Motor Boat & Yachting

A bit like football, MBY is a game of two halves. There’s the front half with its dreamy new boats, cruising guides, boat tests and adventures, and the back half with its more pragmatic focus on boating kit, seamanship, maintenance and second-hand cr

GOSPORT With its rich maritime heritage and nautical attractions, including the Royal Navy Submarine Museum and the Museum of Naval Firepower, Gosport is a must-visit destination for many boaters. Located on the western side of Portsmouth harbour, th

Every time we take any non-regular crew out on Smuggler’s Blues 2, I have a routine that I go through. I give them a brief rundown of some of the safety kit aboard (VHF radios, the EPIRB etc), not because I expect them to use them in an emergency, bu

LOA 56ft 2in (17.13m) BEAM 16ft 2in (4.93m) ENGINES Twin 725hp Volvo Penta IPS950 TOP SPEED 38 knots PRICE FROM £1.395m ex VAT CONTACT www.sunseeker.com When the vast Union Jack covering the first new Superhawk in years was finally removed on the ope

LOA 74ft 9in (23.09m) BEAM 17ft 11in (5.45m) ENGINES Twin MAN 1650-1800hp TOP SPEED 36 knots PRICE approx £5m inc VAT CONTACT www.princessyachts.com Princess may have taken a couple of years to launch an sportsbridge version of the Y72 but the minute

LOA 37ft 5in (11.40m) BEAM 11ft 4in (3.46m) ENGINES Twin Mercruiser or Volvo petrol or diesel 250hp-350hp TOP SPEED TBC PRICE FROM €238,500 ex VAT CONTACT www.bavariayachts.com Bavaria is on a roll with its classy new SR range and having scored consi

LOA 59ft 10in (18.24m) BEAM 16ft 5in (5.0m) ENGINES Twin Volvo Penta 900-1,000hp D13 TOP SPEED 32 knots PRICE FROM €1.64m ex VAT CONTACT www.ferretti-yachts.com While Ferretti enjoys a deserved reputation for building robust, well-engineered craft, s

LOA 38ft 10in (11.83m) BEAM 11ft 8in (3.57m) ENGINES Twin 320hp Volvo Penta D4 TOP SPEED est. 40 knots PRICE from £517,000 inc. VAT CONTACT www.jeanneau.com Right from the start, it’s clear that the Jeanneau DB/37 adopts the same approach as the slic

LOA 30ft 10in (9.40m) BEAM 9ft 10in (2.99m) ENGINES Single Volvo Penta D6 380 TOP SPEED 40 knots PRICE €368,186 CONTACT www.grandezza.fi Grandezza’s 30 CA was one of Düsseldorf’s most hotly anticipated boats – not least because of the marker laid dow

LOA 45ft 8in (13.97m) BEAM 13ft 8in (4.2m) ENGINES Twin Volvo Penta 480hp D6/440hp IPS600 TOP SPEED 30 knots PRICE from €581,596 ex VAT CONTACT www.galeon.pl British designer Tony Castro has once again worked his magic on the new Galeon 440, squeezin

LOA 71ft 2in (21.68m) BEAM 16ft 11in (5.15m) ENGINES Triple D13 800hp IPS1050 TOP SPEED 35 knots PRICE £2.75m ex VAT CONTACT www.azimutyachts.com One of the joys of the Düsseldorf show is being able to compare rival boats from different manufacturers

LOA 47ft 11in (14.60m) BEAM 14ft 0in (4.25m) ENGINES Twin Volvo D6 440/IPS-650 TOP SPEED 36 knots PRICE from €912,900 CONTACT www.sargoboats.fi Sargo’s new flagship was always likely to feel like a showcase for the brand’s strengths and when you see

LOA 29ft 8in (9.04m) BEAM 10ft 7in (3.23m) ENGINES Single or twin 300-600hp outboards TOP SPEED 45 knots PRICE €296,262 CONTACT www.finnmaster.fi Finnmaster has received plenty of praise for its award-winning T-series of sporting weekenders. But in t

Have you ever done a feature on trailerable motor boats with cabins? I would be most interested if you have. We have so many good cruising grounds in England which can easily be reached by hitching up a boat to your car and driving to for a week or w

We’re lucky enough to own a Fairline Squadron 65 called Sofia. For the past two years we have based it in Lefkas, Greece and cruised between Corfu in the north and Kefalonia and Ithaca in the south. It is a beautiful part of the world to float around

When we first laid eyes on the Schaefer V33, it was making its UK debut at the Southampton Boat Show. Rather cleverly, the guys at Gibbs Quay Boat Sales had taken along both the inboard and outboard models but it was the outboard model that really st

Millennial buying habits have had a profound impact on the marine industry. A generation of people keen to spread their resources on a wide range of pastimes (rather than committing it all to just one) has fuelled significant growth in boat share and

Two days and 225nm into our circumnavigation attempt, we’ve crossed the Channel from Jersey and made it as far as Ramsgate. However, we’ve already had a few problems and are well aware that the hard yards lie ahead as we push on north up the exposed

December in Plymouth doesn’t sound like the ideal time and place to test the new flagship of the Princess F Class range. The air is cold, the mid-winter afternoons are short and the surroundings, while pretty enough in the right conditions, are a far

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Until now only a handful of specialist yards have attempted to build electric boats. The difficulty of trying to source the right components, package them into a suitable hull and get it all working seamlessly while delivering the speed and range tha

It’s not just about being more considerate to other boat users thanks to its near-silent electric motor; there are other good reasons to choose Elaqua’s e-PWC over a noisy ICE version. Firstly there’s no need to fill and carry cans of petrol. If you

Having brought our Nimbus 365 (Let’s Go) back to the UK from France after Brexit and Covid-19, we were keen to take advantage of our new location on the south coast and head across the Channel to Brittany. We blocked two weeks off at the end of June

Last month we looked at how to prepare for a winter boat outing. This month, we are looking at how to stay safe once you are out on the water. Much as I love the peace and quiet of being out on the water in winter, the lack of marine traffic does mea

When my Windy 32 Grand Zonda arrived last spring as a replacement for my Coho 29 GT, I was immediately impressed by its build quality and depth of engineering. It really is the Porsche of boats. There were no delivery faults. No snagging list. No cam

With more than 6,000 kilometres of navigable waterways crisscrossing Holland, a third of which sits below sea level, it’s hardly surprising that the Dutch have elevated the act of designing and building river boats to something of an art form. Among

BUILT 1991 PRICE £74,950 When I win the euro multi-millions and need a surefire way of creating a small fortune by starting off with a large one, I’m going to start a business building modern versions of all the classic British boats that have us old

BUILT 2004 PRICE £394,950 Based in Carrigaline in County Cork, Cara Marine’s stock in trade was heavy-duty offshore pilot and patrol boats. So when the company turned its attentions to the leisure market, the result was always going to be something s

BUILT 2001 PRICE £119,995 We really couldn’t have an aft cabin used boat feature without including a model from Broom. Broom Boats were the absolute doyen of the aft cabin cruiser; from the Ocean range back in the 1970s right up until they ceased boa

BUILT 2003 PRICE £245,000 Aft cabin boats come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, as this Hardy 42 Commodore demonstrates. A ‘trawler yacht’ style, rather than a typical motor cruiser with a full-beam aft deck, it features a deeply bulwarked walkaroun

Boat dealers are used to unusual requests from clients but ten windscreens made out of sugar glass and a complete spare set of cockpit upholstery was a new one to Martin Payne, head of sales and marketing for Hunton Powerboats. The call came in Septe