Friday, March 29

Browsing: Cruising Life

Silent-Yachts, the pioneering Austrian builder, is in a major growth mode. It’s launching its first Silent 60 solar/electric luxury catamaran this month (pictured above), and its rebranding itself to start new businesses – from tenders to resorts – all centered around its renewable energy theme. In the past few years, Silent has staked out a leading position in the global electric yacht market. It now makes yachts from 60 to 120 feet. Last week, it announced that it had a record 21 orders for new boats in 2021. Now the company is rebranding itself as well as expanding. Because of…

Walker Bay is showing its line of luxury RIBs at the Miami show, including the new Generation 525 DLX RIB, with elegant styling and deep-V handling. You can see the Walker Bays in the water at the Sea Isle Marina or on land at the Miami Convention Center. Walker Bay makes several series of RIBs, both open and center console models, from eight to 21 feet. At 17’ 2”, the 525 DLX is the flagship of the Generation series, which starts at 11’ 3”. The 525 can hold up to ten people, and up to a 115-hp outboard. The boat…

In an event that scientists say happens “once in a millennium,” a report published last week says that a wave as high as a four-story building was recorded off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. The wave, measuring 57’ 7” high, was the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded. It was measured off Ucleulet, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, on November, 2020. It was recorded by MarineLabs Data Systems in Victoria, BC, and announced last week in a study published in the journal Scientific Reports by Dr. Johannes Gemmrich and Leah Cicon from the University of Victoria. The giant…

Simrad just announced its latest generation of multifunction displays, the Simrad NSX, during a global livestreaming event from Egersund, Norway, introducing new chartplotters and fishfinders for powerboats. The new mid-range NSX line will be available in 7-, 9- and 12-inch displays and is based on an all-new operating system. Simrad will launch the new line at the Miami boat show, starting next Wednesday. NSX has a new interface with a user-friendly touchscreen with clear views. Charts include C-MAP nav capability and are compatible with sonar, radar and autopilot systems. Simrad says its Setup Wizards system will help users through every…

Here’s a sign of the times. For the first time, you can go to the Miami show next week and buy NFT art created by some of the world’s leading superyacht designers, including Bannenberg & Rowell, Gregory C. Marshall, David Weiss, and Marco Casali. All of this, of course, exists in the metaverse. NFT (non-fungible token) art is unique, with identifiers that cannot be copied, substituted or divided. An NFT is recorded on a digital blockchain that can certify the authenticity of a specific digital asset. The NFT yachting art to be sold in Miami was put together by Zach…

More than two weeks after it ran aground on the beach in Ocracoke, North Carolina, Scott Pumphrey’s 55-foot motoryacht is inching closer to getting back in the water again. The yacht, a 2001 Novatek named Vivens Aqua, is being pulled along the beach by an excavator while it sits on four giant pneumatic pins that roll it forward, slowly, very slowly. The 55,000-pound boat rolls on three pins at a time while the rear one is removed, deflated, moved to the front and inflated again. This takes a while. But the boat only has another 500 feet or so before…

Sergio Davi, the Italian adventurer, just crossed the Atlantic on his 36-foot RIB. Davi left Mindelo on Cape Verde on Feb. 4, and stepped off his boat this afternoon in Kourou, French Guyana, in South America, 1,770 nm and six days and eight hours later. This was the longest, and most dangerous, leg of his 10,000 mile journey from Salerno to Los Angeles on his RIB named Aretusa Explorer. Joining him was Teo Aiello, the co-owner of Nouva Jolly Marine, which made the RIB. Aiello’s brother, Antonio, was on board for the previous leg, 836 miles from Grand Canary to…

Earlier this week, a team of scientists and adventurers left Cape Town, South Africa, on a 440-foot icebreaker, trying to find the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance in 10,000 feet of water in the Antarctic. The team, called Expedition Endurance 22, will use two high-tech autonomous drones and two helicopters to find the Endurance, which sank 107 years ago and resulted in one of the most heroic rescue stories of all time. Shackleton’s adventures in managing to save the lives of all 27 members of his crew are taught to this day in leadership classes around the world. The Endurance…

Orcas, aka killer whales even though they’re members of the dolphin family, really are vicious. In fact, a new study reports that a group of scientists actually saw more than a dozen orcas attack and kill a 70-foot blue whale off the southwest coast of Australia, the first time that such an attack has been recorded. The study was published last month in the journal Marine Mammal Science. It notes that scientists had known that orcas attacked and killed blue whales before, but they were always juvenile blue whales. (Blue whales are the largest creatures that ever lived, and can…

The Horizon Power Catamaran PC60 will be on display at the Miami show, starting Wednesday, February 16. Horizon will also have a 52 at the show, but the 60, which was first built in 2013, is one of the company’s most popular models. Indeed, it is now working on hull number 25. The 60 is a sophisticated, stable and long-range cruiser with an enormous amount of interior volume and exterior lounging and entertaining space. You can order it with three or four staterooms with en suite heads and a vast open salon, or you can have the master stateroom forward…

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