October 7, 2016

Project: Northwest 75 TCMY

Founded in 2007 Northwest is a fairly young builder who joins the always expanding offer of North American trawler inspired explorer yachts.  The Northwest line up is a made to order, and feature a semi-displacement hull.  Northwest has delivered 50 and 45 models and are build in Anacortes in the USA.  Now the company has come with a fresh line up of models including a new 75 Twin Cockpit Motor Yacht flagship.  The Northwest 75 TCMY will offer a three double cabin arrangement including a large full beam owners stateroom.  A captain cabin will be located to aft of the pilot house, and will also feature a private shower head.  Power will come from twin Man 1000hp with speeds which go up to 20 knots max.

October 6, 2016

New Model: Prestige 560 Flybridge

Prestige continue its market share growth thanks to a quality price value product which has been giving positive market feedback in its order books. Now Prestige the French builder part of the Beneteau Group challenges itself to renew one of its best successes, the 550 model which has sold 140 units in a production span of three years and presents the new 560 Flybridge.  The new Prestige 560 is an update of the 550 with a restyling of the bathing platform now extended even more, renewal of the interior furnishings, and new large glass window for the lower deck serving the guest cabins.  This last detail is what actually recognizes the 560 from the 550 when seen from the outside.  The Prestige 560 will also get a technical update with fuel tank capacity increased by a little over two hundred liters, which extend the cruising range by about forty nautical miles.  
Technical Data:
LOA - 18.22 m (59.9ft)
Hull Length - 16.06 m
Beam - 4.79 m
Draft - 1.17 m
Displacement - 17700 kg light
Fuel Capacity - 2200 l
Water Capacity - 800 l
Accommodation - 6 berths in 3 cabins
Engines - 2 x Cummins QSC 8.3 600hp
Propulsion - ZF Zeus aft looking dual propeller pods
Speed - 30 knots max 24 cruise
Range - 280 nm at cruise speed
Hull Type - Vee shape with 16 degrees dead rise aft
Project - J and J, Garroni, JP Design
Certification - CE B-12, C-14 

Project: Rizzardi 43 TL

The Rizzardi 43 TL project should make clients interested for classic lines sport cruiser very excited.  After years Rizzardi is returning full attention to its TL for Top Line series, which was introduced in 1992 with the 53, flagship model for the South Rome builder in those years. This 43 is the second project which Rizzardi is presenting for the TL series, following the 57 introduced earlier on in 2016.  Traditional as can be, the Rizzardi 43 TL will surprise for its spaces and accommodation, offering a two or three double cabins layout plan with an aft cabin for guests.  Interesting both layouts will offer three shower heads, with one to entrance as a day head to port side. The two cabin version will offer major differences with the third bunk cabin to starboard replaced by an L-shaped sofa, galley moved to port side, and larger space for the owners forward cabin with the en-suite shower-head located to starboard.  Engines will come from twin Cummins 550hp or Cats 670hp units with max speeds going up to 37 knots with the large option.     

October 5, 2016

New Model: Bavaria E40

Born as project DA10, the Bavaria E40 designed by Dutch Vripack is a motor boat taking a lot in its design cues from a sailing boat of similar dimensions.  An aft cabin motor boat the Bavaria E40 is also a choice filled motor cruiser, from the lower deck layout two or three cabins, Sedan or Fly versions, fuel tank of 270 liters for inland waterways or 540 liters for longer cruising and open sea, and different engine choices from 75hp up to 300hp.  
Technical Data:
LOA - 12.29 m (40.3ft)
Length - 11.9 m
Waterline Length - 11.5 m
Beam - 4.16 m
Draft - 1.16 m
Displacement - 10,500 kg sedan, 11,500 kg fly
Fuel Capacity - 270 l, or 540 l
Water Capacity - 420 l
Accommodation - 4 berths in two cabins, or 6 berths in three cabins
Max Persons - 8
Engine - Volvo D2 75hp, D3 150hp, or D4 300hp
Propulsion - line shaft
Speed - 13 knots max 8 knots cruise
Hull Shape - round bilge fast displacement
Project - Vripack
Certification - CE B-8, C-10

Project: Ferretti 780

Ferretti and designer Zuccon seem to have find a new forward road for them with the latest project coming from the North Italian side of the Adriatic sea builder being of interesting technical content.  The project of the new Ferretti 780 stands at the limit of what is considered motor yacht and will offer interesting accommodation solutions. One of the Ferretti 780 most interesting details will be its semi raised pilot house, three steps up from the saloon offering a better all around visibility to the helmsman. The Ferretti 780 will also offer a fore-deck forward looking settee, something the builder has taken time to embrace. Current options on the standard spec of the 780 will be open as above or hard top flybridge, and enclosed galley or optional open style. 

