Category: Powerboats

100th Ranger 29 on Trailer

Florida Dealer Delivers the 100th Ranger Tug 29

  Wefings Marine, the Apalachicola, Florida-based Ranger Tugs dealer, recently delivered the 100th Ranger Tug 29 to her new owners.  The 100th boat was sold by Marc Grove, who owns the dealership.  Grove also sold the first R29 in 2009.  Wefings Marine has also committed to buying the first of the new R31 series. Grove [...]

New Ranger Tugs 31' Rendering

Ranger Tugs Announces New Ranger 31′

Fluid Motion, LLC, designers and builders of the Ranger Tugs line of trailerable “pocket trawlers” this week announced a new flagship to the fleet — the Ranger 31′.  The new R31 will make its debut at the Seattle Boat Show from January 26 to February 5; followed by an expected East Coast debut at the [...]

Construction Update photo of new Nordhavn 120 Megayacht

New Nordhavn 120 Construction Photos

Pacific Asian Enterprises, Inc., today passed along a new collection of informal photos updating the construction progress of the new Nordhavn 120.  The new-design megayacht will become the new queen of the Nordhavn fleet sometime late this year.  According to PAE, “Work continues on the first hull of the future queenship of the Nordhavn line: [...]

New Nordic Tugs 39

New Nordic Tugs 39 A Nice Update to NT Fleet

In a piece I wrote for YachtWorld.com this week, I said that the new Nordic Tugs 39, an updated replacement for the NT-37, is a worthy successor.  The couple I interviewed in the story, Donna and Kevin Steele, went through a meticulous process that culminated in choosing the new NT-39 and their experience would serve [...]

Latest exterior rendering of the new Nordhavn 120 under construction -- Courtesy of P.A.E.

PAE Reports Build Progress on First Nordhavn 120

Pacific Asian Enterprises, Inc., said last night that progress continues with the build process on its first true superyacht, the Nordhavn 120.  According to the company, the hull and deck are joined, while the engine beds have been made and are ready for installation of the main engines (twin MTU 8V 2000 M72′s, rated at [...]

Kadey-Krogen 5201 Released from Hull Mold - Photo Courtesy of Kadey-Krogen

First Photos: Krogen 52′ Released from Mold

Kadey-Krogen Yachts said today that hull number one of the new Krogen 52′ line has been released from its mold.  Krogen 5201 will be a single engine vessel with hydraulic bow and stern thrusters.  The new yacht is scheduled to be delivered sometime this summer. There’s a lot to like about this slightly smaller version [...]

Laurent Bourgnon family on Sunreef Yachts 70 Power JAMBO - Photo Courtesy of Sunreef Yachts

70 Sunreef Power Cat Hull Mods Double Efficiency

Sunreef Yachts said last week that modifications it has made to the 70 Sunreef Power catamaran JAMBO have nearly doubled the yacht’s fuel efficiency.  The fuel consumption on JAMBO dropped from 13 liters/hour/engine at 10 knots at 2,300 rpm, to 7.5 liters/hour/engine at 10 knots at only 1,500 rpm. The mods are a demonstration of [...]

Five Pocket Trawlers for Consideration

Call them pocket-trawlers or mini/pocket-tugs, the North Pacific Yachts 28’ Pilothouse, Nordic Tugs 26, Ranger Tugs 25SC, Minor Offshore 25, and Rosborough RF-246 have hardiness and efficiency in common. The terms “pocket trawler” and “pocket tug” don’t really have precise definitions, yet both connote a small, salty vessel that’s probably a jack-of-all-trades and won’t break [...]

Stern Shot of the New Island Pilot IP535 with Island Pilot 435 to Left

First Photos of New Island Pilot IP535

You saw it here first, folks.  The first photos of Island Pilot’s new IP535.  It’s a monster!  And definitely an Island Pilot “fast trawler.”  Island Pilot’s Reuben Trane confirms the boat will be on display at next week’s Miami Boat Show, so if you want to see one of the truly unique new boats out [...]

Helm of New Nordhavn 63-01 Before Electronics Installation.  Photo courtesy of PAE

What Would YOU Do With this Nordhavn 63 Helm?

