On Saturday 14 May, sailing yacht Groupama 4, the first Volvo 70 built in France, was launched at 1400 GMT, opposite Groupama Sailing Team’s base in Lorient. Groupama’s representatives, the sailors, the members of the shore team and an enthusiastic crowd attended this important stage of the project led by skipper Franck Cammas.
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.
Axis Group Yacht Design, an Italian design and engineering company, has opened a new overseas representative office in Shanghai, which will be based at the Jin […]
NISI Yachts has been awarded a new contract to build a semi-custom NISI 2400 for a prominent Northeast American business couple. The couple commissioned their new build within weeks of first seeing NISI’s American debut at the Miami Yacht and Brokerage Show.
Gulf Craft, the leading builder of fiberglass luxury motor yachts in the Middle East and Asia, has appointed Eminence Yachting Ltd. to distribute the Majesty range of yachts and superyachts in Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines.
Sea-Alliance Group (SAG), the international maritime business, is undergoing significant growth and is now extending its offering to include Crew Recruitment as one of its many professional services.
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.
To celebrate the world release of the new 61 Series II Enclosed Flybridge motor yacht, Riviera hosted a pre-launch of the sparkling new vessel by towing 12 professional water-skiers the length of the Gold Coast’s Broadwater this morning.
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.