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EXTRA Building Low-Profile X90 Fast

By Peter Janssen on May 28, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

EXTRA Yachts just announced that it has sold the first hull of its new X90 Fast series and it’s building the low-profile cruiser in its factory in Ancona, Italy. The new EXTRA will be delivered in the summer of 2025. Designed by the Hot Lab studio in Milan, the new EXTRA has a distinctive profile that includes low windows that still admit lots of natural light to the interior. It has a mix of several entertaining and relaxing spaces inside and out, and the company offers a high range of customization. Power comes from three 1,000-hp Volvo IPS1350 pod drives.…

Riviera Launches 6800 Sport Yacht Flagship

By Peter Janssen on May 27, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Riviera just launched its new 6800 Sport Yacht at the Sanctuary Cove boat show on Australia’s Gold Coast. The new 68 is the flagship of Riviera’s Sport Yacht series, which already has a 46, 54 and 60. Designed by Luca Valebona, who usually works on superyachts, and the Riviera design team, Riviera’s Sport Yachts are meant to focus on timeless styling, single-level living, ease of operation, and blue-water performance. You can order the 68 with four cabins and three heads below, or three cabins and a lower lounge replacing a guest cabin on the starboard side. Owners also have a…

Omaya, New Power Cat Brand, Building a 50

By Peter Janssen on May 27, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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”,…

First Superyacht with Methane Power

By Peter Janssen on May 23, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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,…

Zodiac Launches 32-Foot Hybrid Flagship

By Peter Janssen on May 22, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

New Rossinavi Cat with Artificial Intelligence

By Peter Janssen on May 21, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

Aicon Finishing New 68 Vivere

By Peter Janssen on May 20, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

New Jeanneau DB37 Outboard: Style and Speed

By Peter Janssen on May 20, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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.…

Sanlorenzo Launches Innovative 90A

By Peter Janssen on May 15, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

Aspen Joins Forces with Yanmar in New C100

By Peter Janssen on May 15, 2024 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life, Engine Room

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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