Improve-it = Princess V39

Princess show again why their success have soured in recent years, by presenting a new cockpit version for the successful V39 which earlier this year has delivered in over one hundred plus of units, in a production run over two years. The new Princess V39 will now have an option for its exterior deck, with the choice to order it with an aft sun-pad. The well sized sun pad has been made to enter into the current layout and takes a small portion from the C-shaped settee to port side, with the aft end taking overhang space, about two feet into the bathing platform.  This new option from Princess on the V39 shows the Plymouth British boat builder attention to warmer climate regions as the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.

www.princessyachts.com  

Project: Steeler NG50 CS

The CS is the latest version of the Steeler NG50. This CS letter mean center sleeper, and this model has been developed for owners prefering a central midships stateroom to a master room forward. The result is a yacht with three double cabins all served with heads. Two en-suite for the owners and VIP cabins, and a guest day head shower located to starboard. Interesting is that the guest day head and shower features two separates doors. The pilothouse in the CS is also longer than in the NG50, which creates a spacious lounge with an integrated galley. It goes without saying that the client has the freedom to choose the layout, and it is possible to opt for a kitchen and dinette in the fore section. The clearance of the Steeler NG50 CS is just 3.35m, so the French canals remain easily accessible.

www.steeleryachts.com

New Model: Sunseeker 75 Yacht

Debuting at the London boat show past January finally we are able to bring you a photo of the new Sunseeker 75 Yacht. Hull one of the 75 Yacht was sold in Greek waters and this will be a very important model for one of the most known boating brands. This new Sunseeker model is third evolution of a hull which was born as the 70 became the 73 and by adding just over a foot in length and a ton of weight to bring more accommodation becomes now the 75 Yacht. The 75 Yacht is the second model to follow the much sought after 28 Metre Yacht flybridge design features which integrate a very beefy full radar arch or hard top seemingly in the top deck, and add a dark paint warping the lower windshield. The 75 Yacht features Sunseeker latest larger then large side windows. The interior is a four double room layout for guests. A crew cabin sleeping two is located aft. The 75 Yacht will be powered by twin MTU 1622hp which give a max speed of 34 knots.

Technical Data:

LOA - 22.98 m (75.5ft)

Beam - 5.73 m

Draft - 1.63 m

Displacement - 46,400 kg half load

Fuel Capacity - 5000 l

Water Capacity - 1200 l

Accommodation - 8 guest berths in 4 cabins, 2 crew berths in 1 cabin

Engines - 2 x MTU V10 2000 M94 1622hp

Propulsion - line shaft

Speed - 34 knots max, 25 knots cruise

Range - 325 nautical miles

Construction - hand laid fiberglass Vinilester resin, balsa cored hull topsides, foam core in deck and super structure

Certification - CE

www.sunseeker.com  

Project: Elandra 5

The Elandra 5 is the new project and boat brand to come from down under Australia. While being a totally new brand the founders of Elandra have long been in the business of boat building, and come to the market with an interesting sport yacht, which makes semi-customization, sea keeping, and a strong build quality its trade marks. Designed by Tom Barry-Cotter the Elandra 5 will follow what most new sport cruisers are offering in recent years; a lower deck dedicated to the cabins, and a main for living.  The lower cabin deck of the Elandra 5 offers three cabins, with an owners midships full beam room, and a VIP cabin forward which surprises for its space with the double berth looking to the starboard of the ship offering added leg room. The main deck of the Elandra 5 is a split level living area, which joins outside with inside.  A tender garage with a space for a jet rib and an easy launch system is featured aft.

www.elandrayachts.com 

New Model: Back Cove 41

It's been something of a surprise when the 41 was announced considering that a criteria for all of Back Cove line of Traditional down East inspired cruisers is for a single engine installation. But a year later to the project presentation Back Cove launched the 41, who even in design stages showed a high client interest with four orders coming from the renderings. As it stands hull one was launched in early 2014 just in time for the Miami boat show. The 41 is a spacious cruiser with a two double cabins twin head lower deck, and a main deck which serves as both living and entertainment areas joined together. Galley is to port side, with a C-shaped double duty dinette settee opposite. To fore starboard is the helm station, which also features a side door giving direct access to the side deck. Standard power is a single Cummins 600hp or optional Volvo 725hp engine.  

