Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2025 i Motor Boat & Yachting

It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking this boating lark is simply too expensive for mere mortals like me with mortgages to pay, children to fund and monthly direct debits syphoning out money faster than a fire hose, but reading this issue gives me hope that all is not lost. Our two cruising features this month demonstrate that it is still perfectly possible to go cruising on a budget. Gilbert Park set himself the challenge of visiting seven ports in seven days during a summer cruise along the coast of Brittany in his 2004 Mitchell 28 (p28). To make things even more interesting, he resolved to eat exclusively in local French restaurants offering a three-course set menu for less than €30. Not only did he complete the challenge…

LOA: 37ft 1in (11.3m) BEAM: 12ft 10in (3.9m) ENGINES: 2 x Volvo Penta 350hp V8 petrol or 300hp D4 or 400hp D6 diesel TOP SPEED: 36 knots PRICE: From €450,000 CONTACT: www.belliniyacht.it Bellini Yachts may be a new name to most of us but back in the 1960s, this family-owned Italian yard was building wooden runabouts of similar style and performance to Riva. Sadly, its founder Battista Bellini, fell ill in the early 1970s and production ceased a few years later. The company switched its focus to storage, sales and restoration but in 2023, after a 50-year break, a younger generation of Bellinis returned to its roots by launching a brand new GRP sportscruiser with all the style and glamour of its forebears. With styling by Brunello Acampora of Victory Design…

LOA: 25ft 11in (7.9m) BEAM: 8ft 4in (2.55m) ENGINE: 300-400hp Mercury outboard TOP SPEED: 42-48 knots PRICE: From £105,000 ex VAT CONTACT: www.nordbalt.co.uk Swedish brand Ockelbo builds its boat in Riga, Latvia out of specially treated marine grade aluminium for maximum strength and minimum maintenance. The result is a tough no-nonsense boat that can be used all year round almost regardless of the conditions. The styling reflects that with a simple but purposeful look that would look equally at home in an SBS training facility as in a marina. The full beam wheelhouse features flush-fit windscreens and side windows to ensure a good view out in all weather and a large swing-up door giving access to the deep forward cockpit. Built-in seats and lockers both here and in the compact…

The weather was so good this week that I ‘bunked off’ on Monday, drove down to the boat and pottered upriver for an afternoon of swinging off a visitor buoy at Dittisham in the sunshine. As I sat there, watching the world go by, a surprising number of boaters had similar ideas. I was treated to a steady parade of vessels heading upstream, including a beautiful old Fairline 50, which I sold for the first owner in Torquay back in 1998. Built in around 1989, if memory serves me well, it then moved round to the River Dart and has been there ever since. It’s an interesting topic to reflect on, given that Fairline was recently sold to new investors. You will have read the full story in MBY of…

SEE MORE mby.com/h45e Keeping your boat life fresh and exciting often involves change. Change of boat, change of guest, change of equipment, change of cruising ground. And heading across the Channel to explore the Continent by means of Europe’s inland waterways is a really superb way to achieve that. Realistically, of course, a great many inland waterways boats would struggle to cross the Channel and a great many seagoing boats would be utterly impractical (not to mention absurd looking) on canals and rivers. But that’s exactly where Cockwells’ new Hardy 45 European comes in. Based squarely on customer feedback, this is a boat that enables you to go both inland and offshore with the utmost ease and comfort. Based on the exhaustively proven Hardy 42 offshore hull, it’s basically an…

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Small boats aren’t the only vessels being transformed by the electric revolution. Volvo Penta has just announced details of its first all-electric IPS drivetrain and it’s targeted at boats as large as 80ft. Called IPS900 Electric, it uses the same forward-facing pod drive technology as Volvo’s diesel-powered IPS900 but is fitted with a bespoke 515kW (690hp) electric motor instead of the usual 700hp six cylinder D13 engine. The result is a significantly quieter and more compact package that delivers the performance equivalent of a 900hp shaft drive engine without the usual noise, exhaust and emissions. And it can be fitted in multiples of up to four to power craft that would typically use a pair of much larger diesel engines. POD DRIVE EFFICIENCY As with the conventional diesel-powered IPS systems,…

