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YACHTING NEWS
Industry Editorial
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.
Captain's Chat
Step inside the wheelhouse with Captain’s Chat — where captains, crew, and maritime professionals share real stories from life at sea. From leadership lessons and operational challenges to the camaraderie, resilience, and day-to-day realities that define yachting, these candid conversations offer practical insights from those who live it. Hosted by Captain Liam Devlin.
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
3 days ago7 min read
Yacht Charter Booking Is Finally Catching Up With The Client
Yacht charter booking is finally catching up with the way luxury clients make decisions. With live availability, transparent pricing, and faster access to captains, crew, brokers, and owners’ representatives, IDOSY is helping reduce the friction between interest and experience.
Yachting International Radio
Jul 245 min read
Yacht Maintenance Is Where Luxury Either Holds Or Fails
Luxury yachting depends on more than service and design. Tyler Wilson and Brian Hall of Velluto Products explain why yacht maintenance, ceramic coatings, surface protection, and proper crew training are essential to preserving the guest experience and the value of the vessel.
Yachting International Radio
Jul 165 min read
Yacht Charter Service Is Built On Preparation, Not Promises
Exceptional yacht charter service is not built on promises alone. Sabrina van Maltha of International Yacht Register highlights how preparation, communication, anticipation, and a wider understanding of luxury shape the guest experience long before anyone steps onboard.
Yachting International Radio
Jul 97 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
May 288 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 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
AI Yacht Management Is Moving From Hype To Practical Yacht Operations
Yacht Multiworks is bringing AI yacht management into practical yacht operations, helping captains and crew reduce admin, manage bridge logs, track tasks, improve workflows, and bring smarter digital systems onboard.
Yachting International Radio
May 76 min read
Yacht Crew Sea Time Is Finally Getting the Digital System It Deserves
Yacht crew sea time remains one of the most important records in a maritime career, yet it is still too often managed through paperwork, memory, and last-minute requests. Jack Haworth, Co-Founder of Digital Sea Service, explains how digital sea time tracking can help crew, captains, and vessels protect records, simplify verification, reduce onboard admin, and support stronger career progression across the yachting industry.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 307 min read
Superyacht Leadership: What Happens on the Bridge Matters Most
Superyacht leadership is not defined by technology alone. Alicia Store of dsnm ltd explores how communication, crew dynamics, and real-world decision making on the bridge shape outcomes across the global yachting industry.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 235 min read
Superyacht AI and the Quiet Shift Reshaping Operations at Sea
Superyacht AI is no longer theoretical. As the industry faces increasing complexity, access to validated, reliable information is becoming critical to operations, crew performance, and decision making. In this Captain’s Chat, Onno Ebbens of Ask TheBridge explores how structured knowledge and AI are set to redefine efficiency across the global yachting sector.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 165 min read
Superyacht Refit Strategy: Where Planning Defines Performance
Superyacht refit strategy is shifting from reactive shipyard work to structured planning and operational alignment, redefining how the yachting industry approaches time, cost, and efficiency.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 94 min read
Yacht Design: The Art of Building Luxury That Lasts
Yacht design is more than aesthetics. Patrick Knowles reveals how material, narrative, and craftsmanship define true superyacht interiors, shaping luxury that stands the test of time.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 35 min read
Female Yacht Crew Safety Survey: The Industry Can No Longer Look Away
The Female Yacht Crew Safety Survey is bringing real data to women’s safety at sea, exposing reporting gaps, power imbalance, and accountability issues across the global yachting industry.
Yachting International Radio
Mar 275 min read
Yacht Crew Burnout: Breaking the Cycle in Yachting
Yacht crew burnout is reshaping the yachting industry, affecting crew retention, performance, and long-term sustainability. This editorial explores how Crew Renew, founded by Alex Paterson, is addressing burnout through structured recovery solutions and why the industry must rethink responsibility for crew wellbeing.
Yachting International Radio
Mar 194 min read
Yachting Careers and the New Importance of Industry Storytelling
Maxine Holmes of Superyacht Sisters reflects a broader shift in the superyacht industry, where former crew are redefining yachting careers by translating their onboard experience into businesses that support and communicate with the global maritime community.
Yachting International Radio
Mar 126 min read
Why Good Yacht Captains Are Hard To Find
The superyacht industry still hires many captains through a simple phrase: “I know a guy.” But as yachts grow larger and voyages become more ambitious, the risks of relying on informal hiring are becoming harder to ignore. Captain Kevin Pope, founder of Find My Captain, believes mentorship, transparency and better vetting will define the future of how the industry discovers and trusts the next generation of yacht captains.
Yachting International Radio
Mar 55 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
Feb 265 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
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
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