Power & Motoryacht

State of the Union

I recently received a call from an Italian friend in Monaco who works for a German superyacht builder. Among the things opined during our far-ranging conversation, he lamented in his thick accent that, “Americans don’t know how to build boats anymore.”

That statement is far from true. Uncle Sam’s boatbuilders have got high-end center consoles nailed. And wakeboats and flats boats and Carolina flare and Downeasty-looking express cruisers. If you can

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