Archive for February, 2010

More Details on New Krogen 52

| February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
More Details on New Krogen 52

Kadey-Krogen yesterday released more details of its newest trawler, the Krogen 52′, which we first reported on here. It’s decidedly a classic Krogen trawler, with its raised pilothouse and 3,000 nm range at about 7 knots. It shares many of the features of its bigger sister, the Krogen 58′.  The main-deck galley is “Iron Chef”-equipped [...]

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ActiveCaptain Launches Major Website Upgrade

| February 25, 2010 | 0 Comments
ActiveCaptain Launches Major Website Upgrade

Jeffrey Siegel said this week that the ActiveCaptain “X” beta website, under development for the past year, is now fully launched and live, providing everything from a new user interface to NOAA charts and Microsoft Virtual Earth cartography.  The website benefits greatly from having been available in beta form for the last several months and [...]

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Sea Fare February – Victoria Allman in the Galley

| February 23, 2010 | 0 Comments
Sea Fare February – Victoria Allman in the Galley

Editor’s Note — Victoria Allman is the chef aboard a 143-foot megayacht and the author of the recently released “Sea Fare:  A Chef’s Journey Across the Ocean.”  This is the second in a series of periodic columns here on OceanLines featuring her irresistible recipes. Best of all for OceanLines readers, who are travelers of the [...]

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Considering a Trawler? Get to a Trawler Fest

| February 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
Considering a Trawler? Get to a Trawler Fest

Yesterday’s news of the new Kadey-Krogen 52′ — which was made sort of under the public radar — at last month’s Trawler Fest in Fort Lauderdale, reminded me of just one more benefit of these events. If you’ve never been to a Trawler Fest, which are owned and operated by Passagemaker Magazine, and you’re thinking [...]

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Kadey-Krogen Offering New Krogen 52′ Trawler

| February 18, 2010 | 0 Comments
Kadey-Krogen Offering New Krogen 52′ Trawler

Kadey-Krogen Yachts today, in a monthly newsletter to clients and interested followers, casually mentions that it is offering an entirely new model, the Krogen 52′. As you can see from the profile rendering above, the new trawler is definitely a Kadey-Krogen, with the tall, ship-like bow, classic pilothouse amidships, and rectangular portholes in the hull. [...]

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Learn to Run a Selene 47 Trawler

| February 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Learn to Run a Selene 47 Trawler

Selene Annapolis Charter has teamed up with the Sea Sense Powerboating School to offer the Selene 47 Holiday for charter and/or instructional charter on the Chesapeake Bay in 2010. Charters are a five-day, four-night on-board comprehensive experience. Sea Sense will provide a structured course covering boat systems, operation, course plotting and navigation, boat handling, docking, [...]

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VIDEO: Active Captain Integrates with MaxSea-Furuno

| February 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
VIDEO: Active Captain Integrates with MaxSea-Furuno

Jeff Siegal of ActiveCaptain recently notified users of the fabulous online cruising database that the information from ActiveCaptain will shortly be available inside MaxSea’s Time Zero charting software. The MaxSea folks were demonstrating a beta version of the software and Jeff did a short video of the demo, which is below. ▶ An impromptu demonstration [...]

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New Partnership Will Develop Independence 60 Green Yacht

| February 12, 2010 | 0 Comments
New Partnership Will Develop Independence 60 Green Yacht

  HB Marine and Independence Green Yachts yesterday announced a partnership that will form a joint venture to develop the Independence 60 Luxury Yacht that IGY started a few years ago. The Independence 60 is billed as the “world’s first ‘no compromise’ sustainable yacht.” A combination of solar cells, hydrogen production and storage and fuel [...]

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Pacific Expedition Offers Zeus Pod Drives for PE60 Catamaran

| February 11, 2010 | 0 Comments
Pacific Expedition Offers Zeus Pod Drives for PE60 Catamaran

Pacific Expedition Yachts will offer Cummins Mercruiser Diesel Zeus pod drives on its PE60 Expedition Class Power Catamaran. The first hull with Zeus drives is already under construction at Pacific Expedition’s Astoria, Oregon shipyard, with delivery expected later this year. Here’s how Pacific Expedition describes the decision to offer the Zeus drives: The PE60, equipped [...]

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Nordhavn Offers Flybridge-Less 75 EYF

| February 10, 2010 | 0 Comments
Nordhavn Offers Flybridge-Less 75 EYF

Pacific Asian Enterprises said on its website that it has developed a version of its 75 Expedition Yacht Fisher (EYF) without the expansive flybridge common to most sportfishing battlewagons. The change acknowledges the cruising half of this split-personality ocean-going yacht and gives it a more conventional “Norhdavn look.” I took the liberty of scanning a [...]

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OceanLines Now Syndicated to Millions of Readers

| February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
OceanLines Now Syndicated to Millions of Readers

As our readers know, the publishing world is in the midst of an upheaval as publications and readers turn to online outlets to deliver content. Naturally, we at OceanLines feel we’ve been helping to lead our audience of cruisers and passagemakers to that new online world of resources. Well, the publishing powerhouses continue to evolve [...]

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First North Pacific 38′ Sedan Delivered to North America

| February 8, 2010 | 0 Comments
First North Pacific 38′ Sedan Delivered to North America

North Pacific Yachts said it has delivered the first NP38 Sedan to a North American customer. The boat was on display at last week’s Seattle Boat Show after arriving on 16 January from the shipyard in China.  We have the first photos of the NP38, both during initial sea trials in China and as she [...]

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Kadey-Krogen and Nordhavn at the Upcoming Miami Boat Show

| February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
Kadey-Krogen and Nordhavn at the Upcoming Miami Boat Show

Kadey-Krogen said this week that it will have a Krogen 58′ and the 48′ North Sea with the redesigned galley and bridge, which we wrote about here on OceanLines recently. P.A.E. advises that their final plans for the upcoming Miami boat shows include the 75 EYF and the 62 at Collins Ave., — more formally [...]

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Torqeedo Adds More Electric Outboards

| February 4, 2010 | 0 Comments
Torqeedo Adds More Electric Outboards

  Torqeedo keeps adding new models to its line of electric outboards. The latest is the Travel series with two new units offering power equivalent to 1.5 hp and 3 hp, respectively. The Travel 503 and Travel 1003 not only offer more power than their predecessors but are tougher and are completely waterproof to IP67 [...]

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More Night Navigation Models from FLIR

| February 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
More Night Navigation Models from FLIR

FLIR this week announced expansion of both its fixed M-Series and handheld First Mate series of night vision devices. They’ve covered several different price points now with the First Mate monoculars, which we wrote about here on OceanLines. The M-series also gets a new, less-expensive version that drops the low-light camera and carries only the [...]

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