Regal 38 FXO

I was wolfing a boat-test breakfast at the Belleair Café in Clearwater, Florida, when I got a text from Regal’s marketing manager, Jeff Littlefield. What about postponing festivities for an hour or so, he suggested—one of his guys was running late. Dang, I thought. While the delay would dovetail nicely with the scheduled arrival of Charlie Levine, Power & Executive Editor, who was encountering wicked traffic coming from Orlando, it hardly fit my twitchy agenda. I was, truth to tell, in a whopping hurry to get aboard Regal’s latest and greatest—the 38 FXO, a sporty flybridge cruiser with roughly the same hull form as Regal’s popular 38 Grand Coupe, but with triple F300 Yamahas for propulsion instead of stern drives and an ample running surface extension, stretching all the way to the trailing edge of the swim platform, to support and balance the outboard package.