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YACHTING NEWS
Industry Editorial
The Stories And Voices
Shaping Yachting
Yachting News is the editorial home of Yachting International Radio, delivering independent yachting news, superyacht industry insight, and maritime coverage for a global audience.
Covering crew welfare, leadership, refit, technology, regulation, sustainability, yacht ownership, boating, and marine innovation, Yachting News brings together credible perspectives from across the people, companies, and conversations shaping the industry.
Updated multiple times each week, the platform extends the reach of Yachting International Radio and Yachting Channel through editorial features, podcasts, interviews, and global distribution across major audio, video, and digital platforms.
Green To Ready: Why New Yacht Crew Need More Than A Checklist
Green crew need more than certificates and a checklist. Jemma Cunningham of The Yacht Interior Academy explains why honest preparation, interior training, communication, and realistic expectations are essential before new yacht crew step onboard.
Yachting International Radio
22 hours ago6 min read
Yacht Crew Rights: What Crew Need To Know Before Something Goes Wrong
Yacht crew rights matter before a crisis begins. This editorial explores crew contracts, jurisdiction, NDAs, onboard reporting, evidence, union support, and why legal awareness is essential for a safer, more professional superyacht industry.
Yachting International Radio
3 days ago9 min read
Women In Yachting: Marlies Sanders On Moving From Deck To Captain
Superyacht Captain Marlies Sanders built her career through sea time, qualifications, resilience, and the refusal to let outdated assumptions define her future. Her journey from deck to command highlights why women in yachting need visible pathways, stronger support, and an industry willing to judge ability over bias.
Yachting International Radio
4 days ago8 min read
Superyacht Captain Chris Halligan On Leadership, Bridge Teams, And The Commercial Discipline Behind Modern Yacht Command
Captain Chris Halligan’s journey from commercial shipping to command of a 90-metre superyacht offers a powerful look at modern yacht leadership. This editorial explores how commercial discipline, bridge-team communication, crew dynamic, safety culture, and mentoring are shaping the next generation of superyacht command.
Yachting International Radio
4 days ago8 min read
No Quick Fix: Geraldine Hardy On Healing, Longevity, And The Work Within
Geraldine Hardy explores why true healing cannot be reduced to protocols, treatments, longevity technology, or performance tools, and why the deeper work begins beneath the symptom.
Yachting International Radio
5 days ago6 min read
Yacht Classification Made Simple: RINA, Surveys And Safety At Sea
RINA’s Davide Di Biasi breaks down yacht classification, survey preparation, safety logic, digital tools, and the role of class as a practical partner in safer, smarter superyacht operations.
Yachting International Radio
5 days ago8 min read
Maritime Leadership Begins With People: Margareta Jensen Dickson on Inclusion, Courage and Change
Margareta Jensen Dickson, Chief People and Communications Officer at Stena Line, reflects on leadership, inclusion, motherhood, self-trust and why meaningful change in maritime begins with people.
Yachting International Radio
6 days ago8 min read
Yacht Crew Money Mistakes: The Wealth Window Too Many Crew Waste
Yacht crew can earn serious money young, often with very few living expenses, but high income alone does not create wealth. This editorial explores the yacht crew money mistakes that quietly undermine one of the industry’s biggest financial opportunities, from lifestyle inflation and bad debt to emergency funds, investing behaviour, and the pressure of working around extreme wealth.
Yachting International Radio
May 269 min read
Real Self-Care Begins With Telling Yourself the Truth
Real self-care is not built on performance, perfection, or surface-level wellness. Geraldine Hardy explores Satya, burnout, boundaries, and the difficult honesty required to stop betraying yourself before the body is forced to speak louder.
Yachting International Radio
May 226 min read
Yacht Crew Life With Eleisha Mealing: Leading From The Deck
Eleisha Mealing’s journey into yachting is anything but ordinary. From Cairns to the Whitsundays, Below Deck: Down Under, tenders, bridge work, close quarters, and crew culture, her story captures the energy, humour, and resilience behind real yacht crew life.
