Boat Reviews

You may have noticed I haven't been in a huge rush to blog about the offshore race in which Team SEMOSA competed the week before last. If you're assuming this was because we did poorly, you wouldn't be far wrong. We ran the race on Phil Cavanaugh's ... …Read More

Shortly after Frans Heesen, founder of Heesen Yachts, and his wife took delivery of My Petra last year, he revealed they were already thinking about a bigger yacht. That yacht is the project referred to as YN 15747 (the build number)—signed, natura... …Read More

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Professional photographer Jon Schwartz was biding his time on the press boat during the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament, when something wild happened. The crew of the 36 Hatteras Chiripa, the designated press boat, set out two lines hoping to catch a tuna or mahi while waiting for the tournament boats to hook up. Then a [...] …Read More

Here we go again. It's getting so you can write these "youngest solo circumnavigator" stories just by filling in some blanks on a form. Except in the case of Laura Dekker, age 14, who set out yesterday from Den Osse, Holland, on her 38-foot Jeanneau ... …Read More

Jeff Greene, a Florida-based businessman campaigning for the Democratic nomination for Senate, is in hot water for taking his megayacht to Cuba and telling conflicting stories about the visit. During a televised debate held Monday evening, Greene wa... …Read More

Caught up with Terry Sobo, the director of sales and marketing for Nor-Tech Hi-Performance Boats in Cape Coral, Fla. Sobo told me he’d just finished the lottery drawing for a slot to order a new Nor-Tech model—such is the unprecedented demand for c... …Read More

In 2005, Oceanco delivered Dilbar, a yacht that remained in private hands and was not permitted for much publicity. As a result, the accommodations aboard the 66-meter (217-foot), canoe-sterned superyacht remained relatively unknown. Things stayed th... …Read More

With the recent delamination problems experienced by JBS, a 50-foot-long Mystic turbine-powered catamaran owned by Jeff Stevenson, speculation on Mystic delamination issues has run rampant. Just about everyone in the go-fast world, particularly online,... …Read More

A grander blue marlin was caught in the White Marlin Open yesterday, topping 1,010 pounds – yowza! The earlier mark of 790-pounds for largest fish was already pretty darn nice, but this mark will be REALLY tough to beat. So James Kontos, from the Let It Ride ,is sitting on a $360,000 prize that’s likely [...] …Read More