by Natalie | Nov 29, 2019 | Daily News, Features, Industry Insider 1
Significant facility for both the company and Genoa as a superyacht hub. Genoa-based Amico & Co officially inaugurated it new €27m, 4,000-tonne capacity shiplift on Thursday. The new facility is not only an important development for this global leader as a...
by Natalie | Nov 29, 2019 | Daily News, Features
British America’s Cup challenger INEOS TEAM UK is currently testing their first AC75 ‘Britannia’ from their base in Old Portsmouth, UK. Team CEO Grant Simmer, who has competed in eleven Cups and won it four times in various roles, offers some insight into the British...
by Natalie | Nov 29, 2019 | Daily News, Features
Day 11 – The Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race teams have many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, on the racing front – a slight break in the tough squally conditions that they have been facing over the last 48hrs. Qingdao maintains its lead in Race...
by Natalie | Nov 28, 2019 | Daily News, Features
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) reports that the fourth-largest fleet in the history of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will take part in the 75th edition. “We are looking at 164 yachts on the start lines on Boxing Day,” Commodore Paul Billingham said. “It’s...
by Natalie | Nov 28, 2019 | Daily News, Features
After five days into the RORC Transatlantic Race, the international fleet is experiencing shifty conditions with a light to moderate wind oscillating between nor’ east and east. All of the teams are south of the rhumb line but different strategies are producing a...
by Natalie | Nov 27, 2019 | Daily News, Features
Day 10 – The leading teams in the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race are reaching the midway point of Leg 3, and with Clipper Race Meteorologist, Simon Rowell, calling the weather ‘fruity’, there were lots of individual sail battles for the skippers and crew...
