Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2025 i Yachting

ODDS ARE GOOD you’ve made a special nonslip shoe when country-music crooners are just as eager to buy it as Florida Keys fishermen. ¶ That’s what is happening with the Rogue Wave line from Huk—which is pronounced hook, if you want to sound like the cool kids out there. The South Carolina-based company launched its Rogue Wave line in 2020, and its 6-inch boot remains popular today. Huk just added a lower-profile men’s shoe and a women’s clog, in response to customers from warmer cruising grounds in Florida and the Bahamas, with the company’s Grip-X Slice outsole for traction on fiberglass boats. ¶ Skippers, though, aren’t the only ones who’ve found this footwear. Scott Smith, Huk’s vice president of marketing, says a country-music artist recently spoke on a podcast about…

FISH TALES ARE THE BEST TALES. We’re told that some of them are occasionally even true. But whether it’s a story about the catch of a lifetime or the one that got away, it all starts with getting out there. ¶ It doesn’t matter if you’re the hardest of the hardcore tournament fishermen heading out in any weather to find your quarry because that’s the day you have to fish, or if you’re a fair-weather angler who goes when it’s light and variable. The thrill of feeling a fish pulling on the other end of the line is the same. ¶ A solid center-console is one of the best ways to get out there. From speed to style to pure fishability, the following six vessels are ready to take you…

GROWING UP, I learned that there were times when it was best to give my dad maximum leeway. One example was anything involving the boat’s systems or electronics. While my dad has a Ph.D. in physics, electronics and systems were clunkier animals decades ago. Accessing information or troubleshooting often involved poorly written manuals. ¶ Today, we have NMEA 2000 networking capabilities and Maretron’s WSV100 MConnect HTML 5 web server. They make it much easier to control onboard systems and devices, and to diagnose issues by tapping glass. ¶ The past decade has seen numerous monitor, track and control systems introduced to the marine-electronics market. Maretron’s MConnect ($600) has one foot in this world: It provides the M and C, but it’s not “just” a troubleshooting tool. Instead, MConnect uses smart…

BOAT-SHOW ATTENDEES often stop our staff on the docks and ask, “What’s the best boat to get?” And the answer we give is always the same: It’s the one that gets you on the water. ¶ That said, there are six boatbuilders in the following pages that have brand-new designs, and they are ready to help clients find the boat that gets them on the water next. ¶ Your passion might be long-range summer cruising with the family to exotic ports of call. It might be ripping off to the local sandbar at light speed for a day trip on a Sunday afternoon. Either way, there’s a boat for the mission at hand. ¶ And when it comes to features such as foldout decks, beach clubs, glass-walled spas, inboards, outboards,…

60'11" LENGTH OVERALL 17'2" MAXIMUM BEAM AUSTRALIAN BOATBUILDER Maritimo is well-known for crafting rugged, long-range vessels. Its boats are built to tackle the demanding waters of the land Down Under, where sheltered harbors are few and the seas can be unforgiving. ¶ It’s a hard-won reputation earned over more than 22 years. Maritimo’s latest release—the M600 Offshore Flybridge MotorYacht—made its US debut at this year’s Palm Beach International Boat Show. Fans of the brand lined the docks for a firsthand look, and they were not disappointed. ¶ Like every Maritimo, the M600 is engineered for adventure, emphasizing a robust design and extended cruising capabilities. True to the builder’s “keep it simple” philosophy, the yacht is powered by twin 800 hp Volvo Penta D13 engines with straight shafts positioned at an…

54'9" LENGTH OVERALL 15'3" MAXIMUM BEAM THE BOATBUILDERS at Viking Yacht Company in New Gretna, New Jersey, have crafted some of the world’s most advanced sport-fishing boats for more than 60 years. ¶ Debuting in 1996, the Viking 55 Convertible became an instant classic as soon as it hit the water, with more than 150 built in its first five years of production. In 2013, Viking relaunched the 55 Convertible with an updated design, and it remained one of the company’s bestselling models. ¶ At press time, 13 Viking 55 Convertibles were listed for sale, ranging from $399,000 to $2.6 million.…

36'1" LENGTH OVERALL 9'9" MAXIMUM BEAM THE FIRST THING that catches my eye as I walk into the Zin Boats production facility in Seattle is the Z11, a 36-foot all-electric tender the company built for Feadship’s Project 821. The Z11’s carbon-fiber lines are distinctive, and its trim looks sophisticated. Piotr Zin, the company’s founder and CEO, opens a hatch in the cockpit sole to reveal a machined-aluminum case with labeled orange cables extending from its port and starboard flanks. ¶ “That’s the Magic Box,” Zin says, smiling. ¶ Zin Boats—which builds high-end tenders and vessels—aims to sell its electric-drive technologies to third parties to help the boating world transition from internal-combustion engines to electric propulsion. Many of these technologies are showcased aboard the Z11, which Zin says is the world’s…

74'8" LENGTH OVERALL 19'9" MAXIMUM BEAM 352 NAUTICAL MILES MAXIMUM CRUISING RANGE AT 37.6 KNOTS 2,030 GAL. FUEL CAPACITY 360 GAL. FRESHWATER CAPACITY Having spent hundreds of hours as a tournament angler aboard various Viking sport-fishermen over the years, with much of that time in the cockpit of the original Viking 74, I looked forward to checking out the updated version prior to its debut at this year’s Miami International Boat Show. ¶ For more than 60 years, Viking Yacht Company has been a leader in the semi-custom sport-fish market, thanks to virtually nonstop development of new boats and the constant evolution of existing models. Case in point: the Viking 74 Convertible. The first-generation 74, built from 2004 through 2008, was a highly sought-after model for its onboard comfort, long-range…