New Model: Magazzu M16

In December 2023, Magazzu launched its awaited modern and different first M16 unit.  Designed by Claudio Magazzu the M16 distinct's itself from previous Magazzu, offering a different and radical look, and is also build with semi-rigid tubes, and a full deep walk around design.  This  new Magazzu flagship feels less a rib, and more a yacht then previous models.  The Magazzu will also feature, thanks to its deep walk around design a full fore to aft deck use, with a centre console layout and exterior galley and dinette behind and covered by the T-top.  The cabin layout of the Magazzu M16 welcomes you below deck with an L-shaped settee, and features a master cabin forward, and a guest double berth at midships with two heads. The Magazzu M-16 hull one is powered by twin Volvo 600hp with IPS pod drives, with an option for triple 600hp Mercury outboards and speeds up to fifty knots being available. 

Technical Data:

LOA - 16 m (52.4ft)

Beam - 4.80 m

Fuel Capacity - 2 x 1000 l

Water Capacity - 400 l

Max Persons - twenty

Accommodation - four berths in two cabins

Engines - 2 x Volvo D8 600hp, or triple Mercury 600hp petrol-gas outboard

Propulsion - Volvo forward looking IPS pod drives, or Mercury outboards

Speeds -  fifty knots max from triple 600hp Mercury

Project - Claudio Magazzu

Certification - CE B 

www.magazzu.com

Projects: Sialia 59 Runabout, Sialia 59 Sport, Sialia 59 Weekender

Following the launch of the Sialia 57 Deep Silence in 2023, this Polish yacht builder is a new name aiming at specializing in electric yachts powered by the Ampros electric propulsion.  The Sialia 59 platform is offered in three hull variants; Runabout, Sport and Weekender, with this last version being under construction and scheduled for a 2024 launch.  The Sialia 59s, like the 57 come from a design of Denis Popov with hull lines designed by Vripack, followed by an extra light carbon fibre construction.

The Sialia 59 Runabout is a genuine style icon, distinguished by its sleek lines and visually pleasing symmetry. Her standout feature is a wraparound windscreen that, along with a full bow, ensures optimal protection from the elements for guests and crew. In addition, the yacht offers several hardtop options to create a fully protected cockpit. The five meters short full beam maximizes interior volume, creating a spacious and lavish salon that rivals the opulent interiors of private jets.

The Sialia 59 Sport is a high-speed centre-console day cruiser designed for thrilling experiences on the water. Its spacious deck provides room for sunbathing and entertainment, creating an ideal setting for leisurely enjoyment. With a beach club featuring folding sides, a tender garage, and a protected four-person helm station, this yacht guarantees the ultimate silent driving experience. On the inside, the boat surprises with a welcoming space comprising a fully equipped pantry, a lounge area, a day head, and various berth options. The Sialia 59 Sport demonstrates its versatility with a variety of hardtop options and deck layouts, catering to individual preferences and specific boat uses.

The Sialia 59 Weekender is a top-of-the-range model, an all-around cruiser designed for exploration. Equipped with a spacious and air-conditioned cockpit, multiple lounge areas, and a wide beach club with folding sides, the yacht provides ample space for entertainment and relaxation. She features a garage capable of housing a 3.3-meter tender and a selection of water toys, providing fun adventures at anchor and while navigating. Her thoughtfully crafted layout encourages socializing and staying connected to the natural surroundings. She can comfortably accommodate up to twelve guests and sleep four overnight, allowing you to extend your cruise by several days.

www.sialia-yachts.com

New Model: Riviera 58 Sports Motor Yacht

Within the heart of Riviera’s state-of-the-art facility on Australia’s Gold Coast, the much anticipated 58 Sports Motor Yacht emerged for her first public reveal through a veil of theatrical fog and lights, cradled securely in the slings of a travel lift on eight December. A select group of invited owners and partners gained their very first glimpse of this exceptional yacht. Production of the 58 Sports Motor Yacht model was announced in May 2023, and the evening’s guests are the first in line for the future delivery of their new 58 SMYs. Riviera’s first Sports Motor Yacht model was the 68, launched just six years ago. Now, with the 58, the range extends to six magnificent models from fourteen to 22 meters. Riviera’s Sports Motor Yachts are uniquely specified craft that reward owners with endless adventures, enjoyed in ultimate luxury, and this new 58 offers all the Sports Motor Yacht essentials including all-water sports cockpit, walk-around side decks, foredeck lounge and entertaining zone, all-weather alfresco deck entertaining, and a spacious, luxurious saloon with internal staircase to a fully enclosed, air-conditioned flybridge and state-of-the-art helm. The accommodation deck is extremely spacious with three staterooms and three bathrooms. The full-beam master suite is pure luxury with a private bathroom and walk-in wardrobe, as well as an optional breakfast bar and fridge. An utility room or crew cabin is also located in between the engine and aft of the master room. As an utility room, diving and fishing gear can be passed down from the cockpit via the engine room and stowed; or you can use this space as a personalised laundry with a separate washer and dryer, easily accessed via the walk-in wardrobe in the master suite. Interiors are rich in quality and style with premium fabrics, in-vogue lounges, exquisitely hand-finished exotic timber cabinetry, and the comfort of plush carpet in all three staterooms.  The Riviera 58 Sports Motor Yacht is powered by twin Volvo 1000hp with IPS pods drive propulsion, 