The sheer variety of new boats is greater today than it has ever been. It means that now, more than ever, you can buy a boat that precisely matches your intended use and style. For my part, I had become sold on the idea of replacing my old Axopar with the excellent Fairline F33, before a new kid on the block arrived to muddy the waters. Just prior to me pulling the trigger on a Fairline demonstrator model, Saxdor released its brand-new flagship, the 400 GTO. Having witnessed its launch at the Palm Beach boat show in 2024, I got the chance for a private question-and-answer session with none other than the founder and chief designer, Sakari Mattila himself – and it’s clear to me that Sakari is very much…

There’s plenty of joy to be had blasting up and down the coast on a rapid sportsboat or flybridge cruiser. But when the weather’s good, there’s something equally appealing about the slow, simple pleasures of river life. The placid waters, the shade of the willow trees, the lure of the waterside pub, the gentle shouts of bonhomie and encouragement from other motorboat skippers. The variety of traffic, featuring everything from tiny tenders and rowing skiffs to converted liveaboards, pretty steel narrowboats and traditional Dutch barges, is also good fun. And that’s to say nothing of the entertainment laid on by the locks and the seasonal hire boats. In short, life can be very good inland, but to enjoy it at its best, you need a boat that’s tailor-made for the…

The original Shadow 26 was launched in 1988. Designed by award-winning designer, Bill Dixon, it was a wheelhouse cruiser that was offered with two hull options: a vee hull with outdrives for coastal use; or a displacement hull with a keel that ran with a single diesel. Built by Victoria Marine, Motor Boats Monthly bought one to offer as a competition prize! How times have changed. When Victoria Marine merged with Westerly, the 26 was dropped but almost a decade later, the Shadow 26 was back. Norfolk-based Swancraft Cruisers had bought the moulds and offered the wheelhouse version plus the versatile Cabriolet model you see here. INTERIOR With an open-plan layout, buyers were able to pick either twin berths forward or the very appealing extra seating that this boat has.…

Once upon a time, there were two distinct camps: monohull advocates and multihull fans. The former liked to talk about style, pace and agility. The latter liked to talk about volume, stability and efficiency. And the two could never see eye to eye. But times have changed. Boaters recognise more than ever that extra deck space and interior volume are valuable commodities; that uprated stability, reduced fuel consumption and a soft ride are features worth having. More to the point, they seem far less bothered about sacrificing a little extra speed or sex appeal to achieve these things – and in truth, there are now so many builders looking into power-driven cats that they no longer have to. Just like monohulls, the modern multihull market has become so varied that…

THE BRAND Polish newcomer, Dracan, was established in 2023 as a specialist builder of sporting, outboard-powered, cabin-equipped powercats with sector-leading style and supremely flexible day spaces. In pursuit of that goal, the firm’s first step was to appoint Błazejak Yacht Design, led by Robert Błazejak, Poland’s most experienced catamaran designer and a man with first-hand knowledge of the world’s leading yacht brands. The second step was to appoint Model Art as its shipyard of choice for the construction of its new boats. With three factories in Poland encompassing more than 25,000 square metres of production space, as well as 25 years of experience, a workforce of 1,000 employees and a CV that includes collaborations with some of Europe’s most prestigious powerboat brands, that puts construction, as well as design, in…

THE BRAND When South African yard, Robertson and Caine, moved into the world of powercats, it went exactly the right way about it. Its fleet of Leopard sailing cats had already scooped all kinds of international awards but it still chose to design its new power-driven cats from the ground up and its level of success has been stellar. In 2020, its Powercat 53 won the Multihull of the Year award. It followed that up two years later with a smaller 46ft version, which also took the top gong at the Best of Boats Awards. When its smallest powercat completed the hat-trick with the European Powerboat of the Year award in 2024, it was a very clear endorsement for the Leopard way of doing things. Designed, built and tested off…

LOA: 51ft 8in (15.75m) BEAM: 16ft 7in (5.05m) ENGINES: Twin Volvo Penta D8-600s (shaft or IPS) or outboards TOP SPEED: 36 knots PRICE: €1.79M ex VAT CONTACT: www.santaseverayachts.com This is the very first model from Italian brand Santasevera. Designed by Francesco Guida, naval architect, yacht designer and company owner, the Santasevera 52 has been conceived as a fresh vision of what the modern open Mediterranean cruiser is all about. At the heart of that is a very short raised foredeck with a modest array of sun loungers orbited by a walkaround deck. That frees up lots of space further aft for the saloon, cockpit and swim platform to merge as one huge, unbroken single-level, inside-outside socialising zone. It’s a very striking design but for extra flexibility, the new Sanatasevera also…

