Spencer

New Boats Notebook - Feb 2014, update on the Spencer 87

Power & Motoryacht's first impression of the Spencer 57 IPS sportfishing yacht.

The new custom Spencer 87, Betsy, shows how far convertible design and construction have come.

Super StarSpencer Yachts and Volvo Penta build a custom battlewagon that does it all.I love stuff that’s new and different. And from the hints I’d gotten from the guys who had designed and built her, the triple-IPS Spencer 70 Enclosed Bridge was going to be unlike any custom sportfisherman I’d ever sea-trialed. Not only did she showcase the very first

Triple ThreatVolvo Penta and Spencer Yachts reunite to build another breakthrough IPS boat, and this time it’s a 70-footer.At Spencer, high-tech boats are built in much the same way traditional wooden boats were.In a bay in a boatyard in Manns Harbor, North Carolina, a 70-foot custom sportfisherman is

I was rigging baits in the cockpit of a 43-foot express sportfisherman at the 2005 White Marlin Open when a man who was fishing the boat next to my team’s came walking over. He asked if he could come aboard and take a look, and we happily invited him on. After about a half hour of going through the boat, he asked us what we liked and didn’t like about her. We shared some ideas, and then he