March 2021

Power & Motoryacht

Yacht and Powerboat Reviews

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DANIEL HARDING JR. DEPUTY EDITOR BILL PIKE EXECUTIVE EDITOR CHARLIE LEVINE CREATIVE DIRECTOR ERIN KENNEY DIGITAL DIRECTOR JOHN V. TURNER SENIOR EDITOR SIMON MURRAY ASSOCIATE EDITOR CARLY SISSON YACHT DESIGN CONSULTANT BILL PRINCE ELEC
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New Year, Same Mission
2020. Phew. What a decade this year has been. I’m writing this column during one of my favorite stretches of the year. The company typically offers a generous amount of time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and this year, that break couldn’t
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Listen Up!
I may be biased, but to me there’s no better escape than a story in a magazine. One minute you find yourself aboard a container ship in Georgia, the next you’re inside a North Carolina boatyard and then, with the turn of the page, you’re in the engin
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Above It All
Back in 2017, I spent a day or two riding around in one of the super-fast press boats covering the America’s Cup in Bermuda. And, as luck would have it, we happened to be on hand—and indeed, close enough to clearly hear the whooshing whir of the boat
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Don’t Be That Guy
Why are we boat people? Because we like good times, adventure and getting away from it all. We’re perpetually motivated by the next long weekend or summer cruise, like Clark W. Griswold looking out the kitchen window on Christmas Eve dreaming about h
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Tough Cell
The hydrogen fuel cell is about to splash into recreational boating. Like traditional batteries, hydrogen fuel cells produce electricity without any combustion or emissions. Unlike batteries, however, hydrogen cells do not run down or need to recharg
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New York City
Its skyline is unmistakable. Its delis are to die for. It’s busy, it’s brash, it’s New York. There is no other city like the Big Apple, and it’s surprisingly easy to visit by boat. Many years ago, as a young couple with only a modest amount of experi
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Uniesse Exuma HTC5
The Exumas are a sleepy chain of islands in the center of the Bahamas, bounded by white sand beaches and clear turquoise waters. So, when I first began speaking with the folks at Uniesse about taking the new Exuma HTC5 on a sea trial, I had visions o
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Life Proof Yachtline 33
The term “head-turner” is overused in boat reviews, but few boats grab as much attention at 50-plus knots as the new Yachtline 33 from Life Proof. I hopped aboard one of the first 33s with the Bremerton, Washington-based company’s CEO Micah Bowers in
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Ocean Alexander 27 Explorer
Ocean Alexander’s longtime collaboration with London-based yacht designer Evan K. Marshall has borne fruit once again in the form of the 88-foot, 6-inch 27 Explorer motoryacht. The 27 E, which debuted at the 2020 Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Sho
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Fleming 85
To say that Fleming Yachts has a following is akin to saying the Beatles have a following—it’s an understatement of the highest order. With a tremendous amount of attention paid to construction and a level of finish that meets the demands of the most
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Many Miles To Go
Growing up in the rural countryside of central North Carolina, Perry Nichols spent most of his free time bass fishing and playing sports. He excelled at all of it—especially football and cranking in big ol’ bucket mouths. But as he entered his teenag
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Past Meets Present
It was a bold move. In 1965, most British boatbuilders targeting the newly prosperous middle classes were making speedboats and runabouts that could be towed behind the family Ford Cortina. Down in Plymouth, a young engineer named David King had othe
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Fresh Perspective
New chapters. Turning the page from who you were to who you are about to become can be equal parts exciting and terrifying. My father-in-law Bryan and I both found ourselves neck-deep in new lives recently. He had just retired from a successful caree
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Brand Extension
On the chart it’s the Golfo di La Spezia, but in the marketing materials of the local tourist authorities it’s increasingly being referred to as the “Bay of Poets.” Yes, Dante and Petrarch took their vacations here, but that’s not who they’re referri
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Going Custom
Donnie Caison never intended to become a custom boatbuilder; he just didn’t want to sink a bunch of money into a project to make an old boat new again. He and a buddy were discussing going in on a classic 31 Bertram and rehabbing it with new motors,
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The Essentials
There’s no such thing as having too many tools. It’s one of the immutable laws of life, and one I follow: From my desk I can see four toolboxes and can touch two without leaving my chair. They hold mechanic’s tools, electrician’s tools, plumber’s too
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Young and Restless
My wife and I were standing in the cockpit of the Betty Jane II when the first blast reverberated through the marina: Blaaaahhhhhh. Blaaaahhhhhh. Bump! Bump! Blaaaahhhhhh. Blaaaahhhhhh. Bump! The bass notes were so loud, guttural and liver-quivering

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