Technical Data:

LOA - 19.71 m (61.8ft)

Hull Length - 17.9 m

Beam - 5.67 m

Draft - 1.7 m includes drives and propellers

Displacement - 36,500 kg unloaded

Fuel Capacity - 4500 l

Water Capacity - 800 l

Accommodation - six berths in three cabins, one crew cabin berth

Engines - 2 x Volvo D13 1000hp

Propulsion - Volvo forward looking IPS pod drives

Speed -

Certification - ISO8666 for dimensions

www.riviera.com.au

Super Yacht Saved from Fire in Aventura Florida

Fire fighters from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to a 24 meter Lazzara super yacht which caught fire in Williams Island, Island Boulevard, Aventura, Florida on 0600 hours of the morning of Sunday seventh January.  Fire Rescue received a call from a nearby condo which reported that they heard an explosion first, and saw the yacht on fire some seconds later.  When arriving on the scene the Miami-Dade Fire fighters found a fire on the fore-deck of the yacht, with this controlled and put out.  No injuries where reposted with the yacht being unattended during the fire.  The cause of the fire are under investigation.

The yacht in this is fire is a Lazzara 80 SC model as produced from 2002 to 2006 to an inhouse design with interiors by Christian Delashmutt.  Lazzara build five 80 SC and twenty 80 Sky Lounge, for a total of 25 hulls of the series.  The Lazzara 80 SC and 80 Sky Lounge came out as a replacement of the 80, and evolved into the 84 in 2006.

Spencer Yachts New Web Site

Spencer Yachts from Wanchese, North Carolina presents its new World wide web showroom.  Paul Spencer got his hands in boat building in 1996 when he founded the company with his name in that year.  Like other custom sportfish builders from Carolina, Paul Spencer entered boat building from a charter captain career and out of necessity of building his next boat, replacing the getting tired ten year old 55 foot single engine charter vessel build by his father in law Sheldon Midgett in frame and plank wood.  Paul's idea was to follow in the footsteps of local Carolina captain Buddy Cannady who build a boat, kept it a year or two and sold it.  For doing this Paul mortgaged his home, and build his first shed without electricity and water, and in 1997 launched Spencer Yachts hull.one. The first Spencer was a 59 feet sportfish yacht powered by twin 800hp Cat engines originally titled Sizzler, which Paul designed with help from Mike Lohr, and only kept for a Summer.  Hull two comes the following year, an order from the family who bought hull one, what will be a two feet bigger and more luxurious fitted sportfish yacht.  Up till 2000 Paul will build a sportfish yacht a year, but things will get busy from 2001, when the five boats a year average build schedule starts, making Spencer Yachts as the most busy of the custom cold moulded build sport fish yachts delivering over one hundred builds in under twenty years.  Spencer has since 1997 build boats and yachts from a 26ft semi-production centre-console, and custom builds from the twin outboard powered 37ft hull.71 to the 87ft hull.78 in 2012 and the 90ft hull.86 from 2014. Paul Spencer unlike most custom sportfish builders also likes to experiment with propulsion building both jet drives and IPS propulsion custom builds for customers.  His first IPS pod boat came in 2007, in the early years of Volvo's inboard propulsion system with the 43 Express hull.43 which was followed by seven other IPS pod hulls including the triple powered 70 Volvo hull.76 launched in 2010.  Spencer also entered jet propulsion in 2019 with the 50 Jet hull.104, which was followed by hull.222 63ft sportfish yacht in 2021, with both units reaching fifty knots top speeds.  Today Paul runs Spencer Yachts with the help of his children Paul and Cliff.  Spencer new website takes you around with the following buttons; Custom Yachts, Marine Services, Fabrication, News and Events, Media, Store, and About Spencer. Spencer Yachts is also in social media with bottom page button taking you to its; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube pages.

www.spenceryachtsinc.com

Spencer 59ft Hull.1 1997

Cruise Liner Breaks Mooring and Damages Marina in Siracusa

Gale force winds followed by a tornado gusting fifty knots of wind on 12:50 hours of Saturday sixth January broke the mooring lines to the MSC Sinfonia cruise liner, with this ending on the Marina Yachting pontoons, Porto Grande, Siracusa, on the East side Ionian sea of Sicily.  With the collision MSC Sinfonia is reported to have sunk two boats, caused damage to other boats and yachts, and to the marina.  No one was injured in the collision, with the 275 meters, 58174 gross tonnage cruise liner needing four tugs to put her back in its place.  MSC Sinfonia was on a technical stop in Siracusa, boarded only by technical crew and without any guests onboard.

