Boat International US Edition

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Stewart Campbell EDITOR Cecile Gauert CREATIVE DIRECTOR Christopher Whale MANAGING EDITOR Simon Ward ASSOCIATE EDITOR Caroline White FEATURES DIRECTOR & INTERIORS EDITOR Charlotte Hogarth-Jones ACTING FEATURES DIRECTOR Lucy Dunn LUXUR

Bells has written about luxury news, lifestyle and brands for the past 13 years, and Is now BOAT's luxury editor. For this Issue, she highlights the brands and designers forging new Innovations In sustainability (page 36). Which of the sustainable br

I am writing these lines in front of a landscape of minarets and more recent towers in Istanbul after a long journey from Miami. I always feel a bit like the character in the movie Lost in Translation after long flights. Time is a strange thing - fle

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From December 2022 to March 2023, BOATPro's Global Fleet Tracker recorded an influx of 950 yachts above 24 meters (78ft) escaping to the blue waters of the Caribbean. The results showed a strong recovery from the height of Covid19 that prevented many

In Newport Beach, California, thin $43 million six-bedroom house features smart-home technology that controls lights, cameras, AV, fireplaces and air conditioning. pacificsothebysrealty.com; sothebysrealty.com Homes at the awardwinning Courtyard Resi

My father put me on a tanker when I was seven,” says Paolo d'Amica, owner of the 125ft Castagnola Angra Too, and thirdgeneration ship owner. “I was on board for a month. We had an old master running the ship who was extremely worried about where I wa

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My brother, Miles, and I grew up on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. It's a great lake for sailing and it is the base for the Southern Yacht Club, one of the oldest in America, We learned to sail at summer camp. We were about II when my brother pai

Superyachts are beacons of innovation, pushing the boundaries of marine engineering as we know it - from state-of-the-art hull design to underwater viewing lounges and stunninglass atriums. But just as importantly, they're also shining examples of ex

Deborah Pocoek LVO, CEO of QEST (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) Deborah Pocock is passionate about ensuring opportunity and access to craft skills training, regardless of circumstance. QEST champions excellence in craftsmanship by funding the edu

Dr Austin Gallagher and team discovered the world's largest seagrass meadow, an area of up to 35,500 square miles in the Atlantic across the Bahama Banks. Seagrass captures carbon up to 33 times faster than tropical rainforests and this area is belie

Since 2010, when the area around the fishing village of Chelem and its lagoon became a protected area within the Yucatán Nature Reserve, a collective of 18 women have been restoring the local mangrove forest Mangroves protect the coast from erosion a

“Lisa has been a prominent leader in securing transformative conservation victories at the United Nations level,” says Brittany Baschuk, environmental policy consultant at non-profit Ocean Conservancy in Washington, DC, who nominated her. “These vict

Growing up by the sea in Bali, Bright a Gun&wan witnessed first-hand the detrimental effects of human misconduct on the marine environment and resolved to do something about it. So, at 17, she founded 30×30 Indonesia, a movement that aims to “inspire

■ HRH Princess Eugenie ■ Professor Martin Attrill, University of Plymouth ■ Sofia Blount, trustee of Blue Marine Foundation ■ Stephan Catlin, executive chairmen, Convex ■ George Duffield, co-founder of Blue Marins Foundation ■ Huge Fearnley-Whittings

Ultra-premium skincare brands 111skin.com and ESPA have partnered with tha Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman's vast 20,000-squara-foot spa (pictured). New treatments include the Celestial Black Diamond non-surgical facelift. 111skin.com; ritzcarlton.com Wind