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29/09/2025

Centerbridge Partners and KSL Capital are allegedly exploring full or partial sales of their marina holdings, according to a report in the Financial Times.

Centerbridge Partners is reportedly considering the sale of its minority stake in Suntex Marinas, which could value the business at around $4 billion. This comes a year after the firm signed a $1.25 billion joint venture with Suntex to support new marina acquisitions and invest in current facilities.

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26/09/2025

Ocean Assist is a science-based, regenerative impact programme designed specifically to restore the ecological footprint of yachting. It is aimed at helping the yachting community to support its most critical stakeholder, the ocean. Carefully selected by a scientific advisory board, the programme ensures effective, quantified and transparently reported positive impact projects.

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26/09/2025

Lateral Naval Architects, in collaboration with British international architecture firm, Foster + Partners, has unveiled Outlier, a new 88.5-metre platform which it says is designed to disrupt conventions in the 2,000 GT segment.

“Outlier is more than a platform, it’s an invitation to rethink a yacht from the inside out,” says Ollie Cooper, senior naval architect at Lateral Naval Architects. “It enables designers and owners to imagine spaces differently and explore new possibilities.”

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23/09/2025

The Superyacht Report Owners Focus is live and ready to read!

Owning a yacht today is as much about stewardship, vision and responsibility as it is about enjoyment. Owners are not only commissioning ever more ambitious projects but also helping to shape the future of brokerage, charter, sustainability and crew wellbeing across the sector.

The Superyacht Report 226: Owner Focus examines what ownership really means in 2025. From landmark shipyard stories and the economics of charter to the rise of new standards in safety and sustainability, this issue explores the evolving landscape at the very forefront of the market.

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22/09/2025

I appreciate the years of committee work behind the 2025 update and welcome the discussion that my article has sparked . What I welcome less is the turn to personal characterisation. Labels such as “histrionic” do not advance the debate. The issues I raised are grounded in the wording of the 2025 form, in EU law, and in many years of hands-on charter experience for owners. Below I restate the points calmly and precisely, and I offer practical fixes that would benefit owners, charterers and brokers alike.

1) The real pre-funding problem is the charter fee, not the APA
My central point concerns liquidity risk created by the new payment and complaints mechanics. Under the 2025 structure, a material portion of the charter fee reaches the owner only after the charter and is subject to a hold if a written complaint is lodged within the stipulated window; if arbitration is noticed in time, funds may remain blocked until an award. That is not rhetoric – it is how the payment waterfall is designed. It means owners shoulder operating costs during the season while a meaningful part of the consideration is effectively post-dated and claims-sensitive.

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19/09/2025

The Board of MYBA The Worldwide Yachting Association responds to a recent article on SuperyachtNews about the newly launched MYBA Charter Agreement.

The MYBA charter agreement has been in widespread use for approaching 40 years. Other forms of yacht charter contracts are freely available, and the MYBA charter agreement is much imitated, but it remains popular because it was specifically developed for the superyacht charter market by experienced industry brokers and has been revised periodically to ensure that it remains current.

The most recent revision is a case in point. It is the product of years of work by the MYBA charter committee, comprising experienced Central Agency and retail professionals from brokerages large and small, and assisted by not one but two sets of experienced superyacht law firms. As such every effort has been taken to ensure that the current form strikes the correct balance and takes account of modern trends.

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19/09/2025

Every day we all receive news of price reductions or new to market opportunities, interspersed with deals completed. In addition, press releases are issued stating the success or performance of the various brokerage houses, with numbers of deals, revenues generated and ranking statements. Then finally we read brokerage news reports that talk about growth in revenues or significant declines when a major deal is done or not done.

Imagine reporting that the market is dramatically down year on year, when the like-for-like period includes one significant transaction in the nine figures that completely skews the data. As we all know, it’s very easy to generate data sets and show how the market is performing and make assumptions and suggest the industry is doing well, but the spread of data across the 24-metre-plus range is also an unfair landscape to compare and contrast. A brokerage house stating it has done 15 deals in a month and claiming a number one spot in the same month is easy to challenge if all the deals are sub-30 metres and worth a cumulative 50 million euros, yet a competitor may have done two deals in the 50-metre-plus sector and with a transaction value in the 100s of millions of euros.

