Yachts International

SOLO FOR US ALL

‘I want to capture the superyacht industry’s imagination 
 get people who design, build and own superyachts to take responsibility.’
—Dan Lenard

‘hen you are at the helm of your boat in the middle of the Atlantic staring at the sea 16 to 18 hours a day, you really notice what is going on,” says yacht designer Dan Lenard. “The situation is really bad. You see trash everywhere—barrels, cans, bottles, plastic—and then when I got to the Caribbean, it was like a brown explosion, tons of sargassum,

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