Catamaran

First Look: 90 Sunreef Power. While it's hard to beat nearly any catamaran design for space, it's definitely going to be a challenge to match the 90 Sunreef Power on that score. Learn more about this big, wide cat here.

Nearing the end of the Port Everglades breakwater off Fort Lauderdale, our Africat 420 was making about 12 mph. Noting the two- to four-foot seas rolling in from the southeast, I placed my right hand firmly around a nearby stanchion and waited for the jolts that would splatter my new cup of coffee onto the dual Raymarine E120 chartplotters and Volvo Penta IPS joystick. I decided I'd better grab

Designed to conquer big seas and fuel adventure, the 28-foot Molokai catamaran from Aquila is the company’s first center console. We tested it in 4- to 6-foot seas and were seriously impressed with the boat’s ride.

Our Boat Test of the Aquila 44

Taking a built-for-charter MarineMax 484 on a super-fast passage to the Exumas and beyond sounded like a job made especially for Executive Editor Capt. Bill Pike. All he needs is a little luck…

PMY Boat test of the Axcell 650.

Just about any boatbuilder will claim its vessel has the "latest(!), innovative(!) technologies" and "represents an entirely new direction." Yet, once you get onboard, you often discover that while the boat may be nice, she's not necessarily the "next big thing" in boating. But the Buzzards Bay 33, which I recently tested out of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is different. She's a no-frills

Wild CatLean on the throttles a little and you get economy. Lean on ‘em a lot and you get a ride you won’t believe.While the Buzzards Bay 34’s ride was no doubt explainable in terms of naval architecture, it retained a certain ineffability nevertheless. I mean, here we were—Buzzards Bay honcho Russell Hunt and yours truly—slicing blithely through a half-crazy

Power & Motoryacht's boat test of the Cumberland 47 LC from Fountaine Pajot

Our Boat Test of the Fountaine Pajot 37.

Our first look at the Fountaine Pajot MY 37.

A photographic tour of the Summerland 40 LC

Our Boat Test of the Horizon PC52.

The Horizon PC58 is a multihull with wide-ranging appeal for both traditionalists and nonconformists.

Power & Motoryacht's boat test of the Horizon PC60.

Power & Motoryacht's first look at the Horizon Powercat PC60 Skylounge

"Would that all boat tests were thus," I marveled to myself as the Comp Air 7 Turboprop swung a pirouette in front of me and then stopped on the tarmac of Flightline's terminal on the private side of Tallahassee's Regional Airport. The Air 7 was a beaut, alright—a kit-type airplane of the sort typically sold to do-it-yourselfers with the assurance of professional assistance during

Our first look at the Lagoon 630 Motor Yacht.

Our first look at the Mares 45 Yacht Fish.

I’m a sucker for this kind of thing, really: Two midsize powercats, on loan to PMY from NauticBlue Power Yacht Vacations, an offshoot of The Moorings, the worldwide charter outfit. A testing venue shimmering with scenic beauty. And finally, an immense and groovy pile of test gear, complete with freshly calibrated fuel-flow-measuring equipment and enough compression-type fittings to stock a

It’s important to keep your focus when you’re testing a boat, but I must admit that I found doing that a challenge with the NauticBlue 464 power catamaran. Not because I’m particularly fond of catamarans. Rather the potential distraction I had to grapple with was the test venue: the Virgin Islands. NauticBlue runs a charter company based on St. Thomas which serves both the American and British

t’s not surprising that the waters just outside Miami right after a boat show are chockablock with gorgeous high-performance yachts doing wide-open-throttle, loop-d-loop demos, photo shoots, or just blasting off for home. And what better place to experience the Stealth 540’s oh-so-surprising top end? Time after time—it’s addictive—we slipped this 54-foot luxury cruiser into a

Sunreef 67 Power It’s just a question of time. Even the most diehard sailors will eventually be tempted to come over to “the dark side,” forgoing the laborious winching, hauling, and hoisting of sails in favor of simply turning a key and motoring off into the sunset. So it’s to be expected that some sailboat builders might make the

Be it her range, her interior volume, or the feeling of satisfaction you’ll get while cruising her, everything about the new Sunreef 70 power catamaran is vast.

All things happen for a reason, right? After a recent sea trial—actually two sea trials, as I will explain—aboard the PC 62 (previously known as the VG 60), an Italian-built catamaran from Ancona's V.G. Shipyard, I was beginning to see the light behind this oft-used and seldom-understood adage.My first test started uneventfully. BRB Yachts, the 62's U.S. distributor, had the