Tabla de contenidos para October 2023 en Yachting

66ʹ9" LENGTH OVERALL 16ʹ2" MAXIMUM BEAM SCOUT BOATS’ latest flagship aims to impress in more ways than one. When describing the 67 LX Series, the South Carolina-based builder coined the phrase “Expect everything.” This five-outboard owner-operator center-console is capable of offshore angling adventures and entertaining guests from the stern to the bow (even belowdecks), and it has a reported eye-watering 52-knot speed. Scout also says the 67 is beachable. It will be offered in three versions: Sport (which will be the first version built), Sportfish and Cruise. ¶ Forward and beneath the hardtop, there is a settee with a dinette across from additional seating for one or two. This space can be connected with the interior by lowering the window forward. Inside, there is a bar with three stools. The galley…

I WAS more excited than usual as our crew cruised away from Sunseeker’s site at West Quay Road. I have done this run many times, and it’s invariably a joy, but this time, I was aboard the builder’s Superhawk 55. It’s the first open cruiser the British yard has built in ages, and it’s a return to what made Sunseeker world-famous. ¶ Beyond being home to Sunseeker, Poole Harbour’s claim to fame is being Europe’s largest natural harbor. That morning, it felt like it. We chugged out through the navigation channel traffic, past the majestic Brownsea Castle, and past the sloping lawns and exclusive terraces of Sandbanks, some of the most expensive real estate in England. Finally, we reached the Poole Bar Buoy and open water. ¶ Throttles opened. Worth…

MARITIMO’S SEDAN LINE HAS a new flagship: the S75, which joins the S60, S55 and S51 in the Australian builder’s overall lineup of Sedan, Flybridge and Offshore Yachts. ¶ Rest assured, bigger does not mean bulky. The Maritimo S75 has a striking, sleek profile with nearly 75 feet of waterline, including the 194-square-foot space that Maritimo calls the Adventure Deck. Some reverse sheer along the topsides enhances the look, while the tall hull includes elongated, dark windows that match the targa bar, housing radar and satellite domes. All of these design elements help the S75 make a sporty statement, even at rest. ¶ Of course, style without substance is not much good offshore, so there’s a solid glass hull underwater and an elongated keel, for stiffness and linear stability. ¶…

THERE IS FAR MORE To Key West than pub crawls on Duval Street and the nightly sunset celebration at Mallory Square. Soak in the Conch Republic’s year-round sunshine while exploring its beautiful beaches, outstanding restaurants, and noteworthy cultural and historic landmarks. • ERNEST HEMINGWAY HOME & MUSEUM Ernest Hemingway’s legacy looms large on Key West. The renowned author resided for most of the 1930s in this refined two-story home and estate, built in 1851 and remodeled by Hemingway and his second wife, Pauline, to include an extravagant in-ground swimming pool rimmed by lush gardens. Now a National Historic Landmark, the property is open every day of the year for self-guided and guided tours of memorabilia and cat-filled rooms (nearly 60 six-toed cats reside here) and the studio where Hemingway wrote…

Let’s be honest, driving a boat withajoystick seemed altogether bizarre when Hinckley Yachts introduced the JetStick a quarter-century ago. “It’s a strange sensation,” Yachting’s editor-in-chief wrote in 1998. “It is intuitive and vastly different from any other steering and control function on any production powerboat I have been on. In simple terms, the joystick handles all facets of the boat, except for the rpm. I don’t need to do the usual hand dance and alternate between grabbing the wheel, throttle and gear shift.” ¶ The JetStick was mind-bending stuff for old salts, but it made perfect sense to the Atari and Nintendo generation, who today are boat buyers in their 50s and 60s. And, just as video game technology has been evolving this whole time, so have joystick systems for…

THE MANAGEMENT company IYC proudly describes its charter fleet as having more Mangustas than any other, with the yachts ranging in size from 92 to nearly 150 feet length overall. Charter manager Monisha Issac in Monaco personally oversees several of them, including the 131-foot Beachouse, which recently returned to the IYC fleet. ¶ “It has always stood out among the other Mangusta 130s because of its layout, its selection of water toys and the standards of its crew on board,” Issac says. “It’s very strong—one of the best Mangusta 130s on the market.” ¶ The yacht, which is accepting inquiries for the Caribbean and Bahamas this winter, has numerous repeat clients, several of whom have returned four or five times. In some cases, the clients will not even consider any…

HOW FITTING IT WAS THAT PRESTIGE YACHTS introduced its new M-Line flagship, the M8, at Portopiccolo, a picturesque yachting village outside Trieste, Italy. Formerly a quarry, the cliff-side area had been chiseled into a clean site rife with eye-catching vistas, much like the French builder’s 65-foot power catamaran and its nearly 3,000 square feet of usable real estate. ¶ Take, for starters, the M8’s 344-square-foot cockpit. Apart from flybridge-bound stairs to port and a wet bar to starboard, this space (as well as most of the yacht’s living areas) is an open deck with modular furniture. This setup allows owners to choose how they spend their time, whether watching sunsets on the hook or relaxing underway. Aboard Hull No. 1, which will debut at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show…

