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No GPS. No compass. Not even an autopilot. No electronics whatsoever, or engine, on a 42-day transatlantic crossing—14 days longer than anticipated due to light winds. More important, no single-use plastics onboard. Dan Lenard, co-founder of Nuvolari Lenard, completed the journey aboard a small sailboat, solo. He called it the Vela Code, a two-fold missionContinue Reading
The still-secretive Project Lightning, one of the largest megayachts in build in Germany at present, showed off her stacked, sculpted lines during a set of recent sea trials. Simultaneously, she revealed a little more about her overall design. Project Lightning peeked out at the shipyard about a month ago. Since that shipyard, Lürssen, is heldContinue Reading
With an internal volume of nearly 2,300 gross tons and encompassing six decks, Dragon is assuredly a superyacht to behold. Ahead of her global premiere at the Monaco Yacht Show, we’re giving you an inside look. Dragon dazzled at her launch in March, since she’s the largest megayacht from Columbus Yachts thus far. Her LOAContinue Reading
Even though she won’t be in her owner’s hands until next year, La Datcha can already lay claim to completing one significant journey. She traveled from Romania to Vlissingen, The Netherlands, for outfitting, thanks to some guiding helping hands. This first SeaXplorer 77 launched in June, with abundant craftspeople as well as the owner inContinue Reading
The biggest of the three “giga yachts” that Benetti was building for the past few years had her official hand over today. With an LOA of 354 feet (108 meters), IJE is also the largest-ever yacht from the Italian builder, in more ways than simply LOA. Understandably, the physical size of a yacht is theContinue Reading
Cantiere delle Marche (CdM) is about a year away from delivering Aurelia 29, one of its largest custom yachts thus far. She is additionally significant for being the first of its Flexplorer line of expedition yachts, complementing the long-popular Darwin and Nauta Air lines. The Flexplorer, a.k.a. CdM’s “Flexible Explorer,” concept was actually already onContinue Reading