Sailing Yacht Zero readies for sea trials
The 69-metre Vitters-built ketch, designed to cruise purely on harvested renewable energy, has launched in Harlingen after seven years of development
Fleet
Where crew readiness is really tested
Captain Aggeliki Monastirioti explores the gap between formal qualifications and practical performance once crew step on board…
Opinion
Italy’s new foreign-flag rule and the EU law question
Italy has introduced a new rule that deserves close attention from owners, managers and advisers working with EU-flagged yachts under 24 metres…
Operations
Pampelonne Bay anchoring rules redrawn
French charts are lagging behind a new order that sees the 45 to 80-metre western anchoring area reclassified and a change in authorities…
Operations
Whalesong at Navidad Bank
What do 500 humpback whales look like from the deck of a superyacht? How EYOS, Yachts For Science and a 57-metre Feadship filled a 45-year gap in the scientific…
Owner
CHIRP Report: Stored energy in a towing line causes personal injury
Where complacency and making assumptions combined with poor judgement could have led to serious injury – or worse…
Operations
New anchoring guide highlights growing compliance risk for captains
Swiss Ocean Tech’s country-by-country breakdown of anchoring rules across the Med shows growing complications of anchoring in various jurisdictions…
Operations
Who gets to work in yachting – and who never gets the chance?
Chris Frisby, COO at UKSA, argues that yachting has a pipeline problem and its reluctance to take on green crew is breaking the system it depends on…
Operations
The template trap
When standard yacht contracts stop serving the transaction, owners may inherit risks they never intended to buy…
Owner
Are we building for compliance or for crew?
What actually brings stability to a crew and why the answer has as much to do with how we house people as how we lead them…
Opinion
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