In the below photo we can see a Conam 52 Chrono and a Sacs Strider 45 Gran Turismo involved with the pile up at Marina Yachting, following the collision by the cruise ship.  Marina Yachting in Siracusa opened its doors in the early 2000s, and has accommodation for up to 150 boats and yachts.

Bertram Yacht Sinks in San Pedro California

A twenty meter Bertram yachts sank at the dock in San Pedro, California on fifth January.  The Bertram yacht was unattended during the sinking, and fuel loaded of eight thousand litres of diesel in its tanks plus extra tanks onboard, as it was reported to be planning a two thousand nautical miles plus of crossing to Hawaii next week.  Following the sinking the Bertram was protected by a pollution protecting boon.  Unconfirmed social media news said the yacht was taking on water for a day or two before it eventually sank.

The Bertram in this sinking is a 58 Motor Yacht, custom extended with an extra ten foot of hull and cockpit added aft.  Designed by Dave Napier the Bertram 58 Motor Yacht launched in 1976 and was produced till 1986.  Bertram Motor Yacht range was produced till 1987 and featured three models over the years debuting in 1971 with the 46, added with the 42 in 1973, and then the 58.

Project: Admiral GC Force 73 meters

Back in May 2023 Admiral announced the sale of not one, but three GC Force 70 meters super yachts for a delivery in 2026, 27 and 28 respectively.  A month later the Italian Sea Group announced the laying of the keel of the first of these Admiral GC Force, now renamed and or extended to 73 meters.  Admiral GC Force 73 is designed inhouse by the Italian Sea Group team led by Giovanni Costantino while the interiors are to be made by Francesco Muzio FM Architetura.  Admiral has previously launched two other units in its GC Series the 50 meters in 2016, and a 66 meters in 2019.  Currently Admiral is also building two new flagships; a 98 meter called Project Titanium designed by Winch, and the 88 meter Spyder by Espen Oeino.

www.admiral-yachts.com

Jerry Husted 1928 - 2024

Jerry Husted the Nordic Tugs founder died at 96 years old on second January 2024.  A pioneer of cruising tugs, Jerry Husted introduced the 26-foot Nordic Tug at the 1980 Seattle Boat Show, the origin boat of the cruising tugboat genre. During the energy crisis of the 1970s Husted concluded that powerboaters needed a vessel that wouldn’t cost a fortune to buy and operate, what was the company introductory statement. He built a 26-foot boat with a traditional workboat profile and introduced it as the Nordic Tug at the 1980 Seattle Boat Show. Powered by a 3-cylinder, 36-hp Volvo diesel, the boat had a range of 600 miles at 6.5 knots. The price was $29,900.  By the end of the 10-day show, Husted had sold 33 boats; by the end of the month following the event, he had orders for a total of 54 even though the price had increased to $39,900 after the show.  Nordic Tugs has since built more than 900 boats from 26 to 54 feet. Husted gave up the helm of Nordic Tugs in December 2007, although he remained with the company until three days before his eightieth birthday, in 2012. Known as a hands-on executive, he sea-trialed all but a handful of Nordic Tug models.

New Model: Wally Why100

For the end of 2023 Wally ended it's fantastic year by launching the first unit of the Why100 in the beautiful Venice setting. The one hundred, an acronym for its gross tonnage volume rather then size is the small of the Why series, which debuted in 2021 with the Why200, and today features three models which start from twenty and go up to 29 meters in length.  For the WallyWhy100 Luca Bassani presented something different, a bridge to the Power series in design and target usage, offering a less volume focused product then the two other larger Why models.  A hard-top sport yacht with spacious accommodation and a re-invented and un-edited main deck layout, the Why100 is unique in this segment for the very forward helm station which extends the use of the main deck pushing the pilot house for over two-thirds of the length, and presents an exterior sun-lovers aft deck which offers the same spaces of similar sized yachts.  The design of main deck is also un-edited with a central circle dinette. Below the lower deck of the WallyWhy100 offers three double cabins with an owners full beam stateroom at midships, a VIP suite to port side, and twin berth guest cabin to starboard.  A galley with twin bunk berth crew cabin is located forward with a separate excess to port of the central helm station on the main deck.  The WallyWhy100 is powered by twin Volvo 900hp or optional 1000hp engines with IPS pod drives propulsion for top speeds up to 27 knots from the large power option.

Technical Data:

LOA - 21.46 m (70.5ft)

Hull Length - 21.3 m

Waterline Length - 20.3 m

Beam - 5.73 m

Draft - 1.7 m

Displacement - 45,500 kg unloaded, 53,000 kg loaded

Fuel Capacity - 4600 l

Water Capacity - 900 l

Mex Persons - eighteen

Accommodation - six guests in three cabins, two crew in one cabin

Engines - 2 x Volvo D13 900hp, D13 1000hp

Propulsion - Volvo forward looking dual propeller IPS pod drives

Speed - 27 knots max 24 cruise with Volvo 1000hp, 25 max 22 cruise with 900hp

Range - 360 nautical miles

Project - Luca Bassani concept, Ferretti Group engineering naval architecture

Certification - RINA B+F

www.wally.com

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