“Come and meet a group of people,” Dennis Frederiksen from Fraser had told the co-creative director at Dutch studio Vripack.“You won't regret it.” Frederiksen, a broker who has sold £1 billion of boats in a 40-year career, is a meeting worth taking f

Here's some advice: don't go through an airport with Mika Hakkinen. He loves his vodka and it can be dangerous. In fact, he and David Coulthard together are lethal. I travelled back to Monaco from London with Mika last week and, fortunately, this tim

OF FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY'S GLOBAL FORENSIC AND JUSTICE CENTER, FOR HIS WORK IN USING DNA ANALYSIS TO COMBAT THE TRADE IN PROTECTED SHARK FINS How big is the trade in shark fins? According to the Shark Research Institute in Princeton, New J

The multihull market is booming – or so we keep being told – but it's not often you see a conventional sport boat builder re-evaluate its decades-old approach to business and put a second hull on a new model. Actually, that may be underselling Presti

MARKET REPORT: BIG CATS MAKE A BREAKTHROUGH NINE EXCITING NEW MULTIHULL DESIGNS AND PROJECTS PRESTIGE YACHTS’ SPACIOUS M8 TURNS UP THE VOLUME ■

LĀNA'I, HAWAII Who is he? A former councillor and member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, Solomon Pili Kaho'ohalahala, 73, is descended from seven generations of Polynesian ocean voyagers and has dedicated his life to protecting what has long

MANAGER OF THE RAYS AND SHARKS PROGRAMME AT THE AFRICAN MARINE MAMMAL CONSERVATION ORGANISATION AND THE MANTA TRUST, CAMEROON Who is she? On leaving school, Ghofrane Labyedh planned to study genetics at university in her native Tunisia. But after mov

As the traditional noren curtains slide over my shoulders and I step onto the padded floors of Harijyu, a small restaurant hidden in bustling Dōtonbori in Osaka – Japan's food-obsessed city – it strikes me that I have no idea what to do next. I look

Cleverly crafted from paper pulp with a finish that perfectly replicates gleaming black marble, Federico Peri's Thames coffee table is created from “paper marble” for Bentley Home, in collaboration with innovative Italian company Paper Factor. The qu

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PROFESSOR OF MARINE RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO, NEW ZEALAND, FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE SHELLFISH POPULATION, OHIWA HARBOUR What was the issue? “In 2007, there were 112 million baby kuku (mussels) in a continuous two-kilometre reef,” says

Length: 49m Year: 1970 Location: Norway What have you got planned for this summer? We're heading up to Norway, starting in Stavanger and we're going to keep going north, up to the Lofoten Islands and ultimately Svalbard. My good friend Espen ∅ino, a

Lürssen has kept the new Kismet close to its chest, but as this 122-metre joins the charter market, she's revealing her spectacular interior Expectations for the interior of the new Kismet (ex- Project Jag) were high – if her 95-metre predecessor (fo

The path to building the new Nilaya began with a years-long refinement of ideas. The subject under consideration was how to replace a 34-metre high-performance cruiser delivered by Baltic in 2010, a boat with plenty of podium finishes and many miles

Years ago, I worked as a stew on a yacht for a younger owner who loved to host his family on board. His mother stayed on the boat often and what she seemed to love most was getting attention. She was quite dramatic and wouldn't think twice about maki

Anyone who has experienced a sticky moment at sea will know the sense of relief that comes with knowing rescue is on its way. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, better known as the RNLI, has been responding to maritime distress calls off the UK

Mexican hotel brand Namron has unveiled Bespoke, a collection of 22 new luxury residences on the golden beach of Tankah Bay, 16 kilometres north of Tulum on the Riviera Maya. Blending its barefoot beach hotel concept with private homes, the propertie

The 60-metre full-custom superyacht Ultra G has sailed out of the Heesen shipyard following her sale earlier this year. She is one of Heesen s most powerful yachts to date, with an expected top speed of 37 knots from a combination of engines and wate

Cover boat ARTEXPLORER Frédéric Jousset's boat is no ordinary boat. While most yachts have no more than a handful of guests on board at any one time, 46.5-metre catamaran ArtExplorer will entertain up to 2,000 of them a day. Businessman Jousset won't