Project: Maxi Dolphin MD65 Power

A further evolution of the MD61 project, Maxi Dolphin's MD65 aims to bring the open yacht virtues of the well received MD51 into larger sizes.  Designed as the 51 by Roberto Starkel, the 65 adds comfort to the package of the smaller models with a spacious standard three double cabins interior being key to some of the pluses of the larger size.  A crew cabin will be located at midships.  An optional layout will also feature two large staterooms with two large cabins, and the owners room moving to midships.  Standard power for the MD65 will come from twin 900hp Volvo engines with the large IPS1200 pod drives, this giving max speeds of 40 knots.  Optional choices will come from Man 1200hp and MTU 1360hp both these units coming with Arneson surface drives propulsion.       

www.maxidolphin.it

Jarrett Bay New Web Site

Founded in 1986 and this year celebrating thirty years in business custom sportfish builder Jarrett Bay Boatworks presents a newly updated website. Located as the majority of the Custom Sportfish builders in Carolina region, Jarrett Bay founders actually started up by offering charter fishing services. Out of need in 1986 the company needed to replace its boat, and here Jarrett Bay Boatworks is founded. Two years later the launching of hull number one, the 52 feet Sensation is a reality. Over twenty years later and main engines changed m/y Sensation is still in service as a full time charter boat. In the same year to the splashing of Sensation, number two goes in the water and as at today Jarrett Bay is building its hull number 62. what is the new 90 feet flagship.  That is excluding the twenty plus deliveries of semi custom fiberglass built centre consoles, which started in 2004 with the 32 Walk-Around Express, updated to the 34 Walk-Around Express in 2008. All the Jarrett Bay custom builds, are made with the cold moulding method, and take about two years to complete. Cold moulding is frame shaping in wood covered and protected with fibreglass and resin. The custom range has seen its smaller construction with the 25 Centre Console hull 10, and the largest being the currently in build 90 feet Sportfisherman hull 62. From its humble shed beginnings, today Jarrett Bay has expanded its facility to Beaufort in North Carolina at a 708,200 square-meters facility. The new building site can build up to four custom Jarrett Bay's in one time, and has also a maximum building length of up to 120 feet in length. Jarrett Bay's new online showroom takes you around with the following buttons: New Construction, Why Jarrett Bay, Service, Facilities, Clothing, News, Boats For Sale, Employment, Our Team, and Contact Us.  Jarrett Bay is also located on social media hubs; Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram with a button link to these pages on the bottom left of the page.

www.jarrettbay.com

New Model: Viking 48 Convertible

There is always something fresh about each new Viking coming out, and the new 48 Convertible comes no less to the statement of building a better boat every day the New Jersey USA builder is so proud of.  The 48 Convertible is a model which comes as replacement to the 2009 launched 46.  Looking as a sportfish should do, the 48 is targeted at the owner sport-fisherman and presents him with an interesting game fishing machine with lots of cruising amenities. See three double cabins below, which includes a spacious owners room located at midships starboard side.  The main deck is dedicated to life on-board with a galley, dinette, and relaxing sofa.  Power will come from standard twin 900hp, and go up to the huge 1400hp units.   

Technical Data:

LOA - 15 m (49.1ft)

Beam - 5.2 m

Draft - 1.4 m

Displacement - 30,092 kg

Fuel Capacity - 4599 l

Water Capacity - 674 l

Accommodation - 6 berths in 3 cabins

Engines - 2 x Man V8 900hp, 1200hp, V12 1400hp

Propulsion - line shafts

Speed - 30 knots cruise 

www.vikingyachts.com

Project: Ferretti 850

For 2016 Ferretti is surely raising the bar for new models presented.  Designed by Zuccon the 850 project is Ferretti reply to owners looking for a larger pocket sized super yacht with waterline registration length under 24 meters and an overall of 26.  The 850 is a model which is an evolution in terms of hull of the current 800 with increased waterline length.  For this model Zuccon also gives homage to one of his popular old school designs with main deck window profile taking a lot from the classic mid late eighties built Posillipo 52 Technema. The Ferretti 850 will be available with hard top, as pictured above or without.  Accommodation plan offers a lower deck of four double guest cabin with two VIP suites, and a crew cabin area located to fore sleeping three persons. The main deck is available with two options, which mostly change the galley and day head location without effecting the saloon and dining area size, this taking two-thirds area of the cabin.  Power options will come from standard Man 1800hp or optional 1900hp units.  Launch date is expected for late coming Summer, with World presentation for Cannes boat show 2016.   

