A Very Cool (And Affordable!) New Boat
August 12, 2011
I see a lot of new boats in this job, and as you’d guess, some are more exciting than others. Of course, what excites me
I see a lot of new boats in this job, and as you’d guess, some are more exciting than others. Of course, what excites me
So what’s a really good way to empahasize the power and performance of your new $2.75 million Riviera 61 Series II Enclosed Flybridge? Well, if you’re one of those crazy Aussies, how about towing a waterskier? In fact, how about towing 12 waterskiers?
For some time now we’ve been telling you that Beneteau is targeting the United States in a big way. (We’ll be featuring a test of its new Swift Trawler 44 in our June issue.) Now comes word of yet another line coming to America called the Flyer Gran Turismos. It consists of four ranging from 34 to 49 feet, all of which are already popular in Europe.
Designing new boats on computers is now so common, it’s hardly worth mentioning. But while everyone seems to be doing it, a few boatbuilders have discovered—some the hard way—that CAD is not perfect. Indeed, they’re learning that despite the wonders of this new technology, nothing can substitute for actually walking through a full-scale mockup to determine if all the proportions and dimensions really work.
It’s been an awfully nasty winter so far, so when I received the invite for the annual Viking-Princess VIP event in Riviera Beach, Florida, I
If you spend any time on a computer and are also a boater, you know there a lot of boating-related Web sites. Whether it’s fishing,
In the pantheon of marine power, no diesel engine can compare with the two-cycle Detroit Diesel. Designed and developed by General Motors in 1938, the engine achieved almost mythic status because its two-stroke combustion cycle (one power stroke for each crankcase rpm) gave it significantly greater power density than diesels using the more common four-stroke combustion cycle (one power stroke for each two rpm).
I see a lot of new boats in this job, and as you’d guess, some are more exciting than others. Of course, what excites me
So what’s a really good way to empahasize the power and performance of your new $2.75 million Riviera 61 Series II Enclosed Flybridge? Well, if you’re one of those crazy Aussies, how about towing a waterskier? In fact, how about towing 12 waterskiers?
For some time now we’ve been telling you that Beneteau is targeting the United States in a big way. (We’ll be featuring a test of its new Swift Trawler 44 in our June issue.) Now comes word of yet another line coming to America called the Flyer Gran Turismos. It consists of four ranging from 34 to 49 feet, all of which are already popular in Europe.
Designing new boats on computers is now so common, it’s hardly worth mentioning. But while everyone seems to be doing it, a few boatbuilders have discovered—some the hard way—that CAD is not perfect. Indeed, they’re learning that despite the wonders of this new technology, nothing can substitute for actually walking through a full-scale mockup to determine if all the proportions and dimensions really work.
It’s been an awfully nasty winter so far, so when I received the invite for the annual Viking-Princess VIP event in Riviera Beach, Florida, I
If you spend any time on a computer and are also a boater, you know there a lot of boating-related Web sites. Whether it’s fishing,
In the pantheon of marine power, no diesel engine can compare with the two-cycle Detroit Diesel. Designed and developed by General Motors in 1938, the engine achieved almost mythic status because its two-stroke combustion cycle (one power stroke for each crankcase rpm) gave it significantly greater power density than diesels using the more common four-stroke combustion cycle (one power stroke for each two rpm).
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