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Running alongside the London Boat Show is the 2017 Superyacht UK Young Designer Competition, in partnership with Southampton Solent University. Nine students from across the country will be competing in this prestigious competition, putting the invaluable design skill of hand-drawing under the spotlight. They will each be creating their competing designs from scratch live at… Continue reading Superyacht UK Young Designer Competition 2017

Just 10 months ago in the weeks before Christmas and only days before the London Boat Show, Princess Yachts in Plymouth announced that 350 people were going to be laid off. Today, after autumn shows have netted millions in retail sales bringing the company order book to over £280m, the company has announced that 100… Continue reading Princess Yachts Seeks to Rebalance Recruitment Figures

YachtProjects International has relocated its UK operation to base itself within the superyacht refit and repair facility; Solent Refit, at Hythe on Southampton Water. The firm owned by the British business woman; Pippa Nicholas already has office is in Ft Lauderdale, Florida is now set to expand globally. It is soon to open offices in… Continue reading YachtProjects International Relocates To Solent Refit

A new two-day course has been launched by Warsash Maritime Academy, part of Southampton Solent University, in response to the imminent ratification of the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention (2004). There are no mandatory training requirements to date. However, for monitoring purposes, the administrations either have to organise in-house training or take advantage of the… Continue reading New course launched in response to the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention

UK based ship repairers Burgess Marine has successfully re launched the 55m Superyacht, Lady A, from its ship lift facility at Trafalgar Wharf in Portchester, near Portsmouth following a 10 month refit. The package of works included minor structural, mechanical and electrical modifications, and the installation of new Naiad stabilisers. The refit will also include… Continue reading Lady A Re-launched for Lord Sugar

Ed Dubois the man behind Dubois Naval Architects the superyacht design team based in Lymington Hampshire has died. We have learned of this sad news from sources in New Zealand but details of how and exactly when he died are still somewhat scarce.  No formal announcement has been made by the company and nothing is… Continue reading Ed Dubois Managing Director Dubois Naval Architects

Camper & Nicholsons Crew Placement Division have formed a strategic partnership with Southampton Solent University’s Warsash Superyacht Academy who are involved in seafarer training for superyacht crew at every level. The past few years have seen yachts growing in size and therefore requiring a new level of qualified crew. The Warsash Superyacht Academy has proven… Continue reading Crew Placement Company Partners with Superyacht Academy

Nobla, formerly Lac II, Hannibal and Al Farah is 45 metre (148 ft) yacht built by Feadship De Vries in 1975 has been relaunched at Ocean Quay She is better known more than most yachts of her age because for several years she was the private yacht used by President Gaddafi of Libya. Now renamed… Continue reading Gaddafi Yacht to Sail Again

As if to reinforce the news that Britain is leading the way in superyacht refit contracts Britain’s largest independent ship repairer Burgess Marine has secured a long-term lease from ABP Southampton The lease is for the two slipways at the top of Southampton Water that are currently occupied by Marchwood Slipways. The acquisition adds the… Continue reading Burgess Marine Expands Again

With more CEOs than some have had hot dinners Fairline Boats the Oundle, based motor yacht buildereEstablished in 1967 has acquired its sixth new Captain in as many years. Ayiaz Ahmed the CEO of the boat brands new owner, Wessex Bristol will be stepping in as CEO replacing Kevin Dady who will depart immediately to… Continue reading New Owners for Fairline Boats