April 2020

The foundations for the Sail Lanka Yachting Group can be found in the Building A Future Foundation, a long term project created to provide training and employment to underprivileged youth following the tsunami disaster of end 2004. The focus of the Foundation is to develop skills that will seed the yachting industry, and a major part of the project is supporting businesses that help to develop the recreational boat industry, as well create of sustainable jobs for hundreds of talented youth...

As Burgess honours its 45th anniversary in 2020, its Asia team is celebrating its first five years and 12 superyacht transactions. Burgess now has offices, staff and partnerships in four Asian locations (Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Thailand) and an Asia desk in Monaco, combining a multilingual team of about 20 colleagues advising clients on all aspects of superyachting. With 12 superyachts transactions from 23 to 85m over the last five years and substantial charter and yacht management operations, Burgess is a superyacht leader in Asia...

In these difficult times, Crew and shore-based companies are facing various unique and unprecedented challenges.  Most yachts are not authorised to sail or carry out maintenance work with contractors, and in many countries, the crew remain under complete “lock-down” onboard. Swiss Ocean identifies some of  the stresses facing crew during the Covid-19 crisis...

As a result of the global outbreak of COVID-19 an ever-increasing number of port authorities across Europe have adopted stringent controls to limit (or even bar) movement of people in an attempt to minimise the chance of the illness spreading. Monaco and France are no exception having been in lockdown since mid-March and remain so until at least 4 May for Monaco and 11 May for France from the latest news announced...

From strength to strength, Benetti confirms its excellence specializing in luxury yacht manufacturing by launching not one but two Class category yachts within just two days of each other: there were the sixth 29-meter Delfino 95 hull and the fourteenth 40.2- meter Classic Supreme 132 superyacht...

The Phuket Governor orders made special note that the health regulations in force to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 also apply to all boats, and that all boats except commercial fishing boats, traditional fishing boats, rescue boats, nursing vessels and government vessels are prohibited from the harbor and coast within Phuket...