https://yotters.com/Independent yacht news, launches, brands and film for owners, brokers and the industry.en https://yotters.com/marinemax-posts-a-15-4m-profit-as-marinas/https://yotters.com/marinemax-posts-a-15-4m-profit-as-marinas/Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Industry & CapitalMarineMax turned a $52.1m loss into a $15.4m profit in the quarter to 30 June, even though revenue fell 7 per cent. The group credits the swing to its higher-margin arms, which include superyacht services, the IGY marina network and parts and service. MarineMax owns Fraser Yachts, Northrop & Johnson and IGY, so this is the balance sheet behind the broker who lists your yacht and the company that holds your berth. https://yotters.com/awlgrip-s-owner-faces-a-5-august-vote/https://yotters.com/awlgrip-s-owner-faces-a-5-august-vote/Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Industry & CapitalAkzoNobel and Axalta ask their shareholders on 5 August to approve an all-share merger that would create a coatings group with USD 17bn of revenue. The vote follows a rejected EUR 7.5bn bid from Nippon Paint for AkzoNobel's decorative paints arm, a unit that never contained Awlgrip or International Yacht Paint. For an owner, the paint on his hull is the biggest single line in a refit, and the company behind it is about to change shape. https://yotters.com/maiora-builds-its-first-50m-metal-superyacht-on/https://yotters.com/maiora-builds-its-first-50m-metal-superyacht-on/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Industry & CapitalNext Yacht Group, the fibreglass-heritage owner of Maiora and AB Yachts, has bought the metal fabricator Siman and put a 50m Maiora into build. For anyone weighing the 50m-plus custom segment, it means another Italian yard with real steel and aluminium capacity behind it. https://yotters.com/mangusta-s-11th-104-rev-sells-before-its/https://yotters.com/mangusta-s-11th-104-rev-sells-before-its/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Market & BrokerageOvermarine has sold the eleventh Mangusta 104 REV, the 31.8m entry point of its Maxi Open range, with delivery set for spring 2027. For a buyer it is a near-term slot on a proven hull rather than a multi-year custom wait. Eleven sales of one fast-open model is also a demand signal worth reading while most new orders chase slow, heavy explorers. https://yotters.com/inace-converts-a-workboat-into-enejota-a-47m/https://yotters.com/inace-converts-a-workboat-into-enejota-a-47m/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Refit & YardsBrazil's Inace Superyachts has delivered Enejota, a 46.7-metre explorer rebuilt from a 2013 offshore support vessel in what the yard calls one of the most ambitious conversions ever completed in South America. The finished yacht carries six suites, a certified helideck and roughly 800 square metres of living space over an ex-commercial hull. For a buyer weighing a European new-build against a conversion, she is a live test of what a workboat can become, and at what price. https://yotters.com/amer-s-first-steel-explorer-runs-8-900nm/https://yotters.com/amer-s-first-steel-explorer-runs-8-900nm/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesPermare has launched Even Further, the first steel-hulled Amer and the debut of the yard's new 42-metre Custom line. The 41.45m explorer runs on Volvo Penta pod drives rather than conventional shafts, and posted 60 litres an hour at 9.5 knots on trials, for a claimed 8,900-nautical-mile range. For a buyer weighing a global explorer, that pairs the low fuel burn Amer built its name on with steel-hull, Ice Class ocean credentials. https://yotters.com/a-warship-yard-delivers-aisha-a-40-8m/https://yotters.com/a-warship-yard-delivers-aisha-a-40-8m/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesAnadolu Shipyard near Istanbul is best known for building naval vessels. On 24 July it handed over Aisha, a 40.8m full-custom motoryacht in aluminium, drawn inside and out by Red Yacht Design. For a buyer it marks a credible new full-custom option in the 40-metre class, from a yard used to military tolerances. https://yotters.com/columbus-38m-atlantique-stays-at-299gt-all-aluminium/https://yotters.com/columbus-38m-atlantique-stays-at-299gt-all-aluminium/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Design & the Owner's BriefColumbus Yachts has revealed the interior of its first sub-40m Atlantique, the 38m Principessa Capricciosa, ahead of a Cannes debut. The all-aluminium hull is held to 299 gross tons, which keeps weight, fuel burn and crew count down without giving up a five-cabin, twelve-guest layout. For