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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.

Constance Brément of Cannes Yachting Festival featured in a Yachting Confidential editorial image with a luxury yacht and night marina backdrop.

Constance Brément of Cannes Yachting Festival featured in a Yachting Confidential editorial image with a luxury yacht and night marina backdrop.

Constance Brément On Cannes Yachting Festival 2026 And The Future Of Luxury Boating

Constance Brément, Show Director of Cannes Yachting Festival, offers a refined look at the 2026 edition in Cannes, the evolution of luxury boating, changing buyer expectations, innovation, sustainability and the enduring power of experiencing yachts on the water.

Yachting Confidential

Yachting International Radio

11 hours ago7 min read

Alicia Store of dsnm Ltd seated with Conrad Empson, Founder and Managing Director of CrewPass, for On The Bridge, discussing superyacht crew vetting, background checks, onboard safety, CrewPass, and AI in yachting.

Alicia Store of dsnm Ltd seated with Conrad Empson, Founder and Managing Director of CrewPass, for On The Bridge, discussing superyacht crew vetting, background checks, onboard safety, CrewPass, and AI in yachting.

Superyacht Crew Vetting: Why Trust Onboard Can No Longer Be Left To Chance

Superyacht crew vetting is becoming a serious safety and professionalism issue for yachting. Conrad Empson, Founder and Managing Director of CrewPass, discusses background checks, crew-held credentials, onboard trust, recruitment, entrepreneurship, digital footprints, and how AI is beginning to change the way the industry verifies and understands the people stepping onboard.

Yachting International Radio

4 days ago8 min read

Aerial view of Hermitage Bay, Antigua, with hillside villas, a white-sand beach and turquoise Caribbean water beneath the words “Beyond the Tender.”

Aerial view of Hermitage Bay, Antigua, with hillside villas, a white-sand beach and turquoise Caribbean water beneath the words “Beyond the Tender.”

Hermitage Bay: Antigua’s Private Escape Beyond the Tender

For yacht owners, captains and charter guests, Hermitage Bay offers a seamless passage from life onboard to secluded Caribbean luxury on Antigua’s west coast.

YACHTING UNPLUGGED

Yachting International Radio

4 days ago6 min read

Nick Walker On Yacht Ownership, Family Offices And The Private Architecture Behind Luxury Assets

Nick Walker On Yacht Ownership, Family Offices And The Private Architecture Behind Luxury Assets

Nick Walker On Yacht Ownership, Family Offices And The Private Architecture Behind Luxury Assets

For ultra-high-net-worth families, yacht ownership is rarely just a purchase. Nick Walker of Imperium Group offers a refined look at the private architecture behind luxury assets, family offices, trusted advisors and the decisions that shape serious ownership.

Yachting Confidential

Yachting International Radio

7 days ago6 min read

Logged or Lost? Why Sea Time Records Can Decide a Yacht Crew Career

Logged or Lost? Why Sea Time Records Can Decide a Yacht Crew Career

Logged or Lost? Why Sea Time Records Can Decide a Yacht Crew Career

Sea time records can determine whether yacht crew advance or stall. AIS tracking and digital evidence are changing how maritime experience is verified.

Yachting International Radio

Aug 246 min read

Captain Liam Devlin and Eleisha Mealing beside a motor yacht for an editorial about yacht maintenance, surface protection and crew time.

Captain Liam Devlin and Eleisha Mealing beside a motor yacht for an editorial about yacht maintenance, surface protection and crew time.

The Most Expensive Part of Yacht Maintenance Is Time

Captain Liam Devlin estimates that maintaining one of Unbridled’s hardest-working exterior areas can take up to three crew hours a day. This editorial examines how better processes, professional training and lasting surface protection can give that time back.

Yacht Maintenance Unhinged

Yachting International Radio

Aug 223 min read

Alice Lloyd standing on a yacht deck beside editorial text for The Wellbeing Project article titled The Burn & Crash Cycle.

Alice Lloyd standing on a yacht deck beside editorial text for The Wellbeing Project article titled The Burn & Crash Cycle.

Yacht Crew Burnout: Why The Burn And Crash Cycle Starts Before Crew Stop Coping

Yacht crew burnout often starts before anyone stops coping. Alice Lloyd of Lloyd Yacht Management speaks with Karine Rayson about chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and why high performers can mistake adrenaline for capability until the body forces them to stop. The conversation also explores early warning signs onboard, including skipped meals, poor sleep, brain fog, emotional shutdown, and the need for recovery before burnout become

The Wellbeing Project

Yachting International Radio

Aug 216 min read

Einar Halldin of More Sailing beside a sailboat with the title Sailing For Everyone, for a Yachting International Radio editorial about all-inclusive sailing and accessible yacht travel.