October 4, 2016

New Model: Chris Craft 42 Commander

Chris Craft presents its new 42 Commander model.  A back in time return for Chris Craft with this new model, first for the Commander name which resurfaces after over four decades, and second for the Italian-American collaboration which this model brings again. As some of you might have noticed the Chris Craft 42 Commander is very much based on the Austin Parker 42 designed by Fulvio de Simoni and launched in 2009 by the Italian builder. But the Chris Craft 42 Commander is not just a new badge Austin Parker, looking skin deep it is more.  For example apart being powered by IPS pod drives an option previously unavailable on the Austin Parker, the Chris Craft 42 Commander also features a new interior with a guest three berth cabin located at midships.    
Technical Data:
LOA - 12.50 m (41.1ft) 
Beam - 3.96 m
Displacement - 13 t loaded, 10 t empty
Fuel Capacity - 1400 l
Water Capacity - 300 l
Accommodation - 2 berths in 1 cabin, 4 berths in 2 cabins
Engines - 2 x Volvo D6 435hp
Propulsion - Volvo IPS600 forward looking dual propeller pod drives
Speed - 34 knots max, 30 knots cruise
Construction - infusion method with vinilester resin
Design - Fulvio De Simoni
Certification - CE A

October 3, 2016

Web: Intermarine New Web Site

Intermarine from Brazil presents its World wide web show room. Founded in 1973 in Sao Paolo Brazil, Intermarine moves on and in 1980 starts the production of a range of flybridge cruisers and yachts from 32 to 53 feet. In 1995 Intermarine starts a partnership with the renowned Italian Azimut, building some selected models of its range from 38 up to 76 feet. This agreement ended in 2010, and with this starts a new challenge for Intermarine which with the help of designers; BMW Group DesignworksUSA, Fernando De Almeida, and Luiz De Basto updates its entire range. Intermarine currently offers three ranges Flybridge, Yacht, and Offshore which start with the entry level 42 Flybridge, and arrive to its 95 Yacht flagship. Intermarine new web site is available in Portuguese, English and Spanish language, and takes you around with the following buttons; Home, Model Range, News, About Us, and Contacts Us.  Intermarine has also its social media pages with links to its Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Linkedin pages located at the side menu tab.  

Project: Canados 428 Gladiator

To find a Canados under fifteen meter we have to go as late 1970s.  But the new Cantieri Navali di Ostia owner Michel Karsenti has an ambitious project and want to make the yard on the road map of World yachting starting from this entry level 42 feet to the large 145 feet super yacht.  Designed by Marco Casali of Itama and Bavaria yachts fame the 428 Gladiator will be a day cruiser with a main function for a socializing exterior.  So far the layout offered for the outside will be for a central sun-pad, dinette, and console. The interior can be fully customized, with a standard layout of a shower head, galley, and large lounger double berth forward..  The 428 Gladiator by Canados is a performing sport cruiser with its primary use being that of a day boat and single handling use.

October 2, 2016

New Model: Sunseeker 116 Yacht

Sunseeker seems to have fully embraced the semi wide body two deck and a half design, and now launch the new 116 Yacht, a model which is a further development of the 115 Sport Yacht.  The 116 Yacht is very much different to the 115, with a completely revamped stern area. The 116 Yacht will sit as third largest model in the current Sunseeker line up and continues the road map which the Poole, Uniited Kingdom builder started since the mid nineties when it launched its first at the time super yacht, the 80 Predator.  A long passage considering that the Poole builder in 2015 celebrated the launch of one hundred build super yachts above thirty meters. Like all the big Sunseeker the 116 Yacht is a semi custom on order build, with options available on plan as a Spa pool option on the fore deck or the flybridge,   
Technical Data:
LOA - 35.2 m (115.6ft)
Beam - 7.33 m
Draft - 2.44 m
Displacement - 140,000 kg
Fuel Capacity - 14450 l or optional 19400 l
Water Capacity - 4000 l
Accommodation - 12 guests in 6 cabins, 5 crew in two cabins
Engines - 2 x MTU 2620hp
Propulsion - line shaft with five blade propellers in tunnels
Speed - 26 knots max
Range - 1250 nm at best cruise

October 1, 2016

blogger - American Italian Connection

It is a recurring connection which has been happening over the years in the boating industry, that of Americans to cooperate with Italians.  A connection which has widespread over the years in other areas of  the motor boating World as designers, engineering, and construction advances. There is a certain connection between the two countries which in boating World never stopped one way or another to happen.  In 2016 this happens again in the format which it started, a boat build in Italy for a USA manufacturer, and possibly by the same company starting this connection, i.e Chris Craft.
First it was Chris Craft in the seventies who started to produce boats for Europe in Fiumicino, on the Rome Tiber river exit to the sea in Italy. A production unit which will last over ten years till the end eighties. Then we had Magnum who bought out by Italian entrepreneur Theodoli in 1976, started to have the interior of some of the larger Magnum's produced in Italy. Riva also had the share of cooperation and apart being owned by the Whitaker Group in the late sixties till the eighties also co-produced the Riva Bertram 25, which was a more expensive cruiser version of the Bertram 25.  Then we go again to Bertram who in 1992 was bought by Italian Gianni Varasi, sold to Intek Group, Ferretti Group in 1998, and last sold to Gavio in 2015. Bertram has since the nineties been owned by Italians.
Now in 2016 it is just another back to the past from Chris Craft when it presented its new 42 Commander in Summer.  A model which is basically the Austin Parker 42 with changes in interior accommodation layout and a switch to IPS pod propulsion.  The Chris Craft 42 Commander will still be produced in Italy at Austin Parker establishment in Pisa, Italy. Interesting the Austin Parker Chris Craft connection should not stop here, with a bigger model, possibly to be the Austin Parker 52/54 to become part of the Chris Craft Commander range.
In all this worth to note that the two large boating nations in the World, although differing in the type of boat product on offer, have always had interest in cooperating, and looked at each other for input and improvements.