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YACHTING NEWS
Yachting International Radio delivers independent, industry-driven yachting news, covering superyachts, crew welfare, leadership, refits, technology, regulations, and the innovations shaping the maritime world. Updated multiple times each week, the platform provides credible, real-world insight from across the global yachting sector.
Yachting International Radio, also known as Yachting Channel, operates as a global yachting media platform offering podcasts, interviews, and editorial coverage across the superyacht, boating, and maritime industries. Yachting industry podcasts and features are available worldwide via major platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, and directly through the Yachting International Radio website.
Women at Sea: Monica Kohli OBE on Maritime Law, Leadership and the 2% Reality
Women at Sea remains one of the maritime industry’s most pressing structural challenges. In this in-depth feature, Monica Kohli OBE explores maritime law, leadership, diversity and the evolving future of women at sea across the global shipping sector.
Yachting International Radio
2 days ago5 min read
Emotional Triggers: Mastering Response in Moments of Intensity
Emotional Triggers often intensify during periods of pressure and personal transition. This editorial examines how anger can mask grief, why nervous system regulation matters, and how conscious response, boundary setting, and emotional maturity transform reactive patterns into grounded leadership.
Yachting International Radio
3 days ago3 min read
Yacht Recruitment in Transition: Rotations, Retention and the Rise of AI
Yacht recruitment is evolving across the superyacht industry as crew rotations, retention strategy and AI reshape modern hiring. As vessels grow larger and expectations rise, yacht recruitment is becoming a strategic function shaping stability, leadership and long-term crew performance.
Yachting International Radio
3 days ago5 min read
Yacht Crew Investing: Escape the Golden Handcuffs and Build Real Wealth
Yacht Crew Investing is one of the most overlooked opportunities in the superyacht industry. With high disposable income and low living costs, crew are uniquely positioned to build long-term wealth, yet many leave without financial security. This editorial explores the psychology of golden handcuffs, compound interest, freelancing volatility, and the structured investment strategies that can turn income at sea into lasting financial freedom.
Yachting International Radio
4 days ago5 min read
AI, Wealth Concentration and the Superyacht Market
The Superyacht Market continues to expand despite Artificial Intelligence disrupting white-collar professions and widening wealth inequality. This editorial explores capital concentration, brokerage segmentation and how the luxury marine sector reflects broader economic shifts shaping the future of global wealth.
Yachting International Radio
5 days ago4 min read
Cyber Risk In Yachting: The Digital Vulnerability No Superyacht Can Ignore
Cyber Risk In Yachting has become a defining operational challenge for modern superyachts. As vessels grow increasingly connected through bridge systems, satellite networks and digital infrastructure, captains and management companies must address the financial, regulatory and reputational risks posed by cyber threats at sea.
Yachting International Radio
6 days ago4 min read
Superyacht Refit Crisis: Skills, Service Gaps and the Infrastructure Question
The Superyacht Refit Crisis is accelerating as rising build volumes collide with obsolete PLC systems, technician shortages and uneven global infrastructure. As more than 800 yachts enter the pipeline, the real test for the industry is no longer construction — it is long-term service capacity.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 225 min read
Spiritual Leadership Integrity in Modern Healing Communities
As wellness communities expand globally, Spiritual Leadership Integrity is becoming a defining standard for ethical authority. In an industry shaped by visibility, influence and vulnerability, alignment between teaching and behaviour is no longer optional. This editorial explores accountability in healing spaces, trauma awareness in leadership, nervous system literacy and the role of discernment in protecting personal sovereignty within modern spiritual communities.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 203 min read
Crew Retention in Yachting: The Interior Systems Quietly Shaping Owner Experience
In modern yacht operations, crew retention is less a question of resilience and more a reflection of structure. When interior systems, documentation, and onboarding lack continuity, operational pressure increases, guest experience becomes inconsistent, and long-term program stability begins to erode.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 193 min read
Captain Burnout: The Hidden Cost of Command in Modern Superyachting
Captain burnout is no longer an isolated leadership strain but a structural issue within the superyacht industry, driven by escalating compliance demands, stagnant crew standards and the absence of unified rotation policy.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 184 min read
Superyacht Chef and the Psychology of Yacht Crew Money
What happens to money when luxury becomes normal? In this Rich AF feature, Superyacht Chef Leandri Kerschbaumer and Charl Minnaar unpack yacht crew money psychology, lifestyle creep, and the financial distortion field inside the superyacht industry.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 174 min read
Superyacht Alliance: Reshaping Standards and Protecting the Human Core of the Industry
The Superyacht Alliance, under the leadership of Joey Meen, is driving structural reform across the superyacht industry, addressing crew welfare, operational standards, and long-term professional credibility as global fleet growth accelerates.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 164 min read
Founder Intuition: The Discipline of Building in Silence
In a culture that rewards constant visibility, Founder Intuition offers a different path. This article explores why discretion, energetic boundaries and strategic silence are essential during the early stages of building something meaningful.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 164 min read
Armada Yacht Club and the future of first-time access to yachting
Armada Yacht Club introduces a new, experience-led entry point into yachting, focused on privacy, trust, real onboard engagement and long-term sustainability for brokers, shipyards and crew.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 135 min read
CHIRP in Yachting: Why Superyacht Safety Reporting Is the Industry’s Most Powerful Blind Spot
Superyacht safety reporting is quietly reshaping how risk is understood across the yachting industry, revealing blind spots that compliance frameworks and inspections were never designed to detect. From near-miss intelligence to the persistent invisibility of interior operations, this conversation explores why confidential reporting has become one of the most powerful tools available to prevent accidents before they occur.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 116 min read
Uncrewed Surface Vessels and the Real Future of Offshore Operations
Uncrewed surface vessels are already operating across offshore energy, survey, surveillance and environmental monitoring, but the reality behind these platforms is far more human-led, regulated and operationally complex than most headlines suggest.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 106 min read
Yacht Crew Financial Planning and Protection in a Contract-Based Industry
Yacht crew financial planning remains one of the most overlooked risks in professional yachting. This article explores how contract work, mobility and lack of protection leave crew exposed and what practical financial structure can change long-term career security.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 96 min read
Yacht Crew Welfare in the Superyacht Industry: Why Operational Culture Must Change
Yacht crew welfare is no longer a secondary concern in superyacht operations. From leadership culture and reporting systems to fatigue, burnout and retention, this editorial examines how structural change, informed by lived onboard experience, is reshaping the future of sustainable yacht operations through the perspective of SEANERGY Yachting founder Estelle Viriot.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 85 min read
Health, Oceans and the Blue Economy in South Florida: A New Research Vision Takes Shape
South Florida is emerging as a global centre for ocean science, healthcare research and climate innovation. In this feature, Nova Southeastern University’s President and CEO, Dr. Harry Moon, explains how interdisciplinary research, Arctic and international partnerships, and real-world data are reshaping the blue economy in South Florida and driving long-term solutions for coastal resilience, infrastructure planning and public health.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 65 min read
Longevity self care: why daily nervous system choices shape how long and how well we live
Longevity self care is not created through technology or performance alone, but through the daily relationship we build with our nervous system, our emotions and the choices that shape how safely the body can respond to stress, change and recovery. In this Self Care Onboard editorial, Geraldine Hardy explores how emotional awareness, trauma-informed self-care and consistent nervous system regulation quietly determine how long and how well we live.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 55 min read
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