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PanboInteresting products from IBEX 2026 I was fortunate enough to be invited to IBEX (International BoatBuilders' Exhibition & Conference) this last week as an Innovation Award Judge and had the privilege of reviewing almost 100 new…

10.20

PanboVortex Marine redefines rugged, multi-use electronics with debut of Scout Portable Navigator Vortex Marine, innovator of marine navigation technologies, announced today the launch of Scout, a portable marine navigator built to help boaters see more of the water they are traversing.

10.16

PanboThe TEMO OUTPOD System Launches in North America The French electric motor manufacturer TEMO launches the OUTPOD in North America at the United States Sailboat Show in Annapolis, October 15–18, 2026.

10.15

PanboIBEX announces winners of the 2026 Innovation Awards The International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition and Conference (IBEX), North America’s leading trade event for the recreational marine industry, announced today the winners of the 2026 IBEX Innovation…

10.06

PanboVictron unveils faster Cerbo GX MK3 and emergency reverse charging for Orion XS Victron recently answered two of the most common complaints about two of its most popular products. The Cerbo GX gets its third hardware generation, with a much faster processor for owners who have…

10.02

PanboRadian IOT Delivers The Marine Industry’s First Conversational Intelligence Platform with the Debut of Radian 2.0 Enhanced with AI Waukesha, WI – Radian IoT, Inc., innovator in using GPS and boat configuration data to deliver real-time predictive analytics to dealers, manufacturers, and their consumers, announced today the…

09.25

PanboMetro Marine Lighting Introduces New Full-Spectrum Thru Hull Light Fixture to Bring Brilliant Color and Reliability Below the Waterline Englewood, NJ – Metro Marine Lighting, innovator of marine lighting solutions with anti-biofouling and anti-condensation technologies, today announced the launch of its new Full-Spectrum Thru Hull…

09.25

PanboArgo Nav puts Army Corps surveys on the chart (and finally gets its Panbo review) Despite a few mentions of Argo Nav's capabilities, I have yet to write a full, hands-on review of Argo Nav's mobile device navigation app.

09.24

PanboIcom announces IC-M430 availability Icom's new IC-M430 is the first radio in its class to bring a color display to the helm — along with hailer-grade audio and a slim, flush-mount body that fits where your old VHF used to squat...

09.21

PanboSee all essential data on a sleek, high-resolution color display with the intuitive GMI 40 from Garmin OLATHE, Kan./Sept. 1, 2026/PR Newswire – Garmin (NYSE: GRMN), the world’s largest and most innovative marine electronics manufacturer, today unveiled the GMI 40 multipurpose marine instrument that…

09.09

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