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20/08/2025

As part of News Editor Conor Feasey’s deep dive into the thorny topic of teak in our recent Captains issue of The Superyacht Report, he spoke with three of the top suppliers about the alternative deck materials that offer all the properties owners are looking for while being both ethical and sustainable.

Their responses are being published in three parts – here is the second; part I has already been published and the third will follow in the coming days.

Traceability and certification are clearly central to your operation. How are you navigating that alongside ongoing controversies with Myanmar teak?
Well, of course, it’s about sustainability, but it’s also about protecting ourselves. We have to be certain we’re using the right sources and certificates and that everything comes from legal sources. This is a key part of our business. If we make a mistake, it’s not just a minor problem – our company could get into trouble.

You still see misleading claims being made in the industry all the time. At trade shows, for example, we’ve witnessed teak dealers from China offering what they call “Chinese teak”. We would never purchase that kind of wood.

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18/08/2025

Our chairman, Martin Redmayne, wanted to wade in and ask the market to join the debate and share opinions, ideas and visions on this crucial topic.

With the yachting show season now in full swing, thousands of crew are working long hours to ensure everything on board runs seamlessly – from flawless service to safe, efficient operations.

Their dedication, skill and resilience are the backbone of the superyacht experience, yet questions remain about how well the industry supports and retains its people.

Over a LinkedIn discussion recently, industry voices shared candid thoughts on salaries, benefits, training and retention. Recruitment specialist Liam Dobbin observed: “We are not short on crew, we are short on the right crew.” Captain James Battey added: “For too long, crew salaries have remained flat while yachts get bigger, operations more complex and demands on crew increase.”

Many responses called for better conditions, leadership and tangible benefits beyond pay. Consultant Oscar Siches suggested creating crew introduction courses that present the real superyacht world, while Captain Brendan O’Shannassy argued: “Until crew are viewed as an asset as opposed to a cost to be trimmed … we will not move forward.”Engineer Fredrik Alm highlighted that shore-based roles often offer far greater social security and pensions, and Deckhand Andreea Moldovan stressed the need for time to truly enjoy life ashore.

The message is becoming more transparent – if we want to build long-term, high-performing teams, we need to treat crew as assets, not costs. That means rethinking how we recruit, train, support and reward the people who keep this industry moving.

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15/08/2025

In the month leading up to the incident, the deck crew, including the reporter, had been extremely busy, often exceeding the required hours of rest. Fatigue was a persistent issue. The reporter, a relatively new deckhand on the vessel, had only dropped anchor once or twice.

On this occasion, the crew hurried to anchor. Due to inexperience with the vessel’s anchor markings, the reporter misjudged the length of the deployed chain, thinking that four shackles had been dropped when, in fact, there were five. The final warning markings were very short and close to the chain’s end, making them unclear. As a result, the bitter end unexpectedly emerged from the chain locker. At that moment, the reporter was positioned near the brake wheel and their hand was nearly crushed as the chain ran out. It was later discovered that the bitter-end shackle lacked a safety pin for securing it; this was on a brand-new vessel.

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13/08/2025

As part of News Editor Conor Feasey’s deep dive into the thorny topic of teak in our recent Captains issue of The Superyacht Report, he spoke with three of the top suppliers about the alternative deck materials that offer all the properties owners are looking for while being both ethical and sustainable.

Their responses are being published in three parts – here is the first; parts II and III will follow in the coming days.

Teak might still be the deck king, but is the kingdom is on borrowed time? Richard Strauss, CEO of , has spent over a decade meticulously testing alternatives, stress-testing supply chains and preparing for what he saw as the inevitable shift.

In this conversation, he lifts the lid on what’s actually viable, why green teak might be the sleeper hit and how the next generation of owners is asking very different questions than their predecessors ever did.

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07/08/2025

Emerging out of South Africa in 1987, with a group of local investors building hulls and super structure to be transported to Holland for completion, in the heydays of interesting mechanisms and financial structures across global jurisdictions, has had a fascinating history and has enjoyed various patriarchs at the helm.

This unique evolution was followed in 2002 by the Angelopoulos Greek Era, with the creation of the Alfa Nero series, perhaps one of the most successful models of the time: a progressive, dynamic, innovative and iconic yacht range and still easily recognisable globally.

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