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For nearly 20 years, Bob Denison has been at the helm of Denison Yacht Sales, a.k.a. Denison Yachting. Since then, he has distinguished the firm by embracing video and other web-related best practices in ways others have not. In some ways, yachting was his destiny, considering his grandparents established the well-known Broward Marine in theContinue Reading
The oldest and longest-running superyacht podcast series is expanding to more and more streaming platforms. Audible and TuneIn are the latest to carry all episodes of our Megayacht News Radio podcast. If you are unfamiliar with the series, it launched in 2009. Despite podcasting tracing its origins to 2004, the format was still quite newContinue Reading
Howard T. Scott is one of the more unusual (in a good way) superyacht owners you may ever meet. Not only did he acquire an 80-foot (24-meter) Burger megayacht, which he’s christened Capricho, but he also decided to leave life on land. In fact, he spends nearly all of his time living aboard her. Furthermore,Continue Reading
Non-profits rely on the generosity of supporters for a variety of donations. While most of us are accustomed to monetary donations, yacht donations are possible, too. In fact, AMIkids, which works with at-risk youth around the United States, has had tremendous success with this approach. Dudley Savage, who facilitates the AMIkids Yacht Donation Program, explainsContinue Reading
In our recent monthly newsletter, our editor Diane M. Byrne shared her early experiences of sexism in the yachting industry. Furthermore, she shared how MegayachtNews.com has become a Supporting Organization of She of the Sea, a two-year-old initiative to promote diversity and inclusion across yachting. Clearly, both struck nerves, as more than 2,000 people haveContinue Reading
In yachting, regulations come from a variety of sources. One of them is the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations. Due to a focus on pollution prevention, the IMO has a set of emissions standards, commonly referred to as the Tier III regulations, applicable to small- to medium-size megayachts startingContinue Reading