While certainly not as swanky as a the floating mansions of the superyacht and megayacht realms, regular, moderately-sized motor yachts are still aspirational objects for many people when and if their ship comes in (Hey,...

The yachting world has seen a raft (Har!) of technical innovations over the last few decades yet, from a design standpoint, things have been pretty static overall. Leave it to HBD Studios, a Milan based...

Generally speaking, the practice of buying the first of something is not advisable. History is full of instances of consumers serving as unpaid, unknowing beta testers of products and services that weren’t quite ready for...

You can probably count the number of things originating in 1994 that are still fashionable on the fingers of one hand. However, unlike music, clothing and what have you, yachts can be refurbished and modernized,...

Although electric cars (and, to a lesser extent, electric motorcycles) are red hot right now, the same cannot be said for electric yachts. It’s not exactly hard to figure out why that’s the case, as...

When it comes to creating superyachts that look svelter than they really are, Heesen Yachts is one of the best in the biz. And one of the latest boats from the Dutch shipyard’s LY3-compliant 47-meter...

Is Turkey a hotbed of yacht-building activity on the same level as Monaco or Italy? Not really, but one shipyard that calls the bi-continental nation home – Sarp Yachts – is making quite a case...

While motor yachts are, by their nature, not the most economical means of getting around, that isn’t stopping some shipyards from building big boats that do more with less. The latest creation of Columbus Yachts...

When their existence was first made public in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter and B-2 Spirit stealth bomber caused quite the hullabaloo. Here were two angular, shadowy warbirds that...

Cruising the waves in a yacht is awesome; taking time to pull into port (as much as three days in some instances) and refuel said yacht is not so awesome. That’s less time to spend...