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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
