Alex Smith reports from the 2022 British Motor Yacht Show, taking us on a full tour of the first Beneteau GT45 to reach the UK… The world’s largest boatbuilder knows a thing or two about hardtop sports cruisers, and the new Beneteau GT45 is a distillation of much hard-won wisdom in this fiercely competitive sector. […]
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Wellcraft is looking to steal a slice of the lucrative European adventure boat market with its striking new Wellcraft 355… Vertical bow, forward raked windscreen and an enclosed pilothouse mark a major change of direction for Wellcraft Unlike the US brand’s previous range of centre console craft, the Wellcraft 355 features a plumb bow, a […]
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Adventure boat specialist, Arksen, has released details of its new Arksen 65, which will be built from 40% recycled aluminium… Tough but efficient aluminium displacement hull enables a range of 3,000nm at 8 knots Aimed primarily at owner-drivers with off-grid cruising ambitions, the new Arksen 65 has been designed to enable simple self-sufficiency in some […]
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The hotly anticipated E1 Series of electric powerboat racing took a major step forward this month with the first sea trial of its radical new RaceBird craft. The all-electric RaceBird flies round a tight turn in testing This all-electric one-design foiling boat took to the River Po near San Nazzaro in April, where it was […]
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At the recent South Coast Boat Show, MBY editor Hugo Andreae took a test drive of the RS Pulse 63, the first electric RIB we’ve been aboard… After unveiling the original Pulse 58 prototype at Boot Düsseldorf 2020, the team spent two years refining the design into the larger and more sophisticated Pulse 63. The […]
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John Travolta stars as Don Aronow (renamed ‘Ben Aronoff’ in ‘Speed Kills’), the speedboat racer and multimillionaire murdered in 1987. ‘Speed Kills’ the film loosely based on the life of Don Aronow (‘Ben Aronoff’ in the movie) has been released on Netflix US. American Don Aronow was a designer, builder and racer of speedboats. He […]
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Lymington-based broker Alex Grabau is representing a new brand of sporty wheelhouse boats from Lithuanian yard Navis Pro, called the Navis Pro 34 Alpha Cruiser. The wheelhouse is offset to port to leave space for a wider starboard side deck This sturdy GRP craft with a fully enclosed helm and deck saloon was conceived by […]
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Vicem Yacht’s latest model, the Vicem 82, is a breath of fresh air in a market full of towering fibreglass and ballooning waistlines The Vicem 82’s timeless silhouette bucks the trend for over-inflated proportions Her timeless lines are going to look as good in 50 years as they do now and, despite being the largest […]
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