Einar Halldin of More Sailing beside a sailboat with the title Sailing For Everyone, for a Yachting International Radio editorial about all-inclusive sailing and accessible yacht travel.

All-Inclusive Sailing Is Opening The Water To A Wider Audience

All-inclusive sailing is changing how people access time on the water. More Sailing Founder Einar Halldin explains how hosted sailing trips can make yacht travel easier, more welcoming and more experience-driven.

Yachting International Radio

Aug 205 min read

Lt Cdr Fran Crowsley-Allen featured in Women in Maritime editorial artwork about Royal Navy meteorology, weather risk and women at sea.

Lt Cdr Fran Crowsley-Allen featured in Women in Maritime editorial artwork about Royal Navy meteorology, weather risk and women at sea.

Royal Navy Meteorologist Fran Crowsley-Allen on Weather, Risk and Women at Sea

Royal Navy Meteorologist Lt Cdr Fran Crowsley-Allen reflects on weather as operational risk, tactical meteorology, women at sea, parenthood, retention and the future of long maritime careers.

Women In Maritime

Yachting International Radio

Aug 197 min read

Alicia Store of dsnm Ltd with Occam Marine co-founders Giles Frankal and Lee Stevenson in the Occam Marine office for On The Bridge.

Alicia Store of dsnm Ltd with Occam Marine co-founders Giles Frankal and Lee Stevenson in the Occam Marine office for On The Bridge.

Why Operational Experience in Superyacht Builds Matters From Day One

Former captains Lee Stevenson and Giles Frankal explain why operational experience should shape a superyacht before key design decisions are fixed, from bridge ergonomics and tender handling to crew flow and operational readiness.

Yachting International Radio

Aug 147 min read

Rich AF graphic featuring Jamie Hadley-Grave beside a superyacht and financial chart with the title South African Yacht Crew Tax.

Rich AF graphic featuring Jamie Hadley-Grave beside a superyacht and financial chart with the title South African Yacht Crew Tax.

South African Yacht Crew Tax: What Crew Must Prove to SARS

South African yacht crew tax is more complicated than the familiar claim that yachties pay no tax. Residency, days abroad, vessel activity, tips and documentary evidence all determine whether an exemption applies.

Yachting International Radio

Aug 147 min read

Chief Officer Ashley Ogborne stands beside a superyacht marina at sunset on The Crew Car editorial cover, Yachts or Ships?

Chief Officer Ashley Ogborne stands beside a superyacht marina at sunset on The Crew Car editorial cover, Yachts or Ships?

Building a Maritime Career: Cruise Ships, Superyachts and New Zealand Ferries

Chief Officer Ashley Ogborne has moved between cruise ships, superyachts and New Zealand ferries. His story explores the choices, transferable skills and changing ambitions behind a modern maritime career, and whether yachting could still draw him back.

Yachting International Radio

Aug 106 min read

Split-level view of the South Florida coast and Gulf Stream with a three-blade marine-current turbine operating beneath the ocean surface.

Split-level view of the South Florida coast and Gulf Stream with a three-blade marine-current turbine operating beneath the ocean surface.

Gulf Stream Energy: The Engineering Challenge Beneath Florida’s Blue Economy

Off Florida’s coast, researchers are exploring whether the Gulf Stream can become a dependable source of marine renewable energy, and confronting the engineering realities between theory and open water.

The Blue Economy

Yachting International Radio

Aug 77 min read

Oliver Browne of True Summit Adventures in expedition gear with the headline “Frontier Travel Redefined”.

Oliver Browne of True Summit Adventures in expedition gear with the headline “Frontier Travel Redefined”.

Frontier Travel: Why the New Luxury Is Rare Access, Remote Places and Real Adventure

For travellers who already have access to almost everything, the new luxury is harder to buy: rare access, expert knowledge and real adventure in some of the world’s most remote places.

Yachting International Radio

Aug 66 min read

Editorial image for Buried At Sea: The Law They Ignored, Part Two of UNCENSORED, showing a dark stormy maritime scene with a superyacht, red beacon, helicopter, and bold red and white text about an ignored law and accountability at sea.

