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Celebrating 100 issues.
by Marilyn M. Mower
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08/01/2005
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| 100th issue |  |
1994
• Reconstituted Burger Boat delivers 91' Windrush – its first launch since David Ross
and Jim Ruffolo purchased the company out of bankruptcy in 1993.
 1994- Art imitates life. Among the guests at
ShowBoats’ 1994 Rendezvous in Monaco is artist LeRoy Neiman, who paints the cover
of the November issue. (Click image to enlarge)
• Luca Bassani
launches Wally
Gator, a 105' carbon
fiber ketch with joystick controls and a bomb bay-style anchor pocket.
• Shep McKenney introduces the Hinckley Picnic Boat and predicts the company might sell
a dozen. By 2005 sales have reached 340 and 80 percent of Hinckley’s sales are
now powerboats.
1995
• Brothers Dick and Brad debut the Lazzara 80 motor yacht 40 years after their
father, Vince Lazzara, made history building the first fiberglass production
sailboats.
 1995- The last wooden Riva Aquarama rolls off the line,
ending a series that began in 1962. Now owned by Ferretti Group, Riva relaunches
the look with the 33' fiberglass Aquariva in 2001. (Click image to enlarge)
• Caterpillar
3500
B series engines
allow tuning for minimum emissions.
1996
• Jongert
debuts its folding keel on 3200M Movesita. It delivers harbor draft
without sacrificing interior volume.
• Much of Broward Marine’s New River Yard is destroyed by fire.
1997- Top: Flexing its capital muscle, Benetti expands in
Viareggio and builds 50-meter Golden Bay on spec. The following year Benetti
acquires 70 percent ownership of Siar-Moschini shipyard. Bottom: Satellite communication forever changes yachting.
Completing the INMARSAT communications revolution begun with the first satellite
leased for public use in 1982, the Mini-M SatCom introduces the first
small-platform receiver. (Click images to enlarge)
1997
• Four years in the making, a "Code of Practice" for the
safety of U.K.-registered commercial sailing and motor vessels over 24 meters
slips into effect under direction of the British Maritime Safety
Agency (now MCA).
Provisions cause angst, especially for composite and performance boat
builders; add several percentage points to the cost of a yacht and change
interiors forever. The first yacht to comply is Amels’ 164' Tigre d’ Or.
1997- Top: When Asian interest in yacht ownership booms,
ShowBoats begins a special edition for that market, a good idea until Asian
economies begin falling like dominoes. Bottom: She only
looks like an antique. This cover, featuring Hodgdon’s cold-molded
Liberty, is the best-selling issue to date. (Click images to enlarge)
• French builder Guy Couach celebrates 100 years in
yachting.
1998- Top: The nonprofit SeaKeepers Society forms during the
Rendezvous in Monaco to produce an autonomous water quality and weather
monitoring device for yachts, ships, buoys and piers. Earliest members include
Paul Allen, Jim and Jan Moran, Alex Dreyfoos and Jim Clark. Bottom: Palmer Johnson delivers 195' La Baronessa, the
largest U.S.-built yacht since the 1930s, and at the time of her launching, the
largest all-aluminum yacht ever. (Click images to enlarge)
1998
• Sunseeker
debuts 80' Predator and Manhattan models. Response stuns the company, which has
to revamp its facilities to meet the 25 boats promised by the end of ’99.
• Ferretti
acquires Custom
Line, Pershing and
Bertram
brands and the following year adds CRN to its stable.
• Rodriguez Group becomes publicly traded on the French stock exchange. Within the next
four years the group acquires Camper & Nicholsons, BSA
and the
ISA shipyard.
•
Iridium communications buzzes into being. Utilizing low earth-orbiting
satellites, it delivers voice, paging and fax without large Sat Com domes.
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