The folks at Pacific Asian Enterprises just recently unloaded N63-01 from its freighter in Miami and brought it up to the Stuart completion center.  It’s a beautiful boat; an evolution of the N55/60 hull with the aft pilothouse and overall look of the venerable N62 (but not quite the beam of that boat).  In looking [...]

Ranger Tugs 25SC Helm Featuring Garmin Electronics

Ranger Tugs, Cutwater Buyers Can Get Garmin Factory-Installed

Fluid Motion, the company that builds Ranger Tugs and the new Cutwater fast pilothouse boats said this week it has a deal with Garmin to provide that company’s marine electronics as factory-installed packages on both lines of boats.  Of course, if you don’t want Garmin gear, you can certainly order your boat without but I [...]

View of the galley and salon of the Krogen 48' AE

The 50th Krogen 48′ Heralds an Ergonomic Makeover

Kadey-Krogen Yachts said yesterday that the 50th edition of its highly successful 48′ North Sea line is the first to sport a series of now-standard modifications that significantly improve liveability aboard a boat that was already highly regarded in the liveaboard community.  The company took the opportunity to re-badge the boat as the “Krogen 48′ [...]

Minor Offshore 28 Pilothouse Family Cruiser

Minor Offshore has a New 28′ Cruiser

The Minor Offshore brand of Finland-built patrol/cruiser boats has introduced a new 28′ model that strikes a good balance between affordability and size — all packaged in a hardy, family-ready cruising boat.  Represented in the U.S. by Skarne Marine, of Milford, Connecticut, the Minor Offshore boats could eventually become major players in the small-to-mid-size cruising [...]

New Nord Star 24 Offshore Outboard Model

Nord Star Offers New 24 Offshore Model with Outboard Power

Nord Star USA and Brewer Yacht Sales will be showing a new Nord Star 24 Offshore model from the Finnish boat builder at the New England Boat Show in late February.  The boat features outboard propulsion but retains the salty pilothouse looks of its sister ships in the Nord Star Patrol line that runs all [...]

Rendering of New Cutwater 28 Fast Cruiser

Cutwater is New Brand of Fast Cruisers from Ranger Tugs Builder

Cutwater Boats is the new brand from Fluid Motion, LLC, the designers and builders of the popular Ranger Tugs. The first two models out of the yard in Monroe, Washington, will be the Cutwater 26 and Cutwater 28, express-style, diesel-powered fast cruisers capable of up to 25 knots.  The company said Mark Mansfield has been [...]

Ranger Tugs Gather at a Recent Rendezvous in Bremerton, Washington

2011 Ranger Tugs Rendezvous Set for Sept. 9-11

Following a successful 2010 owners’ rendezvous in Bremerton, Washington, this past September, Ranger Tugs has announced that the 2011 edition will take place September 9-11, 2011, again in Bremerton, at the Port of Bremerton Marina. Some 42 Ranger Tugs attended the fleet gathering this year, up a third over the previous year.  Ranger Tugs are [...]

Starboard running shot of the new Nordic Tugs 39

Nordic Tugs Production Re-Starting

News this week from Nordic Tugs, Inc., that it has re-started production after a three-month hiatus during which most of the operational employees were laid off.  Bob Shamek, who heads sales and marketing for Nordic Tugs, said workers were being recalled as the production processes ramp up. The company has a number of boats on [...]

Greenline 33 at Annapolis

Greenline 33 Shows How to Do Green

In a recent piece I did for Boats.com, I wrote that the new Greenline 33 cruiser is the real green deal.  I saw and briefly tested the boat at the Annapolis Powerboat Show last fall and it truly impressed me.  Here’s a quick rundown on the boat; for the full story, read the article at [...]

Dashew Offshore FPB 112 starboard profile

Dashew Offshore Working on FPB 112 Design

The Dashew Offshore designs, pioneered by Steve and Linda Dashew’s Wind Horse and the tens of thousands of miles under her keel, have been moving smartly forward recently, with the FPB 64 in production and now, the FPB 112 moving into detailed design and production.  Wind Horse, the FPB 83 that served as the prototype [...]

Rough Weather Video

Yeah, I know I really shouldn’t be doing this. Showing rough-weather videos to boating junkies is like feeding the bears at Yellowstone. It’s not good for them.  They want more.  They will go to YouTube and spend (waste) hours looking at rough-water videos, then bad weather videos, then tornado videos, then videos of that cool [...]

