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

Marine Business World

Weather boosts Sail Expo and Melbourne Boat Show

10.22

Beautiful weather, more than 25 new yachts, and strong support from sailors and the marine industry made Sail Expo a celebration of sailing and life on the water.

Sailing superyachts Boat shows

Read at Marine Business World ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Weather boosts Sail Expo and Melbourne Boat Show

Related

Ubi Maior at the 2026 Genoa Boat Show: Italian technology to master the sails Yachting News

Americas2027 MasterCraft Boats Debut Boating Magazine

Sail Expo 2026 Celebrates a Standout Weekend Marine Business World

Melbourne Boat Show goes from strength to strength Marine Business World

MediterraneanEl Valencia Boat Show abre sus puertas con la mayor oferta de su historia Nautica Digital

MediterraneanYANMAR estreia sistema híbrido YF12e na Metstrade 2026 Nautica Press