This week at the Newport international Boat Show, Hinckley Yachts of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, introduced their new 41 with triple V10 Mercury outboards. The Doug Zurn design follows on the incredibly successful debut at the 2025 Newport show of the Hinckley 39 with the brand’s first bow-lounge configuration. The 41 will also have a large bow lounge with seating for six. This space accompanies the outside lounge area in the cockpit and the interior social area in the small salon. As Hinckley’s Director of Marketing Scott Bryant has noted, “Our owners tend to use their boats mostly for day drips…

Here’s an innovative new model for Outer Reef, the respected builder of luxury cruising and expedition yachts. In league with their Dutch partners, the OR team has taken the proven 540 Adventure motor yacht and spiced it up with four, 12-cylinder, 500-horsepower Mercury outboards. You might think an expedition quality aluminum cruising yacht being adapted for outboards was something of an oxymoron.  But that would be missing the point. What OR is offering is a high-performance sport cruiser that is also a long range pasagemaker with a range of 2,000 miles or more. Outboards can be quieter yet faster than…

Grand Banks announced this week that they are adding an all new 65-footer to their line that will fit neatly between the 62 and 70. Like the other models in the 60 range the new 65 will be available with either an open flybridge or an enclosed Skylounge. Both versions share the new streamlined lines introduced by CEO and chief designer Mark Richards when he took over the company.  While the new designs have the traditional Downeast aesthetic that made the early models so distinctive, the new Grand Banks are sleek, graceful and downright handsome. Part of the evolution of…

In the rarified air of the ultra-wealthy, sometime even the very best money can buy will fit into a relatively small package. And, so it is with the newly launched Zeelander 5. The Dutch builder recently delivered a new semi-custom version of their Zeelander 5 model to a Turkish billionaire, and the boat was tailored specifically for him. He wanted it to mirror the style of his luxury super cars, plane and home décor so what he got was an elegant blend of Bentley on the outside and Hermes on the inside. Zeelander builds four models, the 49-foot 5,  the…

Maine boat builder Lyman-Morse announced this week that hull number one of their new Chris Hood-designed cruisers has been launched and sea trialed. The 42 LM joins the 44 and 46-foot sisters ships in the builder’s line of bespoke semi-custom yachts. In an era when power cruisers are becoming ever-more futuristic with angular lines, odd geometric hull glazing, folding cockpit bulkheads and giant swim platforms now called beach clubs, Hood and Lyman Morse are preserving the classic look of Maine-built boats. The new 42 evokes working lobster boats that have plied this coast for generations and have aways proven to…