While the yachting industry may be intrinsically focused on luxury and pleasure, many crews and owners do more than their share to give back to the world. Some of the recent efforts have not gone unnoticed.
The first AIM Marine Group Editor’s Choice Lifetime Achievement Award went to Annette Bénéteau-Roux, an elegant, petite woman who has steered the Beneteau Group through thick and thin since 1964. Roux came to Fort Lauderdale to accept her Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Reymond Langton–designed Excellence V, from Abeking & Rasmussen, is the latest in a series of yachts Herb Chambers has built. Chambers is all about excellence in life, business and yachting.
According to newspaper reports, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was hoping to score a medal of his own after the Games by loaning his superyacht, Octopus, to the British Royal Navy to help retrieve the bell of HMS Hood, a battlecruiser sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the early days of World War II.
Playing a new course during a yacht holiday is always a special pleasure. For golfers afloat, keeping a spare set of clubs on board is a given. But what if you had a private coach on board, who brought along a swing machine and worked with you on your short game on the aft deck and performed video analysis in the screening room at the end of the day?
Eric Benson, casually dressed in a freshly ironed sky-blue linen shirt and white trousers, looks as if he stepped out the pages of Gentlemen’s Quarterly.
The successful entrepreneur who until recently owned the three boats on our cover reveals how boating has been the glue that held the family together.
While the yachting industry may be intrinsically focused on luxury and pleasure, many crews and owners do more than their share to give back to the world. Some of the recent efforts have not gone unnoticed.
The first AIM Marine Group Editor’s Choice Lifetime Achievement Award went to Annette Bénéteau-Roux, an elegant, petite woman who has steered the Beneteau Group through thick and thin since 1964. Roux came to Fort Lauderdale to accept her Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Reymond Langton–designed Excellence V, from Abeking & Rasmussen, is the latest in a series of yachts Herb Chambers has built. Chambers is all about excellence in life, business and yachting.
According to newspaper reports, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was hoping to score a medal of his own after the Games by loaning his superyacht, Octopus, to the British Royal Navy to help retrieve the bell of HMS Hood, a battlecruiser sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the early days of World War II.
Playing a new course during a yacht holiday is always a special pleasure. For golfers afloat, keeping a spare set of clubs on board is a given. But what if you had a private coach on board, who brought along a swing machine and worked with you on your short game on the aft deck and performed video analysis in the screening room at the end of the day?
Eric Benson, casually dressed in a freshly ironed sky-blue linen shirt and white trousers, looks as if he stepped out the pages of Gentlemen’s Quarterly.
The successful entrepreneur who until recently owned the three boats on our cover reveals how boating has been the glue that held the family together.
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