New Boat Buyer's Guide 2023

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Yacht and Powerboat Reviews

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DANIEL HARDING JR. CREATIVE DIRECTOR STEVE JYLKKA DIGITAL DIRECTOR JOHN V. TURNER SENIOR EDITOR CHRIS DIXON SENIOR EDITOR SHANE SCOTT EDITOR-AT-LARGE BILL PIKE YACHT DESIGN CONSULTANT BILL PRINCE ELECTRONICS EDITOR BEN STEIN TECHNICAL
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Editor’s Letter
I have two friends (yes, surprising, I know) who are both my age and who also happen to be buying and selling boats at the same time. The similarities between the friends are uncanny and coincidental. Both are police officers; both have growing famil
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Seamanship: Tough Love
I first met Shannon Scaff during research for my 2021 book called The Ocean. The Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge. For the “Safety and Survival” chapter, I hoped to ask an experienced Coast Guard rescuer for the experience-based lessons a boat
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Gear: Gill’s OS2 Survival Jacket
When I was a child, I always dreamed of becoming a fireman. As you probably surmised, that didn’t happen for me. But, wearing a fireman-red, survival-style offshore jacket around the frozen food section of a grocery store wasn’t the consolation prize
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Lightning Strike. Could You Save a Life?
It’s any parent’s worst nightmare. Derek Stock, a prudent boater out of Tampa was enjoying a fun-filled day on the water with his wife and two of his children when disaster struck just a hundred feet from the boat ramp; his 11-year-old son was struck
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Seakeeper Changes the Game. Again.
“Nothing I can say will convince you. You’ve got to experience it, and once you do, you’ll be convinced.” That line was penned by an industry icon in his own right, the late former Editor-in-Chief of Power & Motoryacht Richard Thiel. Richard was quot
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Rescue Swimmer’s Wisdom
On January 25, 2000, the conditions off Elizabeth City, North Carolina were simply terrible. A cold-front-spawned low off Florida had inhaled a plume of tropical air and deepened explosively. A vast fetch of 60-plus-knot winds would build 60-foot sea
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Hinckley’s Dash Of The Unexpected
A while back, my colleagues and I were talking about what iconic boats from the past we would like to retest for the magazine. Knit-Wits, the first fiberglass Hatteras was a popular choice, as was the first Princess ever built called Project 31. Also
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Formula 387 CCF
In writing about boats and fish for a living, I’ve always felt I have one of the best jobs in the world. That is until I stepped aboard Formula’s first center console since the 1980s and met Abe Haines, the company’s product specialist who had a heav
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X Shore 1
In September, Sweden’s X Shore unveiled what it hopes will be a game-changing electric boat. It’s a 21 foot, 30-knot speedster called the X Shore 1. The boat borrows concepts from X Shore’s 26-Foot, $329,000 Eelex 8000 and downsizes them. The result
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Regulator 37
Stepping onto the Regulator 37 center console, I immediately appreciated the roominess of the cockpit. But when I realized how many systems and features the builder installed while still retaining wide, unfettered decks to fight fish and invite a lar
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Jarrett Bay 56
So this is the battle station,” says Capt. Brian Tambone. “Pretty much everything has its own perfect location.” Tambone is standing in the belowdecks cabin of Renegade, a remarkable Jarrett Bay 56 with one of the coolest tackle centers ever. He came
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Lindell 41
I met Frank O’Neil, Chief Commercial Officer of Lindell Yachts, along with photographers in La Conner, Washington, for a fishing trip to test out their latest Lindell 41. I was excited to see how this fishing boat would fair. We boarded our boat and
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Viking 64
An unrelenting north wind had sent the sailfish packing with hardly a sniff of action reported off Palm Beach. On top of that, a massive cold front was about to park itself over the Sunshine State, sending temperatures plummeting to lows not seen in
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Azimut Verve 42
There’s nothing subtle about the Azimut Verve 42. The baby sister of the enormously popular Verve 47, she made her international debut on the face dock at last year’s Ft. Lauderdale boat show, surrounded by yachts three times her size. And to her cre
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Back Cove 372
