Risa Merl

6 days ago | boatinternational.com | Risa Merl

“It only took me 10 minutes to decide to buy it, which gives you an idea of how perfect the project was for me,” says the owner of 33.4-metre Galma, the first hull in Wally’s wallywind110 series. The new series hadn’t yet been announced and wasn’t for sale publicly when he caught word of it, but its marketing status was beside the point. He knew it was meant to be his.

3 weeks ago | dockwalk.com | Risa Merl

Exploration and performance sit happily alongside comfort on Akula, finds Captain Jonathan Sullivan. “I am only interested in doingworldwide itineraries, particularly when the further reaches, such as the polar regions and Galápagos Islands, are included,” says Akula’s Captain Jonathan Sullivan of the 195-foot Rossinavi’s world-girdling cruising program. It’s a fitting sentiment for a captain of an explorer yacht built by her owners to cruise far beyond the distant horizon.

2 months ago | luxuo.com | Sanjeeva Suresh |Risa Merl

“It’s a break away from the motoryacht world – this is a passagemaker,” says Robert Chaffer, Beneteau’s Motorboat Marketing Product Manager for the Gran Turismo and Swift Trawler lines, as we approach the new Swift Trawler 54, which debuted at the Cannes Yachting Festival 2024. “Swift Trawlers are not designed to sit in the marina, but to navigate, travel and explore.”Viewed from the dock, the Swift Trawler 54 has a visible purposeful stance that makes the yacht appear ready to take on the waves.

2 months ago | luxuo.com | Sanjeeva Suresh |Risa Merl

Legend, a customised Aquitalia 68 FB, is available for charter in Singapore through Zenith Yacht Charters, having been customised and brought to Southeast Asia through the shipyard’s dealer, Raffles Yacht. Built by Yihong Yachts in Xiamen, China, Legend is the first Aquitalia 68 model to feature an interior by Pulina Exclusive Interiors, the Pisa-based studio founded by Alessandro Pulina with an Asia office in Shanghai.

2 months ago | boatinternational.com | Risa Merl

This was a design we never attempted before,” says Erdinç Kuşcu, business development executive at Mengi Yay Yachts, of the full-size boxing ring that sprawls over the foredeck of the builder’s new 47.5-metre motor yacht Serenissima I.