Sunseeker are delighted to announce its full line up of luxury motor yachts that will be on display at BOATS2020 presented by Southampton International Boat Show Ltd, including the show premier of its Manhattan 68. Show organisers, British Marine, alongside Sunseeker, are also excited to reveal that the largest boat on display at the show…
Pulse58 officially launched at boot Dusseldorf on the 18th January 2020. Joint RS CEOs Alex Newton Southon and Jon Partridge spoke passionately about the vision for this project and what they had planned for the future. “We are so proud and excited to have brought the first 100% fully integrated electric production RIB to market,…
Alex Thomson Racing has announced the completion of the new racing yacht, which it hopes will lead the team to victory in the 2020-21 Vendée Globe round-the-world race. The IMOCA boat, HUGO BOSS, is the product of more than two years of painstaking design and build work undertaken by the ocean racing team, together with…
Nigel Irens, a leading yacht designer, recently delivered a fascinating 2019 Hanson Lecture entitled “Slippery Boats” to a 60-strong audience at CA House in London. Irens is well-known in yachting circles for designing Adventurer, a 34.4m (113ft) trimaran motor yacht that completed a record-breaking global circumnavigation in 1998 – the first boat voyage around the world…
Lightweight, strong and with contemporary, progressive lines, the MC59p is the power cat of the modern era. McConaghy’s carefully considered use of carbon and precise hull forms makes for a particularly fuel-efficient vessel at the lower speeds, yet the MC59p is able to achieve top speeds well in excess of 20kts. The MC59p offers two flybridge layouts…
The first 13-metre ORC pilot boat to enter service in the UK will be part of a showcase at Europe’s largest commercial marine and workboat exhibition. The vessel will be exhibited on the pontoon at Seawork, in Southampton, next week, July 3-5, by boat builders Goodchild Marine Services Limited, and is one of the company’s…
British sailing team, Alex Thomson Racing, has announced that it will build a brand new IMOCA 60 race boat in the south of England. The boat, HUGO BOSS, will be constructed by Carrington Boats. Jason Carrington is one of the most accomplished and highly regarded specialists in the industry. The project marks a multi-million pound…
There was something different about tonight; everyone felt it. From the crowd of families and fans who gathered at the Alaskan Fish House to watch and wait, to the manager who stayed to keep the place open three hours beyond her normal, kids in tow, to support the proud and expectant crowd with the dry/booze/coffee…
It’s 10 pm, and if you didn’t know better you’d think it was getting quiet. The street performers of Victoria’s Inner Harbor packed up hours ago, and shadows are filling in the last corners vacated by the sun’s high sky retreat. On a typical day the the next nine or so hours would be the…
Three boats designed and built by Goodchild Marine Services have been officially unveiled at the world-famous Albert Dock in Liverpool. The company, currently in its 40th year of business, and based at Burgh Castle in Norfolk, won the £3m long-term contract from UK marine contractor Briggs Marine to construct the ORC pilot vessels. Kittiwake, Razorbill…
