BOAT Briefing

With Milan’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair in full swing, this week we’re turning our attention to exceptional craft. Earlier this year, Charlotte Hogarth-Jones spoke to Artistry and Craft Awards winner, Paul Jewby. A wood carver for over 40 years, he most recently created several beautiful hand-carved wooden panels for Winch Design's 70m Amoa . In this podcast he shares how he got into superya...

Protecting the oceans is a dangerous business in Latin America - it can mean murder. In this week’s Big Boat Interview Max Bello, international policy expert for Mission Blue and Alexei Mikhailov, founder of Bering Yachts, tell BOAT’s content director Lucy Dunn the story of how they met on a superyacht in a remote marine sanctuary, and about the tragedy that brought them there.  This week’s episod...

In this week's BOAT Briefing, Caroline and Katia run through the most expensive superyachts currently listed for sale and spot a pattern in the yachts that consistently carry the highest price tags. Katia reflects on a trip to Milan and Ancona and Caroline looks ahead to the World Superyacht Awards in Venice. In keeping with the Italian theme, this week's data segment is a closer look at the shipy...

This week, the team is back from a (rainy) Palm Beach International Boat Show and a (much sunnier) St Barths Bucket. Lucy and Cecile discuss the buzzworthy boats at PBIBS including the first in the Ocean Alexander 35m Puro series, and round up the headlines, starting with Azimut’s 44m Grande flagship and Damen Yachting’s XPlorer 80 concept. Over at the Bucket, the limelight was on first-timers Nil...

In this week's BOAT Briefing, Katia and Caroline examine an illustrious line-up of sailing superstars for the St Barths Bucket, from single-masted behemoth M5 , to new 59m Vitters Maxiumus . They unveil the April issue cover star Pink Shadow , and her interior inspired by Werner Herzog’s eccentric Amazonian epic Fitzcarraldo . News this week features the newly revealed interior refit of Maltese Fa...

In this week's BOAT Briefing, features director Charlotte Hogarth-Jones is joined by travel and charter editor Georgia Boscawen to dive into all things charter. The pair look at how the market fared in 2023 in collaboration with MYBA, while revealing the demographics that charter the most superyachts in the fleet. Georgia, meanwhile, recalls her epic adventure to Antarctica on board the Hanse Expl...

In this week’s Big BOAT Interview, we talk to Nicolò Favaretto Rubelli, CEO of the famous Venetian weavers, as he arrives in London to unveil his latest collection Gardens . Rubelli’s fabrics can be found on many superyachts and in many boat owners homes, not to mention in historic palaces including Buckingham Palace and the Presidential Palace in Rome; flagship stores of fashion brands from Valen...

In this week’s Big BOAT Interview, we talk to writer Daniel Pembrey who recently unearthed some fascinating new insight into two of history’s most famous and enigmatic yachts, Christina O and Highlander. His research took him around the world where he met some extraordinary characters including Christina O’s Costas Carabelas , Tim Morley of Morley yachts as well as Forbes’ son Kip, who opened up t...

In this week's BOAT Briefing, Stewart and Katia look back at the Superyacht Design Festival and some of their favourite sessions. The pair pay tribute to naval architect and designer Don Shead and superyacht owner Lang Walker, and pull out the big numbers from the financial results of the Ferretti Group, Sanlorenzo and The Italian Sea Group. Katia, meanwhile, looks forward to taking part in the Be...

For this week's BOAT Briefing, we return to the stellar line-up of speakers at the recent Superyacht Design Festival in Kitzbuhel, Austria. On day two of the event, Simon Schofield, CTO of BAR Technologies took to the stage to reveal his company’s cutting-edge, tech-led approach to design, which was born in the America’s Cup. He tells us how their outside-the box developments can be applied to the...

In this week's BOAT Briefing, we're rewinding the clock slightly to the recent Superyacht Design Festival in Kitzbuhel, Austria. In the closing session of the first day at the event, Stewart was joined on stage by Frédéric Jousset, owner of 46.5-metre Art Explorer, the world's largest sailing catamaran, which made its worldwide debut at the 2023 Monaco Yacht Show. In this conversation, Frédéric di...

In this special episode of BOAT Briefing, Stewart and Cecile reveal all the winners from the BOAT Design & Innovation Awards, which have just been held in Kitzbuhel, Austria. They chat through all the categories, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, won this year by Frank Mulder, founder of Mulder Design, who has more than 1,000 designs on the water. The pair also take a deeper dive into...

