Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2021 i Yachting

38'3" LENGTH OVERALL 12'6" MAXIMUM BEAM ANYONE WHO ACQUIRES a Huckins Yacht automatically becomes a curator of a slice of American yachting tradition, a status that carries with it certain duties and expectations. Huckins owners soon get used to people on the dock saying, “Isn’t that a Huckins?” ¶ Such an incident occurred while Cindy Purcell, current Huckins Yacht president and granddaughter of company founder Frank Huckins, and I were standing on the Huckins dock in Jacksonville, Florida. ¶ Purcell was telling me about the new Sportsman 38, which is a distillation of 100 years of yachting history with all the 21st-century advances we’ll expect in future yachts. A gentleman, Tim Colbert, approached us hesitantly. A longtime yachtsman who keeps his yacht in the Thousand Islands on the USCanada border,…

60' LENGTH OVERALL 16'5" MAXIMUM BEAM PARDO YACHTS has created a line of stylish walkaround yachts from 38 to 50 feet, known for their instantly recognizable sleek and low profile, peppy performance, and modern construction methods and materials. With its Endurance 60, the Italian builder takes its walkaround philosophy to new lengths. It also adds a flybridge and expands accommodations for friends-and-family voyaging. ¶ The new flybridge has sun pads and sofas, expanded entertainment space, and room for owners to add a second, optional helm. In profile, the yacht maintains the brand’s sinewy DNA. This aesthetic is enhanced by the plumb bow, stretching the profile and helping to increase internal volume. The way the Endurance 60’s sheer sweeps down and aft toward the cockpit, paralleling the design of the flybridge…

111'8" LENGTH OVERALL 23'9" MAXIMUM BEAM WESTPORT YACHTS INTRODUCED THE 112 IN 1998, and the raisedpilothouse motoryacht remains perennially popular with private owners and owners who off er their yachts for charter. To date, 73 hulls have been delivered. Accommodations are for eight guests in four en suite staterooms, with room for five crew including a captain. Cruise speed is 22 knots with a 24-to 26-knot top hop. ¶ At press time, there were 13 Westport 112s on the market, ranging from $4.95 million for a 2001 model to $14.99 million for a 2020 model. FROM THE ARCHIVE “The classic edition includes a master, a VIP and two twin staterooms belowdecks, and a country kitchen forward on the main deck. The vessel’s new arrangement still has four guest staterooms below,…

THIS JUST IN Wally Yachts has announced the Wally WHY200, an 88-foot-9-inch widebody design. One of the yacht’s trademark features is the master stateroom in the bow with ocean views through 200 degrees of glass. Wally says the WHY200 has more than 2,153 square feet of indoor space, including a 1,076-square-foot main deck. Belowdecks, owners can choose three or four double-berth guest staterooms, and there are three cabins for five crew. Power will be a hybrid propulsion system. The WHY200 is expected to debut in September. CORRECTION In our January issue, our review of the Azimut Magellano 25 Metri had the incorrect fuel burn numbers at 2,000 rpm and the incorrect maximum beam. The average fuel burn at a 2,000 rpm cruise is 101.4 gph. The yacht’s maximum beam is…

17'9" LENGTH OVERALL 8' MAXIMUM BEAM MARCO BARDI, the Italian freediving spearfishing champion, helped design the Lomac 540 IN Spearfishing center-console. The rigid-bottom inflatable measures 17 feet, 9 inches length overall with an 8-foot beam. Lomac sells the boats without engines to dealers, allowing owners to customize their outboard selection; however, Lomac recommends a 60 hp engine for the 540 IN Spearfishing RIB. • Whom It’s For: This RIB is built for anglers who also like to spend time afloat with friends and family. • Picture This: It’s early May, and grouper and mahimahi season has started off the Florida Keys. You and your buddies jump aboard the Lomac 540 IN Spearfishing RIB and cruise out of Key West to the wrecks. The boat’s deck spaces keep all your gear…

HISTORICALLY speaking, most charter clients started their vacation planning with the word “where.” The big question was: Where do we want to cruise? The Caribbean? The Mediterranean? The South Pacific? ¶ As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, though, some clients are realizing that “where” no longer matters so much. Sure, the scenery needs to be nice, but with limited options for going ashore, the yacht itself becomes the most important factor. ¶ “We think the time has come to consider yacht charter from a new angle,” Camper & Nicholsons International announced in December. “It’s yachting how we know it but rarely think of it: the yacht as the destination.” ¶ This attitude shift means that instead of seeking marina slips at tough-to-book spots such as the Monaco Grand Prix in May…

