As I promised, here you have the winners for the both Awards categories they had at Boot Dusseldorf this year, details and the nominees have been already published in my two previous posts. Also promised were a few more details about the winners, whenever is possible. I have already made my mind about what brands will be reviewed here in the future. Winners in Sailing Category So, I'll start with European Yacht Of the Year Awards! Winner in Family Cruiser Category Hanse … [Read more...]
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European Powerboat of the Year Awards – Nominations List
European Powerboat of the Year Awards 2016 will be held at the boot Düsseldorf Flagship Night, Saturday 23 January 2016! I shall post the winners on January 24, or 25. This will be correlated with the winners for European Yacht of the Year, the "Oscars of Yachting", referring to sailing boats. "Sailing", meaning, sails using, is the essence of "yachting". The thing is that most of the billionaires or multimillionaires are using (with some very few honorable exceptions) luxury motor yachts, … [Read more...]
European Yacht of the Year – 2016 Nominations List
There are twenty-five, they will remain only five, in five categories. The European Yacht of the Year Award was initiated by Yacht magazine of Germany at boot in 2001 and has since been voted in co-operation with national magazines Badnyt Denmark, Batnytt Sweden, Fare Vela Italy, Seilas Norway, Swissboat Yachting Switzerland, Voile Magazine France, Waterkampioen the Netherlands, Yacht Revue Austria, Yachting World England, and Yate Spain. The European Yacht of the Year Award will be in 2016 … [Read more...]
Comanche – A Fast Racer
Comanche is a 100ft (30.5 meters) sailing yacht, which has been built with the scope to break every yachting record possible, winning prestigious yacht races, and meaning that it will probably become the fastest. The beautiful yacht, a Super Maxi class, has been commissioned by the Netscape creator, James H. Clark and his wife, the former Victoria's Secret's Australian model, Kristy Hinze. The sleek black and red yacht has been built under a contract with a lot of confidentiality clauses by … [Read more...]
To Use or Not to Use a Broker
I have recently found a new set of questions related to the subject of using or not a broker in the process of buying or selling the boat, and they were answered by a nice guy, who allegedly helped the respective publisher to the acquisition of a brand new boat. Unfortunately he works for a brokerage corporation and some of his answers were obviously biased by his employer's policies. I want to re-enforce that I do not like brokers in general. I can act like one, because I actually was one of … [Read more...]