Summer 2021 in France (Edited).
Breaking the Deadlock: (No longer valid as of 17 May 2021) While we were all concerned with the consequences of the new anchorage limits and regulations in French waters (Arrêté […]
Author: Bernard
What’s in a name?
Why “The VV team” ? The name of our senior partner, Vivegnis, comes from “les Vi Vegnes” meaning “the old vines” in the Walloon language. Vivegnis is also a village […]
Centennial
The largest active steam yacht turns 100 years old.Passionate as we are about classics, we could not ignore this milestone.
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, […]
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 […]