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• Palm Beach Motor Yachts new flagship GT60 at the 2020 Miami Yacht Show

  14 February 2020 ( #Palm Beach Motor Yachts, #Motorboats, #MIBS 2020, #Palm Beach GT60, #Yachting, #USA, #New models 2019-2020, #English Edition )

  Palm Beach Motor Yachts launched their next flagship - the high performance, hightech GT60 - at the Miami Yacht Show (February 13-17) at Sea Isle Marina on Biscayne Bay. This new creation from the mind of yacht designer and CEO Mark Richards displays...

• Innovation - Propel S1 Outboard, the most efficient electric outboard on the market ?

  26 April 2023 ( #Propel S1, #Saietta, #Electric motor, #Technical - Practical - New Products, #Boot 2023, #Electric Boats )

  Propel electric motors are built around a promising electric motor technology: the axial flux motor. This technology lowers their weight and increases their torque. Both good news for a boat motor. Here is the Propel S1 Outboard. Want a pancake? Sausage...

• Lightning and Boating 4/5: Protection systems

  04 September 2023 ( #Technical Notebooks of Nautism, #Lightning, #Boat Equipment, #Maintenance, #Boat Electricity, #Marine Electronics, #100 Sunreef Power )

  To limit the effects of lightning on a pleasure craft, whether a sailboat or a motorboat, you need to provide a quick and easy path for the current, make a high-quality equipotential bonding system and protect sensitive equipment. While the first objective...

• Jeanneau: the journey of a shipyard between industrial innovations and growth strategies

  15 June 2025 ( #English Edition, #Jeanneau, #Bénéteau Group, #Maritime Heritage, #Nautism, #Sailing - Windsurf - Kite, #Motorboats, #France, #Les Herbiers, #Henri Jeanneau )

  Since the 1950s, Jeanneau has evolved from a small workshop in the Vendée region of France to a major pleasure boat manufacturer. Through its industrial choices and strategic alliances, the shipyard has kept pace with changes in the nautical sector. Here...

• Catana Ocean Class - vela d'altura e alte prestazioni... in modalità Open !

  08 September 2020 ( #Catana Ocean Class, #Catana Catamarans, #Catana Group, #New models 2020-2021, #Multihulls, #Catamarans, #Edizione Italiana )

  Da circa un anno, sui pontoni circolano voci sul lancio di un nuovissimo catamarano a lunga distanza di 47 piedi da parte del mitico cantiere Catana. Si tratta finalmente di un modello di 50 piedi, il Catana Ocean Class, che arriva, per rivoluzionare...

• Porto Montenegro to invest 500 million euros over the next 10 years

  26 September 2019 ( #Porto Montenegro, #Monaco Yacht Show 2019, #English Edition, #Montenegro, #Adriatic Sea, #Yachting, #Lifestyle, #Mediterranean Sea )

  Porto Montenegro, the Mediterranean’s leading luxury yacht homeport and marina village, announced it is going to invest over 500 million Euros in further development and new projects on site over the next 10 years. The statement has been made at a private...

• Catana Ocean Class - bluewater sailing and high performance... in Open mode !

  04 September 2020 ( #Catana Ocean Class, #Catana Catamarans, #Catana Group, #Multihulls, #Catamarans, #New models 2020-2021, #France, #Canet en Roussillon, #English Edition )

  For about a year now, there have been rumors on the pontoons about the launch of a brand new 47-foot long-distance catamaran by the mythical Catana shipyard. It is finally a 50-foot model, the Catana Ocean Class, which arrives, to revolutionize the market...

• Motoryachting - il Prestige X60 amplia la gamma di Prestige Yachts

  16 July 2021 ( #Prestige X60, #Prestige, #Yachting, #New models 2021-2022, #Motorboats, #France, #Eco Yachting, #Boat Industry, #Lifestyle, #Edizione Italiana )

  Un anno fa, il Prestige X70 ha innovato nel mondo dei motoryachts, con il suo concetto di ponte principale "a tutto baglio", e la sua deportazione laterale sul flybridge, permettendo di offrire un'abitabilità unica su un motoryacht monoscafo di 70 piedi....

• Motoryachting - die Prestige X60 erweitert das Angebot von Prestige Yachts

  16 July 2021 ( #Prestige X60, #Prestige, #Yachting, #Motorboats, #France, #Lifestyle, #New models 2021-2022, #Eco Yachting, #Boat Industry, #Deutsche Ausgabe )

  Vor einem Jahr stellte die Prestige X70 eine Innovation in der Welt der Motoryachten dar, mit ihrem Konzept eines "full beam" Hauptdecks und ihrer seitlichen Deportation auf der Flybridge, die es ermöglicht, eine einzigartige Bewohnbarkeit auf einer 70-Fuß-Monohull-Motoryacht...

