Cruisers 38GLS: notes from my trip to Sturgeon Bay

John Armstrong On Cruisers 38GLS

June 27, 2019

CY’s Captain Armstrong at the helm

Canadian Yachting’s John Armstong recently took to the road to get CY readers the first-ever look at a very interesting new boat. The full review will appear in an upcoming issue of the magazine, but we asked JA to give us his fort impressions. And the answer was wow!

This was the most amazing boat I have ever tested, to answer the questions you sent me

1. Their customers are doing more day and weekend only boating
2. The boat is about super convenience and fantastic performance.
3. Engines three Mercury 300 8-cylinder Verados

Handling

The boat was a dream handle at all power settings, dockside, underway, slow cruising and even high speed in 3-4‘ hard swells. We did 360s in both directions, ran in following sea and into the chop at 4000 RPM (check performance data for speed.) With the new hull design by Cruisers in conjunction with Ocean 5 Naval Architects in Stuart Florida, it was like running on flat water, in all aspects of the sea trial, it was up on plane in 4-5 seconds using a small amount of nose down manual trim.

Cruisers 38GLSMercury Axios – Joystick Handling Outboard

Mercury sets up the system according to the “boat’s personality” and this made the handling delightful fun and safe. It was very responsive in going forward, backing up (into following sea), moving laterally and doing 360 degree turns, it tracks very accurately on where you want the boat to go, it was very windy going on and off the dock but the system made handling the boat look it was being guided by NASA!!

The boat has every possible creature comfort one could look for in a 38-foot boat, combine that with the handling, Cruisers Yachts has once again hit the market with exactly what it is looking for.

For an excellent video on their hot new boat, click here.

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