Yachting International Radio
May 226 min read
Yacht Refit In America: Rebuilding Confidence Through Planning, Precision And Accountability
Yacht refit in America is entering a defining moment. With stronger pre-yard planning, clearer communication, smarter procurement, and better alignment between owners, captains, managers, shipyards, and service providers, the U.S. refit market has the talent and infrastructure to rebuild confidence and compete at the highest level.
Yachting International Radio
May 197 min read
From Cadet To Crew: Building A Yacht Crew Career From The Ground Up
A yacht crew career is not built on glamour alone. Charlie Streeten’s journey through UKSA highlights the importance of structured training, practical skills, resilience, and industry support for the next generation entering yachting.
Yachting International Radio
May 186 min read
Superyacht Ocean Conservation: How SeaKeepers Turns Private Yachts Into Research Platforms
Gill Rodrigues of The International SeaKeepers Society explains how superyacht ocean conservation is becoming a practical part of the industry’s future, with private yachts, captains, crew, and owners supporting marine research, citizen science, Seabed 2030, microplastic studies, education, and ocean protection through SeaKeepers’ global programmes.
Yachting International Radio
May 156 min read
Yacht Crew Rights: Why NDAs Cannot Be Used To Silence Crime At Sea
NDAs have a legitimate role in yachting, but they cannot be misunderstood as a blanket tool for silence. English lawyer Benjamin Maltby explains where confidentiality protects legitimate privacy and commercial interests, and where criminal conduct, reporting duties, jurisdiction, and crew safety require far greater clarity.
Yachting International Radio
May 1510 min read
Radical Self-Care: Geraldine Hardy On The Wake-Up Call That Changed Everything
Geraldine Hardy reflects on the health scare that forced her to stop performing strength and begin rebuilding from within, exploring radical self-care, burnout, trauma, and the courage to listen before life gets louder.
Yachting International Radio
May 155 min read
Yacht Brokerage Is Built On Trust, Not Just Sales
Elvis Sipe of HMY Yacht Sales explores the human side of yacht brokerage, where trust, clear communication, market knowledge, and long-term client relationships matter far beyond the closing table.
Yachting International Radio
May 146 min read
Accidents At Sea: Why Legal Protection Starts Before Crew Need It
Accidents at sea can leave yacht crew and families exposed long before they understand what legal protections may apply. In Part 3 of UNCENSORED’s legal series, maritime lawyer Adria Notari explains why early advice, proper reporting, jurisdiction, SEA agreements, disclosure, and crew rights all matter before a crisis becomes impossible to fix.
Yachting International Radio
May 138 min read
Captain Kerry Titheradge: Before Below Deck, A Story Of Healing, Leadership And Purpose
Captain Kerry Titheradge is known globally through Below Deck, but his story began long before television. This Yachting USA feature explores the sea time, discipline, commercial boating, yacht service, depression, healing, accountability, and leadership journey that shaped the captain behind the public image.
Yachting International Radio
May 1010 min read
Strait of Hormuz and Seafarer Safety: The Human Cost of Conflict-Zone Shipping
When conflict reaches the sea, seafarers are left carrying the consequences onboard. This Sea Views editorial examines the human reality behind the Strait of Hormuz crisis, from ship safety, crew stress and leadership to trauma recovery, support resources and the urgent need to protect civilian vessels as international assets.
Yachting International Radio
May 89 min read
Liminal Space: Why Personal Growth Changes Family Patterns, Identity, And The Way Forward
Liminal space is the uncomfortable in-between stage of personal growth, where old identities, family patterns, and familiar relationships begin to fall away before the new self fully emerges. Geraldine Hardy reflects on trauma healing, self-awareness, closed doors, and the courage it takes to stop going backwards and trust the process of becoming.
Yachting International Radio
May 87 min read
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