Reporting from the 2022 Southampton Boat Show, Motor Boat & Yachting editor Hugo Andreae takes us on a full tour of the Cormate T28… One of the best days I’ve ever had on the water was driving this boat’s predecessor. The follow-up to the Cormate T27, the Cormate T28 was launched as an all-new model […]
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Reporting from the 2022 Southampton Boat Show, Motor Boat & Yachting editor Hugo Andreae takes us on a full tour of the Fairey Sabre 19… Back in the 1960s the name Fairey Marine was synonymous with British-built motorboats, but the Fairey name went out of business and nobody was building them for a while. That […]
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Reporting from the 2022 Southampton Boat Show, Motor Boat & Yachting editor Hugo Andreae takes us on a full tour of the Arksen A30 Adventure yacht, which was making its global debut… The Arksen A30 is the very first boat from a new British boat manufacturer, which already has a lot of irons in the […]
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Reporting from the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival, Motor Boat & Yachting editor Hugo Andreae takes us on a full tour of the Lynx 27M Crossover yacht, which he describes as “my idea of boating heaven”. There were a lot of big new boats at the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival, but none of them gave me […]
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Reporting from the 2022 Southampton Boat Show, Motor Boat & Yachting editor Hugo Andreae takes us on a full tour of the Balt Yacht 818 Titanium… There is something wonderfully honest and unpretentious about this Polish-built semi-planing motorcruiser. Built by a company whose main business is manufacturing craft for brands as diverse as Cormate and […]
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Reporting from the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival, Hugo Andreae takes us on a full tour of the Azimut Grande 26M, which was making its global debut. One of Azimut’s big debuts at the 2022 Cannes boat show was the Azimut Grande 26M, which measures in at just under 86ft LOA (85ft 7in to be precise). […]
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Reporting from the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival, Motor Boat & Yachting editor Hugo Andreae takes us on a full tour of the Azimut Magellano 66. Azimut’s relentless shift upmarket into ever larger boats means this new Azimut Magellano 66 is currently the entry point of its navetta-style cruising range, although a smaller Magellano 58 is […]
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Reporting from the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival, Motor Boat & Yachting editor Hugo Andreae takes us on a full tour of the Princess V50 Open, which was making its global debut… Even though the Princess V50 Open is very similar to the old Princess V48, the hull is all-new. It’s a bit longer and it […]
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We get regular requests for reviews of smaller budget boats and this yacht tour delivers exactly that. The Galia 700 Sundeck has a starting price of just £60,000… Galia is the sister brand of Galeon and this outboard-powered range of boats runs up to 7.7m. This Galia 700 is the 7m option and you can […]
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The Beneteau Antares 11 feels more than the sum of its parts and customers seem to agree. Hugo explains the star features… Beneteau launched its Antares flagship in 2019 and we got our first chance to take a look at the 2020 Dusseldorf Boat Show. The Beneteau Antares 11 is the first in the range […]
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Moored stern to the quay at the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival, the new Sanlorenzo SP110 is going to be the talk of the show. The lower saloon, leading down from the cockpit, was clearly inspired by Sanlorenzo’s sub-brand Bluegame. But this takes that concept to the next level, literally, opening up the after end of […]
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Reporting from the 2022 London Luxury Afloat Boat Show, Motor Boat & Yachting editor Hugo Andreae takes us on a full tour of the Azimut 53 flybridge yacht… Having employed Alberto Mancini’s services to design the 78, Azimut gave the Italian designer the trickier task of distilling that boat’s style and focus on volume into […]
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Join MBY’s Jack Haines on a full tour of the spectacular Pershing 7X sportscruiser yacht… It is reassuring in these uncertain times to glance into the engineroom of the latest model from Pershing. There you’ll find five tonnes of Bavarian muscle, bulging with potential energy. Some things, thankfully, don’t change. Surface drives, too: the new […]
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Jack Haines takes us on a full tour of the flagship of the Princess Yachts flybridge range, the fabulous Princess F70… The Princess F70 slots into a very competitive area of the market, going head-to-head with the Sunseeker Manhattan 68, the Fairline Squadron 68 and the Ferretti 670. At the 2019 British Motor Yacht Show, […]
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Hugo Andreae takes us on a tour of the beautifully bespoke Hunt Ocean 76 motor yacht, which is built on a hull design from the legendary Raymond Hunt… Deep-vee innovator C. Raymond Hunt is the brains behind this elegant motor yacht, which made its first inroads into the UK in 2019. Hunt Yachts, as a […]
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Reporting from the 2022 British Motor Yacht Show at Swanwick Marina, Hugo Andreae shows us around the XPS special edition of the Sunseeker Predator 74… We don’t reckon the Predator 74 lacks visual punch but if you are of the opinion that it could do with a little more pizzazz then the special edition Sunseeker […]
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Jack Haines takes us on a full tour of the Fleming 65, a refined trawler-style yacht that has serious offshore cruising pedigree… It’s not a brand new model, in fact they started building them back in 2005, but the Fleming 65 is a very interesting boat nonetheless. Tony Fleming, the man behind these boats, has […]
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Alex Smith reports from the 2022 British Motor Yacht Show, taking us on a full tour of the Galeon 485 HTS sportscruiser… The Galeon 485 HTS was introduced around about 2017, but it didn’t make it into the UK until the recent 2022 British Motor Yacht Show, where we were able to get on board […]
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Join MBY’s Jack Haines on a full tour of the Pershing 140 superyacht, which has to be seen to be believed… 142ft long, 28ft wide, displacing 250 tonnes with a fuel capacity of 30,000 litres and 10,400hp on tap – the Pershing 140 makes for a truly exceptional collection of numbers. In this video, filmed […]
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The 90 Ocean is the biggest shake up in Sunseeker’s design language for years but, incredible beach club aside, what else does this brave new model bring to the table? With the 90 Ocean, Sunseeker has resoundingly confirmed where the latest boat design battleground is taking place. First it was the amidships owner’s cabin, in […]
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