The NEW 36z is the most gracious and versatile design under 40 feet one can imagine… easy to own and to use daily just about anywhere – from your dock in only 17" of water, getting under 9.5 foot low bridges, or beaching her for a picnic. Note the side-opening doors to welcome guests and for ease of handling docklines. 36z is a nice size. Small enough to handle alone, yet big enough to entertain 10 on harbor cruises, dinner outings or watching the afternoon boat races. A Volvo-Penta IPS-type joystick controls twin 5 cylinder, low-emission D3 diesel engines with OceanX sterndrives, having underwater exhausts. Speeds to 30 knots are luxury car (Volvo XC-70) quiet. Docking with the joystick is easier than parking your car. Being at one with the boat, surfing down waves at 25 knots with the responsive destroyer wheel is a thrill not to be missed. The 36z can go just about anywhere and deal with most obstacles. Thanks to hydraulic relief valves, sterndrives tilt up when their skeg strikes an underwater object, then bounce back down again to keep on running. When tilted up, the props are reachable from the swim platform without going swimming. 36z will stay looking new and beautiful for many years.  There's no wood on deck to maintain.

MJM 34z - The Perfect Performance Cruiser for Two

The primary design objective for the 34z, the company's first boat now numbering 64 afloat, was to create a seaworthy, fast cruising boat for two that either the founder or his wife could operate alone with no one else aboard.  The boat had to be "spacious enough for cruising comfort yet agile for easy handling". These normally conflicting goals mandated innovation in both design and construction: lighter and stronger. A major end benefit became extraordinary fuel efficiency. To honor that inspiration, the unofficial meaning of the corporate acronym "MJM" became "Mary Johnstone's Motorboat.  Also important was comfortable seating, visibility and ventilation for three couples underway in an all-weather pilothouse.  Bow and stern thrusters with a single throttle/shift make the 34z easier to park than a car.  There are many innovative features including tilt-forward Stidd seats to convert the pilothouse into a twin-berth guest stateroom, made private when lining all the windows with privacy curtains.

MJM 29z - The Ultimate Sea-Going Weekender

The 29z has hospitable, living-room-like, wrap-around seating for 10 in a single-level cockpit and pilothouse.  At the same time it is the best looking and best sea boat of its size.  Those who have driven just about everything afloat say the 29z is "sweet"... drier, more stable and more responsive to the helm in waves than classic 50 year old deep-V Hunt designs, while being comparable in terms of re-entry wave impact. Can you believe 3 nmpg at 25 knots with a 4 cylinder 260 HP diesel and top speed over 30 knots? With 6 ft headroom belowdecks, an enclosed head and engines aft under the stern seat, the 29z has the all-weather living space and functionality of much larger boats like the Hinckley 38 TR... at only a fraction of the investment or operating cost.  When the bow-thruster is combined with the agility of a sterndrive, maneuverability in tight quarters is superb.

** Reprinted with permission from Soundings Magazine.