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ISA Custom 80m · M/Y Belita

ISA Yachts Launches the ISA Custom 80m M/Y Belita as Its New Flagship, With a 100 Meter Successor Already Under Construction

At 2,220 GT and 79.82 meters, Belita is only the second 80 meter yacht Palumbo Superyachts has built, after the Columbus Classic 80m M/Y Dragon. The same announcement that names her flagship also confirms the title will not last: a 100 meter ISA project is already underway.

Ouzel · Rockport Marine, Maine

Rockport Marine’s Ouzel, a 95-Foot Wood-Composite Sailing Yacht, Makes the Case for Building Superyachts in Maine Again

Built over five years by a team spanning Newport, Rockport and Lymington, UK, the fully bespoke yacht pairs a classic pilothouse cutter profile with a modern performance hull. Her June sea trials, ten knots upwind and twelve on a reach, are the argument her builders set out to make.

Azimut Grande 44M · Cannes Yachting Festival 2026

Azimut Grande 44M Wins the Innovation Route Awards’ Special Jury Prize at Cannes, for the Fuel It Doesn’t Burn

The 44 meter flagship made its debut at the 2026 Cannes Yachting Festival and left with the Special Jury Award, the honor the show reserves for what it considers genuinely new in large yacht design. What moved the jury was efficiency, not scale.

CMC Marine · Cannes Yachting Festival 2026

CMC Marine Unveils Four New Systems at the Cannes Yachting Festival, Starting With Its First In-House Fins

The Italian stabilization specialist used its Cannes press conference to introduce new LA fins for Stabilis Electra, two compact Waveless STAB models, five-blade propellers for Dualis Electra, and a redesigned touchscreen display. The fins mark the company's first product engineered and built entirely in-house.

Grand Soleil Yachts · Grand Soleil Plus 80 · Cannes Yachting Festiva

Grand Soleil Debuts the Plus 80 at Cannes, Built Around a Telescoping Keel and a Torqeedo Hybrid Platform

The new flagship of the Plus line, first hull Bianca II, can vary its draft from 2.90 to 4.40 meters, and runs its winches, mast and keel off a single hydraulic circuit instead of a web of electric motors. It premieres this week at the Cannes Yachting Festival, one of three world premieres Cantiere del Pardo brings to the show.

Custom Line · Navetta 35 · Cannes Yachting Festival

Custom Line Launches the Navetta 35 at Cannes, a 34.5 Meter Flagship for Its 30th Anniversary

The Ancona builder's new displacement flagship removes the exterior staircase from its aft deck to turn the cockpit into full time living space, and keeps a draft shallow enough to reach waters usually left to much smaller boats. Custom Line frames the launch as its made to measure argument, thirty years and more than 300 hulls in.

Tankoa Yachts · Monaco Yacht Show 2026

Tankoa Yachts Debuts the T450 Singolare and the T52 Spirit at Monaco, Two World Premieres Built on Opposite Ideas of Life Aboard

The Italian boutique yard returns to MYS 2026 with two world premieres, the 45 meter T450 M/Y Singolare and the 52 meter full-custom T52 M/Y Spirit. One is built to feel larger than its sub-500 GT footprint. The other is built around a full-beam gym that opens onto the sea.

Benetti B.Neos 40M · Full Hybrid

Benetti Sells B.Neos 40M Full Hybrid, Named The Soul of Silence, and Quiet Turns Out to Be the Actual Spec

The 40.6 meter, 296 GT B.Neos is due for delivery in spring 2028, sold to a buyer represented by Royal Yacht International. Built around a MAN Smart Hybrid system, it cuts fuel consumption and emissions by up to 30 percent, and the philosophy behind it treats silence as the main luxury, not an afterthought.

Cannes Yachting Festival · Innovation Route Awards · 2026

Cannes Yachting Festival Names Its 2026 Innovation Route Award Winners, From a Mooring App to the Azimut Grande 44M

The festival's second Innovation Route Awards recognized five projects spanning navigation software, anti-corrosion coating, a hybrid catamaran, an artificial reef program and a 43.6 meter flagship. Winners were announced on the opening night of the 49th Cannes Yachting Festival, at the Vieux Port Exhibitors' Cocktail Reception.

Azimut · Magellano 27M · Third Generation

Azimut Unveils the Magellano 27M, Designed by Jarkko Jämsén and Michele De Lucchi

The new flagship of the Magellano line pairs a Finnish exterior designer with Michele De Lucchi's studio for the first time, built around a glazed main deck loggia that changes how the space works rather than just how it looks. Underneath, the yacht keeps the Dual Mode hull the line has run since 2009, now paired with carbon fiber construction and an optional silent, generator free hotel mode at anchor.

BRABUS Marine · Shadow 38 · Cannes Yachting Festival

BRABUS Marine Brings the Shadow 38 to Cannes, Split Between 850 and 1,000 Horsepower

The new 38 foot platform arrives in two configurations built on the same hull and design language, one tuned for long range cruising, one built for outright speed. The 1,000 horsepower flagship leads the world premiere at Port Canto, before crossing to Monaco later this month.

Sirena Yachts · Sirena 118 · Cannes Yachting Festival

Sirena Yachts Launches the 118, a 36 Meter Flagship, at Cannes Yachting Festival

The composite builder's largest yacht yet keeps the family profile of the rest of the range while crossing into genuine superyacht territory, at 279 gross tons. Hull number one, IKIGAI, shows how far that platform can be pushed by an owner willing to go bespoke.

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ISA Yachts Launches the ISA Custom 80m M/Y Belita as Its New Flagship, With a 100 Meter Successor Already Under Construction

Rockport Marine’s Ouzel, a 95-Foot Wood-Composite Sailing Yacht, Makes the Case for Building Superyachts in Maine Again

Tankoa Yachts Debuts the T450 Singolare and the T52 Spirit at Monaco, Two World Premieres Built on Opposite Ideas of Life Aboard

Benetti Sells B.Neos 40M Full Hybrid, Named The Soul of Silence, and Quiet Turns Out to Be the Actual Spec

Azimut Grande 44M Wins the Innovation Route Awards’ Special Jury Prize at Cannes, for the Fuel It Doesn’t Burn

CMC Marine Unveils Four New Systems at the Cannes Yachting Festival, Starting With Its First In-House Fins

Cannes Yachting Festival Names Its 2026 Innovation Route Award Winners, From a Mooring App to the Azimut Grande 44M

Azimut Unveils the Magellano 27M, Designed by Jarkko Jämsén and Michele De Lucchi

Grand Soleil Debuts the Plus 80 at Cannes, Built Around a Telescoping Keel and a Torqeedo Hybrid Platform

Custom Line Launches the Navetta 35 at Cannes, a 34.5 Meter Flagship for Its 30th Anniversary