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Nami 波

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MB92From seasonal refit to continuous yacht lifecycle management How connected technologies could reshape yacht maintenance, the refit experience and seasonal challenges for shipyards.

Groupe Beneteau

Groupe BeneteauMediterraneanAt the Cannes Yachting Festival, Groupe Beneteau is on the offensive: 24 new models and its NEO refit program expanded to LAGOON, BENETEAU and JEANNEAU. At the Cannes Yachting Festival, Groupe Beneteau is unveiling 24 new models for the 2026-2027 season and continuing the acceleration launched as part of its plan for 66 model launches between 2025…

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MB92Beyond AI: New MB92 report explores the future of intelligent refit MB92 Group today announces the publication of its fifth report examining the major trends shaping the superyacht industry. Entitled The Intelligent Refit Era: How Digitalisation and AI Will Redefine the Future of Yacht R

MB92An extraordinary refit, at the crossroads of technical complexity and human endeavour FLIP, a one-of-a-kind floating instrument platform, arrived at MB92 in September 2024 for a long-term refit and modernisation project. Rescued from the scrapyard by DEEP , the vessel is being transformed into a modern re

On the water

Boat shows on now, this week's stories from each region, and what its press is covering — in English

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About

A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay