The news that the 32m sailing yacht Gliss is returning to defend her title as winner of last year’s Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta provokes an immediate response from Toby Maclaurin at Ocean Independence, who writes in to remind me that she’s currently for sale with Peter Hurzeler and Phillip Pollack.
Gliss was delivered by Holland’s Royal Huisman ... Read more

London’s historic Guildhall sees the great and the good of the superyacht industry gather for the fifth annual World Superyachts Awards on May 22nd 2010. As always, the list of finalists is a strong one: View the 2010 Finalists
Interestingly, several of them are for sale and listed at boatinternational.com. A strong contender in the motor ... Read more

A call to Thierry Voisin brings forth the news that he’s cut the price of Royal Huisman’s 25m sailing megayacht Volador once again.
A very pretty yacht, she was built to a German Frers design in 1982 and refitted in 2005. With a practical layout of five cabins sleeping 10 guests, she’s MCA compliant and, says ... Read more

News just in from Yachting Partners International that Will Bishop’s joint central agencies for sale (with Ann Avery at Northrop & Johnson), the sailing superyachts Meteor and Aventura have relocated to Palm Beach.
Built to Lloyds class in 2007 by Royal Huisman, the 51.59m Meteor sleeps six guests in a master and two twins with a ... Read more

Winner of both the The Horus Superyacht Cup in Palma and the Loro Piano Superyacht Regatta in Porto Cervo, the Briand Design 32 metre sailing superyacht Gliss has an impressive racing pedigree. And, built at Royal Huisman and launched in 2006, the superyacht’s asking price has been reduced from €14.5 million to €11.8 million.
“The owner ... Read more

I’ve been hearing rumours for a while now that Yachting Partners International were to create a new Sailing Yacht arm of YPI brokerage and today Mark Duncan confirms that this has now happened, especially after the company recently listed two Royal Huisman sailing superyachts, the 52m Meteor and 46m William Tai.
And, as a way to ... Read more

Thierry Voisin of Thierry Voisin Partnership tells me that he and Claude Niek of CSO yachts will be joining forces to auction a selection of yachts in Nice in late October.
10 yachts will be on the block, headed by a Maiora 31 and including a very pretty 25m Royal Huisman sailing yacht. Viewing is in the ... Read more

Mark Duncan of Yachting Partners International sends word that Will Bishop in Monaco has signed the central agency for sale of Royal Huisman’s 40.68m world cruising ketch William Tai.
Her original owner was a thoroughly experienced yachtsman whose exacting demands helped create a jewel of a superyacht. Launched as Surama in 1997, William Tai has been continually maintained and ... Read more

Fresh from winning Boat International’s Loro Piana Regatta in Sardinia, Royal Huisman’s 32m performance yacht Gliss, has now won the Horus Superyacht Cup in Palma. Her broker, Phillip Pollak of Ocean Independence in Monaco, is quick to point out that this win further burnishes her reputation as a high performance racing yacht. Built in 2006, Gliss ... Read more

Learning that Royal Huisman’s 32m Gliss took first place in the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta which ended last Saturday, June 13th in Sardinia, Toby Maclaurin of  Ocean Independence is quick to write in to remind the world that she remains for sale through OCI. Toby says “This win in a world-class regatta definitely proves her ... Read more