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

← Nami Archive

Afloat.ie

Aran Islands RNLI Joins Inis Mór Multi-Agency Rescue

September 26

Aran Islands RNLI was involved in a multi-agency rescue on Inis Mór on Friday afternoon, the 25th of September, after a person walking along the coastline was knocked down by a wave and swept onto a…

RNLI Lifeboats

Read at Afloat.ie ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Aran Islands RNLI Joins Inis Mór Multi-Agency Rescue

More from Afloat.ie on Nami

Fethard RNLI Celebrates 30 Years With Community Open Day Afloat.ie

Mirror Eastern Championships Show Irish Fleet Momentum Afloat.ie

Irish Trio Stay in Melges 24 Worlds Corinthian Battle Ahead of Final Day Afloat.ie

Ice Milers and Cold Water Swimming Subject of Book By US Sports Journalist Afloat.ie

Aleph Racing Extends 44Cup Worlds Lead in Tricky Cowes Race Afloat.ie

Six Irish Sailors Selected for Youth Sailing Worlds in Portugal Afloat.ie