March 2020

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The Great Escape
AS I WRITE THIS, SNOW IS FORECAST FOR THE NORTHEAST this weekend. On days like these, I make my coffee, look out the window, and go drifting and dreaming. ¶ It was mid-August this past year, and the winds were light and variable, a perfect scenario f
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Electric And 32 Knots
AT THE CANNES YACHTING FESTIVAL this past fall, DutchCraft—a sister company to Zeelander—unveiled the DC56. It was not your typical 56-footer. Built to seat as many as 44 people, it also could be loaded up with tons of gear, set up for a party with a
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Crossover Appeal
MAINE-BASED Hodgdon’s super yacht tender division, Hodgdon Tenders, recently introduced the Cross-over series, the first of which will be a 26-foot-3-inch open model. The line is eventually expected to include Open, Beachlander and Limousine builds u
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Social Creativity
YACHT DESIGN 101 for the flybridge on a 42-foot cruiser: Plop a helm station forward of the bridge, put a guest’s seat next to it, and add a dinette aft. Sure, that sounds vanilla, but there’s not much room for an abundance of creativity on the flybr
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Adventure Awaits
IT’S BEEN OVER 30 YEARS years since Nordhavn entered the powerboat market with its N46, a fiberglass vessel designed to cross oceans and penned with what has become the builder’s trademark shiplike aesthetic. And it’s been just over 20 years since th
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Quality Time
ABOUT A YEAR AGO, in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary, Garmin introduced its Marq series of watches. Marketed as “luxury modern tools,” each watch is made of titanium with built-in smart features for different activities. The Marq Captai
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Fish On
ONE OF THE photos USA Today ran in September 2017 to show damage after Hurricane Irma was of Bud N’ Mary’s Marina, an icon of the Florida Keys on Islamorada that has been around since 1944. More than 40 fishing captains and guides tie up there, and t
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Harmony Atsea
Maximizing the potential of a yacht is a juggling act, keeping parity between living, entertaining, stowage and system spaces. The Absolute Yachts Navetta 68 is a good juggler. Fitting in the builder’s lineup between the 58- and 73-foot Navettas, the
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Tried And True
WHEN DAN PRIGMORE and Marcia Hayes pulled their Sabre 48 True East up to a hand-operated lock in Norway’s Telemark Canal this past July, they received an extremely enthusiastic greeting from the senior lockmaster. ¶ “He asked: ‘Can I come on the boat
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Designer Genes
Yacht designer Alberto Mancini’s brief for the Azimut Grande S10 was relatively simple. Beyond length and beam, the only condition was that the vessel should have obvious Azimut DNA. Everything else, he says, was effectively a blank sheet. ¶ For insp
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Conscientious Cruiser
KERMIT THE FROG FAMOUSLY SAID, “It’snoteasy being green,” but Greenline Yachts has a reputation hybrid-drive yachts. And while the diesel-powered Greenline 45 Fly may seem to be a step back toward fossil fuels, it’s not. Here’s why. ¶ Some North Amer
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Perfection Through Process
MECHANICAL ROLLERS GUIDE PRINTED circuit boards down Navico’s production line at its factory in Ensenada, Mexico, sending them toward a pick-and-place machine that houses what looks like a 120-barrel Gatling gun. Instead of hurling hot lead, the mach
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Unswerving Eye
MAN OVERBOARD!” ¶ The words still ring in my ears, irrespective of the fact that the MOB wasn’t among our crew that day on Washington state’s Puget Sound. Unfortunately, we were too far away to decipher the situation with our eyes, and by the time we
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Time On Target
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT THIS YEAR marks my 10th anniversary covering electronics for Yachting. To celebrate, I thought it would be fun to compare two leading marine-electronics technologies—radar and sonar—and see how products that were available d
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Strokes Of Genius
ST. LUCIAN PAINTER Llewellyn Xavier has artworks in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. To see his work on his home
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Listen To Smart Old Guys
MY PAL designer Dave Martin is on my mind. In his 65th year at the drawing board, he died last November at age 89. Wanting to reconnect, I dug into his recently released digital update of Naval Architects Notebook. Chapter 5 caught my eye: “Listening
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The Axopar promise
With unmistakable, head-turning looks, an Axopar’s narrow entry bow will cut through rough seas. The low planing threshold soon has you powering out of the hole giving rapid acceleration and superior cruising and fuel economy when paired with Mercury
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Why Key West Is Best
The pursuit of an adrenaline fix has always been in Jack Thomas’ nature. In a previous life the hit was administered through dirt bike racing and marathons but now, in his 50s, Jack needed a new way to find that buzz. Having settled on an Axopar 37 S
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Axopar 37 – The Market Leader Reborn
The saying goes that if it ain’t broken don’t fix it so in developing the all-new 37 the Axopar design team was wary not to meddle unnecessarily with such a successful formula. This doesn’t mean there isn’t room for enhancement though, and the new mo
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A Launch Like No Other
Unveiling a new range of boats in the depths of a Helsinki winter may not appear the wisest decision but the biggest launch ever held in Finland for a marine brand deserved a special event. Inside a former train factory on the outskirts of the Finnis
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Age Is Just A Number
Paul Kempner has owned boats for nearly 50 years but it was after a three-year break from boating that he visited East Coast Yacht Sales at the Norwalk Boat Show. “We live on the water in Stamford, Connecticut,” Paul explains. “We were looking for a
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“My Son Said Two Words To Me: Aft Cabin”
Hans and Liza Strom were aboard a friend’s sailing yacht in San Diego bay when they first clapped eyes on an Axopar 37. “We had decided we wanted a faster boat so that we could travel to watch our son and daughter compete in sailing races,”explains H

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