BLUEBIRD RETURNS I thought your readers might like to know that the legendary hydroplane, Bluebird K7, will be returning to Ullswater in Cumbria on 23 July to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Donald Campbell’s first world water speed record. In 1955 people crowded the shore of Ullswater to see Bluebird and Donald reach an unprecedented speed of 202.32mph, beating the previous record of 178.49mph set by Stanley Sayres. To celebrate this, the Ruskin Museum will display Bluebird K7 at Glenridding Pier in collaboration with Ullswater Steamers. I am sure her upcoming visit will also attract a large number of people wanting to see a very special piece of British high-speed motoring history. Tracy Hodgson, Director of the Ruskin Museum Any chance to see Bluebird afloat is worth the trip but…

ST TROPEZ LOUNGE POOLE I have a theory, built up over many years of experience, that if a venue bigs itself up with a name like The Grand or The Palace, there’s a good chance it will be neither grand nor palatial. I could certainly name a number of hotels that prove the theory but what about restaurants? I have to say that when it was suggested we should visit the St TrOpez Lounge (forgive the capital O, that’s their doing, not mine) I wasn’t exactly expecting to find French Riviera glamour rubbing shoulders with Côte d’Azur glitz in the eatery on the corner where Poole Quay meets the High Street. But as you are about to read, I was very wrong! The world’s I should have mugged up before…

DAY 31 3 JUNE Today was going to be a big day. Destination Salcombe, the furthest west I’ve ever been with pleasant conditions of calm waters and a dash of early sun. My mate Ben was with me for the next couple of days and we departed Torquay at a gentle 5-knot chug then picked up the tidal stream to push our speed over ground up to 6-7 kts. When the tide started to change after covering 13 miles in 2.5 hrs, we blasted the final 9 miles into Salcombe. Taking care to steer clear of the notorious sandbar at the entrance and following VHF comms with the harbourmaster, we picked up our allocated buoy opposite The Ferry Inn and tendered ashore. A quick tour of the shops and a…

Ever since its foundation in 1966 in the historic Viking town of Sarpsborg in Norway, Nordkapp has been known for its compact, high-quality family powerboats. It wasn’t until the 1990s though, and the beginning of the firm’s association with celebrated Norwegian designer, Espen Thorup, that we really saw Nordkapp’s famous practicality spiked with a healthy extra dose of playfulness and dynamism. The emergence of the new Enduro centre console and Avant bow rider models saw a marked shift toward sharper, more progressive designs and more capable deep-vee hulls – and today, in line with Nordkapp’s enduring 30-year collaboration with Thorup, those same happy traits endure in the modern fleet. Whether you’re looking at the open Avant bow riders, the Enduro centre console day boats, the Noblesse sporting weekenders, the Coupé…

If you like the idea of a subsurface scooter but want something lighter and altogether cooler than the ubiquitous Seabob, the Cudajet Underwater Jetpack might prove tough to resist. Designed to be more intuitive than its key competitor, it enables you to go from storage to sea in less than a minute. All you do is put on the harness, clip on the jetpack and go. It can travel at up to 7mph and operate for up to 90 minutes on a single charge. Steering is done with body movements and speed is adjusted with the low-drag handheld controller, which uses a wired connection to avoid losing it. The harness provides both protection and positive buoyancy, so if you let go of the controller or exceed your depth limit, the…

When a fisherman asked me if I had been out much last season, I found myself making excuses – and that made me think. I’ve found myself pretty much ignoring Cecienne, my Princess V39, for local boating and using her solely for longer trips. And I’m not alone in that. A friend, who manages a Solent marina, estimates around 20% of the berthed boats rarely or never leave home. And that seems odd. After all, when I bought my first motorboat, a Sealine 28, Grey Eagle, over 30 years ago from a boatyard on the Hamble, it was midwinter and the seawater in the dock was iced over. There was no onboard heating but what did I care? In those conditions, we made our first ever voyage, all the way…

