CAPT. BOOMIES WALKTHROUGH. With its sea-keeping performance and year-round comforts, the EXPLR 10 Sport + is ready for fast trips to anywhere. Her thick aluminum hull with an LOA of 30.8’ (9.4 m) should provide decades of tough duty.
PERFORMANCE VIDEO. The Riviera 585 SUV combines live-aboard comforts and space for gracious cruising by two couples or a family. She has three staterooms and three heads below. A joystick is available.
VIDEO TOUR BY BT'S CO-FOUNDER. The Seadeck 6 (57' 5"/17.5 m) has the feel of a large dayboat, with a huge lounge aft and extended sunning areas on the fold-out balconies. But she also has a luxurious master suite below and the salon is open and airy thanks to XL windows.
CUBE CAT. The Overblue 44 has living space from bow to stern thanks to Italian designer efforts to maximize interior volume. She has three staterooms and a full-length flybridge equivalent to those on 80-footers and she floats on cat hulls, She is currently available from Denison Yacht Sales.
SOVEREIGN BOAT CLUB. Would you like to be a member in this new, premium Edgewater 280 DC? She’s rigged for fishing and family cruising and she can be yours if you contact us soon. Located in St. Pete Beach. Go to SovereignBoatClub.com or call 352-457-5314.
MURPHY'S LAW STRIKES AGAIN: No one knows "officially" what caused the sinking of Bayesian, but what has come out, as we mentioned last week, was the boat would downflood at a 45-degree heel, a detail published in the builder's "book" for the yacht's captain. Evidently, the builder assumed that the captain could always control the boat's angle of heel. See this in-depth video by Practical Sailor.
BOAT BUYING. Buying a boat is a big, expensive decision. Here are seven tips from Sean Horsfall, owner of Len’s Cove Marina, on what to check before you buy.
BOATING EQUIPMENT. Almost from the dawn of the powerboat era in the early 1900s, boats have been able to speed across waves at bone-jarring velocity. For most of the past 100 years, operators of high-speed boats have used their knees to cushion their spines from the G-forces encountered. But now, there are better ways.
GREAT LOOP CRUISING. The Boomershine family moves aboard their Ocean Alexander 56, trying to find space for everybody including kids and cats as they prepare to push off as first-time Great Loopers.
Cruising the I.C.W. near Topsail Beach, NC in a Grady-White 222 Fisherman.
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