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ALL PHOTOS: Scoobyart A five-deck explorer is one thing. But a five-deck explorer in a 140-foot (42.8-meter) length, within the 500-gross-ton limit, too? Plus, an explorer where the owner not only lives aboard, but also carries a 33-foot (10-meter) main tender, along with a Land Rover and motorbike? And did we mention two guest stateroomsContinue Reading
Forty-two days remain until the annual Cannes Yachting Festival. While not exclusively a superyacht show, it does showcase a healthy number of new and brokerage yachts to 180 feet (55 meters). This “smaller” emphasis makes the Cannes Yachting Festival ideal for seeing global premieres that might otherwise get lost in the sea of super-size superyachtsContinue 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
PHOTOS: Stuart Pearce If you use Facebook or Instagram, chances are your feed is populated by pictures of pretty superyachts. We know of at least one instance where a Facebook post inspired someone to charter a yacht, too. However, we never heard of Pinterest playing a role in a new-build… until Mimì la Sardine cameContinue Reading
Over the past nine years, Cantiere delle Marche has sold its explorer yachts in Europe, Russia, and Latin America. The United States has been on its proverbial radar, with a marketing strategy reserved for rollout this year. Fittingly, a U.S. customer has already come forward. The first American-owned Cantiere delle Marche, a Darwin 106, isContinue Reading
Now in its ninth year of operation, Cantiere delle Marche is reaping the rewards of carving a distinctive niche in an already niche-oriented business. The shipyard recently signed its 27th explorer superyacht. She’s a real explorer, in keeping with the yard’s prior contracts, made for roaming the world’s oceans on their own bottom, even inContinue Reading