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Heesen Yachts · Project Kanse

Kansei: Heesen Designs Its Anniversary Yacht Around Human Sensibility

The name is a Japanese idea, anticipating emotional needs and designing for the way a space makes people feel. Heesen turned it into a 56-metre yacht organized around wellbeing.

Lürssen · Six Deliveries in One Yea

Lürssen Delivers Six Superyachts in a Single Year, and Tightens Its Grip on the Giant Class

ODISEA, DEEP BLUE, BOARDWALK, O3, NAUSICAÄ and NIXIE, from 75 to 140 metres. More than a third of the world's hundred largest yachts now carry the German yard's name.

Heesen Yachts · YN 20857

Heesen Launches a 57 Meter Full Custom for a Returning Owner

Project Setteesettanta is the first Heesen to carry her bridge on the fourth deck. Almost everything about her, from naval architecture to furniture, was answered in house.

Riva · 96' Argo Super

Riva Grows the Argo Into a 96, and Reworks the Deck Below

The first 96' Argo Super was launched today in La Spezia. The added length is the headline; a day head moved to the main deck and a full beam VIP that reads as a second master are the actual news.

D-Marin · Marina di Olbia

D-Marin Buys Marina di Olbia and Closes Its Mediterranean Triangle

The acquisition adds 270 berths and a 200 meter fuel quay in Sardinia. It also completes a chain of marinas from the Côte d'Azur to the Costa Smeralda under one operator.

Heesen Yachts · Appointment

Heesen Puts Project Management and After Sales Under One Director

Eric Boers arrives from wind energy to run a newly created role. The structure is the news: the yard is treating the build and the yacht's operating life as one continuous file.

Crescent Custom Yachts · CCY110

Crescent Begins Its First CCY110 on Spec, a 33.5 Metre Multihull With a 45 Metre’s Volume

The Canadian yard is building hull one before a buyer signs, offering the volume of a 45 metre monohull in a sub-500 GT, shallow-draft platform, and turning the exchange rate into part of the pitch.

Cannes Yachting Festival · 49th Edition

Cannes Opens the Season, With the Innovation Route Back on the Water

Six days, two ports, more than 700 boats. The festival's second Innovation Route Awards put sustainability where the industry can no longer treat it as a side note.

Azimut · Grande 44M

Azimut Launches the Grande 44M With Seven Hulls Already Sold

Carbon fiber over half the vessel, a Hull Vane foil at the stern and a four deck architecture. The engineering exists to serve one commercial idea: give the owner an entire deck.

Benetti · Class 44M "Lumina"

Benetti Launches Lumina and Puts €100 Million Behind Tuscany

The slipway ceremony is the photograph. The investment plan is the news: Azimut|Benetti doubled its production value in five years and is reinvesting into the district that produces 70 percent of it.

IYC · Monaco Yacht Show

IYC Returns to Monaco With a Fleet and a Microphone

The brokerage house confirms its presence at the 35th edition, September 23 to 26, with three yachts already named for the quay and two panel sessions in its own lounge.

Monaco Yacht Show

Monaco Opens Its 2026 Exhibitor List

The 35th edition returns to Port Hercule from September 23 to 26. The list is live, it will keep growing through the summer, and it is the first working map the industry has for September.

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