Well, we wrapped up a record-setting (really, truly) northeast boat show schedule, and later this week we take our Long Island Yacht 33 Runabout to Annapolis!

 

The trip south provides you, my loyal clients, with a few last opportunities to sea trial this wonderful luxury dayboat before she goes into winter hibernation. Here’s how it looks:

• If you hurry, you can join me for a sea trial in lower Manhattan tomorrow afternoon, the 28th. Alternatively, I can pick you up in Brooklyn or at Liberty Landing in New Jersey.
• On Tuesday October 4th I am taking her from Cape May to Annapolis. It is a fun six hour trip, and If you are looking for a ride (short or long) she’s all yours.
• Alas, unlike the Norwalk Show, I have an interior slip at the Annapolis Show, and cannot do sea trials. But you are welcome to come see us from October 6th through the 9th. Just launch a flare if you’d like tickets.
• That said, I can get you a sea trial opportunity on Monday, October 10th, before she heads back north.
• From October 13th through the 15th she will be at her homeport at the Centerport Yacht Club on  Long Island. Sea trials there are easy as pie.
• Around October 16th she will go into winter storage in Bridgeport, CT.

So that’s the story. This message falls nicely into one of my usual sign-offs, usually uttered when a choice boat sells:

You Snooze, You Lose!

Or, in other words…

 

I mentioned in my last blog post the stunning (to me, anyway) rise in interest in outboard-powered Long Island’s. You may remember these plans, for the just-sold 33 Runabout, Hardtop/Outboard edition (click for details):

 

These plans prompted me over and over to answer questions about her larger sibling, the 40 Runabout:

 

Specifically, if she too were available in an outboard edition? Your wish is my command:

 

And then, if she were available in a hardtop?  The hardtop design is a work in progress. In a month, she won’t look like she does now. But here is our first cut at it, and our design team looks forward to your input:

 

When the hardtop design is done, I will have a single, integrated HT/OB plan to present to you. But for the moment, let me leave you with this interesting nugget:

At this size (but not for smaller LIY’s) the price of the outboard edition will be lower than her standard base price of $830,000.

Yup, lower, as in …. less.  Launch a flare for the details.

We are currently building the 40R, Hull #2. She has an entirely custom interior, and here is a sneak peak:

 

While the standard 40R interior is here:

See me in Annapolis to hear about all things Long Island Yachts. And one of the things you will hear is this:

Surprisingly, we have been able to hold the line on pricing all through COVID. But price increases are coming after the Fort Lauderdale Show. So now is your time, peoples….

 

Next up at bat is The Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. You will find me there in one of two places:

J Craft at FLIBS:

I will be either at the at the exclusive VIP IYC Lounge, where I will be presenting all there is to know about my favorite, no-compromises luxury dayboat, the J Craft Torpedo 42:

 

In advance of seeing you at the show, I encourage you to play a little game that I really enjoy – using  J Craft’s  ….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are curious about how I used their Configurator to build my own pleasure dome of choice,  she came out looking as so:

 

Why these colors? Well, see my sign-off below.

 

Vicem Yachts at FLIBS:

If you don’t see me at J Craft, take a walk over to the Vicem Yachts display, where you will have found me at just about every Fort Lauderdale Show since 2004. There will be an exceptional presentation by Vicem, this year, as they will be displaying not one, but two brand new flybridges, the 55 and the 65:

 

If a pic is worth a thousand words, then this video of Vicem’s Tandem Treasures exhausts even my capacity for wordplay. Call me to make your appointment to see both of these boats at the Fort Lauderdale Show.

A good time will be had by all.

I promise.

Ciao for now….

      Big Wave Dave 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[In my J Craft-configured color scheme!]