Cruising World magazine announced the magazine’s prestigious 2013 Boat of the Year Award winners. Topping this year’s list of winners for the most anticipated awards in the sailboat industry were the C&C 101 and the Beneteau Sense 55. The C&C 101 won the Domestic Boat of the Year award, and the Beneteau Sense 55 was … Read more
The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2012, the highlight of the annual Mediterranean sailing calendar, will be held from 2-8 September 2012. The organisers, the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and the International Maxi Association, expect to attract a significant fleet of yachts all over 60 feet (18.29-metres) to Porto Cervo, Sardinia, for this 23rd edition of … Read more
On Sunday 3rd June 2012 The Queen will travel in a flotilla of up to one thousand boats from the UK, the Commonwealth and around the World for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, an event which promises to be one of the major focal points of the celebrations held on the Jubilee Bank Holiday … Read more
Solar-powered PlanetSolar catamaran to herald a new era in eco-friendly travel Swiss electrical engineer Raphael Domjan and his team completed the year-and-a-half world tour of PlanetSolar catamaran. Built after seeing the effects of climate change on an Icelandic glacier, the 31-metre PlanetSolar boat had 537 square metres of black solar panels that can produce up to … Read more
The market for so-called super-yachts is still buoyant in Middle East The last Dubai Yacht Show, Middle East’s biggest boat show, proved that the luxury yachts continue to grow more super. “We’ve never sold as many super yachts as in the last three years,” Erwin Bamps, chief operating officer of Gulf Craft told the BBC quoted by … Read more
The Dubai International Boat Show celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a total of 750 exhibitors from over 40 countries. The high-end event (from March 13 – 17, at the Dubai International Marine Club) has become a ‘must-attend’ in the calendars of big spenders across the region. Last year the Dubai International Boat Show … Read more