Owners of large yachts are used to having an abundant supply of freshwater aboard because most have a device called a watermaker that converts salt water to fresh. Smaller weekenders, on the other hand, have incredibly small freshwater capacity and can run through it quickly. SeaWater Pro is a new company hoping to change that with a portable watermaker designed for day boats. More...
Each year at holiday time we look over our server logs to discover what were the most popular boat tests and boat articles/reports we published in 2021. If you missed these boats and reports when first presented – you can catch up now.
Happy Holidays!
– The BoatTEST Team
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MasterCraft X24
Family-Friendly Wakesports Boat
When MasterCraft replaced the X23 with the X24, the company upgraded the bottom for wake surfing and improved the GEN2 Surf System. The boat’s interior was enhanced to carry 18 passengers and to entertain the crowd with a premium stereo. She’s a party platform for the whole family. More...
People are waiting in line to get one of the new Mark Richards Grand Banks 54s. She is everything lifelong Grand Banks lovers had hoped for and she has features that most had never even thought about. She reached 29 knots at WOT in our test. Slow things down to 9.6 knots and she’ll cover more than 1,100 nautical miles. More...
Check out Capt. Steve’s top picks for this year and bring a smile to the boater in your life. Watch our videos to find out where you can buy them and what special discount deals are going on now.
The Grady-White Marlin 300 was the first boat to incorporate the exclusive SeaV2® hull design and it worked so well that it became the standard for many other models. We’ve always been partial to the Marlin 300 because she is comfortable for the whole family. More...
The 34'5" (10.49 m) Jeanneau NC 1095 is a cruiser that was designed for coastal entertaining and exploring. She is targeted to families that want to stretch their dollars but still have the utility of a cabin cruiser. More...
The 2016 Sea Ray 350 SLX, Good Vibrations, is a day boat with seating for 18 passengers. She has two cabins below: to port a cabin for napping and to starboard a stand-up head. Docking is a snap with her joystick and the helm has a digital dash with a Raymarine touch screen chartplotter. More...
The fire seen above was on a 100’ (30.48 m) fiberglass motoryacht. It occurred a couple of weeks ago in a yard in Portsmouth, RI, just a few miles from the BoatTEST home office.
Drinkability, a motoryacht just over 100’ (30.48 m) long, built by Ocean Alexander, and Danneskjold, a sailing yacht just over 100’ (30.48 m), built by Southern Ocean and New Zealand, went up in smoke on December 10, 2021, in the Hinckley Yard in Portsmouth, RI. We have some takeaways from this costly fire. More...
If you own a boat, you can legitimately call yourself the captain – but that doesn’t mean you’re a particularly good captain. Although there’s no substitute for years of experience at the helm, a little bit of knowledge never hurts. More...
We haven’t heard of a fiberglass powerboat’s hull delaminating in decades, so boat buyers need not worry about that. But what we have seen are hulls flexing when abused. With time, that flexing can delaminate bulkheads or other structures that have been tabbed into the hull. With a proper stringer system, that won’t happen. Boat buyers have to rely on the builder's reputation. For example, Formula has a reputation that's second to none when it comes to a lot of things, including the strength of stringers. The last time we toured the Formula plant, we met a crew that specialized in fiberglassing in stringers with lots of TLC. More...
Sovereign Boat Club’s latest addition to its growing fleet is an Everglades 235CC. This is a meat fisherman’s dream as she was designed for hard work bringing in the big ones. All of SBC’s vessels are permitted to go up to 100 miles offshore, which means she can get to the grouper and red snapper fishing grounds. Best of all, she has the lowest annual dues of any boat in the SBC fleet and she's based in Tampa Bay ready for action. Inquire here...
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