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

← Nami Archive

Skipper ONDECK

Benetti sells first Oasis 36M after debut in Cannes – Delivery set for 2028

11.13

Benetti announced the signing of the sales contract for the first Oasis 36M, the newest addition to the Oasis family, unveiled this September at the Cannes Yachting Festival.

Boat shows Italian yards

Read at Skipper ONDECK ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Benetti sells first Oasis 36M after debut in Cannes – Delivery set for 2028

Related

MediterraneanSALONE NAUTICO GENOVA Mangusta (Overmarine)

MediterraneanBaglietto al Monaco Yacht Show con due anteprime mondiali: Kinda II (T60) e il FAST50. Baglietto

MediterraneanAZIMUT GRANDE 44M AT THE MONACO YACHT SHOW Azimut

MediterraneanMANGUSTA AT MONACO YACHT SHOW 2026 Mangusta (Overmarine)

MediterraneanTankoa Yachts to present two world premieres at the Monaco Yacht Show 2026. Tankoa

MediterraneanCannes Yachting Festival 2026: Cantiere del Pardo showcases three world premieres and a partnership with Luna Rossa Yachting Art Magazine