Built in Wroxham, with the Norfolk Broads on the doorstep and other inland areas very much in mind, the 950 was one of Sheerline’s most successful models. In fact, it’s still in production today in the mildly updated form of the Sheerline 955. This features lots of useful detail differences and upgrades but it’s pretty much the same shape and layout as this original. INTERIOR Although it would make a great day boat, Sheerline clearly specced this boat with longer periods on board in mind. The most obvious example of that is the full-sized domestic oven, grill and four-burner hob. The fridge isn’t massive but there’s a second one in the cockpit and there’s plenty of storage and counter top to play with too. There’s a dinette opposite that with…

Launched at the Southampton Boat Show in 2014, Haines tapped into its existing customer base to come up with suggestions on how to make this the best 30ft river cruiser around. And many of the details, like the illuminated side step integrated into the hull to aid boarding, are based on that client feedback. INTERIOR Haines offers two interior layouts for the 32. The most popular is the model you see here, with its large forward owner’s cabin, complete with raised island bed. It also comes with a U-shaped galley opposite the port heads, as well as a main deck saloon with helm to port, a sideboard aft of that and settees to starboard. But there is a second, much rarer, option that moves the galley up behind the helm…

THE BRAND Formed in 2012 as part of a collaboration between powerful Chinese manufacturing firm Sino Eagle Group and major US boat dealer MarineMax, this award-winning multihull specialist is now the world’s most prolific powercat brand. It builds its boats at a state-of-the-art million-square-foot production facility in Hangzhou City, China, and that brings with it some natural advantages, both in terms of industrial efficiency and product development. The Florida-based design team collaborates with world-leading naval architecture firms such as J&J Design (Slovenia), VPLP Design (France), Peart Yacht Design (South Africa) and Yacht Design Works (USA). That has seen Aquila achieve international renown for bringing traditional big boat features to much more accessible areas of the market. Among its most notable innovations are its forward steps for direct bridge-to-bow access, its…

THE BRAND Four Winns was established in 1975 in Cadillac, Michigan, when brothers, John, Bill and Charlie Winn, and their Dad, Bill Senior, acquired a struggling boat-building firm and gave it a new lease of life with a fresh name and a fresh direction. Right from the start, the intention was to construct a fleet of compact but high-end, American-made boats, optimised for family recreation and watersports – and their success was phenomenal. They did add a range of compact cruisers in the late 1980s, as well as a V575 model that pushed way up toward the 50ft mark, but at its core, this has always been a brand of sporting open day boats. Today, under Beneteau Group ownership, Four Winns is a global leader in exactly that sector. With…

THE BRAND Makai Yachts feels refreshingly different. Headquartered in Britain, designed in Italy and built in Croatia, it was founded in 2019 with the intention of creating a range of comfortable long-distance powercats with the handling and looks to tempt even the most ardent monohull fan. It wouldn’t be until the Palma Boat Show in 2024 that we saw the brand’s first boat emerge on the international stage, but that original M37 made a very major impression. Having traversed the 1,800nm from Makai’s manufacturing facility in Split to the show venue in Mallorca, it was clear straight away that this coupé-style cat came with serious cruising credentials. But true to Makai’s word, the style was equally strong. Having drawn inspiration from the world of classic supercars, Italian designer, Emmanuele Rossi,…

THE BRAND Prestige Yachts’ first ever boat was a 41ft sportscruiser. Launched in 1989 by parent company, Jeanneau, it was the result of what would become an enduring collaboration with celebrated Italian studio, Garroni Design. In the year 2000, shortly after its acquisition by the Beneteau Group, Prestige then moved into flybridge cruisers, becoming astonishingly successful with its cleverly conceived layouts and its ability to make motoryachts feel as much like floating homes as boats. Having achieved pre-eminence in the 40-75ft flybridge sector, it then responded once again to market trends by introducing a line of powercats. It began with the M48 in 2022, before following that up with a pair of larger cats in the form of the M8 (a 65-footer with the volume of an 85ft monohull) and…

