Phil Rose a well known engineer who manages shore side refitting operations in the Superyacht industry has joined Sud Marine Shipyard as Operation and Production Manager. Phil will play a leading role in the development of the shipyard, a subsidiary of Sud Moteurs , located in the Bassins de Radoub in Marseille.
Motor yacht Big Fish, the flagship of Aquos Yachts, is currently in Ushuia, at the southern tip of Patagonia, waiting for a weather window to cross the infamous Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula. There, she will continue her extraordinarily successful maiden voyage charter career, offering the only fly-in, fly-out luxury yacht charters offered in Antarctica.
The Liverpool Boat Show is thrilled to announce that Williams Performance Tenders, the world’s leading jet tender specialist, and RBS (Rodman) have confirmed their attendance at next year’s inaugural Show (29th April – 8th May 2011).
The prospects for boot Düsseldorf 2011 are bright. The mood in the international watersports industry has perked up noticeably after a difficult 2009. The upward trend is reflected by lively demand for exhibition space.
Riva – the boat brand favoured by celebrities such as Brigitte Bardot, Liz Taylor, Claudia Schiffer and George Clooney – will exhibit at PIMEX for the first time by recently appointed dealer Lee Marine.
Super yacht Antibes, the latest 32m M/Y built by Saenz Yachts from the drawing board of Ed Dubois, Dubois Naval Architects has been completed. Yacht Antibes is the second yacht completed by the Saenz Yachts shipyard in Turkey, after the delivery of the 32m sister ship motor yacht X.O.S.
Filippetti launched the motor yacht Navetta 26, a RINA “Green Star Yacht” classed luxury boat that inaugurates the green collection of the Filippetti shipyard in Rimini, on December 11-12, 2010 at the Winter Season Gala
Trinity Yachts have launched their latest superyacht Carpe Diem. M/Y Carpe Diem (ex Hull No. T047) measuring 189 ft. (57.6m) completed her sea trials on November 30 2010 just before a storm. Photo’s of the Trinity motor yacht Carpe Diem will be released in due course.
Sanlorenzo, builder of a motor yacht fleet ranging between 62’ and 108’ and a superyacht fleet up to 200’, with facilities in Ameglia (La Spezia, Italy) and Viareggio (Italy), signed a commercial agreement with Rodriguez Group, to sell exclusively in the France and Monaco all the Ameglia built fleet, composed by six motoryachts and the Viareggio built fleet, composed by four superyachts
After successfully navigating from Monaco to Miami and from Miami to Cancún, TÛRANOR PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, is scheduled to dock at the port of Cartagena, Columbia, today in the afternoon.