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

Afloat.ie

Dublin Port Open as EU Summit Maritime Exclusion Zone Continues

11.11

Dublin Port remains open and operational as a temporary maritime exclusion zone continues in Dublin Bay during the European Political Community Summit and an informal meeting of EU leaders in Dublin.

Dublin Port

Read at Afloat.ie ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Dublin Port Open as EU Summit Maritime Exclusion Zone Continues

More from Afloat.ie on Nami

New Fuel Support Schemes Open for Fishing and Aquaculture Afloat.ie

Charlie Cullen Climbs to 13th at International Moth Worlds Afloat.ie

Lloyd's Register Join Investigation as Repairs Continue With Isle of Man Flagship Afloat.ie

Taoiseach Says Shannon Pipeline "Absolutely Necessary" Afloat.ie

BIM Mussel Survey Reveals Seed Settlement Across Southwest Bays Afloat.ie

David Burrows Takes Fourth as Irish Star Crews Race in Miami Afloat.ie