THE SKIES DARKENED FAST. Capt. Art Sapp was running home to Lighthouse Point, Florida, from the Bahamas aboard Native Son, his SeaVee 39, when he saw the storm wall. “I ran 30 miles to get around the thunder and lightning,” he said, adding that he used dual 16-inch Raymarine Axiom 2 XL multifunction displays, and networked radar and satellite weather, to pick a less-awful route. “It’s got a fluidlike feeling on the screens. It’s wild,” Sapp said of the Axiom 2 XL. “It makes it so accurate, there’s no missed touch.” ¶ While screen-tap accuracy matters, there’s more going on with Raymarine’s latest displays than screen coatings. And it’s been developing for years. ¶ In 2017, Raymarine unveiled its Axiom displays with quad-core processors, RealVision 3D sonar and the Android-based…

73'2" LENGTH OVERALL 18' MAXIMUM BEAM THE PRINCESS YACHTS 72 MOTOR YACHt has a layout with features for entertaining guests well, including a full-service bar. The hull is solid fiberglass that’s resin-infused and designed by Bernard Olesinski. Top speed with twin 1,600 hp Caterpillar C32A diesels is 36.7 knots. Belowdecks, the 72 Motor Yacht has four staterooms, including a full-beam master, a forward stateroom with a queen berth and two twin-berth guest staterooms that can convert to doubles. At press time, there were four 72 Motor Yachts available, ranging from $1,972,713 to $2,349,900. FROM THE ARCHIVE “Other than fussing with oddly shaped hull windows, Euro stylists seem to expend most of their passion on the superstructure—ergo, overdone. This is not the case with the 72. Her softly raked house/bridge face…

ARCADIA YACHTS A96: CROSSOVER CONCEPT Italian builder Arcadia Yachts combined its exterior-styling concept with interiors by Igor Lobanov to create the A96. The yacht has group areas and rivate hideaways, with the idea of giving owners a way to relax however they feel best. Accommodations include five staterooms for 10 uests and three cabins for five crew. The Arcadia A96 is also a tech-forward yacht, with quadruple Volvo Penta IPS1350s for propulsion and joystick steering at the helm. The yacht has solar panels that provide enough juice for the batteries to power eight or nine hours in silent mode, allowing for quiet nights on the hook in scenic, solitary anchorages. According to the builder, top speed is 23.5 knots, and cruising speed is 19.5 knots. 95'5" LENGTH OVERALL 25'11" MAXIMUM…

MICHAEL NOAH was on vacation in Greece, trying to relax, when he realized the thermometer had hit 114 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat wave was part of the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. ¶ “My children are now 13 and 15, and I want there to be a world for them,” he says. “Something has to give.” ¶ As the project lead for furniture and product design at Winch Design, he’s in a position to help be the kind of change he wants to see. The company has been working with Summit Furniture on an updated line of furniture called Arc in Colour that’s built of sustainable, plantation-grown teak, along with fabrics made from recycled fishing nets and textile waste. ¶ “We want to make a market for this,” he…

YOU NEVER FORGET your best day of sailing. Mine came in the waning miles of the 2005 Transpac Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu, screeching down the Molokai Channel under spinnaker toward Diamond Head in 30 knots of pumping trade-wind breeze, hanging onto the tiller for dear, lovely life while surfing at 14 knots aboard a Cal 40 called Dancing Bear. The sun was searing, the wind was howling, and the deep, blue Pacific Ocean was all the more striking set against the stunning backdrop of the green volcanic islands. ¶ This remembrance, however, is not about me. Instead, it honors the legendary Cal 40, a William Lapworth design originally launched in Southern California in 1963 that has provided scores of fellow ofshore sailors with rides they’ll always hold dear.…

DESIGNER TONY CASTRO PENNED THE Galeon Yachts 440 Fly, a yacht that looks long, lean and fast, even at rest. And beyond the vessel’s sleek profile is a nicely appointed two- or three-stateroom, two-head layout with multiple entertainment and lounging areas—far more creature comforts than you’d expect to find aboard a boat with such a slender appearance. ¶ Castro achieved this sleight of hand in two ways: First, he covered the topside windows with a black slash that runs nearly the length of the yacht to bring light into the staterooms. The slash also lowers the visual height of the topsides considerably. Second, he surrounded the flybridge with glass. You’d expect the Venturi windscreen forward, but he also used glass on the sides, essentially making the bridge invisible. Squint at…

THE SOFTWARE-DEFINED wide-area network from Videoworks is a way of combining various technologies to link yachts to the internet with a signal similar to the one at home or in an offce. SD-WAN uses several third-party-built connections—including 4G/5G cellular, Starlink or OneWeb, VSAT-GEO and shore-based Wi-Fi—to yield fast, stable, reliable and cost-effective data transmissions. ¶ SD-WAN uses two software-based virtual machines (one is yacht-based; the other is cloud-based) to create a two-way communications tunnel with the internet. SD-WAN also can bond discrete protocols to yield a georeferenced connection with increased bandwidth and stability. ¶ Alessio Musetti, Videoworks’ yachting sales manager, says the company faced numerous challenges while creating SD-WAN. These include combining different connectivity technologies that have different bandwidths in different regions, optimizing cloud services, guaranteeing 24/7/365 service and creating…

Just outside the Fort Pierce Inlet in Florida, a sinking pontoon boat with 10 passengers was hurtling toward a disastrous collection of rocks. That’s when US Coast Guard Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Hernán Ossandón, who was a seaman at the time, and his team diverted from their training and headed out for Ossandón’s first rescue mission. It meant securing the boat and towing it away from the rapidly approaching rocks before transferring the passengers to a 47-foot rescue boat. Among them were several children and a pregnant woman. It wasn’t until Ossandón became a father in 2015 that he realized the impact of his team’s actions that day. Now a father of two, he looks back on that mission as being one of the most significant he’s ever undertaken. “After…