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YYachtsNorthern EuropeY9 Bella takes second in class at Ibiza JoySail Y9 Bella concluded the 2026 Ibiza JoySail with second place in Performance Cruising 2 and first place in the Corinthian division.

09.28

YYachtsNorthern EuropeA new tradition begins: YYachts makes its mark at the Superyacht Cup Palma Richard Mille There are regattas where everything revolves around the podium. And then there are regattas that remind us why we fell in love with sailing in the first place.

07.10

YYachtsNorthern EuropeTen years of YYachts: The art of preserving what matters most Passion. Innovation. A certain cool factor. Some people in the yachting industry follow trends. Then there's Michael Schmidt.

06.22

YYachtsNorthern EuropeWorld Premiere: The YYachts Cup We are proud to announce the world premiere of the YYachts Cup — our own class within the Superyacht Cup Palma Richard Mille, taking place from 24 to 27 June in Palma de Mallorca.

05.18

YYachtsNorthern EuropeFirst Hybrid Y8 enters construction At YYACHTS we always believed that the future of sailing doesn't ask you to choose between performance and responsibility. Our first hybrid-powered Y8 now in build is proof of that.

02.26

YYachtsNorthern EuropeFrom the YYACHTS shipyard into research: the Eugen Seibold sets sail to study El Niño Aboard the 22-metre sailing yacht Eugen Seibold, custom-built by YYachts as a research vessel, Climate researcher Ralf Schiebel from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and his team investigate…

2025.12.01

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: well over a hundred sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Japan, in English, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. 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