Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2020 i Yachting

56' LENGTH OVERALL 15'9" MAXIMUM BEAM Horizon yachts has long been known for building seaworthy vessels that emphasize interior volume, entertainment spaces and customization. The builder’s sweet spot is in the 80- to 120-foot range, and it has incorporated all the lessons learned from those larger yachts into the E56, the smallest E-series model it offers. She’s a yacht that out-punches her weight. ¶ One thing that stood out during my time on board the E56 was the number of custom elements the builder was able to include—rare for a 56-footer. There was custom cabinetry in the salon and amidships galley, both designed for longer voyages. In the after section of the salon, the owner wanted a glass-and-stainless-steel dining table. That table is serviced by a galley with some pleasing…

Every season in the National Football League, the thousands of fans who stream through the entrance to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta are treated to quite the visual feast. A four-story-tall falcon made of polished stainless steel, its massive wings outstretched, is so remarkable that it appears to be in motion. Adding to the drama, its talons clutch a bronze football, scoring a touchdown. ¶ A similar bird of prey is on the bow of the 295-foot Oceanco DreAMBoat. Both the stadium’s statue (the world’s largest avian sculpture) and the one aboard the yacht are by the same contemporary artist. Both were commissioned by Arthur Blank, who owns the Atlanta Falcons and the yacht. ¶ While Blank isn’t the first to commission art for his superyacht, he is among a growing number…

330' DEPTH RATING 5,510 LB. WEIGHT U-BOAT WORX’S NEMO is the world’s first production-built submersible vehicle. Power is a lithium-ion battery, and steering is via a thruster system, delivering speeds up to 3 knots. The twoperson sub can dive to 330 feet, and it employs air scrubbers for eight hours of run time. Nemo weighs 5,510 pounds and requires less on-deck space than two personal watercraft. It comes with a single-point hoisting system and can be stored on flat surfaces sans cradle. ¶ “Creating a submersible that is truly pilot-oriented was the hardest part,” says Roy Heijdra, U-Boat Worx’s marketing manager. “We created a short list of features and technologies we really wanted to incorporate in this design to have it meet our standards.” Still, Heijdra says, creating a production…

88'4" LENGTH OVERALL 20'8" MAXIMUM BEAM Riva recently launched the 88 Folgore, a name that means lightning bolt. To that end, the yacht has a reported top-end speed of 36 knots and a 30-knot cruising speed thanks to twin 2,435 hp MTU V-16 2000 diesels. The builder says the 88’s exterior lines and sinewy profile take design cues from the automotive world. The yacht’s tender-garage door is multipurpose: It can be opened and set parallel to the water, creating a 64-square-foot beach club, or it can be submerged to launch and retrieve a tender. A second alfresco entertainment zone is in the 236-square-foot cockpit, with a table, sofa and bar. The 88 Folgore has a glass hardtop that retracts to let the sun and salt air into the salon. Belowdecks…

88'11" LENGTH OVERALL 22'6" MAXIMUM BEAM LOOK AT THE CL YACHTS CLB88 in profile, and you’ll notice a combination of key design elements. ¶ There’s the fine entry and high freeboard forward, and the form transitions into a straight sheerline gently descending in height as it stretches aft, resolving at the cockpit. The subtle drop helps create a relatively aggressive profile. It’s a look that the CLB88’s raked windows forward enhance, and that the lean-forward look of the hardtop and flybridge supports. The yacht’s amalgam of shapes creates a singular, salty aesthetic. ¶ Beneath the seafaring look is function. The yacht has a resin-infused build in a combination of fiberglass and carbon fiber, reducing weight and maintaining strength. The hull form is reinforced by a 3,000-gallon integral fuel tank, essentially…

FIRST THINGS FIRST: THE OUTBACK 50 HAS NOTHING TO DO with the Australian wilderness or the casual-dining chain restaurant. Instead, the Outback in this case refers to the yacht’s optional 16-foot-long “infinity deck” cockpit, which is large enough for a pingpong table, should an owner desire one. ¶ Let’s talk a little more about the boat. Florida-based Michael Peters designed the Outback 50, which is built at Kha Shing—the same Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, factory that produces finely finished yachts for Hargrave and Offshore. The 50 has that same level of finish and a design inspired by pilot boats, with their smaller interior accommodations and larger exterior areas, coupled with a smooth-riding and seaworthy hull. In addition to the Infinity Deck model, Outback offers an Extended Deck model with 2 more feet…

