Archive for December, 2009
Fleming Enthusiasts Get Their Own Magazine
Fleming Yachts has published the first edition of a company-sponsored magazine featuring the brand’s yachts, cruising articles and technical stories. The Fall/Winter edition of Venturer is available online at the Fleming website. Readers familiar with Nordhavn’s Circumnavigator magazine will find Venturer an opportunity to get the same kind of detailed product and “real world” use [...]
Sea Fare – Culinary (and other) Adventures on a Globe-Girdling Yacht
Victoria Allman is a classically trained chef whose wanderlust took her to sea for nine years as a chef aboard a megayacht. She has collected her memories of that experience in Sea Fare — A Chef’s Journey Across the Ocean. Readers here on OceanLines are, by definition, interested in travel, adventure, yachts and food. Allman’s [...]
Vote for the Best U.S. Coast Guard Video of 2009
The following is from the official blog of the U.S. Coast Guard, The Coast Guard Compass. It describes the annual video contest the service holds and this year’s collection of videos are as dramatic as ever. I’ve picked my favorite. Now it’s your turn. Have a look at the compilation below and then visit the [...]
Selene 66 Shows Her Rough Water Stuff
Returning recently from the Cannes international boat show, Selene Europe’s Mark Seaton had arranged for a helicopter photo shoot of the brand new Selene 66 (6603) he was driving. At least a hundred other boats were all attempting to head out to sea and pass around the famous headland Cap D’Antibes when the winds picked [...]
Ocean Racing World Mourns Roy Disney
Roy Disney, whose family legacy is forever etched in the memories of generations of children, and whose accomplishments as an open ocean sailor were truly remarkable, died last week at the age of 79. The colorful Disney built and helmed a number of open class racers, all named Pyewacket, the name of the witch’s cat [...]
Propane for the Dinghy Outboard Part 2
In a recent article here on OceanLines, we described a brand new development effort by a company called Marine Green to adapt smaller outboards for propane fuel. Since that article, I have been able to talk with the co-founder of Marine Green, none other than Bill Parlatore, the founder and current Founding Editor-at-Large of Passagemaker [...]
Jet Tern Launches Artemis Motoryacht Line
Howard Chen’s Jet Tern Marine has launched a new planing motoryacht line called the “Artemis” with a 46-foot debut model. Jet Tern Marine”s Zhu-Hai, China, shipyard is best known for its Selene line of displacement yachts. According to the company, the new Artemis line was developed “in response to consistent and strong market demand for [...]
Got Propane? Run Your Outboard Motor on It
Well, soon maybe. In my apparently Quixotic quest for a single fuel for vessel, tender and toys, I keep looking for new ideas. Using propane as fuel for an internal combustion engine is not new, but it is for a modest outboard application. A company I can only identify so far as Marine Green (more [...]
10 Questions with Kadey-Krogen’s Larry Polster
Editor’s Note – In this series we feature a Q&A with the leading executives of passagemaking boat companies. The second installment features the thoughts of Lary Polster, vice president of Kadey-Krogen, one of the top brands of passagemaking boats. The following bio was provided by Kadey-Krogen: Larry Polster is a life-long boater, born and [...]
