Horizon P136 superyacht Angara wins the “Yacht of the Year” Award in Taiwan. The “Yacht of the Year” is chosen as winner from each Taiwan yacht manufacturer, and Horizon has already had the honor of winning this prestigious award with the P136 charter yacht Miss Rose in 2009.
McConaghy Boats has successfully launched its 42.5m luxury trimaran yacht Adastra from its yard in Zhuhai China. This spectacular vessel can easily accommodate 9 guests and a crew of 5-6.
The sole participating Maxi, Geoff Hill’s sailing yacht Genuine Risk, won the Sunday Telegraph Trophy for Line Honours as well as a Rolex Yacht-Master timepiece at the 50th Rolex China Sea Race. The Overall title on corrected time went to the Singaporean entry Zanzibar, who also laid claim to a Rolex Yacht-Master timepiece in addition to inscribing their victory in the record books of Rolex China Sea Race history.
Oceanco Yachts attended the 2012 Hainan Rendez-Vous with the Sam Sorgiovanni designed 110m/361ft motor yacht PA104 and the 119m/390.5ft PA146 superyacht as well as the 92m/301.8ft Remi Tessier superyacht DP016 on display. Other models exhibited at the Show were: the existing 86.01m/282.19ft Nuvolari & Lenard designed megayacht Seven Seas and Oceanco’s 90m/295.3ft vertical bow yacht PA076.
Captain Jimmy Blee, a boat builder, vessels operations manager as well as a legendary superyacht guide in Indonesia for the past 18 years, will share the “Ying and the Yang” of cruising Indonesia waters at the upcoming Asia Pacific Superyacht Conference, taking place from April 26 to 18, 2012. On the second day of the conference Jimmy Blee will take to the podium to reflect and share his years of experience in context with the current and the future of the marine industry in Indonesia.
The second yacht finishing the Rolex China Sea Race was the Neil Pryde´s Hi FI yacht, finishing at 16:00.54 (UTC +8). The next to arrive in Subic Bay at 17:59.19 (UTC +8) was Jelik V and their almost entirely Filipino crew.
Dubois 90 sailing yacht Genuine Risk crossed the finish line of the 2012 50th Anniversary Rolex China Sea Race on Saturday, April 07 at 02:43.26 (UTC +8).
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Overmarine Group continues its expansion strategy, moving towards China. As a part of this strategy, the Overmarine Group and its stunning Mangusta Maxi-Open Yachts participated together with the Tuscany association (Toscana Promozione) at the Hainan Rendez-Vous 2012 Gala Dinner together with the most important Tuscany shipyards.
Current fleet leader of the 2012 Rolex China Sea Race, Geoff Hill’s sailing yacht Genuine Risk, is currently (1700 hrs UTC +8) 106.9nm from the finish and is expected to arrive in Subic Bay around 0038 this evening.
Russell Coutts, CEO of the current America’s Cup champions ORACLE Racing-Team USA will be attending the Hainan Rendez-Vous, held from 6 to 8 April, 2012 in Sanya, China as a VIP guest and will be a special guest of honor of China Team.
90ft McConaughy Dubois 90 sailing yacht Genuine Risk leads the way at Rolex China Sea Race 2012, trying to break the race record of 47h 43m 7s, with 366 nautical miles left (as of 6:00 AEST).