"Designed by Hinckley's Bruce King"? Bruce King doesn't work for Hickley, but he has designed some of their boats, most notably the picnic boat.
"The 48 also has good directional stability in following seas, according to the company." According to the company, what a surprise. So there was no sea trial associated with this "virtual" advertorial, er I mean review?
"Victory Design also has a background in lobster boats; it designed all of the Marquis vessels for the Ferretti Group." This might explain it, have you looked at a Marquis lately?
"The boat should cruise efficiently at 10 to 14 knots in displacement mode..." Should?
The article is written by Bill Sisson's daughter. The elder Sisson was the editor of Soundings and Soundings Trade Only for many years, and a skilled journalist. Soundings is owned by AIM, AIM owns P&MY. She started as an editorial intern at P&MY in 2017, so not a huge amount of editorial experience, and to be fair, she was given an assignment to write about this boat, which she did. Again, the editing is the issue.
As is the case in so many of today's boating magazines, editing is scant or absent, often because the editor is now doing his or her job, as well as the jobs of three other positions that have been eliminated (including a technical editor, who should/would have caught the "lobster boat" terminology), because making a profit in print is becoming increasingly difficult, and because the usually unholy relationship between editorial and advertising is more intertwined than ever, hence the advertorial nature of this article.
If you look back at the content of boating magazines in the 60s and 70s they are almost scholarly when compared those of today. Here's a good example I came across a few weeks ago, it caught my attention...
https://www.kadeykrogen.com/articles/pages/Krogen54designprobe.htm
