Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2020 i Yachting

SHARPER LINES, SOFTER RIDE As you’d well know, the faster you go the harder the water becomes. And yet, at our top speed of 38 knots, the ride is unusually soft and stable. That’s probably best explained by looking astern. You’ll see that the PB70 leaves very little wake behind her and this is clear evidence of how effortlessly she’s moving through the water. The warped, semi-displacement hull was designed by ocean racing champion Mark Richards and naval architect Andy Dovell and shares its DNA with one of the world’s most high-performance yachts – Wild Oats XI. Its unique form allows the boat to slice cleanly through the waves and avoid the roller coaster effect of climbing up and over them. But the benefits of this design go further than…

AT 22 FEET, 9 inches long, the Williams Evojet 70 is the largest model in the British builder’s range. It is designed for mega-yachts 130 feet and up, and can seat 13 people. The RIB has a 250 hp Yanmar 4LV diesel engine and a 53-gallon fuel tank, as well as an integrated water-ski pole—all features that should help the Evojet pull double duty as a day-boat. There’s also ambient lighting, in case the sun sets before guests return to the mothership. Whom It’s For: The Evojet 70 is for yacht owners who want the sea-splitting ride afforded by a deep-V hull, as well as the solid construction and attention to detail for which Williams is known. Picture This: Your 164-footer bobs placidly in the calm seas off Corsica. It’s…

Monte Carlo Yachts’ models are easy to spot in any harbor. They have signature overlapping circular hull windows, with profiles inspired by sport-fish yachts. With the MCY 70 Skylounge, the builder adds an all-weather helm that doubles as an entertaining space—all of which can be customized to suit the owner’s taste. ¶ My tour of the MCY 70 Skylounge revealed a yacht designed for comfortable family cruising. I stepped aboard via the swim platform, which is sized for a 12-foot tender. Twin stairways flank the transom and lead up to the aft deck. There, a twin-pedestal wood dining table has a transom settee and casual chairs for alfresco meals. The flybridge overhang provides shade and protection from the elements. ¶ Inside, the furnishings and cabinetry are all low-profile, allowing unobstructed…

THE PRESTIGE 590S, A MIDRANGE MODEL IN THE BUILDER’S S-LINE SERIES,  is sporty while maintaining a level of elegance. It has balanced exterior lines and comfortable interior spaces thanks to the builder’s engineers, Garroni Design Studio in Italy, and JP Concepts, a Slovenian company that handles Prestige’s hull design. ¶ The salon has settees to port and starboard, sized for cocktails with guests or just lying back with a book on the hook. The settees have low-profile backrests that, combined with the side windows, create panoramic views and enhance ambient lighting. To port is a foldout, varnished-wood dining table. Across is a split seat that flanks a starboard side-deck door, handy for tending lines when shorthanded or accessing the foredeck when it’s time to grab a mooring ball. Skippers can…

IF THERE IS ONE THING ALL BOATERS CAN AGREE it would be nice to have more of, it’s stowage. Whether the itinerary is two days or two weeks, there always seems to be more stuff than places to put it. ¶ Enter Voormi, a Colorado-based company whose goal is to get all the clothes a sportsman needs into a single duffel bag. Each T-shirt, hoodie and additional piece is built from custom-made textiles that, chief marketing officer Timm Smith says, can go from hot to cold and rain to shine while keeping boaters comfortable. ¶ “I’ve taken the River Run hoodie on our two-week sailing trips to Anegada,” he says of his family’s cruises in the British Virgin Islands. “I sailed for two weeks with that thing on every single…

IN 2003, I PARTICIPATED in the Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race, a 645-nautical-mile marathon stretching from Massachusetts to the Onion Patch. I remember coming on deck one day and seeing our depth sounder acting funny. Instead of generating metrics, it simply read “off soundings.” Being a self-professed Curious George, I spent some off-watch hours studying paper charts, trying to conceptualize how much saline was below our keel. While these metrics were irrelevant—we were racing sailboats, not trolling canyons—I remember wishing that our depth sounder could dig deeper than 600 feet. ¶ Turns out, plenty of anglers also want extra performance from the fish finders that come bundled in contemporary multifunction displays. And for owners of Furuno TZtouch3 multifunction displays, that enhancement is now here. ¶ Furuno unveiled its TZtouch3…

