Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2020 i Yachting

WHEN BALTIC YACHTS in Finland launched the 175-foot Pink Gin VI in 2017, she was the world’s largest carbon-fiber sloop as well as the second-largest yacht the builder had produced in its nearly half-century history. ¶ The owner, apparently, wanted more. ¶ This past September, Damen in the Netherlands delivered the 150-foot support yacht Pink Shadow to the same owner, who plans to use both vessels for regatta racing and more. ¶ Damen is calling the combination a whole new approach to luxury cruising under sail. ¶ “With a Yacht Support like Pink Shadow, owners can enjoy the true sailing experience and racing performance, while also enjoying top capability for guest services, equipment and storage,” managing director Rose Damen stated in a press release.…

FOLLOWING ON THE HEELS of its first GT yacht—the GT50, launched a little more than a year and a half ago—Palm Beach Motor Yachts has launched the GT60, which increases the series’ length overall, performance and comfort quotient on board.¶ Like its sistership, the GT60 has Down East-inspired lines, tumblehome and a warped, semidisplacement hull form. The yacht’s straight sheerline, raked trunk cabin, single-piece curved windshield and radiused hardtop create a sense of motion, even when the yacht is stationary. ¶ HullNo. 1, seen here, has a traditional blue hull accented by a cream-tone hardtop, superstructure, teak joinery, decks and the like. But Hull No. 2, going to an Australian owner, will be sans rails and will have a metallic-black paint job and a thoroughly modern interior. ¶ One thing…

Leveraging Experience While extreme make-overs like Project Ragnar are rare, Leon de Haas at Icon Yachts says the work will be a feather in the yard’s cap when speaking with potential customers pursuing more-traditional refits. “It gives us something extra to give to a client,” he says. Leon de Haas, the project manager for Project Ragnar, is about as busy as a man can get. Two weeks after the 223-foot converted icebreaker launched in February, he was juggling a beehive of activity, including three companies alone for the interior’s details. The 2,450-gross-ton Ragnar, formerly a multipurpose support/supply vessel, looked nearly nothing like she did almost three years ago, when she entered Icon Yachts’ shed. ¶ Her decidedly commercial profile is erased, replaced with a still-imposing but softer-looking explorer silhouette. She…

186' LENGTH OVERALL 34' MAXIMUM BEAM If you ask Sam Shalem what convinced him that Hargrave Custom Yachts could build an 887-gross-ton 186-footer—its most complex yacht ever—he answers without hesitation: “I developed a confidence.” JACK HARGRAE’S LEGACY Jack Hargrave, whose status as a naval architect led to Hargrave Custom Yachts’ founding, died in 1997. However, he lived long enough to see one particularly extraordinary design of his become a reality. In 1991, Amels delivered Katamarino (now Paris), measuring 184 feet, an astounding length overall for her era. ¶ It’s a sensible reply from a man who commissioned three Hargrave yachts prior to Baba’s, which is 50 feet larger and more than double the gross tonnage of his last Hargrave. Baba’s is also classed to Lloyds Commercial Large Yacht Code (LY3),…

42' LENGTH OVERALL 13' MAXIMUM BEAM WITH AN entertaining-focused layout and a striking, aggressive profile, the Marquis M42 is part of a new breed of express-style dayboats. ¶ Consider that the cockpit can handle a dozen friends without imposing on the yacht’s double-wide helm seat or using the 9-foot-wide sun pad stretching partially across the transom (there’s a walkway to the hydraulic swim platform).¶ Consider that there is a full shower stall with a teak seat and Lucite door. ¶ And consider the black carbon-fiber helm console with twin 16-inch Raymarine multifunction displays, as well as a joystick to link the two 480 hp Cummins QSB diesels with the bow thruster for maneuvering in tight quarters. ¶ And finally, consider the Michael Peters-designed hull form (exterior styling is by the Italian…

NADIA ROLLE says little has changed on Bimini since this time a year ago—which is a great thing. The Bahamas took a beating from Hurricane Dorian in September 2019, but Bimini was largely spared. While the Abacos archipelago is still working to clean up the disaster that Dorian created around Marsh Harbour in particular, over on Bimini, it’s business as usual, with boats arriving from the United States in about the same numbers as in years past. ¶ “Everything is pretty much the same,” says Rolle, a senior executive with the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. “We’re the gateway—the first stop out of Florida. Things have been pretty good. It’s only when the weather is bad that we can see a difference.” ¶ Bimini is about 60 nautical miles from Miami…

