BOAT Briefing

In this week's BOAT Briefing, Stewart is joined by Katia (aka @theyachtwriter) for a musical tribute to Jimmy Buffet, and to discuss all the most exciting yachts making their debuts at the Cannes Yachting Festival. The pair also look ahead to a spectacular performance by music megastars Maneskin in Monaco and examine a trio of sustainability-focussed news stories: Sunreef's Zero Cat; the hull turning of Vitters' Project 3094; and Lurssen's fuel-cell powered Project Cosmos. The data story this week, as ever brought to you by market intelligence platform BOATPro, digs into the numbers behind the boats on display at Cannes.

Links:
https://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-life/owners-experiences/jimmy-buffett-yacht-drifter
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/yacht-debuts-2023-cannes-yachting-festival
https://www.boatinternational.com/boat-pro/news/fraser-ceo-anders-kurten
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts-for-sale/tawera-alloy-1995
https://www.boatinternational.com/yacht-market-intelligence/brokerage-sales-news/benetti-oasis-motor-yacht-grateful-for-sale
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/genesis-heesen-flagship-delivered
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/vripack-net-zero-sailing-yacht
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/sunreef-yachts-zero-cat
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/lurssen-project-cosmos-transit

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In this week’s episode of BOAT Briefing Stewart and Sophia discuss the superyachts that have taken on the Northwest Passage this season. They also chat about the speedy sale of 89-metre Here Comes the Sun and some of the quirkiest yachts on the brokerage market. The news this week covers the launches of Feadship’s Project 822, Echo Yachts’ Charley 2, and the ninth unit of Numarine’s 37XP series, as well as an update on Wider Yachts’ Moonflower 72. The podcast concludes with the announcement that Sophia is setting sail in a new direction.

LINKS:
https://www.boatinternational.com/destinations/northwest-passage-by-boat-guide     

https://www.boatinternational.com/yacht-market-intelligence/brokerage-sales-news/here-comes-the-sun-amels-yacht-sold

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/quirkiest-yachts-in-the-world

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts-for-sale/haze-extra-2021

https://www.boatinternational.com/yacht-market-intelligence/brokerage-sales-news/silveryachts-silver-edge-for-sale   

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/feadship-project-822-launch     

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/echo-yachts-charley-2   

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/nauta-design-wider-moonflower-72-yacht-project

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/numarine-37xp-latest-hull

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In this episode of the BOAT Briefing Stewart is back in the studio after a “tough” couple of weeks hosting a select group of owners at The Macallan Estate in Scotland and enjoying a taste of the superyacht lifestyle with his family in Turkey. Aside from his travels, Sophia and Stewart continue the Hot Yachts MIami debate and discuss how the role of crew and social media is evolving. In the news this week is Bilgin’s Kaşif, the futuristic  Baltic 111 Raven and Heesen’s Sparta. The data story, meanwhile, focuses on the largest yachts currently under construction, including some super secretive Lürssen projects.

https://www.boatinternational.com/yacht-market-intelligence/brokerage-sales-news/alloy-yachts-motor-yacht-loretta-anne-for-sale

https://www.boatinternational.com/yacht-market-intelligence/brokerage-sales-news/breaux-baycraft-motor-yacht-ariadne-for-sale

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/bilgin-launches-kasif-yacht

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/baltic-111-raven-sailing-yacht-sea-trials
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/heesen-project-sparta-sea-trials

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/biggest-superyacht-projects-under-construction


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In this week’s BOAT Briefing Caroline and Cecile get to grips with new broker-focussed reality show Hot Yachts Miami, plus scandal on Below Deck Down Under. They follow up with some jaw-dropping anecdotes from our upcoming feature on Malcolm Forbes’s famous party boat The Highlander, and the recent sinking of Cujo, once owned by Adnan Khashoggi and which famously hosted Princess Diana. In the news this week is the launch of Lürssen's 122-metre JAG, the delivery of Abeking’s 118.2m flagship Liva and Sanlorenzo’s first 57Steel. Data this week looks at the Med’s booming summer charter season.

