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

Sail-World (Worldwide)

International Moth Worlds 2026 overall

11.12

For the final day of the Acton Belle Property International Moth Worlds 2026 at Mounts Bay Sailing Club on the Swan River, Perth, Australia, the Fremantle Doctor was back on form, providing a sea…

Read at Sail-World (Worldwide) ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

International Moth Worlds 2026 overall

More from Sail-World (Worldwide) on Nami

Enzo Balanger claims 2nd Moth Worlds title Sail-World (Worldwide)

Osprey Class Association Boat Sail-World (Worldwide)

Salcombe YC Winter Series race 3 Sail-World (Worldwide)

Scottish Sailor Dominates Lowrider Worlds Sail-World (Worldwide)

Francesca Clapcich in Route du Rhum - Day 11 Sail-World (Worldwide)

Venues announced for Open Team Racing Worlds Sail-World (Worldwide)