a buyer who wants a full-custom feel in a compact yacht, it is a test of how much boat fits under 300 tons. https://yotters.com/sirena-s-first-steel-superyacht-a-42m-sold/https://yotters.com/sirena-s-first-steel-superyacht-a-42m-sold/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesSirena Marine has sold and christened the first Sirena Superyachts 42M, the Turkish builder's first steel-hulled yacht and the largest it has ever put in the water. A yard best known for production motoryachts has shown that a 42-metre steel flagship can find an owner on spec, roughly two months before it goes on public display. For a buyer weighing the next tier, it is a signal that Sirena now plays a size class up, on an efficiency hull and a full-custom brief. https://yotters.com/isa-delivers-sea-raider-x-a-67m-flagship/https://yotters.com/isa-delivers-sea-raider-x-a-67m-flagship/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesISA Yachts has delivered Sea Raider X, a 67-metre Gran Turismo that is the largest yacht the Ancona builder has put in the water in its quarter-century. The black-hulled steel flagship resets the top of ISA's line, with a 6.5-metre pool, a full-beam owner's suite forward and room for 14 guests. For a buyer weighing an Italian 60-metre-plus, she is a marker of how far a production-rooted brand can push into full-custom territory. https://yotters.com/heesen-s-57m-setteesettanta-gives-the-owner-a/https://yotters.com/heesen-s-57m-setteesettanta-gives-the-owner-a/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Design & the Owner's BriefHeesen has floated Project Setteesettanta, a 57-metre full-custom it is finishing for a returning owner by the end of 2026. The entire foredeck, about 200 square metres, is fenced off as private owner's space with its own access and 180-degree views. For a buyer weighing a custom build against a production boat, it is a clear read on what an aluminium hull buys the owner in private volume. https://yotters.com/only-nine-j-class-yachts-exist-and-the/https://yotters.com/only-nine-j-class-yachts-exist-and-the/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Design & the Owner's BriefNine J-Class sloops survive worldwide, three 1930s originals and six modern replicas, and after a quiet 2025 most are back on Mediterranean start lines this season. The calendar builds toward Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez from 26 September to 4 October. For an owner, the J is the scarcest trophy asset in sail, a class you can count on two hands, where provenance and a hull like Svea's 43.6 metres set the ceiling for what classic yachting is worth. https://yotters.com/princess-x90-reaches-sea-trials-with-16-already/https://yotters.com/princess-x90-reaches-sea-trials-with-16-already/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesThe first Princess X90, a 27.1-metre model that slots between the X80 and the flagship X95 Vista, is on sea trials off Plymouth ahead of her September debut at Cannes. Seven units sold before she launched, and BOATPro counts 16 on order or in build, which helps hold resale for anyone buying an early hull. The draw for owners is a new Hybrid Progressive-Planing hull that Princess says needs 10 percent less power above 16 knots than the Y85. https://yotters.com/ses-yachts-turns-50-and-enters-semi-custom/https://yotters.com/ses-yachts-turns-50-and-enters-semi-custom/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Design & the Owner's BriefAfter 50 years of one-off builds, the Turkish yard SES Yachts is opening a semi-custom line called EPOQ, from 24 to 46 metres. The first hull is a 36-metre drawn by Sturge & Toth on a Van Oossanen fast-displacement platform, sold only through Ocean Independence. For a buyer it is a shorter, more predictable route to a custom-yard yacht, with the fuel argument of a displacement hull and the speed of a semi-displacement one. https://yotters.com/benetti-s-50m-perseverance-goes-to-charter-then/https://yotters.com/benetti-s-50m-perseverance-goes-to-charter-then/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000CharterPerseverance, a 2026 Benetti B.Now 50M Oasis, opened her charter book on 15 July and takes her world premiere in Port Hercule from 23 to 26 September. She carries 12 guests in six cabins on 500 GT, with 4,500 nautical miles of range. For anyone who owns or is buying at this length, she is the boat your weeks and your resale get measured against. https://yotters.com/a-eur-6m-repaint-was-ruined-by-crew/https://yotters.com/a-eur-6m-repaint-was-ruined-by-crew/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Refit & YardsBoero YachtCoatings says one owner spent EUR 6 million on a repaint, then watched crew take vinegar to the streaks. The Italian coatings house is now selling a lifecycle service rather than a drum of paint, and it wants to be in the room before the hull is built. Paint is the largest cosmetic line in any refit and the first thing a buyer looks at. https://yotters.com/feadship-s-101m-destiny-goes-to-schwarzman-the/https://yotters.com/feadship-s-101m-destiny-goes-to-schwarzman-the/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesFeadship has handed over Destiny, a 101.2-metre custom yacht, to Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman, with trade press putting her value at around $400 million. She carries 14 guests and 39 crew behind an RWD exterior and a glass-bottom pool that lights the beach club below. For anyone building at the top of the market, she is the new reference point for what a nine-figure Feadship now delivers. https://yotters.com/azimut-s-26m-seadeck-9-flagship-heads-to/https://yotters.com/azimut-s-26m-seadeck-9-flagship-heads-to/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Design & the Owner's BriefAzimut has launched the first Seadeck 9, the 26-metre flagship of the range it built around open-air living, and will show it at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September. Alberto Mancini drew the exterior and Matteo Thun with Antonio Rodriguez the interior, over a hull developed with Names and wired for Volvo Penta's IPS hybrid drive. For a buyer in the mid-twenties-metre class, it is a production boat that arrives with a semi-custom deck plan and the emissions question already handled. https://yotters.com/calypso-a-62m-amels-cuts-to-eur-29/https://yotters.com/calypso-a-62m-amels-cuts-to-eur-29/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Market & BrokerageY.CO has taken EUR 6.4m off the asking price of the 2003 Amels Calypso, moving her from EUR 35.9m to EUR 29.5m. She was offered at EUR 40m when she came to market in September 2023. That puts a public number on what a twice-refitted 60m-class Dutch hull is worth right now, which is the number that matters if you are holding one. https://yotters.com/riva-s-first-96-argo-super-hits-the/https://yotters.com/riva-s-first-96-argo-super-hits-the/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesRiva has launched the first hull of its new 96' Argo Super at La Spezia, a 28.8-metre flybridge that replaces the 90' Argo at the top of the yard's mid-size range. The boat goes to sea trials now and makes its market debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September. For anyone holding a 90' Argo, the arrival of a successor series is the event that sets the resale clock. https://yotters.com/tankoa-s-50m-vertige-sells-after-a-eur/https://yotters.com/tankoa-s-50m-vertige-sells-after-a-eur/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Market & BrokerageVertige, the first Tankoa S501 ever built, has been sold with Ocean Independence at a last asking price of EUR 26.5 million, following a EUR 2 million reduction. She was delivered in 2017, has had one owner from new, and came out of a full refit in 2023. The sale is a clean data point on what a refitted 50-metre aluminium yacht is really worth today. https://yotters.com/39m-favor-grounds-at-woods-hole-all-13/https://yotters.com/39m-favor-grounds-at-woods-hole-all-13/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Incidents & SafetyThe 38.7-metre Crescent motor yacht Favor ran aground in Woods Hole Pass off Falmouth, Massachusetts on the morning of 17 July. Seven guests were taken off by responders and the six crew stayed aboard; no injuries were reported, and the yacht was later refloated and towed to Great Harbor for damage assessment. For owners, the interesting part starts after the tow. https://yotters.com/benetti-s-hybrid-67m-symmetry-goes-to-charter/https://yotters.com/benetti-s-hybrid-67m-symmetry-goes-to-charter/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesBenetti handed over the 67-metre Symmetry at the end of June, one of the first two hulls in its B.Now 67M class to run a hybrid drive. She is already on the charter market at EUR 725,000 a week. That puts a real number against a hybrid superyacht of a known size, which is something owners weighing the same specification have not had. https://yotters.com/a-eur-13m-agreed-value-on-a-eur/https://yotters.com/a-eur-13m-agreed-value-on-a-eur/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Market & BrokerageA yacht insured for EUR 13m had been valued at EUR 7m to EUR 8m and was listed at EUR 8m, and nobody told the underwriter. When