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• Sarah Steyaert and Charline Picon, Olympic medallists, Yamaha's guests of honour at Grand Pavois 2024

  27 September 2024 ( #English Edition, #Yamaha, #2024 Grand Pavois, #Nautism, #Races and Regattas, #Inshore & Offshore Races, #Boat shows - Exhibitions - Yachting, #Outboard, #Sailing - Windsurf - Kite, #Charline Picon, #Sarah Steyaert, #FFV, #Fédération Française de Voile )

  As part of its partnership with the French Sailing Federation, Yamaha Motor France will be welcoming Olympic bronze medallists Sarah Steyaert and Charline Picon to the Yamaha stand for a cocktail on Saturday 5 October. Partnered since 2021, Sarah Steyaert...

• New consolidation in the luxury powerboat sector

  05 October 2021 ( #Intrepid Powerboats, #Intrepid, #Marinemax, #USA, #Sport fishing, #Motorboats, #Eco Yachting, #Boat Industry, #Boating )

  American MarineMax has just announced the acquisition of Intrepid Powerboats (Intrepid), a shipyard specializing in luxury outboard opens. The final purchase process should take place before December 31, 2021 Boating, yachting and sport fishing - It's...

• Bénéteau annuncia il Gran Turismo 41

  30 November 2020 ( #Beneteau Gran Turismo 41, #Beneteau, #New models 2020-2021, #Motorboats, #Edizione Italiana, #France )

  Con Gran Turismo 41, il cantiere francese Bénéteau annuncia un profondo upgrade di uno dei suoi best-seller, il Gran Turismo 40, lanciato nel 2016, che è stato premiato come motoscafo europeo dell'anno. La gamma Gran Turismo rappresenta un segmento chiave...

• Who are you, Mike Simpson, between the gentleman, the adventurer, the businessman and the sailor ?

  04 January 2017 ( #Yachting, #Nautism, #Simpson Marine, #Sailboats, #Motorboats, #Yachts, #Superyachts, #Beneteau Group, #Monte Carlo Yachts, #Bénéteau, #Lagoon, #Multihulls )

  Founder and managing director of Simpson Marine, Mike Simpson is a pioneer of Asia’s yachting industry. He has played a leading role in the growth of the yachting lifestyle across the region, over the last 30 years. Simpson Marine was founded in 1984...

• Bénéteau Group Targets 27% Growth by 2020

  12 June 2017 ( #Boat Industry, #Yachting, #Nautism, #Motorboats, #Sailboats, #Yachts, #Sailyachts, #Bénéteau, #Jeanneau, #Lagoon, #Four Winns, #Wellcraft, #Glastron, #Scarab )

  Bénéteau presented last week in Bordeaux its strategic plan for 2020. Named "Transform to perform", its objective is to sustain profitable growth for the boat and habitat divisions. A recent presentation in the United States had already obtained the first...

• Scoop in the Sailing Community - The Bénéteau Group Will Launch a New Brand of Catamarans

  15 June 2017 ( #Multihulls, #Nautism, #Sailing, #Sailboats, #Sailyachts, #Lagoon, #Bénéteau, #Jeanneau, #Monte Carlo Yachts, #Wellcraft, #Four Winns, #Scarab, #Glastron, #New models 2017-2018 )

  The Vendée group, world number two in boating and sailing is looking to strengthen its leadership in the multihull segment by launching a new brand in the market. Meetings for financial analysts are rich in learning, and during the one organized by Bénéteau...

• Transat Jacques Vabre - Sailors safe and sound after rescue from capsize in the Atlantic

  09 November 2017 ( #Transat Jacques Vabre 2017, #Sailraces, #Multihulls, #Multi50 )

  "The boat pitchpoled... There was a huge feeling of shock...the rescue was epic." The 13th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre now has 35 crews left racing following the abandonment of Halvard Mabire and Britain’s Miranda Merron on their Class40 Campagne...

• Unfair competition - Italian Court rules in favour of the HanseYachts AG against Cantiere del Pardo Pardo 43

  10 March 2018 ( #Fjord, #HanseYachts, #Cantiere del Pardo, #Boat Industry, #Yachting, #yachts, #Germany, #Italy, #Fjord 42 Open, #Pardo 43 )

  According to HanseYachts AG, the Italian shipyard would not be allowed to i.a. manufacture, promote, sell or transfer its Pardo 43 with effect in Italy, considered as having been developped with unfair methods, to the detriment of the Fjord 42! Fjord...

