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07/08/2026

A true tale of the odyssey of a select group of superyacht VIPs grappling with the question ‘What If’ under the blue skies of Bergen…

27/07/2026

Fourteen motoryachts are on the market today at 50 metres – not ‘about 50’ – and each sits within 20 centimetres of the figure, which is to say they differ in length by less than half of one per cent. The cheapest is asking €8.0 million, the dearest is asking €31.5 million, while the median is €24.3 million: four times the money for what a spreadsheet would call the same boat.

Three of them were built in the same year, 2011. They are asking €10.8 million, €15.2 million and €24.0 million. They are the same length, same vintage and more than twice the money between the cheapest and the dearest. The only material thing separating them is who built them.

I mention it because this industry has a habit of treating length as a proxy for value – and, in aggregate, it very nearly is. The index I publish prices motoryachts on three variables: length overall, age and builder tier. Between them they explain roughly 92 per cent of the variation in asking prices across the brokered fleet, which is a high figure for a cross-sectional asset model.

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23/07/2026

There is an unmistakable sound to a humpback whale coming up for air – a percussive blast of pressure as it breaches the surface to exhale, followed by the pitchy wheeze of the inhale as it draws the salty sea air back into its lungs. Sometimes you are lucky enough to hear a cacophony of raspy breaths when sailing amongst a pod, hearing the dulcet tones of the whale song beneath you. But as those aboard the 57-metre Solace expedition looked across the waters of the Navidad Bank, Dominican Republic, the team on board was treated to a performance of orchestral proportions. As the sun set on an April evening, 513 humpback whales had been sighted in a single day, one of the highest sightings recorded in history and one of the most important breeding grounds to date.

It’s a real marker of progress for global conservation – humpback numbers in the Atlantic are showing a colossal rebound in numbers, returning from the brink of extinction following the industrial whaling era. And the expedition, their findings and, hopefully, the legislation and support that they will result in, all come from a week on a Feadship.

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21/07/2026

More than 179,000 vessels anchored on Mediterranean seagrass meadows in 2024, according to WWF research published last year, with roughly 45 per cent of them over 24 metres in length. Swiss Ocean Tech, builder of anchor-drag-monitoring system AnchorGuardian, has published the Mediterranean Anchoring Regulations Report 2026, a breakdown of anchoring rules across France, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Greece, Türkiye, Malta, Cyprus and Monaco.

Unsurprisingly, the guide finds that France carries the most detailed regulatory framework in the region, with vessel size thresholds ranging from 20 to 80 metres depending on sector. Spain, on the other hand, has just introduced Royal Decree 191/2026, a national framework protecting Posidonia oceanica and Cymodocea nodosa meadows and Malta and Cyprus are classed in the report as “local check” destinations with no single nationwide anchoring rule at all.

Croatia, Italy, Greece and Türkiye, meanwhile, are described as increasingly governed by local authority and protected area management rather than national law.

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08/07/2026

The last article I wrote described a problem; this one is about the way out of it. The response to that piece told me something I already suspected: a great many people in this industry recognise the picture of leadership hollowed out, authority drawn off the boat and crew who have learned to keep one eye permanently on the next job.

Naming it was the easy part; the harder and more useful question is what we actually do about it, because the retention crisis everyone keeps describing as a mystery is not a mystery at all. It is the predictable result of how we have built things – and it can be rebuilt.

I want to be clear about where I am putting the emphasis. It would be easy to offer another thousand words on what management companies get wrong but blaming the structure above the boat does nothing for the deckhand who is gone by the end of her first season. Stability is not handed down from an office, it is built, plank by plank, on the vessel itself, from the crew up.

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30/06/2026

How will you stand out from the crowd this show season?

Every year, companies across the superyacht industry invest heavily in exhibition space, stand design, hospitality and events.

Yet many rely on one simple assumption:
"If we build a great stand, people will find us."

But at Cannes, Monaco, Fort Lauderdale and METSTRADE, hundreds of brands are competing for the same attention.

The reality?
Most visitors arrive with a schedule already planned.

The brands that stand out are often the ones that start building awareness weeks or months before the show opens.

A stand is an important touchpoint. It is not a strategy.

As the countdown to the 2026 yacht show season begins, we're inviting superyacht brands, shipyards and suppliers to complete our short industry survey.

Twenty selected companies will receive a complimentary yacht show brand and marketing review, including practical recommendations to help maximise visibility, engagement and return on investment.

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29/06/2026

In a recently aired BBC documentary Millionaire Superyacht: Why Ships Sink, we are poignantly reminded in vivid detail of the human loss of the accident. It is important to remember that this is a very personal tragedy.

“Bayesian was a family boat,” says Stephen Edwards, Captain of Bayesian 2015-2020. “We did a lot of things together with the boat. She had a lot of happy memories and so this was a very sad moment for a lot of people involved.”

Almost two years after Bayesian went down off Porticello, Sicily, the two investigations into how the vessel sank have still not been reconciled, with a gap apparently widening between the respective preliminary findings. Earlier this year, Italian media reported that meteorologists appointed by the Termini Imerese prosecutors had concluded the weather that night was not severe enough, on its own, to have sunk the 56-metre Perini Navi.

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23/06/2026

If I ask the question, “What if..?” many things happen when you have a room full of bright minds including the heads of R&D from some of the major shipyards, future-thinking designers, progressive yacht managers, consultants, owners’ reps and some very experienced captains.

The “What if…?” today is all about the experience we created and how we delivered something pretty exclusive and unique in a market full of events and conferences. We will share many of the takeaways and ideas that came out of INNORVATION when this year’s documentary is finished, but for now …

What if you invite 65 innovators to a unique maritime hub with robotic battery factories, R&D centres and risk situation rooms? The conversations become dynamic and candid.

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19/06/2026

As the global fleet and scale of superyachts continue to grow, new cruising regions open up and emerging markets develop, the role of the modern superyacht captain is evolving. Captains are no longer simply the master of a vessel.

Today’s yachts operate as complex enterprises, representing assets worth tens, and often hundreds, of millions of euros. They employ diverse multinational crews, manage multi-million-euro operating budgets and operate across multiple jurisdictions, demanding regulatory environments and increasingly complex legislative frameworks.

As the sector expands, stakeholder expectations rise and regulation continues to tighten. Command today is no longer only about navigation, seamanship and safety. It’s about leadership – in a broader sense than the role has traditionally required.

This article first appeared in The Superyacht Report: Captains Focus.

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