{"id":47531,"date":"2021-12-15T16:02:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=47531"},"modified":"2023-05-06T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T22:17:36","slug":"2022-boat-of-the-year-judges-special-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/sailboats\/2022-boat-of-the-year-judges-special-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Boat of the Year: Special Judges\u2019 Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During and in the four days immediately following the US Sailboat show in Annapolis, Maryland, the <\/em>Cruising World judges inspected and sailed on 27 boats vying for recognition. Learn more about the boats in our 2022 Boat of the Year<\/a> \u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of the competition, in concept, innovation and execution, one boat never seemed far from the judging team\u2019s collective mind. The Kinetic Catamaran KC54<\/a> is a new player in the class of what might be called Super Cats, the progenitors of which are notable brands like Gunboat and HH Catamarans. These light, fast craft put a high premium in flat-out performance, but also have the cool, comfortable, contemporary features and amenities of a stylish, forward-thinking cruising boat. They are, in the realm of performance cruisers, at the very cutting edge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\"Kinetic <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

Judges\u2019 Special Recognition<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n
\n Kinetic KC54<\/span>\n Jon Whittle<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

\u201cThis was the Tesla of sailboats,\u201d Gerry Douglas said. \u201cThis boat was built without compromise. They wanted the best in every aspect. Superb.\u201d Douglas\u2019 colleagues agreed and together, they gave the KC54 their Judges\u2019 Special Recognition award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other standout boat to win a special prize from the judging panel was the Voyage 590<\/a>, named Best Charter Boat. For 2022, perhaps more than in recent years, builders across the board stated that a significant percentage of their new models were destined for charter fleets. But perhaps nobody targets that segment of the sailing market with the same verve and intensity as the business known as Voyage Yachts, the South African builder that supplies multihull yachts exclusively to its partner and family-run company, Voyage Charters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\"Voyage <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

Best Charter Boat<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n
\n Voyage 590<\/span>\n Jon Whittle<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen this company for a while,\u201d judge Tim Murphy said. \u201cFor 30 years, they\u2019ve been building boats and exclusively operating them in the charter business in the British Virgin Islands. They sail them up from South Africa, so they\u2019re very seaworthy. And they have everything you\u2019d want for a great vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As deliberations wrapped up, Cruising World\u2019s<\/i> team of expert judges handed out two more prizes to boats that stood apart from the fleet. The Kinetic KC 54 earned a Judges\u2019 Special Recognition award and the Voyage 590 was named Best Charter Boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":47532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Cruising World Editors","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"167","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"In addition to the category winners and overall Boat of the Year winner, the judging panel chose to give out two additional prizes, a Judges\u2019 Special Recognition award for the Kinetic Catamaran KC54, and the Best Charter Boat to the Voyage 590 in Cruising World\u2019s 2022 Boat of the Year contest.","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_targeting":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[167],"tags":[282,1880,1881,1891,195,1882],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}