• Sun Fast World Cup, a 100% Sun Fast Race, from April 5th to 7th, 2019

  15 January 2019 ( #Jeanneau, #Jeanneau Sun Fast 3600, #Jeanneau Sun Fast 3200, #Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300, #Sailraces, #Sailboats, #English Edition )

  The Sun Fast line has wind in its sails! The launch of a new, 100% Sun Fast race was announced at the end of September. The first Sun Fast World Cup will take place in La Trinité-sur-Mer, in Brittany (France), from April 5th through the 7th of 2019. This...

• Published from Overblog

  19 June 2019 ( #Bénéteau, #Barracuda Tour, #Simpson Marine, #France, #Sport Fishing, #Arzon, #Atlantic, #Boating, #Lifestyle, #English Edition )

  Beneteau is known for hosting a number of events that bring its yacht owners together, one of which is the annual Barracuda Tour, created by Yannick Hemet, Beneteau Sales Director for France and Southern Europe. This special no-kill fishing competition...

• Multihulls - sales up 48% for Catana Group (Bali and Catana)

  20 April 2019 ( #Catana Group, #Catana, #Bali, #Multihulls, #Catamarans, #France, #Boat Industry, #boating, #English Edition )

  Catana Group, manufacturer of the pleasure catamarans Bali and Catana, sees the half-yearly figure of its new boats sales grow by nearly 48%! The group based in Canet-en-Roussillon has revised its annual objectives up and anticipates an annual turnover...

• HanseYachts AG buys catamaran builder Privilège Marine from Aurelius

  28 June 2019 ( #Privilège Marine, #Multihulls, #Boat Industry, #France, #Catamarans, #yachting, #HanseYachts, #Les Sables d'Olonne, #English Edition )

  Purchase of sixth-largest manufacturer of catamarans in the world, is giving HanseYachts AG access to a very attractive market segment, with increase of capacities by more than euros 30 millions World number two yacht builder HanseYachts AG of Greifswald...

• Rigid Inflatable Boats - Alex Thomson Racing teams up with Highfield

  10 September 2019 ( #Highfield, #Highfield 8.60, #Alex Thomson Racing, #Hugo Boss, #Imoca, #Honda, #Motorboats, #Rigid Inflatable Boats, #New models 2019-2020, #Cannes Yachting Festival 2019, #English Edition )

  Alex Thomson sailracing team - whose brand-new Imoca Hugo Boss was launched this summer - chose Highfield, the French-Australian rigid inflatable boats' brand, to imagine a unit to match its Imoca! It"s this morning, at opening of the Cannes Yachting...

• Yamaha-Außenbordmotor 115B - bestes Verhältnis von Leistung zu Gewicht in seiner Klasse

  10 September 2019 ( #Yamaha, #Yamaha 115B, #Motorboats, #Boating, #Boat Industry, #Deutsche Ausgabe )

  Dieser beeindruckende 1,8-Liter-Reihenvierzylindermotor mit 16 Ventilen und DOHC ist mit Funktionen ausgestattet, die die Navigation vereinfachen. Dazu gehören die Kompatibilität mit den optionalen Digitalanzeigen von Yamaha, die optionale motorisierte...

• Skippers Alex Thomson and Neal McDonald arrive safely to the Cape Verde Islands onboard Hugo Boss boat

  08 November 2019 ( #Hugo Boss, #Imoca 60, #Transat Jacques Vabre 2019, #Alex Thomson, #Neal McDonald, #Skippers, #Sailraces, #Cape Verde, #Sailboats, #English Edition )

  This morning (Friday 8th November 2019), shortly after 08:00 UTC, British skippers Alex Thomson and Neal McDonald arrived safely into the Cape Verde Islands onboard the Hugo Boss yacht. The skippers, who had been racing in the 4,350 mile double-handed...

• How to optimize the performance/comfort ratio on board a cruising catamaran - 17 minutes video broadcast

  01 July 2020 ( #Excess Catamarans, #Multihulls, #Catamarans, #Video, #BoatScopy, #Excess Talks, #Bruno Belmont, #Marc Guillemot, #English Edition )

  In 30 years, the market for cruising catamarans has gone from essentially sporting units to a market where 90% of the product offer is centred on units mainly favouring comfort on board. How to optimize the comfort - performance ratio aboard a catamaran?...