Technical Data:

LOA - 14.1 m (46.3ft)

Hull Length - 12.7 m

Beam - 4.2 m

Draft - 0.83 m

Displacement - 12.1 t (loaded)

Fuel Capacity - 1514 l

Water Capacity - 454 l

Accommodation - 4 berths in 2 cabins

Engine - 1 x Cummins QSC 8.3 600hp, Volvo D11 725hp

Propulsion - line shaft

Speed - 26 knots max 23 cruise with Cummins 600hp, 29 knots max 27 cruise with Volvo 725hp

Range - 322 nm at 27 knots, 419 nm at 18 knots with Volvo 725hp

Certification - CE B, ABYC, NMMA, USCG

www.backcoveyachts.com

Class One - Vee One - Mediterranean Grand Prix Race Two

Victory and Chaudron produced the stand-out performances of the afternoon and dominated race 2 of the Mediterranean Grand Prix, cruising to emphatic victories in their respective classes in a dramatic race that was red flagged after Abu Dhabi crashed out at the first corner, both Faleh AL Mansoori and Rashed Al Tayer emerging unscathed from the upturned boat.

It was a bitter blow for Al Mansoori and Al Tayer on their debut Grand Prix outing in their new boat, and after going second quickest in qualifying earlier in the day were running in second spot behind Victory at the first turn when they hooked and went over.

The boats were led round under the yellow flag and from the restart Victory’s Arif Al Zaffain and Nadir Bin Hendi dropped the hammer and simply disappeared off into the distance and were unchallenged throughout to take the win and complete a perfect weekend in Ibiza for the Dubai duo on their first outing together in Class 1 since 2011.

Ugur Isik and Christian Zaborowski produced another solid performance and despite breaking two gearboxes over the weekend picked up another podium finishing in second place, with Guido Cappellini and Mikhail Kitashev on their first outing together also picking up a second podium, with third.

It was a frustrating and disappointing day for Fendi Racing, with Luca Fendi and Giovanni Carpitella failing to make the start after breaking their gearbox yesterday, and any hopes of team success faded early when Tarek Oktem and Miles Jennings limped back to the pits before the restart.

The honours in V1 went to Aaron Ciantar and Dominic Martini in Chaudron who, like Victory, left their rivals in their wake to win unchallenged over the 12 laps, taking the chequered flag with the chasing pack well in arrears, finishing on the same lap as the C1 boats ahead of them to take an early lead in the Championship standings.

Second home was Karelpiu, the team switching driver for race 2 with Federico Montanari teaming -up with Antonio Schiano. The duo held off a strong challenge from Aquasport on lap 3 as the two outfits thundered through the start-finish line side-by-side and then from a momentarily advancing Tommy One.

The drive off the afternoon belonged to Drew Langdon and Ian Blacker in Silverline who found good pace mid race, moving up from sixth spot on lap 2, passing Bernico-New Star and overhauling Aquasport and Tommy One on lap 7 to take the third step of the podium.

www.class-1.com

Project: Kadey-Krogen 66

Kadey-Krogen has recently presented a new important project of four explorer yachts which sets the sights of the American manged company into a bigger size series of models. All designed by Dave Glasco and the in-house design team, this new Kadey-Krogen line of projects is a very important one as it presents four distinctive models; 64 Expedition, 66, 68 Expedition, and 70. An 80 is currently is advanced project stages. The 66 will offer three different lower deck options; with the main difference coming from a plan which replaces the third cabin into a storage room. The main deck is also offered in three different configurations. Twin engine powered the Kadey-Krogen will feature a sea-worthy long range full displacement hull shape and long range fuel tank capacity of over 10977 liters.

www.kadeykrogen.com 

New Model: Gamefisherman 42 Walk-Around Sportfisherman

A custom sportfish builder located in Stuart, Florida Gamefisherman is having a pursuit of success with this new 42 Walk-Around Sportfisherman model which launched earlier this year and has already delivered four hulls since then. The Gamefisherman 42 Walk-Around Sportfisherman features as the title says full use of its deck space. Two options exist outside, a more angler set up with tower as pictured above, or a hard top plus riggers choice. Below is a layout with a V-shaped double berth to fore, shower head to starboard, and galley opposite to port side.  Weighing at under eight tons in light mode the Gamefisherman 42 Walk-Around Sportfisherman reaches top speeds of forty knots with twin Cats 575hp engines.

Technical Data:

LOA - 12.8 m (42ft)

Beam - 4.01 m

Draft - 0.99 m

Displacement - 7711 kg

Fuel Capacity - 1514 l

Water Capacity - 189 l

Accommodation - 2 berths

Engines - 2 x Cummins 540hp, Cat C9 575hp

Propulsion - line shafts

Speed - 40 knots max, 33 knots cruise with Cat 575hp

Construction - cold molded Epoxy

www.gamefisherman.com

PowerYachtBlog Best of 2014 Nominated

Class One - Vee One - Mediterranean Grand Prix Race One

Thirteen boats lined up for the first race in over two decades with Class 1 catamarans and V1 mono-hulls running side-by-side, with Arif Al Zaffain and Nadir Bin Hendi carrying on from where they left off and last raced together in 2011, cruising to an easy victory in race 1 of the Mediterranean Grand Prix to win by a massive 49 second margin.

