Thursday, March 28

Browsing: Cruising Life

Prestige will introduce the upscale, highly designed X60, the second yacht in its new X series, at the Cannes Yachting Festival, starting on Sept. 7. It launched the inaugural yacht in the series, the innovative X70, just a year ago. The new X60 is a three-stateroom, three-head flybridge motor yacht with an unusually large and open salon. It’s powered by twin 600-hp Cummins diesels with v-drives, producing a cruising speed of about 20 knots and a top speed of 25 knots. With a combination of curved and straight lines, the X60 has a state-of-the-art European look, all created by Garroni…

Heres’s some welcome news from Canada, with the full story from Politico: OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will loosen border restrictions Aug. 9 for fully vaccinated U.S. citizens and permanent residents looking to visit Canada for nonessential travel. All eyes are now on President Joe Biden for his own reopening plan. Canada announced the step Monday as it also laid out plans to welcome fully vaccinated travelers from other countries starting Sept. 7. “As we made decisions around reopening to the world in early September, and to American travelers, a few weeks before that, we kept the American government…

A 35-foot center console crashed into a day marker in the Boston Harbor just after 3 a.m. on Saturday, sending all eight people on board into the water. Rescue workers were able to retrieve seven of them fairly quickly, but they had to search until 10 in the morning to recover the body of the eighth, a woman. Boston police later identified the woman as Jeanica Julce, 27, of Somerville, Massachusetts. Five of the seven were taken to local hospitals but there were no reports of their injuries. The capsized boat was recovered and will be used in reconstructing the…

The fast-ferry Grey Lady IV collided with a Hinckley powerboat in fog as it rounded Brant Point in Nantucket Harbor about 9 p.m. Friday night. The 151-foot ferry, capable of holding 493 passengers, was knocked off its course and then hit an unoccupied sailboat in the mooring field. No one was injured in the accident. The bow of the Hinckley, named Razor Bill, was damaged above the waterline, according to Murray Scudder, president of Hy-Line Cruises, which operates the ferry. The Razor Bill was able to return to its slip near The White Elephant. The Grey Lady IV was arriving…

Many more people were boating last year, during the pandemic, including many who were boating for the first time. The result, according to the Coast Guard: about 25 percent more deaths, and 26 percent more accidents, than the year before. Now, BoatUS has looked into the reasons behind the statistics. The top five: Operator inattention, operator inexperience, improper lookout, excessive speed, and machinery failure. Read the BoatUS report here: ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 16, 2021 – The U.S. Coast Guard recently released the 2020 Recreational Boating Statistics, and reports of accidents, fatalities and injuries were significantly up over the prior year.…

Here’s a great story from FlaglerLive about how six people were rescued after their 23-foot center console capsized 10 miles off Flagler Beach in Florida. A passing boat rescued them in 15 minutes or so, but they also had some high-tech help from Siri and Pandora. Read it here: The four men and two boys were rescued and made it safely back to shore after their boat sank 10 miles offshore of Flagler Beach the morning of July 10, so this much they can laugh about now: after the 23-foot center-console fishing boat had rapidly taken on water and capsized, leaving…

Earlier this week, Sabre announced that it’s planning a new 43 Salon Express, an updated classic Down-East styled cruiser that will replace the recently retired Sabre 42 Salon Express. The 40- to 45-foot range is a winner for Sabre. Indeed, the company has built more than 660 yachts in that size range since it launched the first Sabre 42 sailboat in 1987. While keeping true to Sabre’s made-in-Maine heritage, the new 43 has some state-of-the-art innovations. It’s the first full-network Sabre under 58 feet, for example, where owners can check critical functions and control any circuit on the boat from…

For the past two years, Salter Watson, 14, has lived on Spirited Away, a Nordhavn 47, with his father, Alex. Salter has been “boat-schooling,” while he and his father are on a three-year plan to cruise the Great Lakes, the East Coast, and even the Bahamas. When he has time, Salter writes a blog. Here’s his latest, a knowledgeable discussion of the merits of anchoring out or staying at marinas while cruising, an issue that we’ve all faced over the years: Having just completed our second year as live-aboards and looking back at thousands of photos we’ve taken so far,…

The new Lamborghini 63 by Tecnomar was launched recently at the Marina di Carrara in Italy. Powered by two 2,000-hp MAN engines, the new Lambo on the water tops out at a sizzling 60 knots. The new Lamborghini is a collaboration between the luxury Italian sports car builder and the Italian Sea Group, the parent company of Tecnomar. It’s named the Lamborghini 63 to recognize both its length and the year that Lamborghini was founded. Giovanni Costantino, the CEO of the Italian Sea Group, said it’s the fastest boat in the Technomar fleet and it “links technology, supreme design, quality…

This happens to the best of us, but most of us don’t run aground while at the helm of a brand-new, five-deck, 269-foot riverboat with 174 people on board. But the American Cruise Line riverboat named American Jazz did run aground last week after it strayed from the channel and got stuck on a sandbar in Lake Barkley on the Cumberland River near Canton, Kentucky. The ship was near mile marker 62 on the river. The Coast Guard received a call of the grounding from the company and sent a 29-foot shallow-water response boat from Paducah with a marine investigator.…

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