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The new Zyara 44 built by BSK has astonishing looks matched by 74-knot performance.

Most people know BSK as the builder of Skipper Powerboats – RIB-style high-performance offshore craft with race-derived hulls and buckets of power. But this new Zyara 44 is the first in a new range of boats designed to sit alongside that established brand. BSK is describing it as “a new chapter in luxury yachting” and […]

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The new Zyara 44 built by BSK has astonishing looks matched by 74-knot performance.

Most people know BSK as the builder of Skipper Powerboats – RIB-style high-performance offshore craft with race-derived hulls and buckets of power. But this new Zyara 44 is the first in a new range of boats designed to sit alongside that established brand.

BSK is describing it as “a new chapter in luxury yachting” and certainly, as a four-berth sportsboat with a party-ready deck layout, it looks like a major departure from what BSK has done before. But actually, the underpinnings look very familiar because what we have here is BSK’s four-step hull design.

A luxurious eight-man dinette sits behind the central wet bar

As with any steps, the idea is to reduce drag, improve efficiency and increase speed by introducing a layer of air bubbles between the hull and the water – and with a trio of Mercury V10 600hp outboards on the transom, BSK is claiming a top end in the region of 74 knots for this boat, alongside the kind of running stability that will enable you to cover big distances across open seas at significant pace.

Around 1,200 litres of fuel capacity ought to deliver a decent range too and the new boat will also co*e with the option of sterndrives and surface drives. But performance aside, it’s really the style, the layout and the quality of finish that are likely to leave an impression.

Believe it or not, there’s also a guest twin further aft

While details are scarce ahead of the public launch in Düsseldorf, what we can postulate is that the 44 will co*e with an open-plan owner’s cabin in the bow, a starboard bathroom opposite some port seating and a twin guest cabin running fore-and-aft beneath the cockpit sole.

Up top, three central helm seats appear to sit behind a one-piece screen with a swept carbon fibre T-top providing uprated protection. Behind that, a transverse wet bar leads back to a spacious eight-person dinette, which appears to use a table fitting that lifts up out of the deck.

The sociable sunken bow lounge is extremely stylish

Factor in a sunken bow lounge, a raised aft sunbed and a set of drop-down terraces on either side of the cockpit and you can see exactly the kind of boating experience the new model is aiming at.

In fact, the guys at BSK have robustly reaffirmed that, saying it’s designed to bring together the world of luxury dayboats with performance hull design, expanding dayboating applications to “over-the-horizon GT cruising”. That’s not an especially fresh or pioneering idea but when the solution looks as good as this, you’ll hear no co*plaints from us.

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Zyara 44 Specifications:

LOA: 44ft 0in (13.40m)

Beam: 12ft 7in (3.86m)

Engines: triple Mercury V10 600hp outboard engines

Top speed: 74 knots

Price: on application

Contact details: www.skipper-bsk.c**

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Day 3 Convective Outlook  
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0240 AM CDT Fri Mar 28 2025

Valid 301200Z - 311200Z

...THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
ILLINOIS/INDIANA/WESTERN OHIO SOUTHWESTWARD TO THE ARKANSAS/NORTHERN
MISSISSIPPI VICINITY...

...SUMMARY...
A widespread/substantial severe-weather episode is forecast across
an area centered on the Ohio/Mid and Lower Mississippi/Lower
Missouri/Tennessee River Valleys.  Very large hail, damaging winds,
and strong tornadoes are expected.

...Synopsis...
An evolving/slowly amplifying mid-level trough is forecast to shift
slowly across the central U.S. Sunday.  As this occurs, a deepening
surface low will shift northeastward across the Upper Great Lakes
region.  A trailing cold front will sweep southeastward across the
central U.S. as the low deepens/advances, and should extend from the
Lower Great Lakes to the central Gulf Coast states by Monday
morning.

...Lower Great Lakes to the Lower Mississippi and Tennessee
Valleys...
A broad/moist but initially capped airmass is forecast to expand
across much of the eastern half of the U.S. Sunday, ahead of the
advancing cold front.  Daytime heating, and continued northward flux
of low-level moisture will result in a moderate destabilization.  

Scattered storms may be ongoing across portions of Missouri
northeastward to the Wisconsin area at the start of the period, and
possibly in a more isolated manner southwestward into Texas.  Local
severe risk may acco*pany this early-day convection.  The
aforementioned destabilization that is expected should support
renewed storm development near the advancing cold front -- initially
from Illinois southwestward to East Texas, and then spreading
eastward/expanding in coverage with time.  

Along with the favorable thermodynamic environment within which the
storms will be evolving, highly favorable shear will also exist,
with low-level southerly/southwesterly flow veering and increasing
substantially with height yielding curved -- and then elongated --
hodographs.  Supercells are expected within this environment, and
very large hail is expected given the cold air/steep lapse rates
through the mid troposphere.  Along with the hail risk, damaging
wind gusts are expected -- particularly where upscale growth into
bands occurs.  Additionally, this setup appears very favorable for
tornadoes, a few of which may be strong/potentially long-lived.

Risk will spread eastward with time into the evening/overnight. 
Some diminishing of the risk should occur late into the upper Ohio
Valley, but vigorous storms and all-hazards risk will likely
continue through the end of the period across the Tennessee
Valley/Gulf Coast states.

..Goss.. 03/28/2025