Cruising Life

French Rower Lost at Sea

By Peter Janssen on January 24, 2022 Cruising Life

Jean-Jacques Savin, 75, is no stranger to adventure. A former French paratrooper, he’s sailed solo across the Atlantic four times, climbed Mt. Blanc, and in 2019 he spent four months in a barrel-like capsule floating from The Canary Islands to the island of St. Eustatius in the Caribbean. Savin left the port of Sagres in southern Portugal on January 1 to start his latest adventure. He wanted to row, alone, across the Atlantic on his 26-foot boat. He said the trip was his way “to laugh at old age.” Savin celebrated his 75th birthday on January 14 on the boat…

5 Tips To Keep Your Boat Safe This Winter

By Peter Janssen on January 24, 2022 Cruising Life

Here are some important tips from BoatUS about how to keep your boat safe and protected this winter: SPRINGFIELD, VA., Jan. 24, 2022 – Storms have hammered the U.S., and many recreational boats are sleeping away the winter under a layer of ice and snow. If you store your boat outside and haven’t checked up on her lately, Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) has five tips for a midwinter checkup that could help prevent an insurance claim, help keep you safe, and also make spring commissioning easier. If your boat is stored in the water over the…

New, Improved, Miami Show Opens Feb. 16

By Peter Janssen on January 22, 2022 Cruising Life, Miami Boat Show

The recently improved, reorganized, and definitely easier to navigate Miami boat show will open in just a few weeks, on Wednesday, February 16, and run over President’s Day weekend, ending on Sunday, February 20. This year, for the first time, all the Miami shows will be run jointly by the National Marine Manufacturers Association and Informa Markets, the London-based exhibition company. In recent years they held separate, and essentially competing, shows, with the big NMMA show down on Virginia Key prompting traffic problems with fleets of buses and ferry boats coming down from Miami, where the Informa show was. There…

SNL Stars Buy Staten Island Ferry

By Peter Janssen on January 22, 2022 Cruising Life

Two Saturday Night Live stars were among a group that just bought a decommissioned 1965 Staten Island ferry for $$280,100 at a New York City auction. The group wants to turn it into an event space or comedy club. But first they must move the orange ferry, named the John F. Kennedy, from the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island, where it is inoperable, in two weeks to – anywhere else. It will take at least two tug boats to move the ferry, which is 277 feet long with 69-foot beam and a 2,100 ton displacement. It was the…

Second Outer Reef Yacht Rounds Cape Horn

By Peter Janssen on January 19, 2022 Cruising Life

Outer Reef just announced that another one of its yachts has rounded Cape Horn, successfully transiting some of the most treacherous waters in the world. This latest voyage involved a 2014 Outer Reef 700 Classic Motoryacht called Dogo’s Hideout. It passed the rocky headland on Hornos Island in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago last year, rounding the horn, on a 35-day passage from Puerto Montt, Chile, to Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in that area that’s known as “the end of the world.” In 2017, another Outer Reef, a 2015 880 Classic Motoryacht named Argo, rounded the horn. On that…

Burger Unveils Plans for 63 Sportfish Motor Yacht

By Peter Janssen on January 19, 2022 Cruising Life

Burger is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, boat builder in the United States. In fact, Burger has been building yachts, usually large yachts, at its plant in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, since 1864. In the summer of 2018, Burger made a big move toward a more popular size, and launched a 48-foot cruiser with a hull from the Dutch design firm Vripack and power from Volvo’s IPS pod drives. Since then it has launched a 50 and a 66. Now, the company has another idea, a 63 sportfishing motor yacht, also designed by Vripack, and also with IPS power.…

NOAA: Long Island Sound Estuary Now Protected

By Peter Janssen on January 19, 2022 Cruising Life, Destinations

NOAA just named a Long Island Sound estuary as a protected place, establishing a 52,160-acre National Estuarine Research Reserve. The area includes part of Long Island Sound, part of Fisher’s Island Sound, and portions of the Thames River and the Connecticut River. See NOAA’s announcement, dated January 14, here: Today, NOAA and the State of Connecticut designated a new national estuarine research reserve in Long Island Sound. Research reserves are designated to protect a section of an estuary and provide a living laboratory to explore and understand important areas where rivers meet the sea, thus promoting understanding and informed management…

VanDutch Launches Fast, Elegant, New 32

By Peter Janssen on January 18, 2022 Cruising Life

VanDutch has launched its new entry-level 32 with an uber-modern minimalist vibe and a 45-knot performance. From its plumb bow back, the boat’s lines are elegant and clean; there aren’t any windows notched in the sides to interrupt the visual flow of the hull. The 32 is the first VanDutch made in the Cantiere del Pardo yard in Italy after Cantiere bought the company in June, 2020. VanDutch now has five models going up to 75 feet. Standard power for the VanDutch 32 is a single Volvo 430-gas sterndrive. At a cruising speed of 22 knots, the boat has a…

Red Rover, Nordhavn 55, Reaches 20,000 nm

By Peter Janssen on January 18, 2022 Cruising Life

In case there’s any doubt, Kevin and Allison Jeffries are indeed long-range cruisers. In fact, they just raised their 20,000 nm Nordhavn distance pennant while they were cruising from Huatulco to Chiapas off the Pacific coast of Mexico near the Guatemalan border. Lifelong boaters, the Jeffries have been cruising ever since they bought their Nordhavn 55, Red Rover, in 2016, sold their house in Seattle and moved aboard full time with their two rescue dogs, Zoe and Max. Their children were grown, and they wanted to take on a cruising lifestyle. Red Rover is 2005 Nordhavn 55 (hull number 05),…

Video: New Superyacht Squeezes Under Bridge

By Peter Janssen on January 18, 2022 Cruising Life

Here’s an incredible video of a brand-new 262-foot superyacht named Galactica squeezing under a bridge with less than five inches of clearance on its delivery from the Heesen yard in Oss, east of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, to the North Sea. Somebody measured well. Click on the link below: https://flipboard.com/topic/boating/amazing-scenes-as-superyacht-squeezes-under-bridges-with-12cm-clearance/a-zp4h6WL0RFa2g7z-MorNsw%3Aa%3A3483341013-9a8fd620bf%2Fflipboard.com

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