Pacific Asian Enterprises today announced a unique new program to track the mileage of its Nordhavn brand owners’ yachts. Called the “Nordhavn Distance Pennant Program,” the initiative has owners log their trips and engine hours and mileage on the Nordhavn website, where the individual accomplishments and the fleet totals are shown. The first pennant is [...]
One of the most anxiously awaited boats of the fall season is Grand Banks’ new 41 Heritage EU, powered by CumminsMerCruiser Diesel Zeus azimuthing drive pods. Grand Banks dealers from around the world met last week in Singapore and were treated to the first look at the new boat. I first wrote about the new [...]
Outer Reef Yachts has confirmed that its new 63 raised pilothouse model will debut at the Newport International Boat Show this September. Company President Jeff Druek said yesterday the new boat is current en route from the shipyard in Taiwan and will arrive in Fort Lauderdale in August. The 63, at bottom left in the [...]
Nordic Tugs, of Burlington, Washington, yesterday announced that it has signed its first dealer in Russia. Boat Market, based in Moscow, will take delivery of its first boat, a Nordic Tugs 37, in August. (See OceanLines review of the NT-37 here) David Goehring, Nordic Tugs’ executive vice-president/COO, said in a statement, “Our research suggested that [...]
OceanLines is about to undergo a major transformation. Over the past year, I have been carefully studying reader response to the various stories we’ve done and I’ve decided to re-design the website to focus more sharply on two specific content streams. OceanLines will, starting August 1, 2008, feature daily coverage of “passagemaking” and “marine science” [...]
Nordhavn has released a series of 3D renderings of its new 75 Expedition YachtFisher (EYF). The renderings show the boat, currently under construction, from various perspectives and are extremely detailed, down to the chartplotter image on the flybridge rendering. These should help potential customers get an astonishingly realistic look at what their new boat will [...]
