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29z® Articles & Reviews
Delivery Captain Rates the 29z Near Perfect After 650nm - Capt. Doug Sanders has driven just about everything during his 35 years as a delivery captain. As a professional captain of over 35 years, I have had the opportunity to operate a myriad of boats. Occasionally one stands out from all the others in its... Read more
Delivery Captain Rates the 29z Near Perfect After 650nm
Capt. Doug Sanders has driven just about everything during his 35 years as a delivery captain. As a professional captain of over 35 years, I have had the opportunity to operate a myriad of boats. Occasionally one stands out from all the others in its category. The MJM 29z, built by Boston Boatworks, is such… Read more
29z Boat Test Data
Chesapeake Bay Magazine’s and Boating’s John Page Williams put the 29z through its paces on the Bay. People continue to be amazed how much performance we’re getting and how quiet the boat is with the Volvo D4 260 HP Duoprop sterndrive. 80 decibels at 23 knots and 33 knot top speed. As for fuel economy,… Read more
MJM 29z: A Fast, Fuel Efficient Cruiser With Downeast Flair
By Gary Reich, Boats.com MJM Yachts, the brainchild of J Boats founder Bob Johnstone, has made a name for itself by conceiving and building high-performance, smart looking, fuel efficient Downeast cruisers such as the MJM 40z, but the boat builder’s 29z often gets left out of the discussion. That’s a shame, because even though it… Read more
Livable Cruising
MJM launches its largest model yet with innovative spaces for more time aboard. By Peter A. Janssen, Southern Boating Magazine, June 2015 For five full years, Bob Johnstone, the legendary founder of MJM Yachts, didn’t want to build his new 50-footer. In fact, he didn’t want to build anything larger than the 40-footer he introduced… Read more
Down East Tradition Plus High-tech Construction Equals Amazing Performance.
Triple Volvo Penta IPS 600’s give the MJM 50z amazing cruising speeds. By Andy Adams and John Armstrong, Canadian Yachting Our first time aboard the MGM 50z was in the Yachts Miami Beach yacht show where we had the privilege of interviewing Bob Johnstone, founder of MJM Yachts. He created MJM to offer a focus… Read more
For Art’s Sake
Efficiency at cruise is in the eye of the beholder. And when that cruiser only gets an occasional three-day weekend away, the MJM 50z can change the game. By Jason Y. Wood Photography By Billy Black The art of cruising is one that we all try to practice with varying degrees of success. Many look… Read more
Power and Motoryacht Review: 53zi
Prime Mover By Jason Y. Wood From start to finish, the MJM 50z was shaped by vast seagoing experience, and the only thing traditional about her is her looks. Inertia is a funny thing. You know when it grabs you by the lapels, like when you’re on a landing airplane and you feel the wheels… Read more
The Shape of Things To Come: The MJM 35
When the news broke that MJM was building a 35-foot outboard-powered boat to join its already prestigious line up of sea-proven vessels, the buzz ran through the industry and among boat owners alike with the quickness of a lightning strike. MJM is well known for its strong, epoxy composite build, best-in-class performance Category A seaworthiness,… Read more
Southern Boating Interviews MJM Yachts Founder, Bob Johnstone
7 Questions for Bob Johnstone, Owner of MJM Yachts Focus on efficiency paramount for this boat builder, who also makes time for leisure cruising Bob Johnstone, owner and founder of MJM Yachts, keeps a keen eye on the Baby Boomer market. He knows that Boomers might slow down physically a bit with age, but that… Read more
Whale of A Trip
This was quite a solo offshore trip by Bob Johnstone. 235 miles from Northeast Harbor ME through the Cape Cod Canal to Newport RI in 10 hours. Some interesting observations are made regarding the 40z’s features and behaviour at 25 knot speeds in 4-6 foot seas and an incredible encounter with a large whale on… Read more
1025 Miles on ICW from Palm Beach to the Chesapeake Averaging 19.7mph
It’s hard to imagine a better boat than the MJM 40z for the 1025-mile ICW passage from Palm Beach to mile marker “0” in Portsmouth VA on Chesapeake Bay. 40z has the speed to get from one great destination port to the next without feeling confined to the boat all day long and losing walking/exploring… Read more
The Art Of High-Tech Powerboats
Boston BoatWorks and MJM Yachts team up on vessels that marry the best attributes of speed, weight When you get four sailors together to build powerboats, interesting things can happen. In my experience, sailors tend to develop an appreciation for and sensitivity to the elements that many powerboaters never do – wind and current, set… Read more
The Builder Under the Bridge
Boston BoatWorks co-owners Mark Lindsay and Scott Smith have been delivering complex, lightweight, fuel-efficient power cruisers in wet-preg epoxy composites for the last dozen years— production-built for Bob Johnstone’s MJM Yachts. In late February of 2015 Boston was digging out from a record winter; large snowbanks impinged on miles of aging turnpike just north of… Read more