New 26m Raised Pilothouse close to completion

Progress is being made at the Van der Valk yard on a new 26-metre motoryacht in the Raised Pilothouse line. With delivery scheduled for later this year, the owners of Helga are looking forward to embarking on a maiden season of adventures in the Mediterranean region...

Strengthening response to marine debris

It’s probably difficult for anyone who isn’t middle-aged or older to comprehend, but people could smoke cigarettes on airplanes until 1990 when the US government, after years of pressure from the Association of Flight Attendants, finally banned smoking on all but a...

America’s Cup: All challengers at venue

The cargo plane carrying America’s Cup challenger Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team’s second hull landed in Auckland on October 5th at 8pm local time. The cargo, which left the Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport on October 2 on an Antonov 124-100, reached New Zealand after 60...

Getting (back) into the Paralympics

The Paralympics had featured sailing as a sport in every Games between Sydney 2000 and Rio 2016, but when in 2015 the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) claimed the sport could not fulfil their minimum criteria for worldwide reach, it was a wake-up call for...