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

Cruising Yacht Club of AustraliaAsia-Pacific

Impeccable owner lauds Classic Yacht Regatta community

11.13

The Sydney Hobart Classic Yacht Regatta (SHCYR) is a month away and the owner of the Doug Peterson designed Three Quarter Tonner Impeccable is excited to be on the start line again.

Speed & performance Classic & heritage

Read at Cruising Yacht Club of Australia ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Impeccable owner lauds Classic Yacht Regatta community

Related

Northern EuropeThe Man Who ‘Left an Indelible Mark on Global Ocean Racing’ - Remembering Mike Slade OBE: 1946-2026 Sailing Today

HEESEN MARKS KEEL LAYING OF PROJECT KANSEI, ANNIVERSARY EDITION Heesen Yachts

Asia-PacificVale Bruce Gould (1943 to 2026) Cruising Yacht Club of Australia

Asia-PacificCYCA’s Kairos Racing take major honour at 2026 Australian Sailing Awards Cruising Yacht Club of Australia

Northern EuropeRudimental and Joel Corry to Headline Dubai SailGP 2026 - A Thrilling Festival Line-up Beyond the High Speed F50 Racing Sailing Today

Venues for World Sailing Open Team Racing World Championships Sailweb