Boat Reviews

Nordhavn 80 Up for 2 Design Awards

By Peter Janssen on December 7, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The Nordhavn 80, designed as an owner-operator, ocean-crossing cruising yacht, has just been nominated for two prizes in The International Yacht & Aviation Awards 2023. Hull number one of the 80 is on the shortlist for both Best Motor Yacht Design and Best Interior Yacht Design awards in the 25-40 meter category. Last year, the Nordhavn 41 won the Best Yacht Design award in the under-25-meters category, and in 2017 the Nordhavn 96 won the Best Yacht Design award in the under-40-meters category. The citation for this year’s award says, “The N80 is a distinctive yacht that bridges the gap…

Navier Unveils All-Electric 30 in Miami

By Peter Janssen on December 7, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Navier just held the world premiere for its new N30 all-electric foiling cruiser at Art Basel Miami Beach last week, and the company, a San Francisco startup, says it’s “the boat of the future.” The 30 is a stretched version of the 27-foot prototype that Navier has been working on for the past year. In addition to the extra three feet, the new 30 features individual wings on the rear hydrofoils instead of a single wing. The N30 has a high-tech active foil system so it can fly over the waves at up to 35 knots. It also features an…

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…

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