• Aquila Power Catamaran bringt seinen 100. 44-Fuß-Katamaran vom Stapel

  19 May 2020 ( #Aquila Power Catamarans, #Dream Yacht Charter, #Multihulls, #Catamarans, #Motorboats, #Deutsche Ausgabe )

  Das weltweite Wachstum und der weltweite Erfolg von Aquila Power Catamarans werden mit der Feier des Stapellaufs seines hundertstel 44 Fuß (13,4 Meter) großen Luxuskatamarans fortgesetzt. Lex Raas, Leiter der Aquila-Produktentwicklung, kommentiert: "Der...

• The White Shark boat brand changes ownership

  09 June 2020 ( #White Shark, #Guymarine, #French Boat Market, #Boat Industry, #Motorboats, #France )

  Until now owned by the Oleron-based wheelhouse and open boat builder Guymarine, the White Shark outboard boat brand has just been sold to new investors. White Shark in navigation: a sumptuous hull... Mythical brand if ever there was one in the 90s, on...

• Prestige Yachts - an online configurator to customize your motoryacht

  21 May 2021 ( #Prestige, #Yachting, #Innovation, #France, #Motorboats, #English Edition )

  Prestige Yachts, the world leader in the 40 to 70 foot flybridge motoryacht market, is innovating in the spring of 2021 by unveiling an online configurator: a first in the luxury yacht world. The periods of confinement consecutive to the health crisis,...

• Scoop powerboat - Jeanneau enters the luxury Day Boats market

  21 July 2021 ( #Jeanneau, #New models 2021-2022, #Motorboats, #Boating, #Yachting, #Yachting Festival 2021, #France, #Lifestyle, #English Edition )

  The Cannes Yachting Festival will be the opportunity for the French shipyard Jeanneau to enter a new market segment in which it was still absent, namely that of luxury Day Boats. The shipyard has not released any information on this new family of powerboats,...

• Yachting - Martin Lambot (Tecmar) acquires Nautex

  16 September 2024 ( #English Edition, #Tecmar, #Nautex, #Distribution & Services, #2024 Yachting Festival, #Sailing - Windsurf - Kite, #Technical - Practical - New Products, #Cannes "Vieux Port", #Economy - Shipyards - Investments, #Florian Foglietti, #Martin Lambot )

  At the Cannes Yachting Festival, Tecmar announced the acquisition of Nautex, a specialist in the distribution of sailing equipment. the Tecmar stand at the Yachting Festival 2024 The current economic climate in the yachting industry is opening up exciting...

• FIRST 44e - a yacht that unveils Bénéteau's eco-navigation strategy

  01 March 2023 ( #Beneteau First 44E, #Beneteau, #Electric Boat, #Boot 2023, #Interview, #Eco Yachting, #Boat Industry, #Video, #Jean-François Lair, #English Edition )

  lish Unveiled at the 2022 Paris Boat Show and then exhibited at the 2023 Düsseldorf BOOT, the FIRST 44e is a strategic sailboat for the French shipyard Bénéteau, which is positioning itself as the leader in its eco-navigation strategy, integrating Arkema's...

• Suzuki Marine announces the immediate availability of its brand new joystick

  25 September 2023 ( #Suzuki Marine, #Suzuki, #Joystick, #2023 Cannes Yachting Festival, #SBW, #Bénéteau's Flyer 10, #Ranieri Cayman 38.0, #English Edition )

  At the Cannes Yachting Festival, Suzuki Marine announced the price of its brand new manoeuvring joystick, available immediately and exclusive to the Suzuki brand network. This joystick, designed to make manoeuvring in port easier, acts like a second cockpit....

• Karlshamn Boat Show 2022 - Nord Boats, luxury Swedish Day Boats

  21 August 2022 ( #Karlshamn Boat Show 2022, #Nord Boats, #Boating, #Boat Industry, #Video, #Eco Yachting, #Sweden, #Vägga, #Karlshamn, #English Edition, #Joakim Hansson )

  In Karlshamn, southern Sweden, Joakim Hansson, after a technical career in the world of superyachts, decided to launch his own boat brand, Nord Boats. The positioning of his brand consists of traditional Nordic motorboats, inspired by danish fisihng "snipor"....

• Sunreef 100 ECO wins Robb Report's Best of the Best Awards

  15 July 2024 ( #English Edition, #Sunreef 100 Eco, #Robb Report, #Yachting, #Multihulls, #Eco Yachting, #Economy - Shipyards - Investments, #Sailing - Windsurf - Kite, #Monaco )

  The Robb Report's Best of the Best Awards Gala, the most prestigious awards in the luxury sector, was held in Monaco on 12 July. It was an opportunity for the Polish shipyard Sunreef Yachts to distinguish itself once again, with its range of eco-responsible...