Ocean Marine Yacht Center, a global leader in superyacht refit and repair as well as a full-service marine center, announces today that Thomas “Charlie” Petosa has been appointed Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Ocean Marine Yacht Center has extraordinary capabilities and capacity, and has been long known by owners, captains and industry experts as one of the great American superyacht yards.
MYBA -The Worldwide Yachting Association is pleased to announce the completion of another successful charter show in Genoa from May 2 – 6 2011. A total of 79 yachts were presented with standards and quality of the exhibiting yachts was exceptionally high with many brand new yachts having only just left the yard. The Show remains a unique opportunity for charter brokers to view charter yachts available for the season ahead.
An exceptional, global audience gathered together over the last two days in Singapore’s Swissotel The Stamford for the 2011 ICOMIA World Marine Conference. Held in Asia for the first time ever, 270 delegates attended from far and wide with representatives from Korea, China, Thailand, India, US, Hong Kong, Australia, Europe, Middle East, South America and of course, Singapore.
Nautor’s Swan has successfully fought off serious global competition this week to win the ‘Asia Boating Award 2011 for Best Production Sailing Yacht’ for the Swan 80 sailing yacht. The Asia Boating Awards are the region’s most established and respected event of its kind which annually receives entries from the world’s leading yacht manufacturers.
Dubois Yachts is delighted to introduce Toby Walker as the newly appointed Managing Director. Toby studied Law at Southampton Solent University before embarking on a career as a yacht broker. A mutual respect and understanding between Ed Dubois and Toby has grown while working together in the industry on a number of projects over many years.
The 57.5 metre Dubois sailing yacht Twizzle wins Best Custom Yacht award at Asia Boating Awards 2011.
Yachting Developments New Zealand have now launched their sailing yacht Antares III superyacht in Auckland. The 100 foot / 30 m sloop superyacht Antares III – […]
Work began on the new and improved state of the art Quarterdeck Marina at Bitter End Yacht Club shortly after Easter. The new facility is scheduled to be completed for a July 4th Grand Re-Opening, and replaces what was already one of the most popular boutique-style destination marinas in the Caribbean.
With San Francisco receiving extra attention from sailing fans courtesy of the America’s Cup, it comes as no surprise that the Bay will be bustling with additional activity this fall when the 2011 Rolex Big Boat Series gets underway. Scheduled for September 8-11 and hosted by St. Francis Yacht Club, the event is in its 47th year and shows no signs of slowing down.
Amico Group, an Italian superyacht refit specialist has opened a new mega yacht refit yard called Cantiere Amico Loano. The new 8,500sq m refit yard will be able to service, repair and refit yachts and superyachts from 8m-55m (26ft-180ft) and has a 550t travel lift.
Camper & Nicholsons Marinas, global marina group, and BR Marinas, Brazil’s leading marina group, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in the growth of luxury marinas in Brazil. The key purpose of the partnership is the development of C&N Marinas in Brazil, and in technology exchange and marketing cross promotion.
Lymington-based Green Marine, one of the world’s leading custom racing and high-performance cruising and superyacht builder specialists, has built and delivered two new contenders for the Audi 2011 TP52 Med Cup Challenge – yachts Rán IV and Container. Both yachts were designed by the renowned Judel Vrolik design office.