Asia-Pacific Boating

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificTaiwan International Boat Show returns to Kaohsiung in November Four marina venues host the show in Kaohsiung’s Asia New Bay Area. Ad by TITA. The Taiwan International Boat Show (TIBS) returns to Kaohsiung from 13 to 15 November 2026, with more than 55 exhibitors…

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificYacht Refit Asia Moves Head Office to Singapore Yacht Refit Asia has moved its head office to Singapore, where it now operates as Yacht Refit Asia Pte Ltd. Its existing base at Ocean Marina in Thailand has become a branch.

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificGulf Craft Launches Latest Nomad 101 Gulf Craft has launched the latest Nomad 101 at its Umm Al Quwain shipyard in the UAE. The 30-metre tri-deck yacht features updated interior and exterior design by Phathom Design.

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificLantau Yacht Club Boat Show Adds Zhuhai Pavilion for 2026 Lantau Yacht Club Lantau Yacht Club Boat Show will return to Discovery Bay, Hong Kong, from 6–8 November 2026, with a new Zhuhai pavilion featuring around 10 yachts and 10 marine technology booths.

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificLionel Messi orders Sunreef Ultima 88 for Charter Fleet Argentine footballer Lionel Messi has ordered a Sunreef Ultima 88 catamaran, which is under construction at the company’s shipyard in the UAE.

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificAzimut Partners with Ferrari Hypersail Ferrari Hypersail’s operational base is at Azimut’s shipyard in Livorno Azimut Yachts has been appointed technical partner and official yachting partner of Ferrari Hypersail, Ferrari’s offshore ocean…

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificPearl 100 Hybrid Completes Initial Sea Trials The first Pearl 100 Hybrid has completed its initial sea trials ahead of its scheduled world debut at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, which runs from 28 October to 1 November 2026.

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificOmnia Marine Appointed Majesty and Nomad Dealer in Mainland China Nomad 70 Omnia Marine Co has been appointed the exclusive dealer for Gulf Craft’s Majesty and Nomad yacht brands in mainland China.

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificIncreased Asia Pacific Interest at Monaco Yacht Show Asia Pacific Superyachts (APS) reports that interest in Asia Pacific cruising destinations at the Monaco Yacht Show 2026 was the highest it has seen at the event.

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Asia-Pacific BoatingAsia-PacificSaxdor Yachts Introduces Simrad AutoCaptain Docking Tech The Simrad AutoCaptain Autonomous Boating System represents a new generation of technology designed to simplify docking, undocking, and short distance maneuvering, some of the most challenging…

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A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay