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1 week ago | 
robbreport.com | Julia Zaltzman |Michael Verdon
Several weeks ago, during the first Venice Climate Week, Sanlorenzo Arts opened its Casa Sanlorenzo. The Italian yacht builder calls it a “cultural and artistic lab that transcends time, both culturally and architecturally.” The description is a bit over the top, but what seems even more puzzling is that the restoration was financed by an industrial shipyard.
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1 week ago | 
robbreport.com | Jeremy Repanich |Jonah Flicker |Michael Verdon |Jill Newman
The luxury world tends to focus on products, services, and experiences. But every so often, it’s good to remind ourselves that without hardworking individuals throughout our vast industry, there’d be no spectacular whiskey innovations, stylish home furnishings, irresistible culinary creations, or lavish accomodations. Which is why we devote a few pages of our annual Best of the Best issue to such talented people.
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2 weeks ago | 
robbreport.com | Michael Verdon |Nicole Hoey
Augmented-reality screens doubling as windows? A humanoid butler on board? We’re not there yet, but it’s not far away. Shipyards are now delivering the first wave of smart boats, integrating artificial intelligence with the yacht’s basic functions. Several Alexa-like iterations, such as Azimut Yachts’ Vertex AI and Numarine’s Adonis, use voice prompts to turn on lights or vocalize weather forecasts.
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2 weeks ago | 
robbreport.com | Michael Verdon |Nicole Hoey
The world of private aviation can be a tough category since there are only several dozen established airframe manufacturers, and a handful design and build business jets. Those launches happen every few years rather than annually (it costs many tens of millions to develop the largest, longest-range transatlantic business jet).
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2 weeks ago | 
robbreport.com | Michael Verdon |Nicole Hoey
Our Best of the Best awards encompass every luxury vessel on the water (and even personal submersibles that run underneath), from 300-foot-plus gigayachts to 35-foot dayboats, with many, many categories in between. This year saw a particularly rich field across all categories—arguably the best in our six years of judging the Marine section.
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2 weeks ago | 
robbreport.com | Michael Verdon |Nicole Hoey
Our Best of the Best awards encompass every luxury vessel on the water (and even personal submersibles that run underneath), from 300-foot-plus gigayachts to 35-foot dayboats, with many, many categories in between. This year saw a particularly rich field across all categories—arguably the best in our six years of judging the Marine section.
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1 month ago | 
robbreport.com | Michael Verdon
The SP80 kite boat crossed the 100 kmh speed mark last week, reaching 108 kmh, or 67.1 mph. That makes it the second-fastest sailboat ever recorded, but the Swiss team still plans to pursue the record set by Paul Larsen on Vestas Sailrocket II in 2009. That boat posted an average of 75.31 mph over 500 meters, or 547 yards. But it was good enough to surpass the top speeds recorded of the world’s fastest racing sailboats.
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1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Michael Verdon
The SP80 kite boat crossed the 100 kmh speed mark last week, reaching 108 kmh, or 67.1 mph. That makes it the second-fastest sailboat ever recorded, but the Swiss team still plans to pursue the record set by Paul Larsen on Vestas Sailrocket II in 2009. That boat posted an average of 75.31 mph over 500 meters, or 547 yards. But it was good enough to surpass the top speeds recorded of the world’s fastest racing sailboats.
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1 month ago | 
robbreport.com | Michael Verdon
Bombardier’s Global 8000 took another step toward certification last weekend after the first production aircraft completed its successful inaugural flight. The world’s fastest civilian aircraft since the Concorde, the new plane replaces the Global 7500. The first production 8000 took off from Bombardier’s Aircraft Assembly Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, executing a series of tests before landing.
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1 month ago | 
robbreport.com | Michael Verdon
The America’s Cup has found a new home in Naples, Italy, for the 38th edition starting in the spring and summer of 2027. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made the announcement that Naples would be hosting the event after it was determined that Barcelona, where the Cup happened last time, didn’t have the resources to hold it again. Cup defender Emirates Team New Zealand also eliminated the team’s homeport of Auckland, which hosted both the 2000 and 2021 America’s Cup.