SOLID-STATE RADAR NEXT-GENERATION DETECTION IT’S A COMMON SCENARIO ON MY HOME WATERS: A cargo ship heads south on Puget Sound, its bow aimed for the Port of Seattle’s always-hungry cranes, as a ferry steams west from Edmonds for Kingston and the Kitsap Peninsula. Compounding the situation is Seattle’s notorious rain and fog. While the ships are situationally aware thanks to robust commercial-grade radar and Class A AIS systems, the same isn’t always true of the recreational yachts with older radars. To the yachtsmen, the ship and ferry could appear as a single onscreen blob…provided that the radar can even penetrate the rain. ¶ Fortunately, today’s high-powered solid-state radars can mitigate this potentially confusing situation. ¶ Radar systems have long employed cavity magnetrons to transmit radio-frequency energy in extremely short, high-powered…

FOR BOATERS WHO prefer to cruise in US waters, a Great Loop itinerary is ideal. After a first leg northward along the East Coast, the route turns inward toward the Great Lakes and American heartland. ¶ “For people who are used to international cruising and looking for a US option right now, this is it,” says Kim Russo, executive director of the America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association. ¶ Cruisers continuing along a Great Loop itinerary from the Erie Canal will go through Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, in that order. These lakes are called great for a reason and require skippers with some boating experience. Lake Erie alone is home to more than 1,000 shipwrecks. Lake Huron, with 30,000 islands, has the most shoreline among all the Great…

CAIRNS, Australia, feels like a modern-day pioneer town. Nestled between two of the world’s great wildernesses, it strikes a balance between beachy normalcy and something otherworldly. Directly to the north and west lies the Outback, an arid moonscape so sparsely populated that in 1993, when a mysterious explosion occurred, some speculated that it was an atomic bomb set off by a Japanese murder cult, and only a handful of gold prospectors and cattlemen even knew it was happening in the moment. To the east lies the mighty Pacific Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef, a living organism so large, it’s visible from outer space. At night in Cairns, flying foxes hang in the trees that line the sidewalk, fruit bats the size of well-fed Chihuahuas, screeching and flapping their wings…

FAST GLASS Furuno’s TZtouch3 multifunction displays come in three screen sizes: a 12-inch ($3,795), with touchscreen and hard-button controls and a hybrid user interface, and a 16-inch ($5,595) and 19-inch ($8,495), which include edge-to-edge glass and an all-touch interface (hard-button controls are available). TZtouch3 MFDs have quad-core processors and monitors with in-plane switching for off - angle viewing. Furuno USA, furunousa.com AUDIOPHILE UPGRADES JL Audio knows that boating and music go together like salt and water, and its latest offerings aim to make boating more fun—starting with eight MVi amplifier models ($700 to $1,200) that have triple-core digital-signal processors. Six presets let users swap listening profiles. And JL Audio’s 12-inch M7 marine subwoofers ($800 to $850) can flood onboard listening spaces with deep, low-distortion bass. JL Audio, jlaudio.com GLOBAL RADIO…

45'6" LENGTH OVERALL 14'11" MAXIMUM BEAM WHETHER IT’S TOSSING BIKES AND KAYAKS on the hardtop for weekend jaunts, or day-tripping and cooking alfresco at the cockpit island grill, the Tiara Yachts Q44 was penned for active yachtsmen. ¶ Tiara worked with bike-rack-makers Yakima and Thule to design the roof rack. There’s an on-deck island with an electric grill, fridge and freezer, as well as a galley belowdecks. A scissor berth belowdecks converts to a lounge. The Q44 also has a glass-helm system. ¶ At press time, there were six Tiara Q44s for sale, ranging from $549,000 to $649,000. FROM THE ARCHIVE “We ran the boat on a blustery day in 3-foot seas on Lake Michigan. The builder says it connects Volvo Penta’s 435 hp engines via jack shaft to IPS…