Cruising Life

Solara Launches New 310 Sport Coupe in Newport

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

Solara is making a big splash with its new S-310 Sport Coupe, displaying it this week at the Newport show and then next month at both the Annapolis and Fort Lauderdale shows The S-310 Sport Coupe is the newest model from Solara Boats, a company that was started just last year by Fluid Motion, the Kent, Washington, builder that makes Ranger Tugs and Cutwater Boats. “Solara is our new luxury adventure line of boats that are fast, fun, and ready for action,” John Livingston, the president of Solara (and Fluid Motion), said at the time. The new 310 Sport Coupe…

No Transatlantic Crossing for Reza Baluchi

By Peter Janssen on September 10, 2023 Cruising Life

Reza Baluchi, a 51-year-old adventurer who now lives in Florida after being granted asylum from Iran, isn’t going to make it across the Atlantic after all. The Coast Guard stopped him last week, 70 miles east of Tybee Island, Georgia, as he was trying to pedal his homemade hamster-wheel-like vessel from Pompano Beach to London. It was at least Baluchi’s third attempt to do so, and it probably will be his last, since he now faces federal charges of obstructing the Coast Guard, among other things. The Coast Guard cutter Valiant came across Baluchi on a routine patrol as he…

Charges of Drugs, Guns on Nantucket Yacht

By Peter Janssen on September 10, 2023 Cruising Life

Here’s a story involving a doctor and charges of drugs and guns on his 80-foot yacht in Nantucket, from Fox News: Just what the doctor ordered — cocaine, ketamine, guns and prostitutes on a multimillion-dollar, 80-foot luxury yacht moored in Massachusetts’ Nantucket Harbor on Tuesday. Police responding to a call to dispatch about a woman’s possible overdose aboard the Jess Conn, a “petite superyacht” built by Nordhavn in 2021, have arrested its owner, a former physician from Colorado who retired to Florida. Scott Burke, the yachtsman, faces a dozen drug and firearms charges following the encounter and a search warrant…

New Rio Daytona 50: Style and Performance

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

It’s no surprise that with the Italian-built Rio Daytona 50, style is important. That’s why the three 450-hp Mercury Racing outboards are hidden aft; Rio didn’t want the outboards to interrupt the graceful lines of the hull. But not to worry. Push a button and the engine compartment lifts up so you can access them any time you want. The new 50 is at the top of Rio’s Daytona lineup; there’s also a 34 and a 46. Rio itself was started in Lombardy in 1961, making mahogany motorboats. It launched the Daytona line with the 34 at the Genoa show…

New Rossinavi with Artificial Intelligence

By Peter Janssen on September 6, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

This was bound to happen. Artificial intelligence now is taking to the water, theoretically helping a new luxury yacht cruise more efficiently under electric power, while also keeping tabs (in not quite defined ways) on the crew to make sure they are embracing the new green technology to the full. All this is built into a new 164-foot Rossinavi hybrid named No Stress that was launched last spring and delivered to its owner last week. It’s the first in the Italian builder’s Blue line of hybrid yachts. No Stress has sleek, super-modern lines and an aluminum fast-displacement hull that has…

Lancia Aprea 52 To Debut in Cannes

By Peter Janssen on September 5, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The historic Cantieri Aprea builders in Sorrento, Italy, will unveil their all-new Lancia Aprea at the Cannes Yachting Festival, starting Sept. 12. With its elegant, classic lines, the new 52-foot Lancia Aprea is bound to get a lot of attention there and in the U.S. later on with a special outboard version. The Lancia Aprea line is the latest generation of boats from the Cantieri Aprea builders who date to the 1890s. They started with fishing boats and gained fame in the 1950s by building boats for movie stars who wanted to cruise between Sorrento and Capri. The company says…

Greenland Shark Found Off Belize

By Peter Janssen on September 5, 2023 Cruising Life

What’s a Greenland shark doing in Belize? Marine scientists aren’t exactly sure how to answer that question. What they do know is that one was found there recently, swimming thousands of miles away from its natural habitat. After studying pictures, they determined that the shark they found in the Caribbean was indeed a Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate in the world. Adult Greenland sharks are usually about 24 feet long and weigh 2,200 pounds. They are predatory. Greenland sharks aren’t exactly a garden-variety shark. They usually live thousands of feet underwater in the pitch dark near the Arctic, and are…

Jimmy Buffett: A Full Life

By Peter Janssen on September 5, 2023 Cruising Life

For more than half a century, Jimmy Buffett made people happy. It’s almost impossible to listen to one of Buffett’s songs and not end up with a smile on your face; you want to sing along, to join the fun. At his concerts (as many as 250 a year), people did just that, shouting out the refrains (“salt, salt, salt”) and reciting the well-memorized lyrics. They not only liked Jimmy Buffett’s music, they wanted to join Jimmy Buffett’s life. He was authentic, the real thing. He led the life his Parrotheads dreamed about. And why not? Jimmy Buffett seemed to…

Tyde Launches New 43-foot Icon

By Peter Janssen on September 4, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The eye-catching Tyde Icon, with looks like nothing else on the water, will make first show appearance at the Cannes Yachting Festival starting on Sept. 12. The all-electric Icon is a foiling luxury vessel, using leading-edge technology to provide a smooth, and quiet, ride for a group of passengers. The 43-foot boat is powered by two 100 kW electric motors giving it a top speed of 33 knots and a range of more than 50 nm at its cruising speed of 24 knots. It comes with a battery capacity of 240 kWh. The Icon has a beam of 14’ 7”…

How To Dock in Wind or Current

By co_admin on September 4, 2023 Cruising Life

Here some great advice from Skipper Tips about how to dock safely even when there’s a strong wind or current. Take heed: Imagine you need to dock your boat in a strong, gusty wind between two other boats. The wind is blowing from ahead of your bow and parallel to the pier. How can you make this docking challenge easier? Follow these five easy steps. Stop into any marina on a weekend and you’re bound to see several great and not-so-great docking approaches. The best approaches are never about speed or quickness, but about command and control. Keep your bow…

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