she burned out, the English Commercial Court let the insurers walk away from the claim entirely. The reasoning is being read again this month because it also sets out how a yacht should be valued at all. https://yotters.com/riva-96-argo-super-launched/https://yotters.com/riva-96-argo-super-launched/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesRiva has launched the first 96' Argo Super at its La Spezia yard, a 28.8-metre yacht that puts a full flybridge on the open 96' Argo hull. Twin 2,000hp MTUs, a redesigned aft and beach area, and a shaded upper deck aim it at a buyer who wants more social space than the sportier sister gives. It debuts at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September, and Riva's coupe-versus-flybridge choice now runs right up to 29 metres. https://yotters.com/feadship-delivers-101m-destiny-3-818-gt-and/https://yotters.com/feadship-delivers-101m-destiny-3-818-gt-and/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesFeadship has handed over Destiny, a 101.2-metre custom motor yacht, after final outfitting at its De Vries yard in Makkum. She measures 3,818 GT on a 4.3-metre draught and carries just 14 guests, a ratio that tells you what the owner bought. For anyone weighing a 100-metre-plus build, she is the clearest recent read on what the top of the Dutch order book now delivers. https://yotters.com/sanlorenzo-s-72m-silver-fox-turns-machinery-space/https://yotters.com/sanlorenzo-s-72m-silver-fox-turns-machinery-space/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Design & the Owner's BriefSanlorenzo has revealed the interiors of Silver Fox, the 72-metre first hull of its 74Steel series and the yard's new flagship. Her diesel-electric layout freed technical volume that has been handed back to the beach club as a spa and fitness deck. It is the clearest sign yet that propulsion choices are now design choices an owner feels every day. https://yotters.com/a-2002-abeking-sloop-refits-her-interior-then/https://yotters.com/a-2002-abeking-sloop-refits-her-interior-then/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Refit & YardsNauta Design has completed an interior refresh of 4K, the 39.78-metre Abeking and Rasmussen sailing yacht delivered in 2002 as Alithia. The work covered the owner's suite, navigation station and main living areas without touching her original identity. She is now for sale in Spain at 8.5 million euros, which makes this a live test of what a targeted refit is worth at resale. https://yotters.com/italian-sea-group-s-founder-quits-leaving-admiral/https://yotters.com/italian-sea-group-s-founder-quits-leaving-admiral/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Industry & CapitalGiovanni Costantino resigned as chairman and chief executive of The Italian Sea Group on 20 July, his son Gianmaria left the board with him, and the board itself dissolved. The group behind Admiral, Perini Navi, Tecnomar and Picchiotti is still inside a court-supervised restructuring with EUR 266.8 million of overdue liabilities. Anyone with a hull in one of those sheds now has a different set of people to deal with. https://yotters.com/volvo-penta-puts-a-hybrid-pod-drive-on/https://yotters.com/volvo-penta-puts-a-hybrid-pod-drive-on/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Tech Aboard & ConnectivityVolvo Penta says its D13 IPS Hybrid yacht propulsion system arrives later this year, and it has now extended the same hybrid platform into commercial vessels. The company's second-quarter numbers explain the timing: leisure marine sales fell while commercial marine held up, and margins dropped from 20.7 to 16.7 per cent. Hybrid pods are about to become an ordinary option on 24 to 35 metre boats. https://yotters.com/cdm-delivers-octopus-a-35m-explorer-with-5/https://yotters.com/cdm-delivers-octopus-a-35m-explorer-with-5/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesCantiere delle Marche handed over the first Deep Blue 115 on 20 July, two years after an American buyer signed for a hull that did not yet exist. At 299 GT she carries ten guests and seven crew, and she will cross an ocean at nine knots without refuelling. For anyone weighing a 35-metre explorer against a bigger planing boat, Octopus is the clearest current answer on what that trade actually returns. https://yotters.com/benetti-delivers-lady-sarah-the-29th-hull-of/https://yotters.com/benetti-delivers-lady-sarah-the-29th-hull-of/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesFraser has confirmed the delivery of Lady Sarah, a 40.8m Benetti and the 29th unit built on the Oasis 40M platform. For an owner, a production