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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.
Yachting USA Insights & Trends
Yachting USA explores the evolving yacht industry across North America, featuring unfiltered conversations with leading maritime experts. Hosted by Rick Thomas, this series examines market trends, yacht construction, ownership insights, and the economic forces shaping the U.S. boating and yachting landscape. Gain clear, practical perspectives on the issues influencing American yachting today.
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
The Business of Visibility: Why Fundability Now Defines Growth in Yachting
In today’s yachting industry, success is no longer defined by the strength of the product alone. Visibility, credibility, and capital strategy are now the forces shaping which businesses grow, scale, and secure investment. Rhonda Klch of EquityFirst breaks down why fundability has become the defining factor in modern yachting business growth.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 264 min read
Superyacht Design: Where Architecture, Innovation and Real Life at Sea Converge
Superyacht design is evolving beyond aesthetics, shaped by architecture, innovation, and real-world experience. Luiz De Basto explores how modern yachts are designed to be lived in, not just admired.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 205 min read
Superyacht Innovation: The Royal Huisman Standard in Yacht Building and Refit
Royal Huisman continues to define superyacht innovation through precision engineering, advanced refit strategy, and a lifecycle approach that is reshaping yacht construction and long-term vessel performance.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 125 min read
Global Superyacht Forum Miami: Where the Real Business of Yachting Happens
The Global Superyacht Forum Miami is redefining how the superyacht industry connects, bringing together owners, family offices, and decision-makers for focused, high-level discussions that move beyond visibility and into real strategy, investment, and influence.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 72 min read
Superyacht Careers: Built in the Gaps Between Structure and Survival
Superyacht careers are rarely linear. From corporate New York to yacht brokerage and global industry partnerships, Morgan Sandoval’s progression reveals how structure, resilience, and operational discipline shape success in the modern superyacht industry.
Yachting International Radio
Apr 65 min read
Superyacht Shipbuilding: The Feadship Standard
Superyacht shipbuilding explored through Feadship’s legacy, craftsmanship, and engineering discipline, with insight into the people, processes, and standards that define the industry.
Yachting International Radio
Mar 297 min read
Maritime Law and Industry Leadership: The Quiet Forces Shaping Yachting
Maritime Law plays a critical role in shaping the yachting industry, influencing operations, leadership, and long-term career growth. Erin Ackor of AeroMarine Law explores how legal frameworks, networking, and industry participation drive success and evolution in the superyacht sector.
Yachting International Radio
Mar 226 min read
Expedition Catamaran Design: Rethinking the Modern Explorer Yacht
Stephen Weatherley, Founder and CEO of Archipelago Expedition Yachts, explains why the expedition catamaran is gaining attention as a modern platform for explorer yachts. The discussion explores aluminum yacht construction, hybrid propulsion systems, offshore cruising capability, and how catamaran design is reshaping the future of expedition yacht travel.
Yachting International Radio
Mar 156 min read
Superyacht Brokerage: Hannah Wolstenholme on Charter, Ownership and the Changing Yacht Market
Superyacht brokerage is about far more than buying and selling yachts. Hannah Wolstenholme of Edmiston explores how charter experience, ownership strategy, due diligence and long-term relationships are shaping the future of the superyacht market.
Yachting International Radio
Mar 85 min read
Crew Wellbeing in Yachting: Why ISWAN and YachtCrewHelp Are Becoming Essential to the Industry
Crew wellbeing in yachting is becoming a defining issue for the industry as fleet growth increases pressure on the global superyacht workforce. In this conversation, Simon Grainge, CEO of the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN), and Laura Beard, Welfare of Yacht Crew Project Manager, discuss how YachtCrewHelp is providing confidential support for crew navigating the challenges of life and work at sea.
Yachting International Radio
Mar 46 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 235 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
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
Superyacht Crew Welfare and the Culture Problem the Industry Can No Longer Ignore
This Yachting USA feature explores how superyacht crew welfare is being reshaped by growing scrutiny of onboard power dynamics, reporting barriers, NDAs and reference culture, through the work and lived experience of Cherise Reedman, founder of Yacht Pearls of Wisdom and host of the Superyacht Laundry podcast, and why improving superyacht crew welfare is now critical for safety, retention, service quality and the long-term credibility of the global yachting industry.
Yachting International Radio
Feb 15 min read
Superyacht Crew Welfare in a Politicised Industry
The superyacht industry is no longer operating quietly in the background. As visibility increases, crew welfare, leadership standards, and operational culture have become central to how the sector is judged by regulators, policymakers, and the public alike.
Yachting International Radio
Jan 254 min read
Crew Safety: What We Choose Not to See
An in-depth editorial examining how silence and normalised risk undermine crew safety at sea, and why learning from near-misses is critical to preventing serious incidents in yachting.
Yachting International Radio
Jan 196 min read
The Future of Heesen Yachts: Leadership, Engineering, and the Next Chapter of Dutch Superyacht Building
An in-depth conversation with Jeroen van der Meer, CEO of Heesen Yachts, exploring leadership, engineering discipline, and long-term stewardship at one of the world’s most respected Dutch shipyards.
Yachting International Radio
Jan 114 min read
Barefoot Cruising Returns to the Caribbean
Barefoot cruising is returning as The Windjammer Way revives tall-ship sailing, flexible itineraries, and a more human approach to life at sea, challenging how modern cruising has evolved.
Yachting International Radio
Jan 54 min read
Yacht Management at a Breaking Point: Growth, Crew Welfare, and the Oversight Gap
As yacht fleets expand and charter demand accelerates, yacht management faces mounting pressure to close the gap between growth, crew welfare, and professional oversight.
Yachting International Radio
Dec 28, 20254 min read
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