THE PERSHING 80 IS A VESSEL that scratches the itch for owners seeking a luxury yacht with performance at its core. Power for the 80 was either 2,030 hp or 2,345 hp MTU diesels paired to surface drives. Opening the windows and retractable roof, and dropping the salon doors under the deck, created a mega-size center-console feeling. ¶ Belowdecks, three- or four-stateroom layouts were available. Both included a full-beam master stateroom amidships with a king-size berth. ¶ At press time, there were eight Pershing 80s on the brokerage market, ranging from $1.9 to $2.5 million. FROM THE ARCHIVE “Like all Pershings, the yacht is propelled by surface drives. I first learned to handle surface drives aboard a Pershing back in the days when that was no mean feat, but operation…

THIS JUST IN Princess Yachts has launched its first X Class yacht: the X95. The X95 has a wave-piercing hull design from naval architect Bernard Olesinski. The builder says it increases overall efficiency 15 percent when compared to a traditional monohull form. Powered with twin 1,900 hp MAN V-12 diesels, the yacht had a top-end speed of 23-plus knots during initial sea trials off Plymouth, England, according to the builder. Princess worked with Italian design firm Pininfarina on the vessel’s styling. The X95 can be set up with four or five staterooms, with a full-beam amidships master belowdecks or with a full-beam main-deck master. Princess says the yacht’s main deck and flybridge stretch almost the entire length of the yacht. The increase in real estate creates what Princess calls a…

THE AZIMUT ATLANTIS 45 shares the same next-generation design cues as the line’s flagship, the 51. Both are snub-nosed open cruisers with hardtops, and both have that smart, new Azimut look. Check out the latest S Collection flagship, the Azimut Grande S10, and you’ll see much of the same sheer and stem, despite the fact that the S10 is twice the length and more than five times the displacement of the 45. ¶ The only power option for the Atlantis 45 is a pair of Volvo Penta D6-440 diesels well-matched to IPS600 pod drives. Azimut quotes a full-load maximum speed of 33 knots and a fast cruise of 28 knots for this model. ¶ We were registering a little better. According to the yacht’s Garmin instrumentation, the 45 topped out…

THE FERRETTI YACHTS 1000 is not just the Italian builder’s largest vessel in length overall at 98 feet, 10 inches. It’s also the beamiest at 22 feet, 4 inches. The yacht’s wide-body design means more living space, inside and outside, than many motor yachts in this size range. ¶ The full-beam main-deck master stateroom has a full-beam en suite head forward of the berth, with double sinks separating the toilet and shower. The master also has a walk-in closet, and a desk/vanity is forward and to port of the berth. Belowdecks, there are four equally sized double-berth guest staterooms, all en suite and facing athwartships, two to port and two to starboard. All the way forward are three cabins accommodating up to five crew. ¶ On the main deck and…

It was a GREAT misfortune that the day I got aboard the Hunt Ocean 63, there was a bluebird sky with flatcalm seas off Bristol, Rhode Island. ¶ The first thing you need to know about this boat is that her bottom is penned by Ray Hunt Design. C. Raymond Hunt, of course, invented the deep-V hull, which carries its wave-slicing deadrise all the way aft. Military and pilot boats use the deep-V design, and it is famed for its ability to slice and dice the rough stuff as if it were pond water. The Hunt Ocean 63 has a deadrise of 20 degrees at the transom, with quite a pedigree going on below the waterline. ¶ The only lumps I could run the yacht through were her own wakes…

HEARING COLORS Fusion Entertainment’s Signature Series 3 speakers and subwoofers ($350 to $750) now have red, green, blue and white LED lighting. Users can control the lighting via compatible Garmin multifunction displays or via a dedicated remote control. Fusion’s Signature Series 3 speakers are available in 6.5-, 7.7- and 8.5-inch sizes, while the subwoofers are available in 10- and 12-inch models. Fusion Entertainment, fusionentertainment.com WIRELESS AWARENESS If you navigate with a tablet aboard the tender, Digital Yacht’s iAIS TX lets you broadcast Class B AIS data while delivering other vessels’ AIS information to a wireless device. The iAIS TX ($650) is an AIS transponder that works with third-party navigation apps, including Navionics and TimeZero. Boaters who want to display AIS data on an MFD should consider the iAIS TX Plus…