run that deep signals a proven design and a resale pool with real depth. https://yotters.com/sanlorenzo-s-62m-alchemist-lists-at-eur-64m/https://yotters.com/sanlorenzo-s-62m-alchemist-lists-at-eur-64m/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Market & BrokerageThe 62m Sanlorenzo Alchemist has joined the brokerage market for the first time since her 2022 delivery, asking EUR 64m. A privately used, near-new steel yacht coming up for sale gives the top of the market a fresh price marker. https://yotters.com/monaco-s-120-yacht-show-list-has-43/https://yotters.com/monaco-s-120-yacht-show-list-has-43/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Industry & CapitalThe Monaco Yacht Show has published its first fleet list for the 23-26 September edition: 120 yachts, 43 of them delivered in 2026. With order books shrinking in unit count, this year's new metal is among the scarcest in the market. https://yotters.com/crn-launches-70m-thunderball-a-full-custom-to/https://yotters.com/crn-launches-70m-thunderball-a-full-custom-to/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesCRN floated out its 70-metre Project Thunderball at Ancona on 4 June, a steel full-custom shaped by an owner who wanted a motoryacht that carries a sailing yacht's low, long lines. Vripack drew the exterior and naval architecture, Nauta the interiors, and delivery is set for later this summer. In a market leaning harder into spec hulls and repeat series, a one-off at this size marks where the top of the fleet still puts its money. https://yotters.com/sirena-crosses-into-superyachts-at-36m-stays-under/https://yotters.com/sirena-crosses-into-superyachts-at-36m-stays-under/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fleet & LaunchesSirena Yachts floated its new 36-metre 118 flagship at Yalova on 14 July, the largest composite hull the Turkish production builder has ever launched and a clear step up from its 88. She arrives already sold to a repeat client, months before her Cannes premiere. For buyers the figure that counts is the tonnage: Sirena held the 118 under 300 GT, keeping crew, survey and running costs down at a length where most rivals cross into heavier commercial territory. https://yotters.com/fraser-s-record-start-30-sales-500m-and/https://yotters.com/fraser-s-record-start-30-sales-500m-and/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Market & BrokerageFraser opened 2026 by selling 12 superyachts in 12 days, then closed more than 30 sales worth over half a billion dollars in the months that followed, several of them above 70 metres. The volume leader's own book is the clearest read yet on where the money is going in 2026, toward large, well-priced boats that move quickly. For an owner weighing a sale, it says condition and pricing now decide how fast a listing turns. https://yotters.com/crn-s-62m-salt-opens-to-charter-at/https://yotters.com/crn-s-62m-salt-opens-to-charter-at/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000CharterSix years after CRN delivered her as Voice, the 62m Salt has finished a 2026 refit and reached the charter market for the first time, listed from EUR 600,000 a week. For an owner who kept her private since 2020, the move turns a costly asset into one that helps pay for itself. It also hands charterers a rare, low-mileage Nuvolari Lenard yacht that has never before taken a paying guest. https://yotters.com/imm-buys-la-rochelle-s-150m-refit-yard/https://yotters.com/imm-buys-la-rochelle-s-150m-refit-yard/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Refit & YardsInternational Marine Management, the largest refit operator in the Caribbean, has bought Atlantic Refit Center in La Rochelle and took control on 1 June. It means the team that knows your yacht in the islands can keep the file when she crosses to Europe, and it puts a berth for hulls up to 150 metres on an Atlantic coast that is not the queue-bound Mediterranean. https://yotters.com/ai-collision-avoidance-is-now-standard-on-every/https://yotters.com/ai-collision-avoidance-is-now-standard-on-every/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Tech Aboard & ConnectivityThe catamaran builder Privilege Marine has made SEA.AI's machine-vision collision-avoidance system standard across its entire range, the first multihull yard to do it. The kit uses 4K low-light and thermal cameras to spot floating containers, debris and a person in the water that radar and AIS routinely miss. For owners it means a safety layer usually sold as a costly optional extra now comes fitted from the yard, and that quietly resets what a serious cruising catamaran is expected to carry.