The new year brings new opportunities, including new opportunities for yacht owners and guests to enjoy cruising. Several significant-sized megayachts are currently in the final stages of construction, soon to celebrate their christening and then delivery. Rather than focus only on the biggest of the big, however, we’re spotlighting superyacht deliveries coming in 2025 that…
UPDATE, JANUARY 28, 2025: The auction of the yacht SS Delphine is cancelled. It was set for February 5. Marc Bernié, a lawyer with the French firm BMC Avocats, says the shipyard where the yacht has been laying for some time requested the cancellation. We have asked for further details from both the shipyard and…
Reel Wild, one of several tenders and watertoys belonging to the yacht Loon, ran up on rocks in St. Barths last week. Although early media reports indicated one person sustained serious injuries, the crew of Loon states otherwise. The accident occurred the night of December 21. Unnamed residents tell the newspaper Le Journal de Saint-Barth…
End-of-year reflections in yachting often recount the largest launches over the prior 12 months. The year 2024 certainly has seen its fair share of big projects making their way to the water. It’s additionally seen many of these same yachts handed over to their owners. What stands out the most, however, is how several deliveries…
Editor’s note: It’s a yearly tradition to bring you the poem “The Night Before Christmas, Superyacht Style.” It’s our version of “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” You might know this classic Christmas poem as “The Night Before Christmas.” Regardless of what you call it, ours is just a little bit different. In fact, instead of…
Owners, their brokers, and captains curious about building megayachts at the family-run Antonini Navi shipyard can finally take an in-person look at the first project in a new series. Hull number one in the Seamore 34 yacht series recently completed her hull and superstructure joining. The story as to how the series got its start…
The Ocean King team has a saying, “We like to build yachts like commercial vessels, ready for continuous use.” That notion attracted the attention of the owner of the yacht Lori. Not only is this steel-hulled cruiser in a size range dominated by fiberglass, but she also has transoceanic capabilities that leave plenty of fuel…
Just as the deep blue sea has abundant discoveries in store, the Deep Blue series from Cantiere delle Marche promises a way to explore oceans near and far. The fourth Deep Blue project, specifically a Deep Blue 141 yacht, is under contract for an owner who previously has owned Northern European-built yachts. Vasco Buonpensiere, the…
A 186-footer (57-meter) is in the early stages of construction at Heesen Yachts. The shipyard celebrated the keel laying this month for Project Evita, the latest in a new series. In fact, Project Evita is the second hull in Heesen’s 57m Aluminum FDHF series. Hull number one is the yacht Santosha, whose owners took delivery…
A series that started several years ago has reached its conclusion. The launch of the yacht Al Reem yesterday marked the third and last hull in the Bilgin 80-meter series. The Turkish shipyard made a big splash, literally and figuratively, with the 2020 launch of the yacht Tatiana, hull number one (below). At 262 feet…
