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

NauticaMediterranean

Il primato del lusso: una sfida a colpi di metri cubi

10.28

C’è un paradosso affascinante nell’evoluzione dei giganti del mare: più uno yacht cresce in stazza e lunghezza, più si allontana da ciò che rende autentica la vita sull’acqua.

Read at Nautica ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Il primato del lusso: una sfida a colpi di metri cubi

More from Nautica on Nami

MediterraneanRanieri International Cayman 50.0 Hard Top Nautica

MediterraneanCampionato Invernale J24, al via la XXI edizione a Cervia Nautica

MediterraneanThe Gulf Metro, la metropolitana del mare Nautica

MediterraneanISA Poseidon 86 metri: il nuovo progetto della Large Yacht Collection Nautica

MediterraneanFerretti Group: ordini in aumento del 6,6% e ricavi in crescita del 13,6% Nautica

MediterraneanMuseo Barca Lariana, il progetto “Le barche raccontano” debutta Nautica