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New Boats

Nordhavn N51

The venerable brand’s second model built in Turkey embraces production-style manufacturing and a long list of standards.

New Boat: Eastbay 60 (Video)

Passagemaker editor-in-chief Jeff Moser and Power & Motoryacht honcho Dan Harding Jr take a close look at the new launch for the reconceptualized Eastbay badge.

Bering B76

On June 14th, at the Bering shipyard in Antalya, Turkey, the fully custom B76 Lemanjá left the shed and touched water for the first time.

New Boat: Leopard 46 Power Cat

The South African-based line’s latest launch offers both 3- and 4-stateroom versions, the latter for its partnership with The Moorings Power Charters.

New Boat: 80 Sunreef Power Eco Yacht

This Polish power cat is fitted with over 2,000 square feet of photovoltaics via its proprietary “solar skin” and can be built with either hybrid or fully electric propulsion.

New Boat: Cape Sable 38

The Canadian launch is based on a traditional Cape Islander lobster boat, designed with a cruising couple in mind.

Absolute 70 Fly

Absolute 70 Fly Reviewed

Twin 1,000-hp Volvo Penta D13s and 285 nautical miles of range give the new Absolute 70 Fly the room and speed to roam.

Twin delivery captains Assen and Nikolay Alexandrov standing on the bow deck of a motor yacht docked alongside a pier.

The Twins

After more than 500,000 nautical miles as yacht delivery captains, Assen and Nikolay Alexandrov are still bringing boats home.

Alt Text: A close-up view of two polished stainless-steel windlasses and anchor gypsies mounted on the white foredeck of a yacht under a partly cloudy sky.

Anchors Aweigh

Windlass and ground tackle maintenance can make all the difference in an emergency.

A Garmin marine chartplotter display screen showing a digital nautical map with AIS vessel tracking, route waypoints, and navigation data overlay.

Understanding AIS

Good seamanship means using every available tool, but never relying on any one alone.

Three side-by-side screenshots from the Navionics app showing nautical charts of Hell Gate and Wards Island, contrasting a correct manually plotted water route on the left with two flawed AI-generated routes on the middle and right that erroneously plot course lines directly across land.

A Suspicious Plot

I used AI to chart a course through a notorious waterway. The results were unusable.

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