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How serious is the superyacht industry about sustainability?

How serious is yachting about sustainability?

opinion
Rob Hodgetts
30 Nov 23
0

Just as turkeys are famously unlikely to vote for Christmas, so the superyacht industry is unlikely to downplay its progress in sustainability.  The mood music…

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Superyachts in Monaco.

6 brokers on headwinds facing the industry

opinion
Rob Hodgetts
22 Nov 23
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The superyacht industry is used to weathering storms and even came out of the pandemic with increased forward momentum. But there are always headwinds on…

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Superyacht sales are experiencing a shift in the mid-size market.

Sales market suffers hangover from triple cocktail

opinion
Rob Hodgetts
16 Nov 23
0

It’s a potent cocktail and is making the superyacht sales market a touch dazed and confused. The triple mixture of post-Covid party comedown, inflation and…

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Chris Cecil-Wright founded Cecil Wright & Partners, superyacht brokers.

Cecil-Wright on the art of a broker

opinion
Rob Hodgetts
9 Nov 23
0

Money is a useful by-product of selling a superyacht, but broker Chris Cecil-Wright insists he is driven more by a “psychological” need for acceptance and to make…

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Sustainability is one of the key issues facing the superyacht industry.

Bankers help fuel green revolution

opinion
Rob Hodgetts
2 Nov 23
0

Global warming is a hot topic. And a quick straw poll across superyacht sectors tells you sustainability remains at the forefront of many people’s thinking…

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Superyacht Legend is a popular choice for Antarctica charters.

Charter market holds firm as ‘new generation’ seeks fresh horizons

opinion
Rob Hodgetts
25 Oct 23
0

The superyacht charter market appears to have held firm in the face of strengthening headwinds this year as a “new generation” of clients take the…

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Superyacht sales market: The 95m Kismet sold in September with an asking price of €149m euros.

Superyacht sales market: fizz subsides

opinion
Rob Hodgetts
11 Oct 23
0

If the superyacht sales market is a bottle of vintage Champagne, then the bubbles are settling after the shake-up of the Covid era and a…

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Alfa Nero: Up Schmidt Creek, found a paddle

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
23 Jun 23
0

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt made the headlines this week with the purchase of the seized superyacht, Alfa Nero for $67.7m after its enforced sale by the…

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Italian new build superyacht market in good health

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
8 Jun 23
0

The new build superyacht market remains healthy – and it shows. Publicly-owned Italian shipyards Ferretti, Sanlorenzo and The Italian Sea Group (TISG) reported an increase…

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Bob Denison

Bob Denison – a life on the water

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
11 May 23
0

There is more in common with superyachts and World War Two minesweepers than you might think. One is that they were both built in Fort…

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Flagship: Tim Johnson – from colour sergeant to superyacht CEO

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
17 Apr 23
0

After 14 years in the British Army, running a superyacht charter brokerage might not seem an obvious career choice. But it is one that is…

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Judicial auctions in the Caribbean – Alfa Nero

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
11 Apr 23
0

The case of Alfa Nero has gathered a lot of media attention recently – with more to come. The 270ft (82m) superyacht has been abandoned…

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Managing shipyard insolvencies

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
30 Mar 23
0

Shipyard insolvency is “one of the great catastrophes that might befall your project”. That was the stark warning from Alex Sayegh, legal director, HFW who chaired…

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News and views from Superyacht Investor London 2023

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
22 Mar 23
0

More than 170 delegates gathered at the Royal Garden Hotel last week for our Superyacht Investor London 2023 conference. Panels and presentations covered a broad…

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Dude, where’s my $80m superyacht?

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
9 Mar 23
0

We all forget things from time to time. People forget their keys, others forget to pick up their kids from piano recitals and some forget…

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South African seizure

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
1 Mar 23
0

The arrest of superyacht Blue Shadow in Cape Town last month seemed a simple case of a South African court exercising its judicial powers following a lawsuit.…

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The MY Tango inquiry: Lessons to be learnt

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
14 Feb 23
0

The industry was rocked recently by the news that Richard Masters and Vladislav Osipov were charged with allegedly aiding sanctioned Russian billionaire, Viktor Vekselberg. The…

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MB92’s Ben Mennem – An alternative view

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
26 Jan 23
0

After a career spanning almost half a century, MB92 La Ciotat’s founder and vice-chairman of MB92 Group Ben Mennem (pictured) has seen it all. From…

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From snowboarding to superyachts

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
19 Jan 23
0

From snowboarding in the Bavarian Alps to running one of the world’s largest superyacht brokerages, Northrop & Johnsons’ president and chief operating officer (COO), Daniel…

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Numarine’s Ömer Malaz talks Türkiye

opinion
Superyacht Investor Contributor
6 Jan 23
0

From working in a cardboard factory to running a superyacht shipyard is not an obvious career path. But Ömer Malaz (pictured above) has now been…

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Latest news
Camper & Nicholsons have launched a corporate services division for superyacht owners.

Camper & Nicholsons launches corporate services division

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13 November 2023
Sanlorenzo superyachts.

Sanlorenzo posts 15% revenue growth

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