JONATHAN COOPER

TrawlerFest and PassageMaker magazine were proud to present Tony Fleming with a lifetime achievement award, recognizing his indelible contribution to the world of power cruising over the past 30 years.

Something new is afloat at the home of Nordhavn Yachts in Dana Point, California. Introducing the Coastal Pilot, starting with the flagship 59, in what you could turn into a series of models in Nordhavn’s new, semi-displacement performance line.

The Black Swan 72 sports a relatively narrow beam, an all-aluminum structural build containing three watertight bulkheads, and a double-hull bottom formed by integral tanks.

The autonomous, solar-electric power cat would be the very essence of “green:” A zero-emission craft to be used as a coastal-water passenger ferry.

Late in 2014, Dutchman Boyan Slat completed what was said to be the largest crowd-funded campaign in history, generating over two million dollars in 100 days for his non-profit startup, The Ocean Cleanup.

The new model is called the 50 Open, and it will feature a continuous elevation from the cockpit, all the way through to the pilothouse. The open layout is a first for the brand.

The smallest model in the line, the new Swift Trawler 30 will start at just under $300,000 and will a have reported range of 200 miles.

All Nordhavn owners are invited to attend the festivities in Petersburg, Alaska, situated on Mitkof Island from July 8 through 10, 2016.

Tempting The Sailor’s Heart: Our Intrepid Editor-in-Chief tries to lure a life-long sailor to the power-side by delivering the newest Ranger Tug to the world’s largest rendezvous.

The Greenland will be the first dry cargo ship ever to be propelled exclusively by LNG, or liquefied natural gas. LNG is the most environmentally friendly fuel known today.

The two boys, Austin Stephanos (pictured above right) and Perry Cohen (left), were avid fishermen who spent as much time as possible on the water.

If you’re tired of the same old-same old, land-based European vacation full of hotel-hopping and EuroTraining, how about chartering a cruiser from England-based Le Boat?

When Glenn Tuttle was asked to join the Board of Directors at the SSCA, he thought to himself, “how could I combine my passions, cruising and radio communications, and serve the SSCA?”

The new model, dubbed the E6, will build on their line of semi-displacement, high-efficiency cruisers established by previous models, the E3 and E4, starting with their first launch in 1997.

With the help of Google, Torqueedo electric power, solar panels, and a specially designed multihull boat, the Baykeeper project is hard at work photographing some 500 miles of coastline around the San Francisco Bay area.

NOAA’s quest to better understand the world’s seafloor continues, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has committed two of its ships to collect and update chart data in the Arctic.

Narrowly missing out on Chris Caswell’s recent feature on big boats (Yachts of Distinction, July/August 2015), Italian big-boat builder, Cantiere delle Marche, has launched its newest Darwin Class 86 “2.0” in Italy.

The freshly announced steel-built Bering 77 is the big sister to the Bering 65, adding 161,000 lb. of displacement alone, and has already been commissioned by two existing Bering owners.

Ward Setzer has penned a wide range of yachts, and his firm’s latest project: the Nautilus Series of power catamarans from Outer Reef.