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New Electric Frauscher x Porsche Just Launched

By Peter Janssen on October 11, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The new Frauscher x Porsche 850 Fantom Air was just launched at Lago di Garda in northern Italy for the first time. The innovative new 28-foot electric runabout uses powertrain technology from Porsche’s all-electric Macan, which is still under development. The Frauscher x Porsche comes with 400 kW of electric power and has a top speed of 46 knots. At its optimum cruising speed of 22 knots, the lithium-ion battery with a 100 kWh capacity lasts about an hour; the battery also comes from the Macan. The boat uses 80-volt technology for fast charging. The battery can be charged with…

Sirena 78 To Make Debut at FLIBS

By Peter Janssen on October 10, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The Sirena 78, the upscale Turkish builder’s first enclosed-flybridge cruiser, will make its U.S. debut at the big Fort Lauderdale show starting Oct. 25. The new, four-cabin, 25-knot Sirena comes with an impressive pedigree. Germán Frers, the famed Argentine, designed the exterior, while Cor D. Rover, with his award-winning studio in The Netherlands, did the interior. Frers at first resisted the idea of the flybridge; it added weight up top. To compensate, he added five tons of ballast in the keel along the centerline. With twin 1,550-hp MANs and V-drives, the elegant new 78 tops out at more than 25…

Enata Unveils 40-knot Foiling Vatoz

By Peter Janssen on October 10, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The Enata Group just unveiled its sleek new 32-foot luxury foiling boat Vatoz that can hit a top speed of 40 knots when it flies almost 5 feet above the water. The Vatoz uses two 370-hp diesels and “torpedo” drives for hydrostatic propulsion. The Vatoz foils, or flies, at 18 knots. It has a range of 190 nm at 20 knots and 150 nm at 30 knots. Enata is an international manufacturing company with headquarters in Dubai, and it uses its proprietary Wingman management system to operate the foils and “wings” on the Vatoz’ hull sides. The side wings provide…

How To Navigate Safely in Fog

By co_admin on October 9, 2023 Cruising Life

Here are some great tips from Motor Boat & Yachting about how to deal with fog: If you’re still in port and in a boat without radar, perhaps you want to reconsider your trip and stay where you are. If you’re already underway and you run into fog, here’s what to do to keep everyone safe: Put on lifejackets. Double-check your position and write it down. Start making the appropriate sound signals. Slow down so you can react immediately to any threat, whether that’s represented by another boat or a pile of rocks. If the fog is really thick, head…

Front Street Launches New Harbor 28

By Peter Janssen on October 9, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Front Street Shipyard in Belfast, Maine, just launched the first New Harbor 28, a modern version of the legendary Wasque 26, but now with outboard power. The New Harbor 28 is a modern take on an iconic design, usually attributed to John Alden. The Wasque (pronounced WAY-SQUEE) 26 was originally built with inboard power to handle the choppy waters around Vineyard Sound, first by Vineyard Yachts and more recently by C. W. Hood. For more than a decade, when Ed Sutt was living in Jamestown, Rhode Island, he dreamed about owning a Downeast boat. A year ago, when he was…

Archipelago Sells New 40 Expedition Yacht

By Peter Janssen on October 9, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Archipelago, the relatively new British builder of expedition-class power catamarans, just announced that they’ve sold the first hull of their new 40 with hybrid diesel/electric/solar power. The new 40, based on the company’s first boat, a 47, will be launched in early 2025. Dr. Stephen Weatherley, an experienced sailor with a PhD in astrophysics who founded the company two years ago, says the new 40 has taken everything in the 47 and made it a bit smaller: “Smaller engines, lower emissions, easier to berth, with all the capability and force needed to get you home after a day, a week,…

New, Fastest-Ever Super Sub

By Peter Janssen on October 3, 2023 Cruising Life

U-Boat Worx just unveiled its new three-person Super Sub at the Monaco show, and the innovative Dutch builder says it’s the fastest private submersible ever made. The 21-foot-long sub has a top speed of 10 knots, and it can dive down to almost 1,000 feet. It has an impressive 100 kW of thrust, coming from four 25 kW and two 6 kW electric motors; the battery has 62 kWh capacity. The new Super Sub uses advanced technology and new levels of streamlined design and safety, according to the company. Roy Heijdra, U-Boat Worx’s marketing manager, says it is 3-4 knots…

Prestige Wins 3 New Awards

By Peter Janssen on October 3, 2023 Cruising Life

Prestige just won three awards at the major European shows for two quite different yachts, the flagship 65-foot Prestige M8 catamaran and the 50-foot Prestige F4 flybridge cruiser. The F4, the first model in the French builder’s new flybridge line, won an award for best interior design in its size category at the World Yachts Trophies ceremony in Cannes, while the M8 won the award for power-driven catamarans there. The M8 then won the 2023 Design Innovation Award in the Multihull category a week later at the Genoa show. The interior of the F4 is fluid and elegant, with a…

Man Dies After Whale Flips Boat

By Peter Janssen on October 2, 2023 Cruising Life

An Australian man died and his companion was seriously injured when a whale flipped their boat in Botany Bay, off Sydney, and threw them into the water. The accident occurred at 6 a.m. when the two men, Stuart Collings, 61, and his brother-in-law, Darren Curmi, 53, were in their runabout. No one is sure exactly what happened, but apparently a whale breached under the boat.. It was “an absolute freak accident,” police said. Other boaters called authorities saying that an empty boat was running in circles in the bay and two people were in the water. It took 45 minutes…

New North Pacific 450 Pilothouse Cruiser

By Peter Janssen on October 2, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

North Pacific has launched its new 450 Pilothouse, a two-stateroom, two-head serious cruiser. With the standard single 335-hp Cummins, the new 450 Pilothouse cruises at about 9 knots and tops out at 14 knots. A single 480-hp Cummins is an upgrade, and it you want twins, then North Pacific will be happy to oblige you. North Pacific says the new 450, with a more modern interior and exterior, builds on the success of its 43, the company’s first, and most popular, model. The interior displays satin-finished teak, and the drawers are all dove-tailed. The hull is laid up with solid…

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