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

Megayacht NewsAmericas

Command the Seas on the ISA Poseidon 86M Yacht: Sunday Superyacht Video

10.25

A 282-footer (86-meter) is still the realm of fully custom megayacht construction. Still, ISA Yachts and its parent company, Palumbo Superyachts, sees opportunity for something different.

Read at Megayacht News ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Command the Seas on the ISA Poseidon 86M Yacht: Sunday Superyacht Video

More from Megayacht News on Nami

AmericasA Waterline Lounge & a Skylit Suite Define Focus Yacht Design’s Invision Megayacht News

AmericasThe Maiora M|30 Yacht Brings an Atrium-Like Feel to Coupé Design Megayacht News

AmericasTankoa: A Personal Approach to American Owners Megayacht News

AmericasAntonini Navi Taps Denison Yachting for the American Megayacht Market Megayacht News