March 2022

Power & Motoryacht

Yacht and Powerboat Reviews

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Driveway Boatyard
Karen and I sip wine in the salon. The sun has completely disappeared beyond the horizon and the only light is coming from the overhead LED. Connor’s fast asleep. We look around the boat and talk about future projects and upgrades. We revisit happy m
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Daredevil Ocean Crossing
In 2019, Sergio Davi, an Italian adventurer, successfully voyaged from Palermo, Italy, to New York on a 36-foot rigid-hull inflatable (RIB), dodging glaciers in the North Atlantic Ocean along the way. Since then, he has embarked on progressively long
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The Missing Napkin Sketch
It’s beyond cliché to say that many a new custom yacht began as a napkin sketch at a bar. A prospective client can relax and enumerate his desires for a new, better boat built just the way he wants it. His yacht designer of choice flamboyantly snatch
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Nothing to Fear
Cape Fear looms large in the imagination. Just the name is enough to strike terror in the heart, whether it’s being depicted in a Hollywood thriller or spoken by sea captains who have actually braved the often dangerous estuary. But just behind the f
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Riviera 645 SUV
LOA: 69'8" Beam: 19'1" Draft: 5'4" Displ.: 88,119 lbs. Fuel: 1,717 gal. Water: 198 gal. Power: 2/1,300-hp MAN V8; 2/1,550-hp MAN V12 Price: $2.8 million Released at the 2021 Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show in Australia, the 645 SUV is the larg
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Okean 80 Flybridge Motor Yacht
LOA: 78' Beam: 19'10" Draft: 5'1" Displ.: 147,710 lbs. Fuel: 1,518 gal. Water: 446 gal. Power: 2/1,550-hp MAN V12s We’re seeing a trend toward making yachts more open to the sea, air and sky, so they feel less like condos on the water and more like p
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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. D
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Evo V8
LOA: 77'9" Beam: 23'6" Draft: 4'11" Displ.: 141,093 lbs. Fuel: 1,096 gal. Water: 251 gal. Power: 2/1,000-hp Volvo IPS-1350 Price: $4.3 million Valerio Rivellini likes sailing. The young Neapolitan designer, who made a splash in the marine world with
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Concepts Realized
Mussel Ridge lobster yachts are a fan favorite among commercial fishermen, known for their wide beams, quality construction and proven seagoing performance. They hail from Hutchinson Composites in Cushing, Maine, where Albert Hutchinson has carved ou
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Frontier of Firsts
Sea Star steams at an easy 10-knot cruise. Sitka, Alaska, fades aft into the nebulous gray. Seward beckons 500 miles off our bow. The twin Caterpillar D343s purr-growl-grind just right, Sea Star’s way of telling us all is well. Sea Star is a 1965 alu
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Iron Man
They’re old, slow and require constant tinkering to keep them ticking. These heavy chunks of metal make my old Land Rover look like a lean-burn, four-stroke outboard. I’m talking about putt-putt marine engines. The cast-iron inboard engines are a thr
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So You Want To Be A Yacht Designer?
I sometimes wonder why, during my misspent youth, or even as middle age overtook me, I didn’t quit whatever I was doing and get myself into naval architecture. I mean, I’ve always enjoyed mathematics, a subject that factors heartily into the naval ar
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Take Charge
I love outboard motors. You can hang a bunch of them off the transom for a hellacious herd of horses without taking up space on board. They require no separate cooling system, no through-hulls, no exhaust elbows to worry about, no mufflers—all you re
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Trusty or Rusty
My friend Jerry is of the liveaboard persuasion, and although he’s a salty soul with plenty of seafaring cred, his boat—a bowthrusterless, single-engine trawler like my very own Betty Jane II—virtually never leaves the slip. Some months ago, however,

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