In this week's BOAT Briefing episode, Stewart is joined by Katia to discuss the headlines from the yachting world over the past week, including 136-metre Flying Fox rejoining the charter market and 58.5-metre Phi back in the hot seat at the Court of Appeal. Katia explains the backstory behind some of the best-known superstitions at sea, and Stewart gives Katia the low-down on Christina O's past li...

In this week's Big BOAT Interview, Stewart sits down with Ian Howcroft, captain of the legendary Lurssen Phoenix 2, which is currently in Barcelona undergoing a refit. Ian talks about what it's like to command such a large yacht, how he got his start on superyachts, his secrets to keeping great crew and offers some tips on navigating the St Barths "parking lot" on New Year's Eve. Phoenix 2 for sal...

In this week's episode of BOAT Briefing, Stewart and Charlotte discuss some big names added to the roster of speakers at the Superyacht Design Festival, including Frederic Jousset, owner of the 46.5-metre ArtExplorer, and delve into the world of AI by designing some dream yachts using Midjourney. In the news is Wider Yachts' first multihull, the WiderCat 92, the crew of Alfa Nero finally getting p...

In this first BOAT Briefing of 2024, Stewart and Katia talk panettone and Elton John, and look through what's coming up in the February issue of BOAT International. We pay tribute to the legendary Frits de Voogt, who sadly passed away just before Christmas, and look ahead to some of the big events on the superyacht calendar this year. In the news this week is Oceanco's Simply Custom collection, th...

In this week's BOAT Briefing, the last of 2023, Katia, Caroline and Stewart look back on 2023 and ahead to 2024. They reveal the winner of this year's brokerage guesstimate and dive into the latest Global Order Book to pick out some of the big stories from the report. The most-travelled superyachts of 2023 are also revealed, as well as the biggest news stories from boatinternational.com this year....

BOAT Briefing: Stars of the Antigua Charter Show, sportfishers by numbers and a spotlight on the BDA finalists  In this week's BOAT Briefing, Caroline and Katia talk about their shared disappointment about missing out on this year's Antigua Charter Show and highlight a few of the yachts that would be high on their must-see list. They also take a deep dive into the data surrounding sportfishers and...

In this week's episode of BOAT Briefing, Stewart is joined by Katia to discuss a crazy few weeks on the road at various events. The pair talk about the soon-to-be released Global Order Book, and pick out some of the standout numbers from the report. We look back at the Explorer Yachts Summit, and ahead to a few events in Australia and New York. In the news is F1 supremo Adrian Newey's new Oyster 8...

In this week's BOAT Briefing, Katia and Caroline dive into the upcoming Explorer Yachts Summit in Monaco – from record-breaking adventurers to how to find and train a crew for an expedition. They look forward to an essential industry overview with the Global Order Book, pick their favourite new entries to the Top 101 list, reveal the most intriguing stories from the Fort Lauderdale International B...

In this week’s Big BOAT Interview, Lucy Dunn sits down with Richard Wiese, president emeritus of The Explorers Club, who has made travelling the world his life and career. Exploration is less about testosterone-fuelled expeditions, he says, and more about experiencing different cultures (and food). Taking risk is par for the course, and he pays respects to fellow explorer and good friend Hamish Ha...

BOAT Briefing: Fort Lauderdale preview, the trouble with teak and Cecile goes cruising! In this week's BOAT Briefing, Cecile joins Stewart for a look at some of the new superyachts appearing at this year's Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, which kicks off next week. The pair also discuss teak and why it's becoming problematic for the superyacht industry, as well as what alternatives exist o...

In this week's BOAT Briefing, Stewart is joined by Holly Overton to run through the stories you might have missed from the Monaco Yacht Show and pick a few favourite highlights from the event. Stewart gets misty-eyed over St Tropez and Holly laments the loss of the Antigua Yacht Club Marina building, which was recently destroyed in a fire. In the news this week is the launch of Feadship's Project...

In this week's BOAT Briefing, Caroline and Katia discuss This is It and ArtExplorer, two Italian Sea Group cats that were major draws at Monaco, as well as other big news from the show. They also run through exciting new designs from Benetti and their top brokerage picks of the week. Data covers soaring sales thanks to the boat show season.