North-Europe

After a rise to 30% in 2017, the year 2018 saw further strength of the Dutch superyacht industry in the market share of global superyacht deliveries. Delivering over 1.5 billion euros worth of 30-metre-plus yachts to owners around the world, the specialist yards in the Netherlands also have a further ...

Launched by Feadship in January (news 4/1/2019) and recently delivered to her experienced owner – Peter Wilson of MCM as owner representative – was on board 58-metre Najiba throughout her sea trials in the North Sea. During the standard series of tests, she smashed several performance predictions, largely thanks to ...

On 16 March, the team behind the first AMELS 220, PROJECT WAKA, celebrated a significant milestone in her construction as the technical launch took place inside one of the covered drydocks at the AMELS yard. The 67.1-metre superyacht (220 ft) will now complete outfitting before her delivery in summer this ...

Named Madsummer and 95m in lenght with a beam of 14 meters, the yacht known as project Fiji was launched yesterday from the floating dock at the Lürssen facility in Rendsburg. The yacht has been completed in 28 months, after her keel was laid in 2016, and she is planned for delivery for ...

Dutch shipyard Heesen has presented Project Aquamarine, the first yacht in the newly designed 5000 Aluminium Class. Aquamarine is currently under construction at the Heesen facility in Oss and is available for delivery in January 2021. The exteriors are signed by Omega Architects, while the interior design is by Cristiano ...

The refit of the 24m motoryacht Caravelle, has successfully been completed by the Dutch yard Feadship, which recently has decided to develop more strategically the refitting activities in order to secure the preservation of the DNA of their yachts over the time. The name Caravelle derives from the line of classic beauties built ...

Heesen has started the new year with the launch of Project Antares. The new 55m touched the water on 4 January and it is only the first one out of the 5 scheduled for launch in 2019. Currently there is a fleet of 13 yachts under construction at Heesen’s shipyard ...

Royal Huisman has announced its goal to produce the ultimate performance sloop that pushes the boundaries of modern design and technology, revealing details on the new 59.7m/196ft design known as Project 404. With the aim of creating the ultimate world performance cruising sloop with exceptional sail power and system technologies, Royal Huismanset new ...