the fact that Sergio Cutolo is probably the highest expression of design and engineering when it comes to explore is certainly no secretWith Hydro Tec, he has designed and engineered many over the last 25 years, developing an unparalleled experience and marking evolutionary stages that have entered history. A recent
Philippe Briand has unveiled the latest sailing superyacht concept to come from his London- based design studio: the 90-metre (300-foot) Briand SY300. With a traditional sailing rig, the 1,550-tonne ketch has been created to outperform other sailing megayachts on the water today, as well as to provide a head-turning aesthetic
Among the superyachts exhibited at the Monaco Boat Show this year, there was also the flagship of Monte Carlo Yachts: the MCY 105. This is a boat that has undeniable qualities in a segment, that of superyachts, where design research, aimed at impressing, often comes at the expense of rationalisation
It’s called GS 80 Custom and it’s the very first of a new series of boats that Cantiere del Pardo wanted to offer its owners a high level, custom and semi custom yachts, up to eighty feet in length. Able to amaze by introducing superbly beautiful boats, when this shipyard
Link to The International Yachting Media Digest The first question for an editor when dealing with the creation of a new medium is certainly about the benefits it will offer to its readers. It’s just following this principle that, 5 years ago, I started what is now the world’s most
Distinguished and elegant, with a unique beauty all of her own, the 58-metre Feadship Najiba certainly lives up to her name, meaning ‘noble’. Designed as a family super-yacht for experienced owners, this latest scion of the Feadship fleet blends sleek and minimalist exterior lines with a detailed, high-end interior. Having owned several yachts,
It’s not everyday, actually it never happens to see three masterpieces, three symbols of the Italian boating industry, parade all together to the pleasure of spectators. It was a spectacle that left the City of Livorno and even the Benetti shipyard itself speechless. Everyone there was amazed, bewitched and, above
Yachts are dream items. And it’s strange to think how the concept of dream itself is often repressed by the respect for traditional beauty standards, very often too similar to themselves. It’s as if yachting industry is inevitably forced to express creativity moving inside preset, certain, conventional, classic limits. Like when
Yachting design follows a very particular evolution and wallows in long standstill periods where, rather than delighted by novelties, beauty standards are simply restyled and updated although generally welcomed as up with the times in that specific historical moment. Real leaps forward take shape only rarely, every twenty years or more. They are simple quantum leaps