LINKS:
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/editorial-features/highlander-feadship-superyacht--43115

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/baglietto-yacht-cujo-incident-corsica

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/lurssen-superyacht-project-jag-launch

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/abeking-rasmussen-flagship-liva-delivered

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/sanlorenzo-57steel-my-alma


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In this week's Big BOAT Interview, Stewart sits down with Canadian filmmaker James Cameron, the director of three of the highest-grossing films of all time: Titanic, Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water. The pair discuss Cameron's love of exploration, why he decided to put his money where his mouth is by investing in Triton Submarines alongside hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio, and what it was like to see the wreck of the Titanic looming out of the deep for the very first time. In 2012, Cameron became the first person to make a solo dive to Challenger Deep, the deepest point in any ocean, and talks about what it was like to be more distant from the rest of humanity than anyone else on earth. The filmmaker has lots more to discover in the deep sea, especially around hydrothermal vents, which he says is like "going to another planet".

In this week's Big BOAT Interview, Stewart sits down with Mark Cavendish, CCO of Heesen Yachts. The pair discuss the recent launch of the yard's largest steel boat to date, 67m Sparta, and look back at some of the most famous ever Heesen boats, including 50-knot Octopussy. Mark also shares his reflections on the nascent superyacht industry he joined back in the 1980s (including communicating via Telex!), and how much the whole business has changed in the following four decades. Don't miss this wide-ranging discussion with one of the superyacht industry's best-known players.

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In this week's Big BOAT Interview, Caroline White speaks to three owners about their extraordinary experiences crossing the Atlantic: Nina Vibe Peterson, owner of 54-metre Perini Navi Parsifal Ill and 52m Alloy Q; as well as Ilia Riga and her daughter Nepheli, who own the 50-metre Perini Navi Almyra II. They explain why they did it, what they got out of it and what lessons they learned about how to do it right.

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In this week’s BOAT Briefing Stewart is fresh off an airplane from America, after hosting BOAT's inaugural Summer Party in the Hamptons. He is joined by Sophia to discuss his first visit to Shelter Island and why he is a fan of superyacht parties without jackets. The pair also look ahead to the provisional line up of new superyachts attending this year’s Monaco Yacht Show and talk about the High Court upholding the 2022 arrest of 58-metre Phi. In the news this week is Feadship new build Project 825, the auction of the contents of Sarafsa and a Palmer Johnson being scuttled to make an artificial reef. The data this week looks at the brokerage numbers from the first half 2023.
 
LINKS:

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/new-yachts-monaco-yacht-show-2023

https://www.boatinternational.com/boat-pro/news/superyacht-phi-arrest-rejected

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/76m-feadship-project-825

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/82m-yacht-pure-contents-sold

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/palmer-johnson-yacht-time-scuttled

https://www.boatinternational.com/boat-pro/superyacht-insight/h1-q2-2023-superyacht-brokerage-report


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In his first public comments since the OceanGate sub implosion, which saw five people lose their lives on the descent to the Titanic, Patrick Lahey, co-founder of Triton Submarines, reflects on what went wrong – and why he saw it coming. He is joined in the interview by Rob McCallum, co-founder of EYOS Expeditions, who spoke directly to Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate, about the dangers of diving in his Titan submersible. The pair remember their friend Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who lost his life in the incident, and discuss why the OceanGate submersible was an accident waiting to happen. Patrick and Rob also stress the importance of third-party certification, and why, when done right, exploring the deep sea is far safer than getting in your car each morning.


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In this week’s BOAT Briefing, Sophia is joined by Online Yachts Editor Katia Damborsky to discuss recent trips to Monaco. Sophia was in the Principality to host a roundtable event, in partnership with Cookson Adventures, while Katia was reporting on the engineering prowess of students at the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge. In the news is an exclusive scoop by Katia on a new-build CRN 70-metre called Project Thunderball, as well as Gunboat’s red-hulled maxi-cat, Baltic’s futuristic foil-assisted Raven, and 111.8-metre Renaissance on sea trials. The data this week looks at June’s brokerage figures, which saw the market normalise after a record-breaking May.

https://www.boatinternational.com/boat-pro/news/monaco-energy-boat-challenge-10th-edition

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/70m-crn-superyacht-thunderball

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/gunboat-80-highland-fling-catamaran

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/baltic-111-raven-sailing-yacht

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/freire-nb274-explorer

https://www.boatinternational.com/boat-pro/superyacht-insight/brokerage-report-june-2023