Getting a turn behind the wheel of a Back Cove 372 is nice in itself—now add a panoramic view of bald eagles and seals and the feeling of crisp ocean air off the coast of Anacortes, Washington, and your ride becomes unforgettable. I boarded this 372
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Hood 35 LM
It’s the swooping, arcing, very considered trailing edge—a graceful, subtle curve that defines the aft border of the coach roof pillar on the arresting Hood 35 LM Express Cruiser. The initials represent the renowned Maine boatyard, Lyman-Morse, whose
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Cutwater C-288
Boat design is subjective. For me, a good design finds creative ways to get the most out of every square inch of space while maintaining performance and ride. That’s why I fell so hard for the Cutwater C-288 Coupe. With her 10-foot beam and 32-foot,
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Mjm 4
The MJM 4 is the latest launch from the builder after they made a sojourn south from their longtime home in Boston and opened a massive new factory in Washington, North Carolina. She’s a 46-foot, 8-inch bowrider with an enclosed helm, sleeping accomm
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Pardo GT 52
Few automotive designs are as distinct as the classic gran turismo that emerged in Europe in the mid-twentieth century. The same can be said of Pardo Yachts’ GT52, a luxury performance cruiser that packages power and comfort with a proven hull. Pardo
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Pursuit OS 445
Of all the impressive features contained in Pursuit’s new OS 445 Offshore—the IMAX-quality window views, the copious and brilliantly-positioned coolers, storage and hatches, the luxurious and highly-functional staterooms, the rail-encircled and comfo
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Saxdor 320 GTC
In case you have been living under a rock, Finland is making its name known on the international powerboat scene. The easternmost Scandinavian country has offered a strong inflow of fast, seaworthy boats that many boaters (and especially first-time o
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True North 34
It was well into the fall boating season when I caught a ride on the new True North 34 Outboard Express with Anthony Tumas of New Jersey’s Riverside Marina and Yacht Sales. We ripped up the Severn River north of Annapolis, Maryland, on a flat, perfec
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Say 42
I’d never heard of SAY before the 2022 Ft. Lauderdale boat show, and when I first saw it, and even among a gleaming, murderer’s row of multi-million-dollar offerings, this 42 stopped me in my tracks. For one thing, among all the white fiberglass, its
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Wellcraft 355
For boaters of a certain vintage, the name Wellcraft will always conjure images of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs chasing smugglers in Miami Vice. Ray Bans, Uzi machine guns and a quintessentially 80’s soundtrack gave the show all the ingredients f
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Windy 44
At the recent Miami show I spotted Windy once again playing in American waters, this time beneath the large orange Nautical Ventures display. Nautical Ventures has been a dealer on fire lately thanks to their success in bringing European boats to the
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Absolute 60 Fly
When stepping aboard a brand-new model for the first time, especially one from an innovative European yard like Absolute, I always look for some unexpected, clever little idea that I haven’t seen before. There is usually something to raise a smile. I
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CL Yachts CLX 96
Just when you think you know what to expect from a major builder, think again. Princess, Sanlorenzo, Sunseeker, Well-craft, Prestige and many others have lately debuted models that stand in stark contrast from what we’ve come to expect. CL Yachts—for
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Grand Banks East Bay 60
Early last summer, I helped an old pal deliver a classic 1980s-era Grand Banks 42 several hundred miles up the ICW. Modeled after the proven heavy-displacement trawlers the company had been churning out since the early 1960s—the North Sea profile, mo
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Evo V8
Valerio Rivellini likes sailing. The young Neapolitan designer, who made a splash in the marine world with his eye-catching work on the Evo line, has a background in dinghies and small cruising yachts. It was the cool look of modern cruiser-racers, w
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Grand Banks 85
Twenty-five feet is the size of your average garden hose or extension cord, or five park benches lined up side by side. Those 300 inches made a world of difference when I took in the view of the Grand Banks 85 resting beside its 60-foot sistership at
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Maritimo M55
