Author Peter Janssen

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Azimut Magellano 30M: Luxurious Light-Filled Cruiser

The flagship of Azimut’s Magellano fleet, the sophisticated new 30M is designed as a comfortable and luxurious long-range cruiser. The Magellano line was started back in 2007 by Azimut founder Paolo Vitelli, who wanted a boat that had the range of a traditional displacement trawler but with more speed and, of course, some Italian design flair. The line now includes the 60-foot-long Magellano 60 and the 82-foot long Magellano 25M. The new 30M has what the company calls a second generation Dual Mode hull that provides an easy ride at both displacement and planing speeds. It tops out at 20…

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Delphia Launches New 32-Foot Electric Cruiser

Delphia, the Polish builder that’s now part of the Beneteau Group, just launched its new electric-powered, 40-knot, Delphia 10 cruiser. At 32 feet, the Delphia 10 is the smallest boat in Delphia’s fleet that includes a 35-foot Delphia 11 and a 42-foot Delphia 12. They are designed by Vripack, the leading Dutch firm that has worked on everything from Nordhavns to megayachts. The Delphia 10 can be powered by an electric shaft drive with Torqeedo motors from 40- to 80-hp. You also can order it with up to a 110-hp Yanmar diesel. The new 10 comes in three versions: The…

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How To Use Your Boat’s Pivot Point

Here’s some great advice from Skipper Tips about how to maneuver your boat around its pivot point when you’re in tight situations. It wouldn’t hurt to practice this so you’ll have some muscle memory in an emergency. Read on: Imagine that you are being swept down onto a buoy by a stiff wind or current. You have just seconds until you collide with this steel tower. And, it’s too late to back down with your engine. What now, skipper? Compare a pivot point to a docking spring line or an anchor rode (line or chain). Your boat pivots around that…

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New Design for Solar-Powered Houseboat

With the help of Crossboundaries, an innovative design firm with offices in Beijing and Frankfurt, a German woman named Marianne Fries has developed her 49-foot houseboat into a home on the water that shows what can be done within a limited space. Fries worked in China for many years before returning to Berlin a few years ago. She also was friends with Binke Lenhardt, a co-founder of Crossboundaries. For exercise, she joined a rowing club in Berlin, and then decided she wanted to spend more time on the water. In 2020, she bought a five-year-old, solar-powered houseboat there, and decided…

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Archipelago Expanding Its Expedition Fleet

Archipelago, the new builder of ocean-crossing, expedition-class power catamarans, just announced that it’s expanding its fleet. The UK builder launched its first vessel, a 47-foot aluminum-hulled cat with a 3,000-nm range, last summer. Now, it’s completing designs for a new 38, a new 52 (see rendering above), and ultimately a new 60. Founded just two years ago, Archipelago is planning ahead. The company says the new cats will share “the same philosophy as the original Archipelago 47 with sea-keeping at their very heart, and attainable luxury built as standard.” On its web site, the company also says, “Each of these…

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Tiara Building New 1,800-hp 48 LE

Tiara just announced that it’s building a new 48 LE, the flagship of its Luxury Express line, powered by three 600-hp Mercury Verado outboards. The announcement said that the new 48 will have the same multi-use social zones, amenities and performance as the existing 43 LE, but on a larger platform. The 48 will be launched this fall. From the renderings, the 48 seems to be a comfortable vessel for an afternoon on the water or an extended cruise. The salon and helm deck are fully protected by a glass enclosure. A sun roof overhead provides light and ventilation, while…

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Meet Brunswick’s New Electric Veer X13

Brunswick, the global recreational marine giant, just introduced its new Veer X13, built with rotomolded polyethylene, at the big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The boat can be powered by Mercury’s Avator 7.5e electric outboard, the first in Mercury’s Avator series. (Mercury, of course, is a Brunswick brand.) The new Veer also be powered by Merc’s four-stroke gas outboard, but the theme here is Brunswick’s move to be a force in creating a future without fossil-fuel emissions. The new Veer, created by engineers at Lund Boats (another Brunswick brand), is aimed at first-time boaters. “Veer provides an affordable, low-maintenance…

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Wally Unveils Unique New wallywhy100

Ever since Luca Bassani launched the first Wally in 1994, Wallys have been bigger, bolder and cleaner than other boats. You know a Wally when you see one. I first visited the Wally offices in Monaco about 20 years ago to check out the new boats. The Wow Factor was off the charts. Wally is now owned by the Ferretti Group, and they just unveiled the latest Wally, a 69-foot wallywhy100, and Wally is still pushing the design envelope. The “why” in the wallywhy line stands for “Wally Hybrid Yacht,” one that combines the advantages of both planing and displacement…

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Alaska Couple Cruising Nordhavn 41 in Greece

It’s taken a while, but a retired couple from Alaska are now living their dream, having just taken delivery of their new Nordhavn 41 in Turkey and cruised 400 miles to Athens, Greece. They’ve left the boat there for the winter, but will return before long to start their five-year plan of cruising through Europe and then bringing the boat back to the U.S. and all the  way up to their home port of Palmer, Alaska. The boat, named Meraki, is owned by Jan and Tom Newman, who both say they love being on the water Tom grew up in…

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Brooklin Yard Building New Wheeler 55s

The Brooklin Boat Yard in Maine just announced that they’re building two new Wheeler 55 yachts, bringing back the models that became icons in the 1930s. The yard launched its first version of a Wheeler in 2021. That boat was a Wheeler 38, named Legend. It was a modern version of the Wheeler that Ernest Hemingway commissioned in 1934 and named Pilar, one of the most famous boats of all time. “The Wheeler 55 is an exciting step into the world of Spirit of Tradition boatbuilding in a large, modern, power cruiser,” said Eric Blake, the project director at Brooklin. “There…

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