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• A Feadship Farewell...

  I know, I know— another Feadship post? But this time, the news is big, so it can't be helped: Feadship recently announced the departure of Francois van Well, who will step down as the president of... Posted Mar 29 2010, 07:10 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, catherine pearson, Feadship

• Back to the Future

  I recently posted about WHY, which was one of the cooler things I saw at last fall's Monaco Yacht Show. Here's another: PMY ers, meet Aeon , Feadship 's 2009 concept yacht. What, prey tell... Posted Mar 19 2010, 04:49 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, catherine pearson, Feadship

• WHY

  One of the cooler things I saw at last fall's Monaco Yacht Show was the rather large "tent" in which was housed a model of WHY , Wally Hermes Yacht's outrageous-looking 58-meter (190... Posted Mar 03 2010, 04:07 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, design, Monaco Yacht Show, catherine pearson

• Busy Building at Heesen

  Things are typically pretty slow around the holidays. After we've all soaked up plenty of relaxing family time (and in some cases, eaten our body weight in Christmas cookies) it takes a while to shake... Posted Jan 13 2010, 02:00 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, catherine pearson, Hessen

• Long Live Serena

  First launched from Feadship's De Vries yard in Aalsmeer in 1964, Serena was (and is) a 73-foot yacht—a member of the yard's Caravelle series. Seven of these boats were launched between 1961 and... Posted Jan 06 2010, 02:40 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, catherine pearson, Feadship, refit

• (More) New Life for A New Range

  It was a very merry Christmas for the Dutch builder Amels, which recently announced the sale of the second 54-meter Limited Editions Amels 177. In fact, with five projects on site (including one Amels... Posted Dec 28 2009, 10:52 AM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, catherine pearson, Amels, sale

• A Banner Year for Mr. Heesen

  (Frans Heesen accepting his ISS award. Photo by Pamela Jones) It's been a dicey year for the industry, but a personally rewarding one for Frans Heesen, the president of Heesen yachts. In just the last... Posted Dec 04 2009, 10:43 AM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, catherine pearson, HISWA, International Superyacht Society, Heesen

• Lurssen's Arkley

  At this year's Monaco Yacht Show, I had the great pleasure of taking a tour aboard Arkley , Lurssen's new 196-foot, Espen Oeino designed vessel. As you can see in the photos here, she's got... Posted Nov 18 2009, 12:48 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, catherine pearson, Lurssen, arkley

• CRN Launches...Again...

  A few weeks ago, CRN launched the fifth hull of its composite CRN 43 line, the 139-foot Eviva . And this just on the heels of the launch of Clarena 2 (pictured below), which at a whopping 236 feet LOA... Posted Nov 11 2009, 02:28 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, catherine pearson, launches, CRN

• A Trinity Tour

  One of the things I most enjoyed at this year's FLIBS was poking through several of Trinity's newly delivered megayachts, something I had the opportunity to do on the eve of the show when the Louisiana... Posted Nov 04 2009, 02:48 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, new launch, Fort Lauderdale Boat Show, Trinity

• Mega Auction

  If you take a gander at November's list of "America's 100 Largest Yachts," you'll see that we highlighed an interesting trend in the megayacht market: In the past year, many megayachts... Posted Oct 14 2009, 01:38 PM by catherine_pearson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: megayachts, The Sacks Group, Auction, Java, Fort Lauderdale Boat Show

• Monaco Yacht Show - Part 1

  Last week, I traveled to Monaco for the 19th annual Monaco Yacht show, and in spite of the current economic climate, this year's event was as big as ever. There were some 500 companies present, in... Posted Oct 01 2009, 09:56 AM by catherine_pearson with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: megayachts, Monaco Yacht Show

• Soliloquy: Green and Super

  You might think it's sacrilege, but here goes: The topic of this blog post is ostensibly a sailboat. Before you click away (I know, I know—we're a powerboat publication), take a look at these renderings... Posted Sep 16 2009, 04:02 PM by catherine_pearson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: megayachts, design, soliloquy

• Killer Yacht?

  Ok, design fiends, try this one on for size. Schopfer Yachts, a company that says it's "dedicated ot the pursuit of yacht aesthetics and technology" has announced that Sparkman and Stephens... Posted Sep 02 2009, 12:30 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, new launch, design, Oculus yacht

• Al Mirqab

  We've received some good responses to our annual Top 100 list, including this one from PMY reader—and megayacht enthusiast—Brent Campbell of Tennessee. He wrote: Seems you missed one in the Top 100... Posted Aug 27 2009, 04:35 PM by catherine_pearson with | with no comments Filed under: megayachts, reader photos, al mirqab