruising and entertaining, but small enough to be handled easily by an owner-operator. But Hunt is known for working with its owners, and this one wanted an express version that would be able to slide under a lot of bridges along the Great Loop. The new express has…

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Staten Island Ferry for Auction: $155,000

If you’re looking for a new project boat, a very big project boat, consider the Andrew J. Barberi, a 310-foot-long decommissioned Staten Island ferry. It is now being auctioned by the City of New York with a starting price of $155,000. In today’s market, it’s hard to find a small pocket cruiser for sale for $155,000, so the Andrew J. Barberi may seem a bargain. After all, it holds 6,000 passengers, so you’d certainly have enough room to take all your friends. Think of the raft-up possibilities. And the last Staten Island ferry that was auctioned, the John F. Kennedy,…

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New Rossinavi Cat with Artificial Intelligence

The new 140-foot Rossinavi Seawolf X doesn’t look like your average superyacht catamaran, but that’s the whole idea. Indeed, Fulvio De Simoni, the Italian design studio that did the cat’s exterior, said the goal was to liberate our minds “from preconceptions” about the way big multihulls should look. “We set out to envision the boat of the future, unbound by convention yet grounded in feasibility with cutting-edge technology for minimal environmental impact,” it said. For its part, the Genoa-based Rossinavi issued a statement saying that the big cat was its “most innovative project yet,” in that it combines hybrid power…

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Dali Refloated, Baltimore Harbor Reopens

The 984-foot-long container ship Dali was refloated and towed back to a dock inside Baltimore harbor on Monday, 54 days after it hit the Key bridge there, sending the center section plummeting into the water, killing six construction workers, and closing the main channel to all traffic.  The Dali, and its 21-man crew, had been trapped in the debris ever since. The Dali was refloated at high tide before 7 a.m. with the help of five tugboats and several other vessels. It was then towed and pushed 2.5 miles back to the Seagirt Marine Terminal. Freeing the Dali from the…

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Aicon Finishing New 68 Vivere

Aicon Yachts is finishing its all-new 68 Vivere in its factory in Sicily, and it’s scheduled to be launched in June. In announcing the 68, Marc-Udo Broich, the chairman and CEO of the Aicon Group, said it would be the first of three new yachts to be built in the next 12 months. The new 68, like its predecessor, the Aicon 66 Vivere (“to live”), was designed by the HydroTec team of Sergio Cutolo, which he and his wife, Silvia Humsolt, co-founded north of Genoa in 1995. They have designed a wide variety of luxury yachts since then, everything from…

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