Category: Yachts
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100 world premieres to admire at the 36th Cannes Boat Show – Festival de la Plaisance de Cannes
More than 100 new boats are on their way to this year’s Festival de la Plaisance de Cannes – Cannes Boat Show. The ultimate yachting rendez-vous (Tuesday 10th – Sunday 15th September 2013) is Europe’s leading in-water boat show and the first international show on the boat show calendar. Festival de la Plaisance de…
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Fifth Perini Navi Cup
An imposing fleet of Perini Navi yachts took to the waters off Porto Cervo for the first day of racing of the Perini Navi Cup 2013. The fifth edition of the biennial event, organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, is open to yachts designed and built by the prestigious Italian shipyard and will…
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Cunard celebrates 175 years since first circumnavigation of the globe
In 1922, Cunard invented the world voyage when Laconia set off on the first-ever circumnavigation of the globe by a passenger ship, and since then Cunard ships have undertaken more world voyages, carried more passengers on world voyages and visited more destinations during world voyages than any other line. In 2015, Cunard will commemorate the…
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Ocean Paradise – a design boat at the leading edge of technology
Minimalist, but never cold, and always connected with the sea – superyacht Ocean Paradise launched by Benetti. This new creation of the Italian boat manufacturer Benetti, a 55M steel hull/aluminum superstructure , will debut with its world avant-premiere at the next Monaco Yacht Show 2013 (25-28 September). The design boat at the leading edge of technology…
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Great Britain Team Yacht for 2013-14 edition of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
Great Britain Team Yacht to demonstrate the UK as a place to visit and invest in. GREAT Britain Team Yacht launched in Trafalgar Square. The GREAT Britain yacht will be flagship of Clipper Round the World Yacht Race fleet as longest ocean race on the planet prepares to depart London 1 September. The yacht was…
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Transpac race won by San Francisco’s Dorade
San Francisco’s Dorade won Trans Pacific Sailing Race. “They said we’d never make it and if we did it would take four weeks,” said Dorade skipper and co-owner Matt Brooks. “Skeptics said it was like taking a fine piece of antique furniture and dropping it in the ocean, and she shouldn’t be sailed hard…