www.ferretti-yachts.com

Ed Dubois 1952 - 2016

It is with enormous sadness that Honor Dubois and the team at Dubois Naval Architects announce the death of Ed Dubois on 24 March.  Following a period of illness last year, Ed had been in better health and working as normal. Unexpectedly he was admitted to hospital last week and sadly died on Thursday.  Ed’s career spanned decades and his passion, commitment to his work and love of his clients created a unique business, driven by exceptional design and technical talent and a genuine desire to create the most breathtakingly beautiful and technically advanced yachts; now scattered across the globe.  Although created by Ed, Dubois Naval Architects has always been underpinned an incredibly committed and talented, team of naval architects, none more so than those working with Ed at the moment.  The business will continue. Peter Bolke, who is Senior Designer and has been a valued member of the Dubois team for 23 years, will become Managing Director with immediate effect.  Peter will be supported by the rest of the Dubois team.  With one of the industry’s most innovative 58m yachts currently in build and a number of similarly ambitious projects in the design stage, Ed left the business at an exciting moment in its development.  Peter and his team will be supported by Ed’s great friends, Richard Cunningham, and Andrew Prynne QC, Ed’s friend for fifty years.  Ed Dubois was a huge talent and his legacy will continue as one of the world’s great yacht designers. Known not only for his love of all things boat-related, but also music, art, travel and most of all his family and friends. Ed leaves his darling wife Honor and four wonderful children, to whom he was completely devoted.

Bob Dougherty 1931 - 2016

Bob Dougherty died with his family by his side at his New Smyrna Beach, Florida home on March 23, at the age of 85.  A tough Irishman from South Boston, before experimenting with fiberglass in the fifties and entering the boating industry Bob was a school teacher.  He brought his craft and passion to the marine industry which spanned sixty years, starting in 1960 as he joined Boston Whaler, designing most of there craft in his thirty years till 1990 career at the famed company.  At Boston Whaler Bob will become the chief designer and senior vice president over the years and will be instrumental in the success of the famous unsinkable boat builder.  Bob will leave Boston Whaler in 1990 and founded Dougherty Marine and RJ Dougherty and Associates, building OEM windshields and other parts.  Along with his son he also builds an eighteen foot center console unsinkable boat he marketed as the Marlin in 1992.  He will sell this company to the North Technology Group in 1994 and will become in 1996 the EdgeWater Boats as its line-up expands.  Following this Bob will then go on to refine the unsinkable closed-cell foam flotation technique with the creation of the Rapid Molded Core Assembly Process which won an industry Innovation Award in 1999.  He then takes this knowledge of unsinkable construction and creates Everglades Boats the next company he founded with his son Stephen in 2001 which will debut with the 243cc model in 2004.  Everglades was sold in the fall to Grand Crossing Capital Partners.  The Everglades 435 center console, the company’s flagship model, launched in 2014 was Bob Dougherty’s final design.  A disciplined and visionary leader, Bob always took pride in doing the right thing, and always placed people first, taking care of them as he would his own family.  Dougherty is survived by his wife, Barbara, daughters Laura and Gail, sons Rob and Stephen, and ten grandchildren.

New Model: Sea Ray 400 Fly

Since launching the new 510 series in 2013 Sea Ray has embraced European design with a certain conviction never seen before.  The 400 series is the latest in this important direction, and just behind the launching of the 400 Sundancer model comes the new Fly sister with flybridge. The 400 Fly is an interesting Sea Ray for the boater who wants to embrace cruising with comfort, and this model ticks a lot of boxes not only to the USA boater but as a global flybridge motor cruiser offer. The 400 Fly just like the sister Sundancer embraces the single level living on the main deck, with below deck reserved for the sleeping quarters with the two cabins.  Option and making this Sea Ray is also key to the new mentality of the World known USA builder with the 400 Fly offered with a lot of options and choices.  From a four color choice, optional hard top covering the flybridge, interior arrangement to have a two shower head versus the standard single shower head, and last but not least the extra of an up-down extended bathing platform aft.
Technical Data:

