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New Dutch-Built Deep Water 50XLR Crosses Atlantic

By Peter Janssen on November 8, 2021 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

There’s no doubt about the ocean-crossing bona fides of the new Deep Water Yachts Korvet50XLR on display at the recent Fort Lauderdale show. Indeed, the Dutch-built aluminum boat crossed the Atlantic on her own bottom to get there. Deep Water Yachts, an alliance of Dutch yachting companies based in The Hague, says the new 50XLR (extra long range) yacht is “the ultimate passage-maker.” The first leg of its transatlantic voyage took it from Rotterdam to the Azores, through some rough weather. On that leg, the Korvet50XLR averaged 9 knots. (You can see it cruising off Horta in the Azores in…

RS Making New 20-foot All-Electric RIB

By Peter Janssen on November 8, 2021 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

RS Electric Boats will start making a new 20-foot all-electric RIB in January, with plans for at least 50 more next year. If the new RS Pulse 63 catches on, the UK-based company says it can make 100 or more in a year. The Pulse 63 is powered by a standard 400V, 47kW lithium-ion Hyperdrive power pack, and it tops out at 23 knots – for a short period of time. At 20 knots, the RIB can run for 90 minutes with a range of 30 nm. At 15 knots, it has a range of 45 nm, and at 10…

Cormorant Building 71-Foot Long-Range Cruiser

By Peter Janssen on November 7, 2021 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Cormorant Yachts, the new builder in Gdansk, Poland, is working on the COR710, a 71-foot cruising yacht with a nod to Down East lobster boat styling but with an oversized aft deck that would be totally at home in either the Med or the Bahamas. This new Cormorant joins a fleet stretching from 55 feet to 88 feet and is built for long-range cruising. With twin 1,361-hp MTU diesels, it has a top speed of about 30 knots, but if you dial back to 7 knots it will have a range of about 2,700 nm. The COR710 carries a low…

Charleston: A Charming Cruisers’ Destination

By Peter Janssen on November 3, 2021 Cruising Life, Destinations

Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most historic and, to my mind, at least, most enjoyable cities to visit in the United States – particularly if you arrive by boat. The last time I was there, just a few years ago, I was on an Eastbay 50, coming down from Connecticut, and we arrived at the sea buoy on a mid-September morning. Coming in the long, well-marked channel took a while, and we could see the skyline and then the Battery district, at the juncture of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers that mark the edges of the town, bathed…

Vladimir Putin, Yachtsman

By Peter Janssen on November 3, 2021 Cruising Life

Vladimir Putin, 69, the former KGB Lieutenant Colonel who has been the president and prime minister of Russia since 2020, is quite a yachtsman. Indeed, Putin now owns at least four yachts, worth about $125 million. This might seem unusual for someone who says his government salary is $100,00 a year, but then Putin’s net worth is estimated to be about $40 billion. Here’s a fun story from therichest.com and a video below about Putin’s four yachts: The Graceful was built by Blohm and Voss in 2014 and painted in a rich hue of white. It’s 269 feet long and…

Walker Bay Launches Big New Revo 21 RIB

By Peter Janssen on November 2, 2021 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Walker Bay just introduced its new Revo 21, a fast, comfortable boat that the company says is the world’s first 21-foot luxury sport RIB. It is indeed versatile; you can use it for just about anything you want to do on the water – fishing, diving, picnics, water sports or just driving around the harbor or the next cove. With a beam of 9’ 5”, the Revo 21 is wider than most 21-foot RIBs, and that extra space has been put to good use. The boat can hold 12 people, including forward seating for seven with comfortable cushions and a…

Greenline Planning New 58 Fly Hybrid

By Peter Janssen on November 2, 2021 Boat Reviews, Cruising Life

Greenline just had the debut of its new 68 hybrid, the flagship of its Slovenian fleet, at the Fort Lauderdale show, and it announced that it’s working on a new 58 Fly, which will be its next largest yacht, for a launch next fall. Greenline says that the 68, which can operate for as long as two days on battery power alone, is the largest production hybrid in the world. The planned 58 Fly will have all the same eco-friendly advantages as the 68, including the ability to run under diesel or solar/electric power, but in a slightly smaller package,…

Great White Shark Attacks: It’s Not Personal

By Peter Janssen on November 2, 2021 Cruising Life

With great white sharks, it’s not personal. If they see you swimming on the surface of the water, they’ll probably think you’re a seal or a sea lion, and you just represent the next meal in their lifelong food chain. That’s the conclusion of a new study just published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface that explored the theory that many great white bites, particularly juvenile great white bites, are simply a case of mistaken identity. “These are not mindless killers, but we just happen to look like their food,” said Dr. Laura Ryan, of Macquarie University in…

Raymarine Unveils New Line of Cyclone Radars

By Peter Janssen on November 1, 2021 Cruising Life, Electronics

Raymarine just introduced its new Cyclone series of solid-state, open-array radars at the Fort Lauderdale show. The all-new CHIRP pulse compression radars come in 3-, 4- and 6-foot arrays, with two power options for each size: The Cyclone, with 55 watt, 6kW performance, and the Cyclone Pro, with 110 watt, 12kW performance. All the models have Raymarine’s new detection technology, including the Cyclone Bird Mode that will help anglers find the birds that lead to schools of baitfish. The Cyclone radars have a new look, developed from an aircraft-wing design, and they also have a low profile, measuring just 13.2…

EU Ends Retaliatory Tariffs on US Boats

By Peter Janssen on November 1, 2021 Cruising Life

The United States and the European Union have agreed to end the EU’s 25 percent retaliatory tariffs on American-made boats and engines entering the EU. The boating tariffs were part of a larger agreement, announced in a statement by President Biden and Ursula von der Leyden, President of the EU Commission, during the G20 Summit in Rome, that removed US tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from the EU that dated to 2018 and the Trump Administration. The end of the tariffs are good news for American boat builders. “This agreement is a momentous victory for the recreational boating industry,”…

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