Editorial image for Buried At Sea: The Law They Ignored, Part Two of UNCENSORED, showing a dark stormy maritime scene with a superyacht, red beacon, helicopter, and bold red and white text about an ignored law and accountability at sea.

Buried At Sea: The Law They Ignored

Buried At Sea: The Law They Ignored examines how Ryan Melogy’s discovery of a federal reporting law changed his fight for accountability at sea. Part Two looks at ignored reports, Coast Guard inaction, Maritime Legal Aid, survivor stories, and the dangerous gap between written protection and real enforcement.

Yachting International Radio

Aug 59 min read

Luxury editorial image for Bridging Markets featuring Jamie Ye of FNT Lifestyle, with Simply Moore branding, gold typography, a nighttime superyacht marina, and an ultra-high-net-worth lounge setting.

Luxury editorial image for Bridging Markets featuring Jamie Ye of FNT Lifestyle, with Simply Moore branding, gold typography, a nighttime superyacht marina, and an ultra-high-net-worth lounge setting.

Bridging Markets: Jamie Ye and the New Shape of International Yachting

Jamie Ye of FNT Lifestyle brings a rare perspective to international yachting, connecting Asian ambition, Western expertise, luxury branding, VIP experience, and the cultural fluency needed to build trust between markets.

Yachting International Radio

Aug 15 min read

Paul Shepherd of CHIRP with Alicia Store of dsnm Ltd for On The Bridge, discussing superyacht safety, confidential reporting, crew trust, and safety culture in yachting.

Paul Shepherd of CHIRP with Alicia Store of dsnm Ltd for On The Bridge, discussing superyacht safety, confidential reporting, crew trust, and safety culture in yachting.

Superyacht Safety: Why Confidential Reporting Could Change The Way Yachting Learns

Superyacht safety often becomes a conversation after something has already gone wrong. Paul Shepherd, Chair of CHIRP’s superyacht programme, explains how confidential reporting, shared learning, crew trust, and onboard safety culture can help the industry learn from incidents, near misses, and unsafe practices before they become tragedies.

Yachting International Radio

Jul 317 min read

Timmo Elliott and Gemma Masferrer standing beside a mountain lake holding their book Sailing Through the Excess, with centered editorial title text for a Yachting International Radio article about luxury yachting and life at sea.

Timmo Elliott and Gemma Masferrer standing beside a mountain lake holding their book Sailing Through the Excess, with centered editorial title text for a Yachting International Radio article about luxury yachting and life at sea.

Sailing Through The Excess Turns Luxury Yachting Into A Human Story

Sailing Through the Excess turns luxury yachting into a human story, moving beyond billionaires, celebrities, and floating palaces to explore service, sacrifice, storytelling, environmental change, gender equality, and the realities behind life at sea.

Yachting International Radio

Jul 317 min read

Cinematic American Refit editorial image showing a superyacht in a shipyard with cranes, drydock lighting, blueprint overlays, and centered text reading Refit Oversight, representing yacht refit oversight, planning, accountability, Robert Mac Keen, Lord Luke Hammond, and American refit standards.

Cinematic American Refit editorial image showing a superyacht in a shipyard with cranes, drydock lighting, blueprint overlays, and centered text reading Refit Oversight, representing yacht refit oversight, planning, accountability, Robert Mac Keen, Lord Luke Hammond, and American refit standards.

Yacht Refit Oversight: Why American Refit Needs Accountability Before The Yard Period Begins

Yacht refit oversight is no longer an optional layer. For American refit to rebuild owner confidence, the industry needs stronger planning, clearer accountability, properly compared quotes, better service standards, and facilities capable of supporting well-managed yacht service projects.

Yachting International Radio

Jul 309 min read

Editorial image for Forward Watch showing Jack MacNally of Foreland Marine beside the title “Owner Exposure” on a luxury yacht deck, highlighting superyacht ownership, independent owner representation, incentives, due diligence, and owner risk.

Editorial image for Forward Watch showing Jack MacNally of Foreland Marine beside the title “Owner Exposure” on a luxury yacht deck, highlighting superyacht ownership, independent owner representation, incentives, due diligence, and owner risk.

Superyacht Owner Exposure: Why Independence Matters Before The Deal Goes Wrong

Superyacht ownership is often sold as freedom, privacy, and experience, but the real exposure can begin long before an owner steps onboard. Jack MacNally of Foreland Marine explains why independent representation, transparent incentives, proper due diligence, and trusted people in the owner’s corner matter before purchase, refit, build, or management decisions go wrong.

Yachting International Radio

Jul 289 min read

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