Superyachts
Peter Harburg's Australian 100-footer is Line Honours Winner in the Giraglia 70
16th June 2023 Offshore
The 100-footer (which set the race record in 2012 as Esimit Europa 2), crossed the finish line in Genoa at 11:33:16 after 26h 30m 16s of racing. It was an impeccable regatta for the big maxi which led the fleet…
Superyacht Cup Palma 2023 Gets Ready to Welcome World's Finest Yachts to the Mediterranean
15th June 2023 Superyachts
The clock is on the final countdown to the start of racing at Superyacht Cup Palma 2023 with another diverse and eye-catching selection of some of the world's finest superyachts gathering in the Mallorcan home of Mediterranean sailing. "It's great…
The Jamacian-flagged superyacht Kaos is moored off Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Dublin Bay this morning, having arrived overnight from London. The 110-metre superyacht sailed up the Thames in London after a mammoth transatlantic passage from Miami at the end of…
Dublin has a new superyacht visitor in the shape of James Berwind’s $85m superyacht Scout, which is currently moored on the River Liffey. Sightings on social media yesterday (Wednesday 24 May) are confirmed by VesselFinder, which says the 209-footer arrived…
Dubens' 'North Star' Wins Second IMA Maxi European Championship Offshore Race
15th May 2023 Superyachts
With the 26-strong maxi fleet sub-divided into three classes, the remainder of the Regata dei Tre Golfi maxi fleet arrived throughout the course of Saturday afternoon. Giuseppe Puttini’s Swan 65 ketch Shirlaf was last home at 17:45CEST. Due to the…
Mark Mills First Fully Foiling Offshore Maxi Yacht 'Flying Nikka' Debuts in Portofino
9th May 2023 Superyachts
The County Wicklow-designed Flying Nikka, the first fully foiling offshore maxi by Mark Mills, has been revealed before the first event of Flying Nikka’s season, the Regate di Primavera in Portofino, Italy. As Afloat reported in May 2021, construction began on…
Fog may have shrouded the reappearance of the classic 33-metre superyacht Mariette off Kinsale Harbour County Cork yesterday, but there was no mistaking the silhouette of the two-masted gaff schooner. Designed and built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff in 1915, Mariette arrived…
Superyacht Cup Palma has taken in more entries since the recent publication of the Notice of Race detailing the 27th edition of Europe's longest-running superyacht regatta, which offers a new 90ft Class this year aimed at smaller performance-orientated cruiser-racers. Among…
Pre-registration for the International Maxi Association’s second Maxi European Championship ended last Wednesday, with the entry list already exceeding the 25 participating in 2022, writes James Boyd. For a second year the IMA Maxi European Championship will be part of Tre…
Irish Crew Trio Celebrate Victory Onboard 'WinWin' at St Barths Bucket Superyacht Regatta
21st March 2023 Superyachts
There were Irish celebrations at St Barths Bucket Superyacht Regatta in the Caribbean at the weekend when the part-Irish crewed WinWin won its class over three days racing in 20+ knots conditions. On board, the 33m superyacht from Ireland was Timothy Goodbody (tactician), Simon…
Entries are officially open for the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta 2023 from today, 19 December. The event will take place from 6 to 10 June, and the Notice of Race has been published. The 16th edition of the event, organised…
Sailor Struck in Face by Superyacht’s Steel Pulley In Line for Up To €1.8M in Compensation
18th December 2022 Superyachts
A sailor who was struck in the face by a steel pulley on the deck of a multi-millionaire’s superyacht is set to get up to £1.6 million (€1.84 million) in damages. According to MailOnline, Adam Prior says he was forced…
The second edition of the International Maxi Association’s Maxi European Championship is to take place again as part of Tre Golfi Sailing Week, out of Sorrento’s Marina Piccola over 12-18 May 2023. Supported by Rolex, the event is run by…
Andoo Comanche Takes Line Honours in Austrlia's 2022 Cabbage Tree Island Race
3rd December 2022 Sydney to Hobart
Andoo Comanche set a new record time to take Line Honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's 2022 Cabbage Tree Island Race. The race is part of the six race Sydney Blue Water Pointscore schedule that concludes with the…
Major Kinsale Design Input For New 54 Metre Sloop With Supra-National Links
9th November 2022 Kinsale
Today’s largest sailing superyachts are so much a world unto themselves that they lead a sort of independent and supra-national existence. The name of Argentine-born designer Juan Kouyoumdjian (an ancestor was Armenian) may be best known in Ireland for his…
Middle Sea Race Monohull Line Honours Goes to 100-foot Maxi, Leopard 3
25th October 2022 Middle Sea Race
This morning, Tuesday 25 October, the Farr-designed 30.48 metre/100-foot maxi, Leopard 3 (NED), skippered by Chris Sherlock, crossed the finish line of the 2022 Rolex Middle Sea Race at 10:54:29 CEST to take Monohull Line Honours in an elapsed time…
