Thursday, March 28

Browsing: Cruising Life

After a brief interruption with Covid, Sergio Davi, the 65-year-old Italian professional yacht captain, is back on track with his 10,000 mile Ocean to Ocean RIB Adventure from Sicily to Los Angeles. A few days ago, Davi completed the most recent leg of his trip, taking 44 hours to run the 840 nm from Grand Canary Island to Cape Verde, averaging a little more than 19 knots on his 36-foot Nuova Jolly Prince RIB, Aretusa Explorer. Antonio Aiello, the owner of Nuova Jolly (pictured at left, above, with Davi), was along for this leg. Davi said they had “very good…

The good-looking 30-foot Swallow Whisper is a new boat from a small builder in the U.K. that has some features that might be welcome in the U.S. Built of light-weight wood with the hull sheathed in fiberglass and epoxy, it’s powered by two relatively small 70-hp Yamaha outboards that are hidden in an engine box, instead of hanging off the transom. A weekender that can sleep four, it tops out at 26 knots, and has a range of 160-nm. Until it launched the Whisper last summer, Swallow Yachts made trailerable sailboats in its yard in Wales. But it decided to…

Jean-Jacques Savin, 75, is no stranger to adventure. A former French paratrooper, he’s sailed solo across the Atlantic four times, climbed Mt. Blanc, and in 2019 he spent four months in a barrel-like capsule floating from The Canary Islands to the island of St. Eustatius in the Caribbean. Savin left the port of Sagres in southern Portugal on January 1 to start his latest adventure. He wanted to row, alone, across the Atlantic on his 26-foot boat. He said the trip was his way “to laugh at old age.” Savin celebrated his 75th birthday on January 14 on the boat…

Here are some important tips from BoatUS about how to keep your boat safe and protected this winter: SPRINGFIELD, VA., Jan. 24, 2022 – Storms have hammered the U.S., and many recreational boats are sleeping away the winter under a layer of ice and snow. If you store your boat outside and haven’t checked up on her lately, Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) has five tips for a midwinter checkup that could help prevent an insurance claim, help keep you safe, and also make spring commissioning easier. If your boat is stored in the water over the…

The recently improved, reorganized, and definitely easier to navigate Miami boat show will open in just a few weeks, on Wednesday, February 16, and run over President’s Day weekend, ending on Sunday, February 20. This year, for the first time, all the Miami shows will be run jointly by the National Marine Manufacturers Association and Informa Markets, the London-based exhibition company. In recent years they held separate, and essentially competing, shows, with the big NMMA show down on Virginia Key prompting traffic problems with fleets of buses and ferry boats coming down from Miami, where the Informa show was. There…

Two Saturday Night Live stars were among a group that just bought a decommissioned 1965 Staten Island ferry for $$280,100 at a New York City auction. The group wants to turn it into an event space or comedy club. But first they must move the orange ferry, named the John F. Kennedy, from the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island, where it is inoperable, in two weeks to – anywhere else. It will take at least two tug boats to move the ferry, which is 277 feet long with 69-foot beam and a 2,100 ton displacement. It was the…

Outer Reef  just announced that another one of its yachts has rounded Cape Horn, successfully transiting some of the most treacherous waters in the world. This latest voyage involved a 2014 Outer Reef 700 Classic Motoryacht called Dogo’s Hideout. It passed the rocky headland on Hornos Island in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago last year, rounding the horn, on a 35-day passage from Puerto Montt, Chile, to Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in that area that’s known as “the end of the world.” In 2017, another Outer Reef, a 2015 880 Classic Motoryacht named Argo, rounded the horn. On that…

Burger is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, boat builder in the United States. In fact, Burger has been building yachts, usually large yachts, at its plant in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, since 1864. In the summer of 2018, Burger made a big move toward a more popular size, and launched a 48-foot cruiser with a hull from the Dutch design firm Vripack and power from Volvo’s IPS pod drives. Since then it has launched a 50 and a 66. Now, the company has another idea, a 63 sportfishing motor yacht, also designed by Vripack, and also with IPS power.…

NOAA just named a Long Island Sound estuary as a protected place, establishing a 52,160-acre National Estuarine Research Reserve. The area includes part of Long Island Sound, part of Fisher’s Island Sound, and portions of the Thames River and the Connecticut River. See NOAA’s announcement, dated January 14, here: Today, NOAA and the State of Connecticut designated a new national estuarine research reserve in Long Island Sound. Research reserves are designated to protect a section of an estuary and provide a living laboratory to explore and understand important areas where rivers meet the sea, thus promoting understanding and informed management…

VanDutch has launched its new entry-level 32 with an uber-modern minimalist vibe and a 45-knot performance. From its plumb bow back, the boat’s lines are elegant and clean; there aren’t any windows notched in the sides to interrupt the visual flow of the hull. The 32 is the first VanDutch made in the Cantiere del Pardo yard in Italy after Cantiere bought the company in June, 2020. VanDutch now has five models going up to 75 feet. Standard power for the VanDutch 32 is a single Volvo 430-gas sterndrive. At a cruising speed of 22 knots, the boat has a…

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