When he needed to get his new 50-foot dayboat from Sicily to Cannes, Aicon Yachts’ CEO Marc-Udo Broich reckoned there was no better test than a three-day, 550 nautical mile run through a stormy Mediterranean. According to Broich, the secret sauce to his new build is seaworthiness and an infinite level of customization because everything from the molds to the glass work is done in-house. Take a walk through Aicon’s highly customizable new yacht.
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Senior Editor, Power & Motoryacht
Chris Dixon is the author of Ghost Wave and The Ocean, The Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge. His writing has appeared in The New York Times bestseller The Southerner’s Handbook. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Outside, Popular Mechanics and Garden & Gun. He grew up boating, fishing and surfing along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, once spent a year working and traveling with Jimmy Buffett and today lives in Charleston with his wife, son and daughter.
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