Author Peter Janssen

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Navis Pro 34: A Rugged New Cruiser

 The Navis Pro 34 Alpha Cruiser is a new boat from a new company based in Lithuania, and it’s a sturdy vessel meant to tackle the waters of the Baltic, where sea conditions often range from bad to terrible. Navis Pro was started in 2020 by owners who had spent 40 years in the commercial shipbuilding business and wanted to enter the recreational boating market. The 34 Alpha Cruiser is the result. It was designed by naval architects from Strahlmann Yacht Design in Finland, where the sea conditions also can be fairly gnarly. The Navis Pro 34 Alpha has an…

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BoatUS and The Moorings Forming BVI Flotilla

BoatUS and The Moorings just announced that they’re forming a new cruising flotilla in the British Virgin Islands next May. In normal (non-pandemic) years, The Moorings hosts a week-long BoatUS Flotilla in the BVI, where BoatUS members can charter power and sail boats to cruise as a group through some of the best cruising grounds in the world. The next flotilla will be from May 20-27, and will include stops at some of the BVI’s most popular destinations. A flotilla offers a feeling of security for people who may not have a lot of charter experience. There’s safety in numbers,…

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All-New, High-Style, Electric Runabout from Italy

Persico Marine and Zagato, the Italian automotive design house, just announced that they’re building a Persico Zagato 100.2 all-electric, limited-edition runabout with a state-of-the-art pod drive. The new boat will be 26 feet long and weigh just 5,511 pounds, since it’s built with advanced composites. It could fit on a trailer, although you probably won’t see many at your local launch ramp. It was unveiled at a video presentation at Zagato’s Milan headquarters, where Andrea Zagato, the company’s CEO, said, “The project started from a shared concept: the idea that the boat should be a collector’s item,” and it would…

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SILENT Launches New All-Electric Tender

SILENT-YACHTS, the innovative Austrian company, just launched its first all-electric, 13-foot Tender 400, the start of a new series to serve the company’s solar-powered catamarans and anyone who wants a tender that’s totally quiet and leaves no carbon footprint behind. The Tender 400 is designed to the same standard as the company’s 60- and 80-foot catamarans, and is meant to be light, fast, and silent, just like the motherships. It can be connected directly to the larger yachts for recharging. The tender comes with either electric outboard or electric waterjet drive propulsion with up to 30kW of power and a…

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New Ocean Sport 30 with Outboard Power

The new outboard-powered Ocean Sport 30, from the makers of Nordic Tugs, is a no-frills, ocean-going boat with a turn of speed and long legs with some hard-to-categorize appeal. The Ocean Sport 30 was originally launched with sterndrives until Nordic beefed up the transom and introduced it with twin 350-hp Mercury Verado outboards. It also was meant as an offshore fishing machine. To my mind, at least, it now could serve just as well as an adventure boat or even a couple’s cruising boat. It has a standard V-berth forward to sleep two adults, a convertible dinette opposite the  helm…

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VisionF Building Wide-Beamed 60-Foot Cat

VisionF Yachts, the relatively new Turkish builder, just announced that they’re working on a new VisionF60 catamaran, designed in house and built of fiberglass. VisionF was started in 2019 and launched its first boat, the VisionF 80 cat, in November, 2020 with an aluminum hull. The new 60 has the same clean, sporty lines as the original, and carries its 33-foot beam all the way from the bow to the stern, creating supersized living and entertaining spaces on the main deck and even up on the flybridge. The company says the 60 has a draft of just 2’ 1”, fully…

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MOB from Cruise Liner Rescued after 15 Hours

A 28-year-old man spent about 15 hours in the Gulf of Mexico after he fell off the Carnival Valor cruise ship before he was rescued. A passing container ship spotted him in the water, waving a sock over his head, and a Coast Guard helicopter lifted him to safety. The Coast Guard rescue swimmer said that the man, James Grimes, was at the end of his rope and probably had just minutes left to live. Grimes was on board the Carnival Valor with his parents and his sister for a Thanksgiving holiday cruise from New Orleans to Cozumel, Mexico. The Carnival…

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Nimbus Launches 26-foot Commuter

Nimbus, the fast-growing Swedish builder, has launched its new Commuter 8, a 26-foot, single-outboard boat that’s made for year-round cruising. The new C8 is the third, and smallest, entry in Nimbus’ Commuter fleet, after the C9 (30 feet) and C11 (40 feet). Jonas Göthberg, the Nimbus commercial director, said “With the C8, we reach a broader audience, partly because it has a lower price tag, but also because of its smaller size.” The C8, he said, can fit into snug harbors where larger boats might not fit, and it also can be trailered. The C8 is powered by a single…

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Cruisers Intros 50 GLS with 3 600-hp Verados

Cruisers Yachts just introduced its new 50 GLS luxury sport cruiser at the recent Fort Lauderdale show, powered by three 600-hp Mercury Verado outboards. The new cruiser is the largest in the company’s GLS sport line that starts at 34 feet. It’s a two-cabin, one- head boat, with large, open spaces fore and aft. The aft deck, which can be covered by an extendable awning overhead, has an unusually large amount of open space, particularly when the two balconies are deployed from the bulwarks on each side. Even with the outboards, the swim platform is large enough that there’s room…

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eD-TEC Unveils All-Electric Drive System

The German startup eD-TEC just unveiled its new eD-QDrive all-electric drive system at the big METSTRADE show in Amsterdam, and says it can power everything from tenders to 98-foot yachts. The drive system is lightweight, scalable, and organized around a plug-and-play system for fast and easy installation. It was developed by the “Believer Team” at eD-Tec in Munich, which was founded by Michael Jost, the former chief strategist for the VW Group. The drive is a complete system with a surface-drive prop working through an AI box and a battery bank to a helm interface. It can be used for…

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