LOA: 50ft 4in (15.33m) BEAM: 15ft 8in (4.8m) TOP SPEED: 22 knots ENGINES: 2 x Volvo Penta D6 480hp PRICE: From €1.29m ex tax CONTACT: www.bvandenhovenjachtbouw.nl Dutch yard Van den Hoven only builds a handful of boats each year but judging from the new Voyager 50, exhibited at the British Motor Yacht Show in May, there’s a good reason for that: it enables it to lavish the kind of craftsmanship and attention to detail on each boat that simply wouldn’t be possible on a production line. The result is a beautifully built, beautifully designed boat that looks and feels like it will last a lifetime. Designed by Dutch naval architect René van der Velden, the Voyager 50 is an elegant liveaboard coupé that’s just as happy crossing the North Sea as…

LOA: 22ft 10in (6.96m) BEAM: 9ft 6in (2.88m) ENGINE: 200-300hp Suzuki outboard TOP SPEED: 40-50 knots PRICE FROM: £89,995 inc VAT CONTACT: www.aquaspiritribs.co.uk Keen boaters will know how effective a well-designed RIB can be at cutting through lumpy seas, but until now that has often come at the expense of a rather cramped cockpit. Ukrainian builder Aquaspirit reckons it has overcome that by using D-shaped inflatable tubes. In eliminating the usual circular tubes’ intrusion into the cockpit, it says its new 700 flagship has more internal space than any other 7m RIB on the market. We don’t know if that is definitely the case but having had a good look round the new model at the Trailboat Show in Basingstoke in April, we can certainly confirm that it’s a very…

Compromise was key during this cruising adventure. My wife, Maire, is not a keen sailor but is happy to indulge my passion for boats on her own terms, so I agreed to cruise our Mitchell 28 Let’s Go from Plymouth to St Malo in Northern France, where Maire would join me for some gentle exploration of the surrounding area. I had three weeks to get there. Picking a suitably calm day, I ambled across the Channel from Plymouth with just dolphins for company and the odd huge container ship. After about 100 miles I arrived in St Peter Port, Guernsey, for a couple of days rest and recuperation then carried on to Jersey for another few days before moving on to France. St Malo would have been my easiest port…

For a long period back in the 1990s and 2000s Windy was one of the dominant forces in the 35-45ft hard top sportscruiser sector. Boats like the 37 Grand Mistral, 40 Maestro and 44 Chinook offered a sporty, practical and beautifully built Scandinavian alternative to the usual Fairline Targas and Princess V40s of their era. Then for reasons we still don’t fully understand, Windy turned its back on the mainstream hard top sportscruiser market in favour of larger superyacht style chase boats and pure open sportsboats. Both these new ranges still have the performance, handling and build quality to mix it with the best but for UK and Northern Europe waters, where summers are short and superyachts rarely linger, they simply aren’t as versatile or as well suited as their…

The Coronet brand may have long since fallen by the wayside but back in 1970, when this particular Coronet 21 was imported into the UK from Botved Boats in Sweden, its deep-vee fibreglass hull and top quality production process was still a novelty in a world of handbuilt wooden craft. In the 45 years since then it has only ever had two owners prior to me. It was originally purchased by a Mr Millington from his local boat dealer – a little known outfit called Poole Powerboats that later morphed into the rather better known boat-builder Sunseeker! Mr Millington was an active member of the Royal Motor Yacht Club in Sandbanks. During the summer months it was mainly used for a 2nm dash out of Poole Harbour to the popular…

Unlike cars, which use air to cool the liquid coolant flowing through the engine and radiator, most boats rely on the water they’re floating on to keep their engines cool. Some use this ‘raw’ water (be it fresh or salt water) to cool the engine directly, continually drawing in water through an impeller pump and circulating it around the engine before expelling it out via the exhaust. This is called ‘raw water cooling’ and is the simplest, most basic cooling system. One step up from this is a raw water system with a thermostatic valve. This opens and closes as required to maintain the engine’s temperature at or near its most efficient operating range before discharging it. On outboard engines, the hot water is mostly discharged underwater through the propeller…

Sometimes, things just don’t seem to add up in the boating world. Take for example the Elan Power 30 – a sweet little sportscruiser if ever there was one. When we first tested it back in 2015, we described it as a vessel with a sleek modern form that was brilliantly engaging to drive. We also pointed out that it was extremely competitively priced compared to its nearest rivals of the day, the Jeanneau Leader 9 and the Grandezza 330OC. In fact, there was very little not to like about it. Surprising then that the Elan Power 30, a smaller sibling to the 35, 42 and 48, never really caught on and very few were sold on these shores. Today, Slovenia-based Elan, which began in 1949 producing skis (and still…