ON JUNE 26, 2017, EMIRATES TEAM NEW ZEALAND bested Oracle Team USA on Bermuda’s Great Sound to win the 35th America’s Cup. This final match race marked the first time since 2010 that the Cup wasn’t in American hands, as well as the first time that the Kiwis controlled sailing’s most grand prize since 2003. ¶ Now, the Americans and other challengers are preparing to try to take back the Cup, knowing that this time, they’ll have to play by the Kiwis’ rules. ¶ AC35 was contested using 50-foot catamarans with airplane-type wingsails that let the boats “fly” on hydrofoils, but the Kiwis—in collaboration with AC36 challenger of record Team Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli of Italy—have opted to defend the Cup this March aboard 75-foot foiling monohulls on New Zealand’s…

SUNSTREAM BOAT Lifts says its SunLift SLX range off ers the world’s only adjustable, free-standing hydraulic boat lifts. The lifts reportedly accommodate everything from PWC to 50-plus-foot boats weighing up to 30,000 pounds. ¶ The batterypowered lifts draw 185 amps; they rely on a trickle-charge system (solar or AC) and can be appcontrolled via Bluetooth. The SLX lifts work in fresh and salt water, and all hydraulic cylinders and hoses are stainless steel. Each lift has 6 feet, 6 inches of travel and can fit into berths with depths that are mere inches up to 21 feet. ¶ Designing a skinny-water-friendly system wasn’t easy, says Sunstream CEO Ken Hey, but the company added a joggle—or notch—below the vertically traveling H-frame’s after beam. ¶ “The joggle can be below the mud,”…

180'5" LENGTH OVERALL 31'6" MAXIMUM BEAM LOOKING AHEAD TO THE NEXT boating season is everyone’s favorite hobby at this time of year, with the last gasps of winter starting to fade and the warm summer sun just a few months away. Boatbuilders around the globe are encouraging this daydreaming in a major way, with some bold new designs that add style and spice to the imagination. ¶ In the following pages, we off er a look at new builds and concepts from mega-yachts to catamarans, with everything from traditional propulsion to solar power, as well as design elements that run the gamut from classic to modern. Some of these yachts are already under construction, while others are concepts awaiting owners to bring them to life. ¶ No matter how you…

VIRGIN GORDA BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS THIRTY-SIX HOURS AFTER HURRICANE IRMA smashed into the BVI in late 2019, Lauren Hokin was standing on the property that used to be instantly recognizable as the Bitter End Yacht Club on Virgin Gorda. She was with her father, both of them part of the family that had owned and built up the property for about 50 years. ¶ “The place was just decimated,” she says. “We were used to storms, but this was orders of magnitude worse.” ¶ It took a full year just to clean up what used to be about 70 buildings on 65 acres, with all the debris needing to be burned or sent off by barge. Then, it was time to think about how to rebuild—which was going to take…

Uniesse has launched a new yacht series called Exuma, named for 54'7" LENGTH OVERALL 15'2" MAXIMUM BEAM the islands in the Bahamas. The first model is the express-style 54-foot Exuma HTC5. HTC stands for “hardtop cruiser.” It’s based on the builder’s earlier 48-footer, and is penned to be a multifunctional, customizable craft for cruising, fishing, diving, gunkholing, exploring or just relaxing. ¶ The HTC5 feels larger than its 54-foot-7-inch length overall, and it’s not a boat meant for mass production. Fit-and-finish is first-rate, right down to the polished flat screws. The Pisa, Italy-based yard intends to build about 20 to 30 of the boats per year within the next five to seven years, a plan that should help owners when it comes to resale value. ¶ Freeboard forward is generous…

COYLE, THIS IS A damn emergency. Call me for God’s sake,” Tom had texted. I’d ignored the message 12 hours earlier as I’d sipped a sunset glass of wine dockside. ¶ I hit call back—reluctantly. ¶ “Where have you been? My port engine is stuck in reverse,” Tom said, somewhere around the border of South Carolina. “I gotta get to Charleston.” ¶ I suggested an obvious solution: “Turn her around. You’ll manage trawler speed in reverse.” ¶ “Screw you, Coyle. This is serious,” he replied. ¶ Tom’s ride was 55 feet of the latest in marine technology. From his prior gushing, I’d gleaned that it had performed brilliantly while motoring up the Intracoastal Waterway to New England from Florida. But now it seemed it’d soured on returning to the Sunshine…