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How To Cruise Like a Viking: CCA

By Peter Janssen on August 2, 2023 Cruising Life

The Cruising Club of America just published a new book that follows the routes of the Vikings across the treacherous waters of the North Atlantic hundreds of years ago, written by club members who have recently cruised there themselves. The book is the CCA Essential Passage Guide to the Viking Route, and it includes the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Labrador. It’s edited by William Strassberg, MD, who has cruised the Viking route himself, with the help of other club members who have also cruised all or part of it. The guide is unique in that it covers the specific…

Girl Killed When Thrown from Boat by Wake

By Peter Janssen on August 2, 2023 Cruising Life

An 11 year old girl was killed last week when the wake from a passing boat threw her and eight others off their 23-foot boat on the Intracoastal Waterway just north of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The girl, Olivia Knighton, the daughter of retired Major League Soccer goalie Brad Knighton, was hit in the head by her boat’s prop. She was taken to McLeod Seacoast Hospital in Little River, where she died. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said the boat Olivia was riding in “was rocked by a large wake caused by another boat, resulting in nine of…

Feds Approve 3 New Offshore Wind Farms

By co_admin on August 1, 2023 Cruising Life

Here’s a new report from gCaptain about the Biden Administration finalizing plans for three new wind farms off Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. We don’t know yet how these will affect cruising and fishing in those areas: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has finalized three offshore Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in federal waters off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, which could potentially support between four and eight gigawatts of energy production. The three WEAs total approximately 356,550 acres. The first, known as WEA (A-2), is 101,767 acres and located 26 nautical miles (nm) from Delaware Bay. The…

Eastern 27: User-Friendly Pocket Cruiser

By Peter Janssen on July 31, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The outboard-powered Eastern 27 Islander a user-friendly, no-frills, Down-East styled pocket cruiser. It’s also the top of Eastern’s fleet of 10 models from 20- to 27-feet. Easterns have been made in Milton, New Hampshire, since 1981.The company now also makes Rosborough Boats and Seaway Boats. The Eastern 27 Islander is designed as a couple’s cruiser, with a V-berth below plus an extra berth (or storage area) tucked under the helm deck. The V-berth can be converted to a settee with a table. There are also shelves, a hanging locker, and an enclosed head with shower. The helm deck can be…

Aegean Explorer 26M To Debut at Cannes

By Peter Janssen on July 31, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Denison Yachting will show the first hull of the Aegean Explorer 26M long-range cruiser series at the Cannes Yachting Festival starting Sept. 13. The second hull in the series is under construction at the Aegean yard in Bodrum, Turkey. The 85-foot Aegean 26M has a steel hull and aluminum superstructure for a combination of strength and light weight. It’s powered by twin 650-hp MAN diesels, with a top speed of 12.7 knots and a range of more than 3,500 at a slower speed. Explorer and adventure yachts have become a popular category in the past few years. The Aegean 26M…

New Powerdock With Solar Panels

By Peter Janssen on July 31, 2023 Cruising Life

Faroboats, a fairly new company in Lisbon, has a creative idea about how you can recharge the batteries on your electric boat. They’ve just launched the Faro Powerdock, a floating dock with solar panels. The Powerdock will work with any electric boat, but it will charge a 16-foot Faro5 electric boat in less than three hours. The Powerdock’s roof holds four 450-watt solar arrays of four panels each, with a total output of 2.7 kW. You also can order it with wind turbines to help produce more energy than just the solar panels. Under sunny conditions, the batteries on the…

New Leopard 40 Makes U.S. Debut

By Peter Janssen on July 30, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The all-new Leopard 40 power catamaran just made its debut in Fort Lauderdale, with a cruise along the ICW and a then a run over to Bimini. Leopards are made in Cape Town, South Africa, by Robertson and Caine. The company calls the new 40 a third-generation power cat, following the Leopard 46 and Leopard 53. The Leopard 40 is a three-cabin, three-head, stable and seaworthy cruiser The Leopard’s beam is 21’ 8”, slightly more than half its length, so it has vast amounts of usable space inside and out. The salon is full of light from large side windows,…

Rescue Swimmer Wins Bravery Award

By Peter Janssen on July 26, 2023 Cruising Life

Caleb Halle, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, will receive the IMO 2023 Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea for saving seven crew members of a disabled tug in a storm off the coast of Maryland in January. The annual International Maritime Organization Award is the highest award for bravery in the maritime industry. The IMO received 47 nominations from its 18 member states for the award this year. Halle’s story starts about 3:30 a.m. last January 14 when the Coast Guard received a call from the tug Legacy that had been towing a 290-foot barge from New Jersey to Guyana.…

Nordhavn Launching New 71

By Peter Janssen on July 26, 2023 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Nordhavn just finished its first new 71, the company’s largest long-distance cruiser built for an owner-operator, and it’s scheduled to splash at its factory in Taiwan next week. (The 71 actually was set to splash this week, but a typhoon got in the way.) After that, the 71 will head for its new owners, a couple in Seattle who are fairly familiar with the brand. Indeed, they have already owned three Nordhavns in the past 20 years – a 50, 57, 68. They plan to cruise their new 71, named Luna, in the Pacific Northwest and up to Alaska. Nordhavn…

Speeding Boat Crashes into House. Driver Charged

By Peter Janssen on July 25, 2023 Cruising Life

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a high-performance boat somehow went airborne last Saturday night on the Lake of the Ozarks and crashed into the side of a house. The eight people on board were thrown from the boat; six, including the driver, had serious injuries. The Highway Patrol charged the driver, Adam J. Ramirez, 47, from Huntington Beach, California, with suspicion of boating while intoxicated. He was released for medical treatment. The accident occurred just before midnight. The boat, a 2014 Nor-Tech with three 300-hp Mercury outboards, was heading east and crashed into the home on the Osage Arm…

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