On the Water

Sea-Doo RXT-X 260, BRP iCatch Trailer, MasterCraft X-25 all capture NMMA Innovation Awards at Miami Boat Show. …Read More

You know it’s early in Race 1 if Alinghi is ahead © Gilles Martin-Raget/BOR It’s cold in Valencia the day after Race One, threatening rain, windy and gray and gloomy. Time to go sailing. No, not the crew of the catamaran Alinghi 5, seen here, where “re-mode” would be the theme, perhaps with a tinge [...] …Read More

One expected aspect of MIBS 2010, The Great Recession Version, is the scarcity of new models being introduced by the boat companies. One reason for this is understandable–the backlog of inventory left over from the economic meltdown that put people’s plans to buy a boat on hold. You can’t push new until the dealer network [...] …Read More

  HB Marine and Independence Green Yachts yesterday announced a partnership that will form a joint venture to develop the Independence 60 Luxury Yacht that IGY started a few years ago. The Independence 60 is billed as the “world’s first ‘no compromise’ sustainable yacht.” A combination of solar cells, hydrogen production and storage and fuel cells [...] …Read More

USA steaming along © KL The advantage shifted twice in the prestart, then the Defender got away first by more than a minute, which in these boats is a huge distance. But. USA passed Alinghi 5 less than 15 minutes into the first race of America’s Cup 33, and from there the challenger never looked [...] …Read More

Well, the 2010 Innovation Awards are done! With a total of 51 entries this year, it was a pretty big field. My favorite in the bunch was the FLIR handheld thermal imager, which won in the safety category. Nifty stuff, but we’ve already talked about that. Another award-winner which should interest anglers in a new [...] …Read More

. The wind at dawn blew from the mountains across the plain and out to sea, bringing tears to unprotected eyes and cutting through parkas and fleece that yesterday felt warm enough for winter on the Spanish Mediterranean but now we know the falsehood of that. I walked from playa to darsena with the sun two [...] …Read More

But is a boat show really a great place to score a deal on a boat, or is it just glorified window shopping? And if you do buy, how can you get the best deals and the best financing? Those are a few of the topics I took on recently for PersonalWatercraft.com. But don't worry, I didn't just buy the company line. For my answers I went to both current and former dealers, salespeople, and loan specialists. They gave me the inside scoop on credit scores, interest rates, those "only at the show" deals, and a whole lot more. …Read More

Pacific Expedition Yachts will offer Cummins Mercruiser Diesel Zeus pod drives on its PE60 Expedition Class Power Catamaran. The first hull with Zeus drives is already under construction at Pacific Expedition’s Astoria, Oregon shipyard, with delivery expected later this year. Here’s how Pacific Expedition describes the decision to offer the Zeus drives: The PE60, equipped with twin [...] …Read More

Wow, after a full day of tromping through the conference center and running boats for the NMMA Innovations awards, the Miami show is already cranking at full speed – and it hasn’t even started yet! There aren’t a whole lot of new fishboats being introduced this year, but today we did see one that’ll be on [...] …Read More