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Northrop & JohnsonThe Art of Slowing Down on a Luxury Yacht Charter There is an irony to most modern vacations. We travel to escape the demands of everyday life, only to fill our days with restaurant reservations, excursions, sightseeing and carefully planned…

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Northrop & JohnsonWhere Business Moves, Connectivity Follows The meeting doesn’t end when the aircraft leaves the runway. A decision still needs to be made. A team is waiting for direction. A client has sent a message that cannot wait until landing.

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Northrop & JohnsonQ3 2026 Superyacht Market Report As we reach the end of the third quarter of 2026, this report offers an overview of activity across the global superyacht market, drawing on insights from Northrop & Johnson’s Deep Data Department.

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Northrop & JohnsonExploring French Polynesia Aboard Valinor Location South Pacific Aboard M/Y Valinor Well-suited to the scale and variety of the South Pacific, the 164-foot VALINOR balances long-range capability with a layout designed for relaxed, guest-led…

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Northrop & JohnsonA Bahamian Escape Aboard Alpha Waves Location: The Bahamas Aboard M/Y Alpha Waves SPEC – Length 133’: (40.54m) – Builder: Benetti – Guests: 10 – Cabins: 5 – Crew: 9 Prices from $190,000 per week, plus expenses MARCH / ALPHA WAVE A…

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Northrop & JohnsonFrom Snow to Sun: The Season’s Ultimate Luxury Edit Technical performance meets alpine style in this season’s standout skiwear LV Ice Snowboard Handmade in the French Alps and adorned with the LV Ice pattern, this peak-performance board is perfect for…

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Northrop & JohnsonThe Rise of Branded Residences Once considered niche, branded residences have moved firmly into the luxury mainstream, with buyers drawn to the convenience of fully managed, turnkey ownership.

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Northrop & JohnsonThe Indian Ocean Reimagined Aboard M/Y LUDZIE Location Indian Ocean Aboard M/Y Ludzie At 204 feet, LUDZIE occupies rare territory in the charter market, rarer still in the Indian Ocean.

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Northrop & JohnsonA Caribbean Escape Aboard M/Y MALIA Location British Virgin Islands Aboard M/Y Malia For island-hopping through the British Virgin Islands, MALIA offers a relaxed platform for sociable charters with family or friends.

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Northrop & JohnsonA Winter in St. Barths Location St. Barths Aboard M/Y Miss Michelle At 142-feet, MISS MICHELLE sits in a sweet spot of scale and informality, offering the volume and usability of a larger yacht, without the formality that…

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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