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In exactly one week the doors will open at SBS BoatLife 2023 to display an incredible 200+ boats and over 150 exhibitors at the NEC in Birmingham from 16-19 February.

Ineos Britannia, Britain’s challenger for the 37th America’s Cup, has suffered a setback after its T6 test boat capsized and caught fire while on the water during a test day in Palma Bay, Mallorca in Spain.

Ashley Highfield has been appointed as the new CEO of Oyster Yachts.

SG Marine Guide, an online platform for the Singapore boating community, has announced the launch of the Singapore Yacht Festival (SYF), to take place at One°15 Marina Sentosa Cove from 27 to 30 April 2023.

New Zealand’s navy has intercepted a record-breaking haul of cocaine floating in international waters in the Pacific Ocean.

To help clubs and watersports providers move away from burning hydrocarbons, ePropulsion UK (and its Hayling Island-based dealer eSolent) says it’s launching a new e-safety boat package.

American water technology provider Xylem Inc. has reported fourth-quarter revenue of $1.5 billion, and full-year 2022 revenue of $5.5 billion.

Boatshed.com – the UK’s first online yacht broker with 80+ offices globally and over 1.2m registered users – has launched a new service, BoatshedCharter, enabling its worldwide audience to charter b...

Florida-based turn-key telematics provider Osmosis has reached a new supply agreement with Liberty Technologies, the parent company of PCM Marine Engines and Indmar Marine Engines, and a subsidiary of Correct Craft.

A Chinese blogger has attracted condemnation and a hefty fine after she live-streamed herself eating a great white shark.

The Yacht-Match Group is partnering with Hamble Point Yacht Charters to bring the Italia Yachts brand to the UK.

Jan-Erik Nyfelt, known as “Janne” to his colleagues, passed away on January 28 2023.

Solar-electric catamaran builder Silent-Yachts has launched a Silent 60 solar-electric catamaran at its new shipyard in Fano, Italy. The launch is the first to occur at the yard, which was acquired in 2022.

Yamaha has confirmed the lineup of Yamaha outboards and marine products on display at SBS BoatLife, which runs from 16-19 February 2023 at Birmingham’s NEC.

The Ocean Cleanup – an international non-profit project developing and scaling technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic – has revealed its largest private donation to date.

It has been a busy January for all the teams in the America’s Cup with their training programmes noticeably intensifying. Sign-off for the AC75 designs is just months away so the importance of data collection and analysis has never been at a...

 The Canadian flagged team, led by President & Skipper Scott Shawyer from Ontario, has broken the Royal Ocean Racing Club Transatlantic Transatlantic Course Record in the doublehanded class by more than eight hours.

With 20.000 miles and five months at sea, 70% of their voyage is complete. The leading yachts are starting to show little signs of fatigue requiring constant maintenance, just as they are undertaking the most difficult part of the course. They had...

Skipperi, a shared-use boating subscription service and peer-to-peer boat rental platform, has successfully closed a €7m series A funding round.

The Brazilian Navy has scuttled a decommissioned aircraft carrier, despite protests amid concerns that the ship was filled with toxic materials including asbestos.