How serious is yachting about sustainability?opinion Rob Hodgetts 30 Nov 23 0Just as turkeys are famously unlikely to vote for Christmas, so the superyacht industry is unlikely to downplay its progress in sustainability. The mood music… Read more
6 brokers on headwinds facing the industryopinion Rob Hodgetts 22 Nov 23 0The superyacht industry is used to weathering storms and even came out of the pandemic with increased forward momentum. But there are always headwinds on… Read more
Sales market suffers hangover from triple cocktailopinion Rob Hodgetts 16 Nov 23 0It’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… Read more
Cecil-Wright on the art of a brokeropinion Rob Hodgetts 9 Nov 23 0Money 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… Read more
Bankers help fuel green revolutionopinion Rob Hodgetts 2 Nov 23 0Global 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… Read more
Charter market holds firm as ‘new generation’ seeks fresh horizonsopinion Rob Hodgetts 25 Oct 23 0The superyacht charter market appears to have held firm in the face of strengthening headwinds this year as a “new generation” of clients take the… Read more
Superyacht sales market: fizz subsidesopinion Rob Hodgetts 11 Oct 23 0If 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… Read more
Alfa Nero: Up Schmidt Creek, found a paddleopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 23 Jun 23 0Former 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… Read more
Italian new build superyacht market in good healthopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 8 Jun 23 0The new build superyacht market remains healthy – and it shows. Publicly-owned Italian shipyards Ferretti, Sanlorenzo and The Italian Sea Group (TISG) reported an increase… Read more
Bob Denison – a life on the wateropinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 11 May 23 0There is more in common with superyachts and World War Two minesweepers than you might think. One is that they were both built in Fort… Read more
Flagship: Tim Johnson – from colour sergeant to superyacht CEOopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 17 Apr 23 0After 14 years in the British Army, running a superyacht charter brokerage might not seem an obvious career choice. But it is one that is… Read more
Judicial auctions in the Caribbean – Alfa Neroopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 11 Apr 23 0The case of Alfa Nero has gathered a lot of media attention recently – with more to come. The 270ft (82m) superyacht has been abandoned… Read more
Managing shipyard insolvenciesopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 30 Mar 23 0Shipyard 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… Read more
News and views from Superyacht Investor London 2023opinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 22 Mar 23 0More than 170 delegates gathered at the Royal Garden Hotel last week for our Superyacht Investor London 2023 conference. Panels and presentations covered a broad… Read more
Dude, where’s my $80m superyacht?opinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 9 Mar 23 0We all forget things from time to time. People forget their keys, others forget to pick up their kids from piano recitals and some forget… Read more
South African seizureopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 1 Mar 23 0The 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.… Read more
The MY Tango inquiry: Lessons to be learntopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 14 Feb 23 0The industry was rocked recently by the news that Richard Masters and Vladislav Osipov were charged with allegedly aiding sanctioned Russian billionaire, Viktor Vekselberg. The… Read more
MB92’s Ben Mennem – An alternative viewopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 26 Jan 23 0After 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… Read more
From snowboarding to superyachtsopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 19 Jan 23 0From snowboarding in the Bavarian Alps to running one of the world’s largest superyacht brokerages, Northrop & Johnsons’ president and chief operating officer (COO), Daniel… Read more
Numarine’s Ömer Malaz talks Türkiyeopinion Superyacht Investor Contributor 6 Jan 23 0From working in a cardboard factory to running a superyacht shipyard is not an obvious career path. But Ömer Malaz (pictured above) has now been… Read more