The 2019 Monaco Yacht Show started on September 25th and will end Sunday, on September 29. This is one of my two favorite shows of the year. What you have to know about the king of all boat shows or the queen of all yacht festivals is that here are exposed only superyachts, not merely boats or other toys. This post will be about the awards. There are four awards for four superyachts, but now, in 2019, one of them took two awards. The winners are as follows: For the Rina Award, S/Y Attila, … [Read more...]
Regulations, Classification and Certificates
Boat builders from everywhere have to respect certain building and security standards. They must get a handle on all the different boat building standards, rules and regulations that were ever produced. Most countries subscribe to some published set of guidelines, codes or laws that a boat builder must follow in order to sell a boat in that country. Fortunately, there is parity between many of the different international regulatory bodies that create these standards, so in most cases there are … [Read more...]