Cyber Security vs Cyber Safety?
Breaking the Deadlock: When Cyber Security regulations came on the floor, I couldn’t help wondering which industry stakeholder had put enough pressure on IMO for something like that to happen, […]
Author: Bernard
Assessment of a ship for conversion.
Let’s assume a prospective yacht owner has gone through all the analytical steps to decide on a yacht conversion objective. (see our article on the subject).The next move would be to […]
Solving the Boat Equation
Breaking the Deadlock A boat, any boat, is always a compromise. I have showed recently how that affects classics of similar length such as The Krupp yacht “Reveler” and the […]
How independent are your internal audits?
Breaking the Deadlock: In our yachting world, we pride ourselves in our short communication lines, optimised collaboration at all levels and utmost reactivity. To achieve that, operators work in very […]
Benchmarking for Green Yachting.
For the last decade and more, the IACS classification societies have offered ship owners the optional possibility to get a “clean” ship notation. That goes in steps from operational equipment, […]
Becoming a yacht captain.
For those contemplating a career on yachts, there is a nice summary on “becoming the captain” given by superyachtyachtcaptain on youtube. It describes one possible route for a UK citizen, […]
Building the “Pit”
The Primaat, from the drawing board of e.g. van de Stadt, is a light and very nimble cruiser. I have been sailing one in the nineties and used to say […]
New Classics – Sail
In 1960, the Robert Clark designed yacht “Carita” left the yard of De Vries Lentsch. The 57m three masted schooner, today named “Fleurtje”, had the shape of an elegant millionaire’s […]
Yachting differently
The launch of yacht OK has prompted me to update this piece about yachting differently. It was originally written following the launch of RAGNAR, a conversion from an ice-breaking PSV […]
Wings or no wings?
Breaking the Deadlock: Exploration ships and the Polar Code. Following some comments on the launch of the first Damen SeaXplorer, let’s have a look at what exactly you should be […]