North Pacific Yachts 43 Pilothouse at Annapolis Powerboat Show 2010

North Pacific Yachts 43 is a Value Leader in Pilothouse Yachts

When I first wrote about the North Pacific Yachts 43 Pilothouse in March of 2009, I thought the model represented a good value for families looking for a roomier vessel to cruise on with the kids. On seeing the boat again at this year’s Annapolis Powerboat Show, I’d like to expand that view to mark [...]

Nordhavn 76 Eliana at Delivery in 2010

Nordhavn 76 “Eliana” Delivered

        Editor’s Note — I’m running the full text here of a release this week from Pacific Asian Enterprises, the parent of the Nordhavn brand, in which they announce the recent delivery of “Eliana,” the 17th in the hull series.   I don’t normally run the full copy of press releases here on OceanLines, [...]

Northern Lights M773LW3 Diesel Generator with WaveNet Digital Monitoring System

Northern Lights Shrinks Genny, Adds WaveNet NMEA 2000 Monitoring

Northern Lights is basking in the southern sunshine this weekend at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS) with a new skinny genny and a NMEA 2000-certified digital monitoring system called WaveNet. The newly shrunk generator, the M773LW3, is a 9kW model and is almost 30% smaller than its predecessor.  “The overall size of smaller [...]

Selene Ocean Explorer 92 Rendering

Selene Building First Ocean Explorer 92

Jet Tern Marine announced that it has sold the first hull of the new Ocean Explorer 92 model and that the boat is now under construction for an expected debut at the Monaco Yacht Show in 2012.  Mark Seaton, of Selene Europe. provided us with the text of the press release announcing the sale, along [...]

Hide-a-Davit from LaConner Marine in the "up" position

Hide-a-Davit Hangs the Dinghy Off the Swim Platform

There are lots of options for hanging the dink off the swim platform; some better than others and among all a wide range of cost variation.  The Hide-a-Davit demonstrated in this LaConner Maritime video is one example of a fairly sophisticated system, involving hydraulic rams to raise and lower capture arms. This particular system features stainless [...]

Nord Star 26 Pocket Cruiser and Sport Utility Vessel

Nord Star 26 Should Be Your New SUV

There are not too many boats in this size category that truly work as cruisers, but the Nord Star 26 is the kind of marine SUV (Sport Utility Vessel) that can take a small family for nice summer cruises and be wildly entertaining in between.  It’s all made possible by the mad-crazy efficient layout of [...]

Torqeedo Power 26-104 Lithium Battery

Judging Innovation in the Boat-Building Biz

As I write this, I’m on my way back home from the “IBEX” international Boatbuilders Exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky, where I served as one of the judges in a panel that gave out a series of awards to recognize innovation in new products.  IBEX is a unique, trade-only show where the people who make everything [...]

Nordhavn 75 EYFs 1 and 2 Meet in Cabo -- Photo Courtesy of P.A.E.

First Two Nordhavn 75 EYFs Meet in Cabo

There’s a great little item on the P.A.E. Nordhavn website about a chance meeting of the first two 75 Expedition Yacht Fisher (EYF) boats in Cabo San Lucas this summer. The two families who own hulls no. 1 and 2 apparently read the marketing materials that P.A.E. produced when it launched the new model.  One [...]

Protector's new 38' "Tauranga" Expedition RIB

New Boat Video: Protector 38′ “Tauranga” Adventure Boat

I just got back from the 2010 Newport International Boat Show in Newport, Rhode Island, and the most spectacular ride I had there was on Protector’s new 38′ “Tauranga,” a tough, seaworthy boat that can handle the roughest seas and outrace anything on the water that isn’t a dedicated go-fast.  This boat is a slightly [...]

Buzzards Bay 34 Catamaran -- Photo by Billy Black, Courtesy of Multihull Development

Buzzards Bay 34 Cat – Couple’s Expedition Cruiser

This might be the perfect boat for a couple looking to cruise the coastline in a boat that puts a premium on comfort — a comfortable ride in seas, comfortable accommodations topside, and a seriously comfortable stateroom.  The comfortable ride is courtesy of the twin displacement catamaran hulls, designed by Chris White, which slice through [...]