LOA - 13.26 m (43.6ft) with optional bathing platform

LOA - 12.2 m with standard bathing platform

Beam - 13.6 m

Draft - 1.09 m

Displacement - 14016 kg dry

Fuel Capacity - 1332 l

Water Capacity - 378 l

Accommodation - 5 berths in 2 cabins

Engines - 2 x Cummins QSD 6.7 480hp

Propulsion - V-drive line shaft

Speed - 30 knots max, 26 knots cruise

Hull - modified Vee with 17 degrees deadrise 

Certification - CE  

www.searay.com

Project: Bertram 58

What a better way to return a legend then to bring back modern versions of the models which made it become so. The new Bertram way seems set to go exactly into this direction, decades later.  Designed as the currently in build 35, by World famous deep-V specialist Micheal Peters the new 58 is homage to the eighties 54.  Delivered in over fifty units in a production run over ten years, the 54 is a legend to behold not only for its sales number but also for the sea keeping its Dave Napier designed modified V-shape hull delivered.  To say it short the 54 was Bertram second most important model ever made behind the 31.  It is also a model which championed the fifty plus feet sport-fisherman yacht to new owners. The Bertram 58 is still in infant project stages, what we know so far is that it will have a 40 knots performance, wrap around wind screen with full view, and hull one is expected to launch in late 2017.

www.bertram.com

New Launch: Heesen 70 Metre Custom FDHF YN 17470

Heesen is delighted to announce the launch of the largest yacht in it's fleet to date, the 70m FDHF superyacht Project Kometa. The owners have christened their new yacht Galactica Super Nova. Yard number 17470 is not only the biggest yacht built by Heesen Yachts to date, but she is also one of the top two hundred largest yachts in the world and one of the fastest for her size.  Galactica Super Nova utilizes the revolutionary Fast Displacement Hull Form technology devised by van Oossanen Naval Architects, which Heesen was the first to put into production. Thanks to the addition of a third engine to power a booster jet, she will be capable of reaching a top speed of more than 30 knots. With exterior lines by Espen Øino and interior design by Sinot Exclusive Yacht Design,Galactica Super Nova is both an evolution of Heesen's long experience in the superyacht sector and also the result of a specific research into what the market wants and expects. Galactica Super Nova will be extensively tested in the North Sea before being delivered to her owners in May 2016. After her maiden voyage from the Netherlands to Montenegro, she will cruise in the Mediterranean for the summer season before finally making her public debut at the Monaco Yacht Show.

Technical Data:

LOA - 70.07 m (229.8ft)

Beam - 11.4 m

Draft - 2.4 m

Displacement - 620 t (50% load)

Fuel Capacity - 90000 l

Water Capacity - 25000 l

Accommodation - 12 guests in 6 cabins

Engines - 2 x MTU 20V4000 M43L 5766hp

Propulsion - line shaft with five bladed propellers

Speed - 25 knots max, 14 knots optimum cruise

Range - 4000 nm at 14 knots cruise

Hull Shape - round bilge fast displacment

Construction - Aluminium for hull and super structure

Project - Van Oossanen and Heesen for naval architecture, Espen Oeino exterior, Sinot inteior

Certification - ABS A1 Commercial Yachting service AMS large commercial yacht code LY3 MCA

www.heesenyachts.com

Project: Nautilus 440 Power Cat

Since Outer Reef announced its entry into the Power Catamaran sector, its been a waiting game.  Now Outer Reef is showing renderings of the first model to be of its new exciting Nautilus chapter, the 440.  The Nautilus 440 will have a beam short of seven meters, with accommodation options available in three or four cabins layouts. Power will come from twin Cummins engines; 380hp standard, and options going up to 550hp units coupled to ZF Zeus pods propulsion. Top speed vary from 22 knots with the standard engines up to 30 knots of the large option. Range can go up to eight hundred nautical miles, if cruising in the most economical of speeds. 

www.nautiluspowercats.com