Editorials

The annual insurance renewal is rarely a welcome email for any superyacht owner or Captain to receive, but having a reliable insurance partner who will ensure your premiums are competitive and the insurance cover tailored to your individual requirements can certainly make the admin a more pleasurable experience. Here, we …

Firstly, I would like to wish everyone a far better 2021 than we have experienced in 2020. Who could have predicted what we have all endured during the past 12 months. It has been a very trying and worrying time for many, and we have all been affected to some …

I was reading an online article about dolphins’ intelligence recently and dumbfounded by a posted comment. Smarty-pants had quipped: “Most intelligent? When have dolphins gone to space or constructed a skyscraper?” The comment is a perfect illustration of how ‘we’ often compare dolphins’ (and other aquatic mammals’) behaviours to human …

Cheshire-born Jeremy has always had a penchant for being on another planet.  Growing up, he had a huge imagination, a fascination with stars and space, as well as an infatuation with the sea.  Jeremy’s father was a talented sailor, a man who battled to cross the finish line in the …

I once again this month get to chat to a captain of industry in the marine sector, and this time it was the turn of Josh Richardson, who co-founded Superyacht Tenders and Toys with his wife Claire. Tenders and Toys are probably my favourite part of the yachting industry, I …

By the time this article comes out, the winners of the World Superyacht Awards, one of the most esteemed awards in yachting, will have been announced and local company BMComposites, nominated as part of the team who worked on the extensive refit of SY M5 will know whether they have …

Well, that’s another year which has flown by, and what a year it has been. Just a year ago there was the largely ignored piece on the news of a virus in some Chinese town no one had heard of called Wohan. I think we will all remember it for …

It seems that every article I write at the moment is talking about various different industry events that have shifted or morphed due to the global pandemic and  that sadly it is the same situation for all of us. For Oyster Yachts the same applied to them. When once there …

Pete was born in the spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire, but spent most of his childhood in the Solent on the south coast.  Like many of the captains featured in the pages of The Islander before him, sailing was not in Pete’s genes – neither his artist mother nor …

I originally wrote the strapline for this piece as Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase, as a nod to the distinctly African named boats that the lovely family of Harvey and Sue Death and their now older daughters (holders of the Finest Sunbathing Regatta Award), have loved and sailed for …