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Image: Köhler Michael, following a busy couple of years promoting, selling and building your new line-up of models, can you provide an overview of your current production? Across our own facilities in Italy and with our partners in Turkey and Thailand, we’re currently building 19 yachts comprising 10 units of the 60/62 series, six 80

The Nimbus T11 is the flagship of the Swedish builder’s ‘Tender’ line Image: Nimbus ‘T’, they say, stands for Tender, which would be something of an understatement. What they really mean is that the Nimbus T11 is a high-speed, supremely stable, brilliantly designed, ingeniously practical, perfectly constructed, fabulously versatile go-anywhere boat. But that would probably

Officially premiered at the Venice Boat Show (May 28-June 5) with upcoming stops at Saint Tropez (June 12-15), Barcelona (June 17-19) and Ibiza (June 21-27), the all-new wallypower58 is the first wallypower model launched by Ferretti Group since it bought Wally, an acquisition announced at Boot Dusseldorf in January 2019. The wallypower58 takes design cues

The 100 Sunreef Power is the Polish builder’s largest powercat to date. Image: Sunreef Yachts Sunreef Yachts’ continuing growth is evident to anyone visiting the company’s new shipyard, as illustrated by the number of recently launched boats in front of the buildings on the banks of the Martwa Wisla River. Our mission here was to

Luxury catamaran builders have recently moved powercats into a new size sector. Lagoon stepped up with the Seventy 8 and Sixty 7, Sunreef rolled out its 60, 70 and 80 Power models, Fountaine Pajot produced the Power 67 and Aquila joined the ‘big cat’ party with the 70 Luxury, with a solar-electric version sold by

Image: Ferretti Yachts Ferretti Yachts announced seven sales of the Ferretti Yachts 580 by early May, more than seven months ahead of its scheduled world premiere at Boot Dusseldorf from January 21-29, 2023. Measuring over 18m (59ft) with a beam of 5m (16ft 5in), the FY580 is the sixth Ferretti Yachts model to feature exterior

Image: Princess Yachts Boat Lagoon Yachting has announced that the first Princess Y72 in Southeast Asia will arrive in Singapore in the third quarter of 2022. The smallest model in the British builder’s Y Class of large flybridge motor yachts, the four-cabin Y72 is among the newest Princess models, having had her world premiere at

Image Credit: Courtesy of REV Ocean In a world where constant evolution and innovation are key to staying ahead of the curve, staying stagnant is not an option. In a bid to get an edge over their competitors, shipyards around the globe are pushing the envelope, striving to produce the ultimate superyacht, each bigger and

Leopard’s 46 Powercat follows the 53 and will be joined by the 40 Unveiled at the Miami International Boat Show in February and making its European debut at the International Multihull Show in France in late April, the new Leopard 46 Powercat is the second of what will be three new-generation models in the South

Image: Camper & Nicholsons Camper & Nicholsons has started accepting cryptocurrencies for payment for goods and services from BitPay, the world’s largest provider of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services. The 240-year-old company says accepting cryptocurrency, such as for charters and yachts for sale, will enable it to attract new customers and purchases by tapping the

Image: U-Boat U-Boat Worx, a leader in commercial and private multi-passenger submarine operations, has launched its Nexus series of submersibles, depth-rated to 200m and available in two different hull sizes for seven and eight people, or nine if two are children. Nexus offers an immersive connection due to its fully transparent elliptical pressure hull, an

Sanlorenzo SL90A. Image: Simpson Marine Sanlorenzo is displaying its new SL90A asymmetric model alongside the SX76 crossover yacht at the Palma International Boat Show from April 28-May 1. An SL90A has already been sold to Asia, with a hull arriving in Hong Kong in March through regional dealer Simpson Marine. One of three new asymmetric

Pattaya-based Albert Nazarov designed the Heliotrope 48. The Heliotrope 48 has already made quite an impression in Asia-Pacific, with hulls cruising in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Australia. Yet although they share the same hull and superstructure, the looks, layouts and uses of the 48ft powercats built in the Gulf of Thailand by PMG Shipyard

With three winches and two banks of clutches, the helmsman can manage all sailing manoeuvres. Fountaine Pajot’s seven sailing catamaran models through to the flagship Alegria 67 have names ending in ‘a’, including some such as the Elba 45 and the Tanna 47 that refer to islands. For its new entry-level model, the Isla 40,

Image: SP80 Supported by Swiss watchmaking brand Richard Mille, the SP80 company revealed its final boat design last week on 5 April, dubbed the “Sea Rocket”. A team of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) engineers and students are on the quest to chase the world sailing speed record of 68.33 knots. The team

Image: Simpson Marine Beneteau has revealed the First 36, the new flagship of a seventh-generation First series also featuring the 14, 24 and 27 models released last year. The product of an international collaboration of designers, the 4.8-tonne 36-footer has a 12ft 6in beam, a 7ft 5in draft, and upwind and downwind sail areas of

Image: Galeon The 640 Fly has been on the market a little while now, but it’s telling that it’s still the most innovative flybridge cruiser in the class, with a second unit in Asia arriving in Hong Kong last year, sold by Asiamarine. Cockpit terraces have become a far more mainstream addition in the time

The hull in Hong Kong. This photo is finished in ‘Thames Metallic’.Image: Azimut Yachts Firmly established as Azimut’s leading dealer in Asia, Marine Italia was last year recognised as the Italian builder’s second most successful distributor globally, behind only US giant MarineMax. Founded in 2015 and co-owned by Directors Paul Grange and Thomas Woo, the

Image: Sunseeker Sunseeker USA Sales has announced that the global debut of the Predator 65 will be held at the Palm Beach International Boat Show (March 24-27) in Florida. Sunseeker will be represented at the show by its US distributor, OneWater Yacht Group, which will also showcase the Predator 55 EVO and 65 Sport Yacht

Palm Beach International Boat Show Benetti is exhibiting the 47m Bachanal (2019) at this year’s Palm Beach International Boat Show (March 24-27), which will feature other superyachts by the Italian builder displayed by different exhibitors. Other Benettis in the provisional line-up of yachts include the 63m 11.11 (2015), 52m Vianne (1995), 44m Barbetta (2009) and 40m Emina (2014). Rosetti Superyachts is showing the RSY