• Motoryachting - Prestige X60 utökar Prestige Yachts utbud

  16 July 2021 ( #Prestige X60, #Prestige, #Yachting, #New models 2021-2022, #Lifestyle, #Motorboats, #France, #Eco Yachting, #Boat Industry, #Svensk Utgava )

  För ett år sedan var Prestige X70 en nyhet i motorbåtsvärlden, med sitt koncept med ett huvuddäck med fullsträckt balk och sidoförskjutning på flybridge, vilket gör det möjligt att erbjuda en unik boendeform på en 70-fots enskrovig motorbåt. Efter framgången...

• Ideal for coastal cruising, the new Bénéteau Antares 7

  04 October 2016 ( #New models 2016-2017, #Nautism, #Motorboats, #Bénéteau, #Beneteau Group )

  With the launch of the Antares 8 at Cannes Yachting Festival, the Antares 7 presented last week at Grand Pavois La Rochelle, signs the renewal of a mythic range of the French shipyard Bénéteau. Designed entirely by the Beneteau design team, the Antares...

• Wally unveils new 101-foot high performance sailing sloop at 2019 Cannes Yachting Festival

  10 September 2019 ( #Wally 101, #Ferretti Group, #English Edition, #Sailboats, #Wally )

  Wally has developed a new 101-foot sailing yacht, the first since becoming part of the Ferretti Group. Currently in the final stages of the design process, the naval architecture is by Judel/Vrolijk and the exterior styling has been developed in collaboration...

• Motoryachting - the Prestige X60 expands the range of Prestige Yachts

  16 July 2021 ( #Prestige X60, #Prestige, #Yachting, #New models 2021-2022, #Lifestyle, #France, #Eco Yachting, #Boat Industry, #English Edition )

  One year ago, the Prestige X70 innovated in the world of motoryachts, with its concept of a "full beam" main deck, and its sideways deported on the flybridge, allowing to offer a unique habitability on a 70 feet monohull motoryacht. Following the success...

• Video - Sportiness and Innovation for the Bénéteau Gran Turismo 46

  25 May 2017 ( #Yachting, #Bénéteau, #Nautism, #New models 2016-2017, #Motorboats, #Video, #Interview )

  With its Gran Turismo 46, the Bénéteau shipyard offers a very competitive Sport Cruiser that is a real success in combining brilliance, technological innovation and sportiness. A model worth the detour! The range of Bénéteau's Gran Turismo (GT) Sports...

• Style - has the Fjord brand created a new segment of leisure boats?

  05 April 2021 ( #Fjord, #HanseYachts, #Boat Industry, #Boating, #Eco Yachting, #Germany, #Norway, #Motorboats, #English Edition )

  The Fjord brand, which is part of the German HanseYachts Group (Hanse, Dehler, Moody, Privilege, Sealine and Fjord) will have gone through 3 major styling eras since its creation in the 1960s in Norway. The latest one, launched at the beginning of the...

• Sailboats - Launch of the New Dehler 38SQ in September

  06 July 2020 ( #Dehler 38SQ, #Dehler, #HanseYachts, #English Edition, #Germany, #Greifswald, #Yachting Festival 2020, #New models 2020-2021, #Sailboats, #Sailraces )

  At the start of the 2020-2021 water sports season, Dehler announces the launch of its new Dehler 38SQ model, developed out of the successful Dehler 38. New Dehler 38SQ - exterior design At Dehler Shipyard, SQ traditionally stands for Speed & Quality and...

• Scoop - una versione flybridge per il Beneteau Antares 11 

  30 July 2020 ( #Beneteau Antares 11, #Beneteau, #New models 2020-2021, #Edizione Italiana, #France, #Boat Industry, #Motorboats )

  Beneteau Antares 11 Fly - Lo scorso dicembre, sul Nautic di Parigi, il cantiere navale vandeano Bénéteau ha presentato l'ammiraglia della sua gamma di fuoribordo Family Cruiser, l'Antares 11. Questo modello è stato poi presentato in versione Coupé. I...

