Author Peter Janssen

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New Jeanneau DB37 Outboard: Style and Speed

The new DB37 Outboard by Jeanneau is a premium day cruiser with outboard performance and an international pedigree. Jeanneau is an upscale French brand, part of the worldwide Beneteau Group. The DB37 is the second in its DB (Day Boat) brand, following on the success of the initial DB43 that was launched two years ago. Camillo Garroni, the Italian designer, did the interior and exterior styling for the DBs, and Michael Peters, the American naval architect from Sarasota, Florida, did the hull. The DB line represented a new style for Jeanneau, with its plumb bow, low profile and Euro-modern design.…

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Sea Levels Rising Faster: NOAA

Sea levels are rising faster than expected in South Florida, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Actually, they’re rising all around the world, but South Florida is of particular interest. If the pace of the rise stays as now projected, the sea level in Miami could increase by two feet by 2070. That’s a major concern because the average elevation in Miami is just three feet. In the past 80 years, the sea level has risen about a foot, but the pace of the rise has picked up in recent years. Indeed, eight inches of that foot have…

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Electrical Problems Caused Dali Crash: NTSB

The Coast Guard has opened a 48-foot deep channel in the Baltimore harbor to commercial traffic, just after salvage crews blew up a portion of the collapsed Key Bridge that was resting on the deck of the 984-foot-long Dali container ship there. The Dali, which had lost power and steering, hit the 1.6-mile-long bridge at 1:29 a.m. on March 26, killing six construction workers and sending the center section of the bridge tumbling into the Patapsco River (and the bow of the Dali). The new channel, which is 350-feet wide, will be open daily. Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board…

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Sanlorenzo Launches Innovative 90A

Sanlorenzo has launched its new SL90A yacht with a new design twist. In an effort to maximize the size of the salon, the new Sanlorenzo 90A (the A stands for asymmetric) does not have a deck on the port side. As a result, the interior salon extends out to the port side, where a deck usually would be, adding at least another 10 percent of interior social space. Guests and crew can still reach the large foredeck, which has its own sunning and lounging social space, via the starboard side deck. And Sanlorenzo has built something of an upper port…

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Aspen Joins Forces with Yanmar in New C100

Yanmar and Aspen Power Catamarans just announced a partnership where Aspen will use Yanmar’s 250-hp diesel in new 32-foot Aspen C100 power cats. The two companies said that the combination of the new Yanmar with Aspen’s unconventional asymmetrical proa type hulls will set new standards in the power catamaran field. Indeed, they said that the new Yanmar 4LV250 achieved an eye-opening 4.1 mpg at 18 mph in the Aspen C100, a 32 percent increase in efficiency over previous engines. Larry Graf, who founded Aspen in 2008, said the new Yanmar was also light, smooth and quiet. He praised Yanmar for…

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Archipelago Unveils New Explorer with Helipad

Archipelago just announced that it’s building a new 80-foot explorer yacht that’s designed to go anywhere in the world. The diesel-electric hybrid catamaran has an optional helipad on the roof and room for a 20-foot submarine in the garage. The new 80 will be the British company’s flagship when it’s completed at the Chartwell yard. The hull is based on Chartwell’s line of ships built for the commercial offshore wind industry. Dr. Stephen Weatherley, Archipelago’s founder, said the first hull is being built for “a visionary owner” who shares the company’s “passion for pursuing the boundaries of boating.” The new…

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Girl Killed by Hit-and-Run Boat While Wakeboarding

A 15-year-old girl was killed after she fell in the water while wakeboarding off Key Biscayne near Miami on Saturday and was hit by a center console that then just kept going. The girl, Ella Riley Adler, and another girl, were being towed on separate wakeboards behind a 42-foot Fjord about 4 on Saturday afternoon near the Nixon Beach Sandbar, a popular boating spot. They fell off their boats at different times and in different spots, according to a report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. They were part of a birthday party celebration; another 12 people were…

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New Sport Utility Yacht from Antonini Navi

If you don’t want to leave anything behind while you’re exploring the oceans of the world, take a look at the new expedition yacht now being built by Antonini Navi. The large Italian yard says its new 143-foot yacht is meant to serve as a yachting version of an automotive Sport Utility Vehicle, so Antonini Navi calls it simply SUY (for Sport Utility Yacht) 135. Powered by twin 1,029-hp MANs, SUY 135 has a range of 4,000 nm at 10 knots; top speed: 16 knots. The SUY 135 is the first in a new line of expedition yachts from Antonini…

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Now: Charter The Icon in Dubai

The Icon, the 43-foot cutting-edge electric foiling yacht, is now at a marina in Dubai available for charter for guests at four luxury hotels there. Created by Designworks, a subsidiary of the BMW Group, and TYDE, a German startup, The Icon looks like nothing else on the water. It’s designed to provide a smooth, quiet and emissions-free ride for a group of passengers. Power comes from two 100 kW electric motors with a battery capacity of 240 kWh. They deliver a top speed of 33 knots and a range of 50 nm at its cruising speed of 24 knots. The…

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Galeon Launches Creative 560 Fly

Galeon has just launched its new 560 Fly, an innovative flybridge cruiser with extensive side glazing and terraces that drop down from the salon sides so you can have a breakfast coffee or an evening cocktail overlooking the water. Designed by Britain’s Tony Castro, the Galeon 560 Fly is a 32-knot cruiser with a lot of creative touches inside and out. Most notable: a port side terrace that drops down to extend the beam from 15’ 10” to 22’ 4”; it comes with two plug-in stools and a window opening to the aft galley. It’s also made of reinforced glass…

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