As the flagship of Midlands-based Trusty Motor Boats, the T28 was the biggest boat the brand ever built. In addition to feeling rock solid, it has a tough motorboat aesthetic, thanks to its compact portholes, upright wheelhouse and businesslike navy blue hull. INTERIOR Given that this is a sub-30ft boat, perhaps the biggest news is that the owner’s cabin features a central island bed, rather than the usual vee berth or offset double. It also avoids the open plan living space you’d usually expect to find in the bow. There’s a compact mid cabin on the lower deck too, with rather less headroom over the bed as it squeezes beneath the cockpit sole. The heads compartment is also down here, but everything else is on the main deck, including a…

MGB 81 COOL RATING THE SPITFIRE OF THE SEAS Those of you as old as me (or even older, heaven help you) might see the name MGB 81 and wonder why we’re covering classic British Leyland sports cars from 1981. However, the MG MGB ceased production in 1980 and the actual subject of this month’s Cool Boat is the Motor Gun Boat 81, a far more appropriate machine. In 1940, The Second World War was in full swing, and while the RAF was doing a valiant job of defending Britain’s skies, the ship convoys bringing us supplies were under attack, targeted by torpedoes from German E-Boats and suffering heavy losses. Conventional Navy ships were too slow to react to sightings and drastic action was required. Step forward Hubert Scott-Paine, former…

THE BRAND Since its inception back in 2022, Archipelago has forged a reputation as a builder of serious offshore powercats. Every boat in its fleet is RCD/RCR Category-A certified, with highly efficient, soft-running hulls and diesel-electric hybrid powerplants for uprated sustainability and greater independence from shoreside support. Built entirely from aluminium for reduced weight, increased strength and extra customisation potential, each boat also benefits from the commercial expertise of Chartwell Marine. Exceptional bridge deck clearance means reduced slamming, better comfort and improved endurance in heavy weather. And although the company builds its boats on the Isle of Wight, it also now offers a design and licence package, which means you can have your boat built, under Archipelago supervision, by the shipyard of your choice. Whichever way you choose to go…

THE BRAND Lagoon is a global leader in the production of power and sailing cats. Founded as a multihull division of Jeanneau in 1984, the firm was sold to Construction Navale Bordeaux before being acquired by Beneteau in 1995. That brought a fresh level of industrial might to the table that has seen it deliver more than 7,000 boats in the last 40 years. But the brand ethos has never altered. Designed by French naval architecture firm, VPLP Design, which has an extraordinary heritage in record-breaking racing cats, Lagoon is famed for stable, high-volume catamarans that are keenly optimised to meet the needs of liveaboard and long-distance cruisers. In the past, that has seen it focus primarily on sailing cats but it has also been building powercats for more than…

THE BRAND McConaghy Boats was founded in Australia in 1967 by John McConaghy, with the intention of applying new and innovative materials to the production of skiffs, Tornado and A-class catamarans. In the 1970s, it was one of the first companies in the world to take pre-impregnated carbon fibre from the aerospace industry and use it in the construction of boats. And in the late 80s, it combined that with Nomex Honeycomb core technology to create cutting-edge 70ft-plus racing yachts. The company would go on to have great success with its maxi yachts in the Rolex Sydney Hobart race, before opening a Chinese shipyard in 2006 to increase capacity and to support production of its semi-custom yacht lines. And today, McConaghy builds powercats and luxury multihulls, as well as highly…

THE BRAND Ecological responsibility has been woven into the Serenity Yachts story right from day one. Founded by Boyd Taylor and Elizabeth Neville in 2019, this American-owned, full-service shipyard came into being after the pair had struggled to source a bluewater motor yacht for their own use that was genuinely kind to the environment. Rather than compromising with an imperfect boat or commissioning a bespoke one-off platform, they established a company that would enable them to take full control. Their intention was to create a line of luxury long-distance yachts with cutting-edge electric and hybrid solutions that would enable people to enjoy a quiet, sustainable and genuinely lightfooted experience – and today, just six years on, Serenity Yachts has already achieved global renown for exactly that. Based in the bustling…