SECLUSION According to the New Zealand government’s most recent data, there are about 960,000 recreational vessels in the whole country. More than half are kayaks, canoes and powerboats smaller than 20 feet, meaning larger yachts often can have secluded anchorages all to themselves. THEY FIRST SAW HER AT A MARINA in Brisbane, Australia, and were thrilled when she turned out to be as pretty as she’d looked in the photos online. Her name had been Ulysses, because that’s what New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart calls many of his boats. He had moved on to a new yacht, leaving the 100-foot 1976 Millkraft available for someone with a love of traditional vessels. ¶ Charlotte Devereux turned out to be that person. ¶ “He wasn’t the original owner. It was a custom…

THE 2019 WINTER VASHON RACE was so bereft of wind that it took us almost eight hours to sail 12 nautical miles. As our crew struggled to work even the most minuscule wind shift, evening fell hard onto a fleet that had been expecting a daysail. Some boats, including ours, turned on their masthead tricolor lights and dimmed their instrumentation screens, while others took a more hodgepodge approach. Watching this scene unfurl, it occurred to me that networking these devices and creating one-switch-to-flip operating modes would be a vast improvement. ¶ Today, this technology is available in the form of digital-switching systems. They give owners more control over a vessel’s onboard equipment than traditional switching systems, while delivering other important benefits. ¶ Traditional electrical systems include panels, fuses, breakers and,…

BY NOW, THE WORLD WAS SUPPOSED to have met the Huckins Sportsman 38, an all-new, hybrid-power yacht inspired by the lines of the builder’s classic Sportsman 36 from the 1930s. The 38’s debut was scheduled for the Palm Beach International Boat Show this past March. ¶ But then, the coronavirus pandemic gripped the country, shutting down pretty much everything, including that boat show. The team at Huckins had the boat launched and on track to be displayed, but now, the builder is planning the official debut for this fall, likely at the Newport International Boat Show in Rhode Island. ¶ “The boat looks just like the renderings,” says company owner Cindy Purcell. “She’s really pretty.” ¶ Here’s the good news, according to Purcell: The sea trials went exactly as planned,…

NATIONAL SAFE BOATING WEEK startsonMay16 this year, with a goal of encouraging all boaters to be more responsible and wear a life jacket out on the water. And because the event happens in spring, right before the summer boating season in much of the country, it’s a great time to take an inventory of gear that can help keep everyone safe in an emergency—or, even better, help to avoid emergencies altogether. ¶ An often-overlooked piece of gear that can need upgrading is binoculars. Often, boaters will buy a pair and use them for a decade or longer, not realizing that newer models can be a better tool. Bushnell, for instance, has the Forge line that includes a model with 15x56 magnification ($799). “The 15x56 could be very popular to the…

There are two ways to absorb what Poland’s Galeon Yachts has achieved with the 680 Fly: one is to look at a photograph and the other is to stand in the salon. ¶ When I first looked at the image of the 680 Fly, taken at dusk with all of the yacht’s lights on, I was startled. It seemed as though the yacht glowed, with light pouring from multiple windows on all decks. ¶ Later, standing in the salon, I was surrounded by windows that drop down electrically, just as in a car. Want to feel the breeze and smell the sea air? Push a button. As Bob Burke, brand manager for Galeon importer MarineMax, says, “It feels like a giant dayboat.” ¶ That sense of openness is a noteworthy…

56'5" LENGTH OVERALL 17'9" MAXIMUM BEAM WHEN I FIRST RAN THE VIKING 55 CONVERTIBLE in2012, its33.5-knot cruise speed impressed me. That boat had optional 1,550 hp MANs (1,400 hp MANs were standard). Top hop was 42 knots. ¶ Angling features included a 151-square-foot cockpit, a transom fish box, and bigeye-size in-sole boxes that could also be used as livewells or plumbed to the ice maker. Our test 55 had optional Rupp outriggers and a Release offset fighting chair. ¶ At press time, there were five Viking 55 Convertibles for sale, ranging from $1.74 million for a 2013 to $2.35 million for a 2015. FROM THE ARCHIVE “Her vacuum-infused, Baltek-cored hull—except for where there are through-hull penetrations, which are solid fiberglass—sports a planing hull form. This hull form features amplified convex sections…