• Excess 15 - first photos of the new catamaran of the Beneteau Group

  04 September 2019 ( #Excess 15, #Excess Catamarans, #Multihulls, #Catamarans, #New models 2019-2020, #Yachting Festival 2019, #France, #Boat Industry, #Boating, #Sailboats, #English Edition )

  With the Excess 12, whose first photos were unveiled this summer on Yachting Art Magazine, the Excess 15 is the second model of the new brand dedicated to sail catamarans, launched by the Bénéteau Group. It is in the opening of the Yachting Festival in...

• Scoop - eine Flybridge-Version für die Beneteau Antares 11 

  30 July 2020 ( #Beneteau Antares 11, #Beneteau, #New models 2020-2021, #Motorboats, #Boat Industry, #France, #Deutsche Ausgabe )

  Beneteau Antares 11 Fly - Im vergangenen Dezember präsentierte die in den Vendée ansässige Werft Bénéteau auf der Nautic in Paris das Flaggschiff ihrer Palette von Außenbord-Familienkreuzern, die Antares 11. Dieses Modell wurde anschließend in einer Coupé-Version...

• Why is the French La Coubre lighthouse going to be destroyed, despite its recent renovation?

  04 February 2025 ( #English Edition, #Lighthouse, #History, #Museum, #Charente-Maritime, #France, #La Tremblade, #La Coubre Lighthouse, #Maritim Heritage, #Gustave Eiffel, #Gironde Estuary, #Atlantic Ocean, #Coast Erosion )

  Nicknamed ‘Sentinel of the Wild Coast’ and located near La Tremblade, on the Pointe de la Coubre, from where it illuminates and protects the Gironde estuary, the La Coubre lighthouse is the highest lighthouse on the Charente coast. But the retreating...

• Catana Ocean Class - Blauwasser Katamaran mit hoher Leistung... im offenen Modus !

  04 September 2020 ( #Catana Ocean Class, #Catana Catamarans, #Catana Group, #Multihulls, #Bali Catamarans, #New models 2020-2021, #France, #Boat Industry, #Boating, #Deutsche Ausgabe )

  Seit etwa einem Jahr gibt es auf den Pontons Gerüchte über den Stapellauf eines brandneuen 47-Fuß-Langstreckenkatamarans durch die mythische Catana-Werft. Es handelt sich schließlich um ein 50-Fuß-Modell, die Catana Ocean Class, die den Markt der Hochleistungsgeräte...

• Sailing all year round - the best itineraries in the Canary Islands

  26 June 2024 ( #Navigation, #Canary Islands, #Long Journey, #Sailing - Windsurf - Kite, #Tenerife, #Gran Canaria, #Lanzarote, #Fuerteventura, #La Palma, #La Gomera, #El Hiero, #La Graciosa, #Lifestyle, #English Edition )

  Boating, cruising and sailing - There are few places in the world like the Canary Islands, a small paradise in the Atlantic, where you can sail all year round in your own sailboat or motorboat, in a pleasant climate with winds to suit all levels of sailor....

• Scoop - a flybridge version for the Beneteau Antares 11 

  30 July 2020 ( #Beneteau Antares 11, #Bénéteau, #New models 2020-2021, #English Edition )

  Beneteau Antares 11 Fly - Last December, on the Nautic in Paris, the Vendée-based shipyard Bénéteau presented the flagship of its range of outboard Family Cruisers, the Antares 11. This model was then presented in a Coupé version. The Autumn 2020 boat...

• Seven years to build 'la Jument' lighthouse (Brittany - France)

  21 January 2025 ( #English Edition, #Lighthouse, #'la Jument' Lighthouse, #Brittany, #France, #Ushant Island, #Iroise Sea, #Shipwreck, #Streamer Ship Drummond Castle, #Charles Eugène Potron )

  'La Jument' (the Mare) lighthouse is perhaps one of the most important lighthouses in Brittany. Situated near the island of Ushant, in the open sea, on the rock ‘ ar gazeg ’ (the mare) from which it takes its name, it illuminates one of the most dangerous...

• Wellcraft unveils three new 28-foot models

  15 September 2025 ( #English Edition, #Wellcraft, #Wellcraft 28 Speedster, #Wellcraft 28 T-Top, #Wellcraft 28 Explorer, #New Models 2025-2026, #Yachting, #Boating, #Bénéteau Group )

  Wellcraft is expanding its range today with three 28-foot models designed to push the boundaries and cater to a variety of uses: the Wellcraft 28 Speedster, the 28 T-Top, and the 28 Explorer. All share an innovative hull but differ in their features:...