August/September 2023

Power & Motoryacht

Yacht and Powerboat Reviews

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Fast Forward
I was just a kid riding shotgun in the family Egg Harbor when I was introduced to the world of marine electronics. To me the red blobs dancing on the enormous radar looked like a Rorschach test or a bad version of Pac-Man. On my boat today, on the ri
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Future Fuel?
One afternoon in mid-April, I read an article by my colleague Eric Colby at Trade Only that piqued my curiosity. To test and promote a new, more ecologically and boat-friendly ethanol replacement, Suzuki was running an alternatively-fueled 26-foot Se
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Couch Cruisers
My wife and I are couch cruisers in the winter months along the coast of Lake Michigan. I call us “couch cruisers” because once the boat goes indoors in November, we satiate our thirst for being on the water by binging on YouTube series produced by b
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Living Inside Out
The wind and rain were relentless; the weather had us pinned down in the small coastal village of Oriental, North Carolina for days. With an intense cold front stalled over us, we had no window for departure in sight. A break in the rain did offer us
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The Torch
I was fortunate enough to see Jimmy Webb with my daughter, Erin, at the Kravis center a few weeks ago. A lot of people, including Erin, are not familiar with his name, but they know his work. He wrote some of the best ballads and biggest hits for ent
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A Hull Lot Cleaner
They don’t seek the limelight but were it not for divers like Robin Reed and Ryan Cheatham shown here at Safe Harbor Rybovich, most marinas would grind to a halt. This duo works for Palm Beach’s Atlantic Underwater Diving Service under the direction
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Swan Shadow
I once spent a college summer in Western Europe. Just about anywhere I went, whether it was a plaza, the beach, or a bus station, I witnessed a similar pattern—designer bags and clothing, a “no pasa nada” attitude that made you feel like the ‘somewhe
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Valhalla V-55
For years now I’ve been trying to get the term “super console” to stick. In a world full of Scouts, HCBs and Valhallas that seem to stretch to the horizon and house multiple staterooms, the term center console just feels inadequate. “This boat is a s
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Fuel Of Tomorrow?
We all love our internal-combustion engines—our ICEs—but even the newest and cleanest-burning of them produce greenhouse gases (GHG) that contribute to global warming. In 2023, ICEs are the bête noire of the environmental folks, and if they have thei
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Scout 67
Of the hundreds of gobsmacking boats I saw at this year’s Miami boat show, the vessel that bowled me over the most was also among the smallest. It wasn’t even three feet long, but man, this cruiser had it all: swooping lines, exotic composites, solid
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Foiled in San Francisco
In the eyes of this marine journalist, hydrofoils might draw a comparison to white whales. They’re not quite as rare as Moby Dick or Migaloo the white humpback, but from the perspective of linear time and probability, these boats are seldom spotted.
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Unidentified-Foiling-Object
Christoph Ballin is a very smart guy. I realized this as I stood in my hotel room with him in Cannes, France, staring at two pairs of tuxedo pants strewn across the bed. Hear me out. Ballin is the founder of Tyde, a Munich-based electric boat startup
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Azimut 26M
The clue is in the name, of course. Azimut’s Grande range thinks big. The company has never been short on ambition. Their new 85-foot 26M, launched at Cannes in September, replaces the 25 Metri in the shipyard’s lineup, and although it’s no longer th
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The Innovators
Few innovations have changed boating in recent years quite like IPS propulsion. The efficiency and maneuverability of pods, especially when paired with a joystick has made a video game of docking and helped to usher in a new, younger wave of boaters
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Confronting Corrosion
When he hauled his boat in December, 2022, Gary DeSanctis, president of Active Interest Media Marine Group, publisher of Power and Motoryacht, got an unpleasant surprise: The submerged section of the mounting bracket holding his 200-hp outboard was b
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Hail To The King
Nearly 60 years before the 1,260 pound, V12 Mercury 600 ruled the seas, there was the Mark 5. Not inexpensive for its day, the 40-pound, five horsepower monster from Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin required an angler to pony up $197 and 50 cents (equivalent t

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