Sitting inside the confines of the Maritimo M55’s enclosed bridge, I was plenty comfortable, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a tad nervous. Spooling up the twin, 1,000-hp Cat 12.9 diesels, the boat motored right into a set of breaking waves witho
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Maritimo M600
Maritimo’s new M600 Offshore is a descendant of the offshore cockpit and motoryacht styling the builder first introduced years ago with the 550, 500 and 470 Offshore Series. “We constantly receive requests for enclosed cockpits and to spec our curren
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Ocean Alexander 28E
A coastal cruiser with passagemaking capabilities, the new Ocean Alexander 28E is capable of both bluewater cruising and island-hopping in total comfort. Based on a semi-displacement hull design by Giuseppe Arrabito, and with overall design by Evan K
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Okean 80
With the U.S. debut of the Okean 80 Motor Yacht at the 2021 Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show, the Brazilian shipyard and its Italian yacht design partner, Paolo Farragni, have taken their open-deck concept to new lengths (pun intended). The res
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Ocean Alexander 37L
Family-run shipyard Ocean Alexander has been busy. The builders debuted three boats at FLIBS 2021, the Ocean Alexander 30R and 35R (for Revolution), and the 37L, created in collaboration with British yacht designer Evan K. Marshall. I ran into Marsha
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Princess V50
The Princess V50 at the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival was immediately recognizable for her telltale Princess lines. The Plymouth, England-based builder has done a remarkable job over the last decade or so branding itself with flowing exterior profile
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Princess X80
Whatever you thought about Princess’s extraordinary X95, everyone seemed to agree on one thing: It was unbelievably different looking. Building on their experience with the X95, Princess’s designers decided to produce a smaller model on the same conc
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Princess Y72
The Princess Y72, which debuted at the 2021 Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show, was at first glance remarkable for what she was not. Many motoryachts in this class are big and bulbous, sacrificing the grace of time-tested lines to the almighty go
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Regal 38
I was wolfing a boat-test breakfast at the Belleair Café in Clearwater, Florida, before my meeting with Regal’s marketing manager, Jeff Littlefield. I was, truth to tell, in a whopping hurry to get aboard Regal’s latest and greatest—the 38 FXO, a spo
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Riviera 64
When I joined the new Riviera 64 Sport Motor Yacht at St. Augustine’s Beaches Marina, the boat had already departed Savannah the day before, bound for the salty little town of Stuart, some 200 nautical miles south. The welcoming committee included de
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Sunseeker 90 Ocean
A child of the pandemic, Sunseeker’s intriguing new Ocean 90 was first launched virtually, but then, attended the actual Cannes boat show last September and basked in the attention it deserves. For this is a new kind of Sunseeker. It’s certainly unli
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Tiara 60
It was pitch black when I first met the Tiara EX 60, save for the onboard LEDs; I couldn’t fully appreciate the strong profile or high bulwarks of the new flagship. I could, however, appreciate the unbelievable amount of stowage the boat possessed as
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Sunseeker 65 SY
In a Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht, it doesn’t take much of an imagination to envision 007, olives clinking around a martini glass, putting the throttle down on his way to stop Emilio Largo from blowing up Miami. Well, when you’re in my line of work, you
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Aquila 28
With the forecast calling for 4- to 6-foot seas and a 15- to 20-knot offshore wind, I thought it might be a good idea to pack a raincoat. Not for rain, but for spray. Testing a 28-foot open boat in big seas sounded wet. And I was totally cool with th
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Leopard 46
The Leopard 46 Powercat isn’t what I’d call a “Miami boat.” For one thing, she’s very much a powerboat, with twin 370-horsepower Yanmars in her engine room. For another, the boat is just so practical looking and glaringly efficient in all manners. An
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Silent 60
Silent-Yachts is the brainchild of bluewater cruisers Michael and Heike Köhler, who have sailed and cruised over 75,000 nautical miles. Their new yacht, the Silent 60 is a transoceanic-capable power cat. With solar panels, electric motors, and batter

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