Marlink, the global provider of satellite communications (Sat Com) to the maritime industry has announced an extension to its VSAT Ku-band service which will now cover sea routes around Australia for the first time. Working with Australian Satellite Communications Pty Ltd, the expanded service will also benefit vessels in the South West and South East Pacific travelling to and from Australia.
FUNA International Group (FUNA), a global design, engineering, integration and consulting firm for maritime and land-based projects, announced that Advanced New Technologies Ltd (ANT) a leading […]
The new, modern 5,500 m² eco-premises of WhisperPower in Drachten (Netherlands) will be opened in spectacular fashion by Member of the Provincial Executive of Friesland, S. […]
TELEMAR YACHTING -telemar-yachting,the Viareggio-based superyacht electronics company providing Navigation, Communication, Audio/Video Entertainment systems, Computer Integration, Security Systems and Airtime to the world’s superyacht industry, has opened its Americas office in Fort Lauderdale. “This permanent base in the yachting capital of the Americas rounds out our coverage of Asia, the Mediterranean and the Americas,”said Andy Gifford Telemar Yachting’s General Manager. Just off Fort Lauderdale’s 17th Street superyacht centre and near Fort Lauderdale International Airport, the new Telemar Yachting offices at 1831 Cordova Road will be managed by Mark Theissen, Telemar’s Business Development Manager, expanding the company’s presence in the Americas and the Caribbean.
Corecell M-Foam was launched to the marine composites market in July 2009 has now been type approved by Bureau Veritas and Registro Italinano Navale (RINA). These […]
The British Marine Federation (BMF) has watched with interest as a new coalition government has formed for the first time in over 60 years. Rob Stevens, […]
The award-winning team of Alloy Yachts, Dubois Naval Architects and Donald Starkey Design is working together again to build the spacious motoryacht.
The same team created Allogante, now known as Loretta Anne, which won the 2009 ISS Award for the best 24-40m motoryacht.
The PlanetSolar team was in Hamburg from the 7th to the 9th of May for the Hafengeburtstag.
The super green Superyacht concept SOLILOQUY has won a Condé Nast Traveller Award at a presentation ceremony last night in London. The mega yacht SOLILOQUY was submitted for nomination by a panel of experts however it was the general public that gave her the final recognition.
Sealegs Corporation (NZX:SLG) has announced an unaudited operating profit of $642 thousand for the year ended 31 March 2010. This represents a 174% improvement when compared to the $869 thousand loss in the previous year.
Panamax will be a fast performance sailing yacht with the classic appearance and styling of a Bristol Pilot Cutter. This 66.90-meter ketch is expected to launch in 2010 at Baltic Yachts in Finland. Dykstra & Partners (and co designer Reichel/Pugh), are responsible for the Naval Architecture and exterior styling working in close collaboration with the owner and the owner’s project manager Jens Cornelsen. Intensive towing tank and wind tunnel tests have been carried out to increase performance with the largest composite standing rigging to date. Interior designers appointed on this project are Rhoades Young Design.
The Broads Authority routinely applies an environmentally friendly peroxide based underwater paint which deters algae to its four trip boats, navigation ranger launches and work boats. This is an alternative to traditional antifouling paint which can cause environmental problems.