Cruising Life

Take Everything on ROAM 35 Shadow Yacht

By Peter Janssen on April 6, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

In case you’re worried about how to fit your dink or RIB on your boat’s swim platform for this summer’s cruise, take a look at the new ROAM 35 Shadow, a 120-foot cat that the company calls “the ultimate expedition vessel.” With the ROAM 35, you shouldn’t have to leave any toys behind. ROAM already makes two lines of smaller shadow boats, but it designed the 35 for a client that wanted room for his 50-foot Cigarette, as well as a host of other boats and toys. The flagship of the ROAM Shadow fleet, the 35 has a touch-and-go helipad,…

Next Step: Remove Containers from Stuck Ship

By Peter Janssen on April 5, 2022 Cruising Life

The 1,095-foot container ship Ever Forward is still stuck in the Chesapeake, and the Coast Guard just announced that salvors will have to unload some cargo containers in an effort to refloat it. Two separate attempts to move the ship by a series of pull barges and tugboats, plus continuing dredging, have all failed. The ship, which draws more than 42 feet, is hard aground in 24 feet of water. The Ever Forward ran aground on Sunday, March 13, after leaving Baltimore, heading for Norfolk, Virginia, with a pilot on board. AIS data indicate it was running about 13 knots…

Greenline 48 Fly: Hybrid Family Cruiser

By Peter Janssen on April 5, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The Greenline 48 Fly, equipped with solar panels, electric motors, lithium batteries and two traditional Volvo 220-hp diesels, is a hybrid family cruiser that lets owners choose how they want to spend their time afloat. Under diesel power, the Greenline 48 tops out at 17.4 knots, a comfortable cruising speed for when you want to put some easy miles under your belt. At 15 knots, it has a range of 279 nm. (The Slovenian company says that at 5.1 knots, the range climbs to a staggering 1,668 nm, but I don’t know many people who want to cruise at 5.1…

Rescue Boat Sinks, Crew is Rescued

By Peter Janssen on April 5, 2022 Cruising Life

Here’s something you don’t see very often: A fire department rescue boat sank during a training exercise in the Chesapeake and the crew had to be rescued themselves. All four people on board, who were wearing life jackets and survival suits, were back on duty that evening. The Anne Arundel County Fire Department says they don’t know why their boat sank. It was refloated a few days later. The problem started when Fire Department Boat #1, based in Shady Side, Maryland, started to take on water off Gibson Island and the crew had to abandon ship. The Coast Guard and…

Eastport Growing, Moving to Florida

By Peter Janssen on April 4, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Eastport Yacht, the boutique builder in Annapolis, is moving to Florida, and launching a flybridge version of its classic Chesapeake Bay deadrise 32 at the same time. Eastport started in 2006 in the Eastport section of Annapolis, basically a boater’s haven, and they made a practical, no-nonsense 32 with inboard diesel power and a transom that dropped down to open the cockpit fully for loading dinks, diving gear, large fish, whatever. It was a true original of the SUV-of -the-water style that had the looks of a working bay boat. The original Eastport 32 (pictured at top) had a shallow…

SAY Launches 40-Knot Electric Boat

By Peter Janssen on April 4, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

The new SAY 29E is a sleek, lightweight, state-of-the-art electric runabout with a top speed of 40 knots, a performance that the German builder says makes it the fastest electric boat in the world. Weighing just 3,900 pounds, including batteries, the SAY 29E is built with a carbon-fiber sandwich construction. It offers the acceleration of a sports car and virtually silent cruising, while leaving no emissions behind. The boat has a range of 25 nm at 22 knots. It’s powered by a 360kW Kreisel electric motor, a 120kWh battery, and a 22kW on-board charger. It takes just six hours to…

Lynx Launches 90-Foot Expedition Yacht

By Peter Janssen on April 3, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Lynx Yachts in The Netherlands just launched the first of its Crossover series, a 27M built for an experienced owner in California. The 89’ 9” displacement expedition yacht, powered by two 850-hp CATs, has a range of 1,800 nm at 12.5 knots. The company says the Crossover designation means the yacht “embraces the qualities of a graceful superyacht and the versatility of a support vessel in one fully customizable expedition yacht that delivers more than meets the eye.” They say it’s a long-range SUV on the water. The name of the new Crossover is Avontuur (Dutch for Adventure) and that…

Bumfuzzle: After Covid, Cruising Again

By Peter Janssen on March 31, 2022 Cruising Life

When we last wrote about the Schulte family (Pat, Ali, and their daughter, Ouest, 11, and son, Lowe, 9) a year ago, they were heading for Aruba on their 1984 Grand Banks 42 Bumfuzzle. They had been cruising in the Caribbean ever since they bought the boat in Florida in 2017. After Aruba, they planned to head for Colombia, and then…who knows. But Covid intervened. As nation after nation shut down, or adopted protocols not exactly welcoming to foreign cruising families, they left the boat in Aruba and flew home to the U.S. Now, they’re back in Aruba, and they’ve…

Tugs Try, Fail, To Budge Grounded Container Ship

By Peter Janssen on March 30, 2022 Cruising Life

The 1,095-foot-long Ever Forward container ship, which draws more than 42 feet, is still hard aground in the Chesapeake in 24 feet of water despite the efforts of five tugs earlier this week to refloat it. The Ever Forward ran aground on March 13 after it left the Port of Baltimore with a pilot on board. AIS data says the ship was running at 13 knots when it left the dredged Craighill shipping channel and stopped suddenly outside the Patapsco River. The Coast Guard has not yet determined what caused the ship to leave the channel. In an effort to…

Sweden’s J Craft Torpedo Ready for U.S.

By Peter Janssen on March 29, 2022 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

If you really want to make an entrance, or just turn heads everywhere you go, take a look at the J Craft 42 Torpedo that just made its U.S. debut at the Palm Beach show. Made in Sweden and powered by Volvo IPS drives, this Swedish beauty is a combination of meticulous craftsmanship and modern technology. Each boat takes 8,500 man hours to make; the mahogany deck has 18 coats of lacquer and varnish before it leaves the factory floor. J Craft boats are made on the island of Gotland, by descendants of Vikings of ancient lore. King Carl XVI…

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