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Alexa is a traditional Indonesian vessel with a twist. Having sailed the seas as a cargo boat for half a century, the adventuring buccaneers over at Oazia have converted the stunner into a single cabin luxury cruiser – a 31 metre floating private playground, providing couples with the ultimate in holiday romance, luxury and a…
The Mall Galleries, London. The meeting of two formidable nautical legends. The first time in so many years, the America’s Cup and the Louis Vuitton Cup were side by side, a dazzling reunion. And here was I, smokey Macallan in one hand, Gran Habano in the other, admiring those devilish silver curves. A revered trophy, The America’s…
We bring you Camper & Nicholsons J Class-inspired 80-foot specimen of ocean-going deliciousness. It’s worth getting yourself to Monaco for (as if you ever needed an excuse). The oldest leisure marine company in the world, British-based yachting firm C&N knows a thing or two about majestic vessels. Founded in 1782, they were learning the boat-building ropes when Napoleon was…
It’s not often we get boat envy but, like many at the Monaco Yacht Show, we felt those green-eyed pangs over the details of Dream Symphony. The privately owned yacht will be the biggest ever built and a mould-breaker in a class of its own– assuming that Dykstra & Partners can build the mould to…
Just get that sail in as quickly as you can!’ The order, abruptly given, is to drop the spinnaker, that big, blowy thing, beloved of photographers, that billows out of the front of racing yachts, with the emphasis on dropping it fast. I scramble, scramble to get below with the rest of the crew. We…
I am a dedicated monohull man. For the past thirty years I have progressed from being a delivery skipper (in my pre-resume days) to chartering a broad variety of bare boats all over the world. In the last few years I have undertaken to grow my own crew (my kids) by chartering cruising boats so…