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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

High-Stepping High-Performance Hulls Stepped hulls can offer an effective blend of speed, efficiency, and style for high performance recreational powerboats when engineered properly. Stepped hulls have repeatedly proven to improve top speed of a given design up to 15%, or alternatively to improve fuel efficiency when run at less than

by: BoatTEST

tags: Boat Design, BoatTest, Hull, Performance

Friday, April 28, 2023

Mississauga, ON: Yacht Solutions Inc. introduces Sea-Speed, a revolutionary bottom paint for boats combining superior performance, durability and antifoul protection. Environmentally friendly with unmatched hull performance, Sea-Speed is the only manufacturer of a hard finish made of Silane - Siloxane marine coating new to the marine

by: Gregory Marlo, Yacht Solutions

tags: Boat Dealer, Boat Protection, Boating News, boating technology, Hull, Paint, Service & Repair, Yacht

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Make sure to get a glimpse at the first ever Hinckley 35, which will be making its debut at this year's Newport International Boat Show. Let's see what makes a Hinckley yacht worth the wait.

tags: Hull, New Boat Models

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

What makes MJM Yachts so advanced? Is it their design? Their superior materials? Their engineering? It's actually all of the above and more! Find out for yourself.

tags: Hull, New Boat Models

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Vicem Yachts, the renowned Turkish yacht builder, announced the successful debut of the first two hulls in their new 50 classic line. Read more about them and why they are so successful.

tags: Hull, New Boat Models

Friday, January 24, 2020

Crestliner Boats has been awarded a 2020 Minneapolis Boat Show Innovation Award for their Active Performance (AP-X) Hull design. Crestliner Boats, a division of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) took top honors in the Aluminum Fish Category. In 2019, the Aluminum Fish award was given to another Brunswick Boat Group brand, Lund Boats,

tags: Awards, Boat Show, Hull

Friday, August 9, 2019

AMC Customs is proud to offer boaters IGL Ecocoat marine – a specially formulated coating that adheres strongly onto gelcoat, polyurethane, and acrylic paint. It is the company’s highest performance coating in terms of QUV Accelerated Weathering testing, which refers to the world’s most widely used accelerated method

tags: Hull, Lake Erie, Polishes & Waxes

Friday, November 23, 2018

Protecting your boat from scratches and dents is a basic concept, but not always so easy. Some are perfect for pontoons, while others are needed for deep V-style hulls, while still others may be needed for differing dock designs. Some install at the dock permanently and then others are needed for travel. They can be heavy or awkward,

tags: Accessories, Hull

Friday, December 22, 2017

Smoove Products were purpose-built by professional marine detailers with the sole intention of cleaning and protecting gel-coat and painted fiberglass. When creating, products from another industry — such as the auto detailing market — were NOT incorporated. Instead, each product was carefully formulated to work on the

tags: Cleaners, Hull

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

A dirty scum line has turned your boat’s usually white hull a dark brown hue. Scrubbing, even power washing, doesn’t remove it completely. What to do? ACID BATH We tested two popular hull cleaners on the same boat to see which works best. Our subject bowrider sat at the dock from early May to late October. Parked at the

tags: Cleaners, Hull

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