Motor Boat & Yachting

There are thousands of good reasons to buy a motor boat, as a flick through the pages of MBY amply demonstrates, but never has their been a more compelling one than that put forward by reader David Gabriel. Last March he was diagnosed with advanced p

Portuguese boatbuilder Sun Concept has launched a new catamaran powered entirely by the sun. The 12m solar-powered craft follows hot on the heels of its popular 7m sibling, which has sold 18 units since launch in 2015. Bigger, faster and better able

MDL Marinas is offering a range of special deals for boat owners including berthing packages, hull scrubs, shoreside storage and launching. MDL’s Hamble Marinas (Hamble Point, Mercury Yacht Harbour and Port Hamble) are offering two months small boat

Our imminent Normandy cruise will not be to the D-Day landing beaches but the classic ‘France across the Channel’ further east, which has its own white cliffs and a tradition of exquisite cooking. Fécamp, St Valéry-on-Caux, Dieppe – I love the ‘fishi

I don’t want a cabin cruiser, I want a low fast weekender”. It was 2016 and I was with boating buddy John looking at a Bavaria 25DC for sale with Clipper Marine. It certainly ticked the low, fast boxes with Windy-esque blue and white topsides, wrap-a

YOUR PHOTO OF THE MONTH Wins a handheld Icom IC-M25 Euro VHF Marine Transceiver worth £169! Send your best photo to us at mby@ti-media.com Could you please put me in touch with the owner of the Jeanneau NC9 who had applied Hempel Silic One fouling re

(FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST) YachtQuarters offers readers of Motor Boat & Yachting the chance to live the boating dream on a fully crewed Princess motor yacht in Mallorca at a fraction of the normal cost Everyone loves the idea of spending quality ti

This new Open version of the Palm Beach GT50 could well prove to be the prettiest new boat at the show. Based on last year’s GT50 hard top but with a more rakish wraparound windscreen and pert little radar arch, it combines elegant retro styling with

Billed as the world’s most capable 56ft motor boat the Dutch Craft 56 is certainly full of original thinking. Its vast open deck spaces (including a low profile flybridge but not the usual enclosed main deck saloon) can seat up to 36 people and optio

Where to start with the 45 Fly? It has five engine choices including shaftdrive and IPS plus an optional hybrid system or even a fully electric version with twin Torqeedo I80 inboards and a pair of 40kwh BMW i3 batteries. There are alot of options to

We have always loved the North Brittany coast for its glorious rivers and craggy inlets, its fantastic tidal range and shifting seascapes, and for the heady zest of the sea which permeates the estuary channels. The south is made for lazy summer holid

It’s zero nine hundred at our rendezvous point of a nondescript pontoon in the depths of Poole Harbour. The skies are clear but the wind is building from the east, the tide streaming from the west. Our mission – which we have chosen to accept – is to

It’s an incongruous sight, Jeanneau’s latest Leader 33. It looks a little like someone decided to fit a back-up auxiliary outboard but due to a communications breakdown, a 250hp was mistakenly bolted on instead of a 10hp. And then you notice that the

We’re on our third summer in the Greek islands and I’m starting to get confused by all these Greek island names. We’ve been to Paxos, Paros and Poros, and even now we can see Patmos to the west of us but the wind is up so, sadly, we won’t be heading

If ever there was a day to test an enclosed sportscruiser it’s the one we picked to do the C390 in Flensburg on the German-Danish border. There is a bitter north wind charging through the moorings and menacing skies overhead, hanging low over the col

We have always been a boating family. My parents owned several boats throughout my childhood, my wife Sam grew up in Lymington where she was part of the yacht racing scene, and our 12-year-old son Finn is a fanatical sailor/paddleboarder/kayaker – we

I was late to boating and had little previous experience of motor cruising when I bought Arthur, a 1977 Broom Ocean 37. In fact, all that stood to my credit was two boat rental weekends in 1995 and 1996, and a third one in 2005. How I had enjoyed tho

Within months of Yamaha claiming the title of the world’s most powerful mass-market outboard engine courtesy of its 425hp XTO, Mercury has stolen it back again with a new supercharged 450hp version of its 4.6-litre V8 engine. Not only does the new Me

IN BUILD 2008-2010 PRICE RANGE £ 480,000 – £ 630,000 A company very much on the front foot with its spanking new waterside factory and impressive looking new products in the pipeline, such as the Squadron 68 and F-Line 33, it’s easy to forget that Fa

Ferretti’s has been physically absent from our shores for some while. 2006 was the last year you’d have seen a Ferretti at a British boat show, London to be precise, even though its UK dealer Ventura has continued to represent the brand for years. Bu

I keep my boat Greyfin at Mylor on the Fal Estuary in Cornwall. The Fal is the most westerly boating playground on the south coast of mainland UK. It has a little bit of everything to offer the boater, from a large international port at Falmouth to q

I always try to find something suitably different or outrageous for the Wildcard – it wouldn’t be wild otherwise. And at first glance it might appear that I’ve failed this time. To see what makes this boat different you need to take a peek under the

Whilst unashamedly a sportscruiser, the Princess V50 focuses on the latter – it is all about volume. It’s a foot wider than Fairline’s equivalent Targa 48 of the same era for example, and taller too. As a result there is a huge amounts of space for a

Fairline launched the Targa 52 in 2001 to take on the Princess V55. It underwent a cosmetic upgrade in 2005 and the Targa 52GT that launched in 2008 was the same boat but with an open backed hard top fitted with a sliding roof. The rich high gloss ch

Launched in the UK at the Southampton Boat Show in 2002, the Mediterranee 50 was originally a classic open-topped sportscruiser. But in 2006 Cranchi jumped aboard the hard top bandwagon and began offering the HT (standing for, you’ve guessed it) vari

My introduction to life afloat was a trial sail at my local sailing club. My first boat was an old Enterprise sailing dinghy quickly swapped for a Comet Versa. Bringing the dinghy to Torquay introduced me to wider open spaces, and a friend’s 18ft Cro