Author Peter Janssen

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Absolute Building New Navetta 75 Flagship

Absolute is building a new luxury 75-foot yacht, the flagship of its Navetta fleet, with some innovative features inside and out. The new Navetta 75 will have four staterooms and four heads, plus a separate crew quarter with its own galley and head. But what’s interesting is the master stateroom on an intermediate level between the main deck and the lower accommodations deck (pictured below). It’s in the bow, and it’s full beam with private access, premium furnishings, and a large en suite head. And it has large windows for spectacular views. Going aft, the cockpit is designed as a…

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Boatsetter Raises More Money, Keeps Growing

Boatsetter, the innovative boat renting company, is getting bigger and better. Founded in 2014, Boatsetter just raised $36 million in Series B funding to support further growth. The new funding came from Level Equity, Suntex Marinas, Certares and other companies in a placement by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. Boatsetter’s announcement said the funding will enable it to expand its features, boat inventory and “experiential offerings.” Boatsetter, basically an Airbnb on the water, now has more than 50,000 boat listings in 700 locations around the world. The company, based in Fort Lauderdale, says it offers the most diverse collection of boat…

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Lazzara Unveils New 67 Sport Express Yacht

Lazzara Yachts, based in Tampa, just unveiled a new Limited Edition LSX 67 that it calls the ultimate “sport express yacht.” Lazzara will launch the new 67 at the Miami show, starting next February 15. The new LSX 67 has some innovative features, particularly a full-beam master stateroom that has direct access to the aft deck entertainment area and a beach club, something that is usually only seen in superyachts. There’s even an uninterrupted view aft via a sliding glass door, plus views port and starboard through large windows. The beach club effect is enhanced with unusually large, wing-shaped terraces…

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New Marex 420 Made for Cruising Families

Marex, the prize-winning Norwegian builder, just announced that it’s making a new 420 Gourmet Cruiser, designed for cruising families. The boat will be the company’s new flagship, and will be launched at the Düsseldorf show in January. Founded in 1973, Marex is a family-owned company; it’s now run by the two sons of the founder. It now makes six models of cruising boats from 31 to 37 feet. It has a reputation for craftsmanship, precise engineering and creative ideas. Its Marex 33 won a European Powerboat of the Year Award earlier this year. The company says the new 420 will…

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Megalodon Shark Much Worse Than We Thought

The bad news is that the megalodon shark was bigger, faster and fiercer than we had thought. In fact, it was 52 feet long, weighed 70 tons, swam faster than a great white, and could devour a 26-foot orca in just five bites. The good news is that the megalodon became extinct about 3.6 million years ago. Paleontologists and marine scientists have long tried to judge the real size of a megalodon. They had to make their estimates based on megalodon teeth discovered in the 1860s. Shark skeletons are largely cartilage, so they don’t result in many fossils. But now…

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ZEN Building Totally Fossil-Free 50 Power Cat

ZEN Yachts just announced that they’re making a revolutionary new 50 all-electric power cat, with an optional wingsail, that is totally fossil free. There’s not even a generator for backup power. The new ZEN50, with a 26’ 7” beam, is meant to be a luxury motoryacht that’s totally emissions free. Indeed, the company says it’s the first truly emissions-free 50-foot power catamaran on the market today. With a huge solar panels on the hardtops over the flybridge and the foredeck, the cat is built to be self-sufficient. Even the tender uses electric power only and can be charged by the…

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Superyacht Sinks Off Italy. All Safe. Video

My Saga, a 129-foot superyacht cruising from Gallipoli, Turkey, to Messina, Sicily, sank over the weekend about nine nm off the southern coast of Italy. All nine people on board, passengers and crew, were rescued. The captain of the luxury yacht, with accommodations for 12 guests in six staterooms, plus eight crew, called the Port of Crotone on the Ionian Sea on Friday night, saying it was taking on water. Two patrol boats rushed to the scene, and rescued some passengers. At dawn, a tug started towing My Saga to safety in Crotone, but the weather worsened. The yacht was…

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Explosive Fire Destroys Mattapoisett Boatyard

An explosive six-alarm fire roared through the Mattapoisett Boatyard on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts on Friday afternoon. About 100 firefighters tried to extinguish the fast-spreading fire for more than five hours. Four people were injured, including three firefighters who were later released from the hospital. A 50-year-old man was seriously burned and remained in the hospital. All told, the fire destroyed five buildings, dozens of boats and more than three dozen vehicles. A yard worker told WJAR-TV that a boat in one of the yard’s sheds caught fire “and it went up very, very fast. Everything went up.” “We had a…

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Swan Launches Elegant 43-foot Powerboat

Swan’s new 43-foot powerboat has been getting a lot of media attention lately, and deservedly so; it’s a beautiful boat from one of the most highly regarded builders in the world. Here’s our story about the boat that we published back on Jan. 19, 2001, with updated pictures from Swan: Nautor Swan just announced the debut of its first powerboat, the 43-foot Swan Shadow, with the same elegant, minimalist design that the famed Finnish builder has been using on its sailboats for generations. The new Swan Shadow is a bit faster than previous Swans. Indeed, with optional triple 350-hp Mercury…

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New Superyacht Charter in the Galapagos

You can, of course, sail or cruise your own boat to the Galápagos, which are 520 nm off the coast of Ecuador and 960 nm from the Panama Canal, assuming you’re a competent enough skipper and you have a well-found boat. Or, if you want to relax and let somebody else stand the dog watch, you can charter a superyacht there and enjoy one of the most exotic destinations in the world. Straddling the equator, the Galápagos is an archipelago of 189 volcanic islands with unique land and marine ecosystems influenced by three converging ocean currents – Humboldt, Panama, and…

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