Boat Reviews

Lyman-Morse Building Flybridge Hood 35

By Peter Janssen on December 6, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding has started work on the first flybridge version of the Hood 35 LM at its yard in Thomaston, Maine. The new 35 with classic Down East lines will be launched this summer. The flybridge will be the second Hood 35 LM; the first was an express version that was launched last summer. Like the original, the new flybridge will be laid up with cold-molded wood composite; the hull will be made with Douglas fir and western red cedar. The flybridge will be made with carbon fiber to keep the weight down and the center of gravity low. Both…

Windy Building New 40 Camira RS

By Peter Janssen on December 6, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Windy, the high-end builder in Sweden, just announced that’s reviving its Camira line, starting with a sporty new 40 Camira RS with optional outboard power. Windy first launched its Camira 39 in 2014, and sold 55 of them until it stopped production two years ago. That boat was powered by diesel sterndrives, and the helm deck was protected by just a Bimini top. The new 40 Camira is offered with two 425-hp Yamaha outboards, three 300-hp Yamahas, or two Volvo 440-hp diesels linked to sterndrives. With the big Yamahas, top speed is estimated at 44 knots. The 40 was designed…

Invictus Unveils New TT420 Cruiser

By Peter Janssen on December 6, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Invictus just announced that it will unveil its new TT420 at the big Düsseldorf show in January. The TT420 is created with the same distinctive style and lines as the TT460 that won a Design Innovation Award just two years ago. All Invictus yachts are designed by Christian Grande, who has won many awards himself for his innovations and designs that are often a bit out of the box. The new Invictus TT420 has the yard’s signature slightly-reverse bow, and an eye-catching windshield that blends in to the modernistic carbon hardtop. The foredeck on the TT420 carries a large sun…

New Electric Cat with Holes in Bow

By Peter Janssen on November 30, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Most of us don’t want to put a hole in our boats, much less two of them. But that’s exactly what Sebastiano Canto, a very creative London-based designer, has done with his new 21-foot, all-electric catamaran named Enea. “The main feature is the combination between aesthetics and functionality,” Canto writes, with “a very original hull design” that reduces weight and lateral resistance without compromising the cat’s seakeeping ability. “Less weight and less water resistance equal greater efficiency,” he says. All that adds up to smaller engines to move the boat. Enea is powered by two Yamaha Harmo 3.4kW electric engines,…

Navis Pro 34: A Rugged New Cruiser

By Peter Janssen on November 30, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

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

By Peter Janssen on November 29, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

SILENT Launches New All-Electric Tender

By Peter Janssen on November 28, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

New Ocean Sport 30 with Outboard Power

By Peter Janssen on November 28, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

VisionF Building Wide-Beamed 60-Foot Cat

By Peter Janssen on November 28, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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…

Nimbus Launches 26-foot Commuter

By Peter Janssen on November 16, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

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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