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.

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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

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Stephan Bodens Kolumne: 1K oder 2K? Die ewige Frage beim Lackieren von Booten

11.06

Es gibt Fragen, die begleiten einen Bootseigner ein Leben lang. Warum ist das Teil, das man gerade braucht, immer ganz hinten in der Backskiste?

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