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1 week ago | soundingsonline.com | John Wooldridge

Boat buyers of the early 1980s will remember the energy crisis of the late 1970s. Boat builders were looking for ways to offer models with better fuel efficiency. Some did it with trawlers that had slower-speed, displacement-style hulls that sipped fuel. Others did it with semi-planing hulls that offered better speed and range while retaining optimal seaworthiness. These were often called “fast” or “performance” trawlers. Albin Marine of Greenwich, Connecticut, offered both types and turned to C.

1 week ago | soundingsonline.com | Gary Caputi

My first visit to this sometimes overlooked part of the New England coast was as a young writer for a regional fishing magazine. I was invited to tag along on a day trip with a local striper fisherman who owned a house on Calef Avenue, barely a mile away from the Point Judith lighthouse. Perched on the bluffs overlooking Narragansett Bay, the view from his living room window was spectacular.

1 week ago | soundingsonline.com | Pim Van Hemmen

Reuben Trane, a descendant of the family that created the Trane heating and air conditioning company in the early 20th century, and who against expectation joined the Marines, spent five years as a filmmaker and then spent the rest of his life pioneering numerous boat brands—many of them iconic—passed away on April 7 after a long illness. He was 80 years old. Trane was a beloved character who lived a fascinating life.

1 week ago | soundingsonline.com | Pim Van Hemmen

The Hunt Ocean Series yachts evolved from the Hunt Deep-V hull, a design perfected and proven over time. Hunt Yachts just announced a new Hunt 56, which should deliver the company’s legendary soft, stable, dry ride, but according to the company will have best-in-class volume. The new 56 will come in a Flybridge or Express edition and can be personalized as a custom yacht. She will have a LOA of 63 feet and 1 inch, a beam of 15 feet, 7 inches, and a draft of 4 feet, 2 inches.

1 week ago | soundingsonline.com | Charles Plueddeman

The new Dometic DG3 gyrostabilizer leverages new technologies and smart engineering to improve many aspects of marine stabilizer performance and it could have the potential to reset our expectations for a stabilizer system. According to Dometic, the DG3 offers faster spin-up and spin-down times, reduced power consumption and less maintenance than its leading competitors. Its predictive technology is reported to deliver refined performance that is almost undetectable to the captain and crew.