Despite rapidly evolving building techniques, boating has a lot of traditions that remain from those early days of yore (also known as the days of yesteryear).
When Italian shipbuilder Tecnomar recently laid the keel for its 40-meter Impero yacht, a good luck coin was included. A coin in the keel has long symbolized good fortune for the yacht through her construction and long after.
Most people use Facebook to share their vacation photos with our friends and family. So, it makes sense that celebrities are no different. For a
Prior to FLIBS last week, I was reading a summary of the new Steve Jobs biography in the New York Times, when I came across an interesting little nugget among the general backstory of Jobs’s life:
Megayachts are like migratory birds. For the summer, they head north to Cape Cod, Maine, and other northern destinations. And then as winter creeps in, the yachts begin to head south.
This year, some late-departing geese—I mean, yachts ended up roosting—sorry! docking at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. So this morning, I headed downtown.
There was Nobiskrug’s nearly 195-foot Jamaica Bay, No. 40 on our November list. Check out her rounded stern:
The number of yachts it is possible to see during the Monaco Yacht Show is staggering. And without the aid of well-kept notes, sometimes boats start to blend together. So it’s the bits that stand out that stick in your memory.
So…I realize the photo above does not quite qualify as a beauty shot, unless, of course, you’re a guy like me who’s just a tad tetched
Listen, I have no idea what these people are saying, or why they built a boat that doesn’t float, or why this video went viral referring to this thing a “yacht” (looks like a ferry to me). But I do know that when you roll a $2.6 million dollar vessel right off the blocks and straight to the bottom of some nasty-looking river in China, there really is only one thing to say: In the immortal words of the great Homer Simpson … D’oh!
I had the good fortune to be invited to the 31st Annual Salute to the United States Coast Guard, and I will say this event stands apart from other New York City hotel-ballroom dinners. The nonprofit Coast Guard Foundation salutes the Coast Guard by singling out surfmen and cutter and helicopter crews for acts of bravery in keeping boaters, and pretty much anyone else who asks for help, safe.
Check out this video of a 37-foot Intrepid running these truly gangster twin 557-hp Seven Marine outboards. I’m going to do some quick math here
“So just climb in there, Bill,” Marc Deppe of Triton Subs told me. “Yup. Yup. That’s right. Operating this sub is about as intuitive as breathing.”
After a second or two, there I was, seated at the helm of the Triton sub simulator in Vero Beach. With the surface of some computer-generated water dead ahead at about eye-level. And a few computer-generated fish cruising past. And then a shark. Yikes! A hammerhead!
I had the good fortune to attend the NMEA International Conference and Expo, where manufacturers put their best foot forward and give dealers and media a peek at what’s new.
Two divers are saying that they came to the surface during a dive trip three miles off Key Biscayne this week and their dive boat was … gone. They hung on to a fishing buoy for two hours until they were picked up by a passing yacht, No Compromise.
During the Monaco Yacht Show, the principality went Dutch. Not that checks were split but rather wooden shoes began popping up all over. As if the Dutch Cinderella had run through town and lost more than one shoe.
Or as if a group of Lilliputians had sailed to show to check out some yachts.
This fall when Beneteau introduces it’s new line of mid-size cruisers, there will be something special about them—really special. The French boatbuilder has developed a
When Tilli Antonelli stepped before the gathered reporters during the Wider breakfast press conference during the Monaco Yacht Show, the lights dimmed and the projector lit up. And Antonelli introduced …
A 33-foot Wider boat.
The crowd clapped, but it seemed a bit obligatory. It was 8:30 a.m., and yes the 42-foot Wider was a success—but to go smaller? It seemed a bit odd.
But Antonelli kept clicking through slides to introduce where that 33-footer would be kept: the 150-foot Wider megayacht.
Despite rapidly evolving building techniques, boating has a lot of traditions that remain from those early days of yore (also known as the days of yesteryear).
When Italian shipbuilder Tecnomar recently laid the keel for its 40-meter Impero yacht, a good luck coin was included. A coin in the keel has long symbolized good fortune for the yacht through her construction and long after.
Most people use Facebook to share their vacation photos with our friends and family. So, it makes sense that celebrities are no different. For a
Prior to FLIBS last week, I was reading a summary of the new Steve Jobs biography in the New York Times, when I came across an interesting little nugget among the general backstory of Jobs’s life:
Megayachts are like migratory birds. For the summer, they head north to Cape Cod, Maine, and other northern destinations. And then as winter creeps in, the yachts begin to head south.
This year, some late-departing geese—I mean, yachts ended up roosting—sorry! docking at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. So this morning, I headed downtown.
There was Nobiskrug’s nearly 195-foot Jamaica Bay, No. 40 on our November list. Check out her rounded stern:
The number of yachts it is possible to see during the Monaco Yacht Show is staggering. And without the aid of well-kept notes, sometimes boats start to blend together. So it’s the bits that stand out that stick in your memory.
So…I realize the photo above does not quite qualify as a beauty shot, unless, of course, you’re a guy like me who’s just a tad tetched
Listen, I have no idea what these people are saying, or why they built a boat that doesn’t float, or why this video went viral referring to this thing a “yacht” (looks like a ferry to me). But I do know that when you roll a $2.6 million dollar vessel right off the blocks and straight to the bottom of some nasty-looking river in China, there really is only one thing to say: In the immortal words of the great Homer Simpson … D’oh!
I had the good fortune to be invited to the 31st Annual Salute to the United States Coast Guard, and I will say this event stands apart from other New York City hotel-ballroom dinners. The nonprofit Coast Guard Foundation salutes the Coast Guard by singling out surfmen and cutter and helicopter crews for acts of bravery in keeping boaters, and pretty much anyone else who asks for help, safe.
Check out this video of a 37-foot Intrepid running these truly gangster twin 557-hp Seven Marine outboards. I’m going to do some quick math here
“So just climb in there, Bill,” Marc Deppe of Triton Subs told me. “Yup. Yup. That’s right. Operating this sub is about as intuitive as breathing.”
After a second or two, there I was, seated at the helm of the Triton sub simulator in Vero Beach. With the surface of some computer-generated water dead ahead at about eye-level. And a few computer-generated fish cruising past. And then a shark. Yikes! A hammerhead!
I had the good fortune to attend the NMEA International Conference and Expo, where manufacturers put their best foot forward and give dealers and media a peek at what’s new.
Two divers are saying that they came to the surface during a dive trip three miles off Key Biscayne this week and their dive boat was … gone. They hung on to a fishing buoy for two hours until they were picked up by a passing yacht, No Compromise.
During the Monaco Yacht Show, the principality went Dutch. Not that checks were split but rather wooden shoes began popping up all over. As if the Dutch Cinderella had run through town and lost more than one shoe.
Or as if a group of Lilliputians had sailed to show to check out some yachts.
This fall when Beneteau introduces it’s new line of mid-size cruisers, there will be something special about them—really special. The French boatbuilder has developed a
When Tilli Antonelli stepped before the gathered reporters during the Wider breakfast press conference during the Monaco Yacht Show, the lights dimmed and the projector lit up. And Antonelli introduced …
A 33-foot Wider boat.
The crowd clapped, but it seemed a bit obligatory. It was 8:30 a.m., and yes the 42-foot Wider was a success—but to go smaller? It seemed a bit odd.
But Antonelli kept clicking through slides to introduce where that 33-footer would be kept: the 150-foot Wider megayacht.
