Yachting Awards

Superyacht Kokomo wins ISS award for best sailing yacht over 40m

Alloy Yachts is proud and pleased to announce that the 58.4m superyacht Kokomo has just won the ISS Award for Best Sailing Yacht 40m+ at the 20th ISS Design Awards in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Dixon Yacht Design receive 2 Showboats Design Awards for Sailing yacht Liara

At the prestigious Showboats International Design Awards 2010, Dixon Yacht Design picked up not one, but two, awards for the Performance Yachts PY-100, sailing yacht Liara’.

Performance Yachts receives 2 awards at The Showboats Design Awards.

Performance Yachts picked up two prestigious awards last night at the Showboats Design Awards 2010 in Florida. Awards were presented to sailing yacht Liara for the Naval Architecture by Dixon Yacht Design and the modern technology on the Performance Yachts highly innovative lifting keel.

The Showboats Design Awards 2010

The inaugural ShowBoats Design Awards took place last night at the exclusive Mar A Lago Club, Donald Trump’s private members club in Palm Beach, Florida. Following a two-day Superyacht Design Symposium, 350 guests gathered for an evening of cocktails, a gala dinner and Awards ceremony honoring the Superyacht industry’s creative talents; the architects, designers, stylists, craftsmen, and innovators in yacht technologies.

The Showboats Design Awards 2010 Winners

With more than 200 nominations for The Showboat Design Awards 2010, it was an incredibly tough task for the experienced panel, however the 2010 winners have been selected.

Azimut Yachts debut 3 motor yachts at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show 2010.

Azimut Yachts chose the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show 2010 for the debut in the United States of the new Azimut 53 motor yacht, the model awarded “Motorboat of the Year 2010” by a selected team of journalists and the UK magazine Motorboat & Yachting. The Azimut 53, 38 and 72S motor yachts will be present at the show.

Ferretti 750 motor yacht receives Best Of the Best Award from Robb Report

Ferretti Yachts continues to expand in China, which has been further confirmed by the many top, high visibility acknowledgements of international importance it has received inlcuding the Robb Report Best of the Best Award and the Hurun Report Best of Italian Luxury.

Palladum Technologies nominated for second Dame Award

Palladium Technologies new Apple iPad-based SiMON² ship alarm monitoring application has been nominated by the judges for the prestigious DAME Award which will be presented at the 2010 Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS), held Nov. 16-18 in the Amsterdam RAI convention center.

3rd Annual Superyacht Design Symposium

Excitement was in the air as delegates began arriving in Palm Beach for the 3rd Annual Superyacht Design Symposium. Attendees to this two-day workshop on large yacht design issues and management topics reads like a Who’s Who of the industry’s “A-Team.”

Rolex Middle Sea Race, Esimit Europa 2 receives line honours.

At 18h 32m 32s CEST on Monday, sailing yacht Esimit Europa 2 (SLO) received line honours for the Rolex Middle Sea Race in Marsamxett Harbour. The Slovenian maxi’s elapsed time was 2 days, 6 hours, 52 minutes, 32 seconds.

20th DAME – Design Award METS 2010 NOMINEES announced.

Out of a total of 132 products entered in this year’s prestigious DAME – Design Award METS competition, the DAME Jury has nominated 63 from which the overall and category winners will be chosen. The competition is held every year in conjunction with METS inc. SuperYacht Pavilion.

Simrad Yachting receives Top Honors at the Newport International Boat Show

Simrad Yachting received two awards at the 2010 Newport International Boat Show. The Simrad NSE navigation system with 2.0 software was named “Best New Boating Product” and Simrad Yachting received the Five Star Award for its “Best in Show” booth display.