The Victory duo who earlier in the day shared the pole position spoils with LFF10, led from the start and were never challenged, going on to complete the 13 laps in 35:41.85s.

Despite matching the winners in qualifying Luca Fendi and Giovanni Carpitella could not match the sustained pace of the leader’s, but looked comfortable in second spot when they suddenly hit trouble on lap 9 and stopped.

From third place at the end of lap 1 Guido Cappellini and C1 rookie Mikhail Kitashev held off an initial challenge from Ugur Isik and Christian Zaborowski in Relekta-Zabo-Isiklar before opening out a comfortable advantage to move into and take second spot following the exit of LFF10.

The Relekta-Zabo-Isiklar crew in turn faced a race long challenge from Faleh Al Mansoori and Rashed Al Tayer in Team Abu Dhabi’s new MTI, who passed them on the final lap to take the chequered flag in third, only to be hit with a 25-second post-race penalty for destroying a turn buoy, handing the podium spot back to Isiklar and Zaborowski, the Abu Dhabi duo dropping to fifth behind LFF8-Polimersan.

The performance of the day came in V1 from the Tommy One crew of Maurizio Schepici and Stefano Bonanno who powered their way through the field from a long way back in fourth spot, first passing Bernico-New Star, then the early race leader’s Chaudron before setting their sights on and overhauling the pole sitters Antonio and Giuseppe Schiano in Karelpiu, to take the win in 36:33.39s.

www.class-1.com

Magnum Marine New Web Site

It is always a pleasure to speak about Magnum Marine, and now the World famed very exclusive US builder presents a new web showroom taking you into its unique universe. Magnum started up in 1966 Miami, Florida and was one of the half a dozen fast boat builders founded in the sixties and seventies by Don Aronow. For the record Donald Aronow was the creator of the famed Thunderboat Row in Miami where Magnum is still located, and his other founded companies are Formula in 1961, Donzi in 1964, Cigarette in 1970, and Aronow Powerboats in the eighties and all his companies revolved around the deep vee underwater shaped hull for the most part designed by Jim Wynne and Walt Walters. The Aronow Hull Jim Wynne design was similar in concept to the Ray Hunt 1958 deep-Vee, but was revolved towards more high performance. In 1968 Don sold to Apeco, and eight years later in 1976 Marchese Filippo Theodoli took over Magnum from the US firm to transform its legacy into a status symbol sport yacht builder. Filippo Theodoli idea was to keep with the super fast sea worthy deep vee 24 degrees hull, but add to it a bullet proof construction, and the luxurious comfort associated of a yacht fifteen meters or more in size. The Italian vision was complete a year later presenting the first and largest open Sport Yacht over fifteen meter of the period the Magnum 53 Maltese in 1977, which subsequently was delivered in over fifty examples in a production run lasting till 1995. Following the 53, Magnum continued to present other cruisers; the 45 and 40 and in 1984 it continued to push the sport yacht size limit presenting the 63 Sports with lines by Pininfarina, in 1989 the 70 also by Pininfarina, and the 80 again at the hands of the Italian firm in 2000. Driven by Filippo Theodoli the 63 went on to do the impossible by winning the Miami Nassau Miami for three times in a row with a diesel powered sport yacht, reaching speeds over eighty mph, and beating smaller faster boats thanks to its consistent speed in rough waters. Filippo died in 1990, and today Magnum is managed by wife Katrin, and son Giovanni who produce a limited customized two boats a year of the current six models from 44 to 100 feet. The flagship of the range the 100 is currently in advanced planning stages, with the current largest Magnum still being the 80, which was delivered in two units so far. The new Magnum web site takes you around with the following buttons: Home, Models, History, Brokerage, Technology, News, Store, and Contact Us.

www.magnummarine.com

Production History

35 1966-74

27 1968-91 (443) includes racers, patrolling, Starfire, and Sedan

16 Marauder 1967-69

16 Missile 1967-69

27 Sedan 1970-88 (443) *includes racers, patrolling, Starfire, and Sport Apeco ownership

Sport 25 1972-75 (36)

28 Maltese 1973-79 (98)

27 Starfire 1975-91 (443) *includes racers, patrolling, Sport, and Sedan

38 1974-1982

53 Maltese 1977-95 (55)  Theodoli ownership

45 1980-1992 (22)

40 1981-98 (72)

63 Pininfarina 1983-2000 (20+-)

70 Pininfarina 1987- (10

50 Bestia 1993-2007 (15) Katrin Theodoli ownership

56 1995-2008

44 Banzai 1999-2020

60 Furia 2001- 

80 2001- (2

51 Bestia 2009- (3

27 2021-

47.5 2022-