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Author: Bernard

Assessment of a ship for conversion.

2 January 20213 January 2021 Bernard

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 […]

 Conversions and Refits

Solving the Boat Equation

27 December 202027 December 2020 Bernard

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 […]

 Breaking the Deadlock

How independent are your internal audits?

16 December 2020 Bernard

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 […]

 Breaking the Deadlock

Benchmarking for Green Yachting.

20 September 202025 September 2020 Bernard

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, […]

 Non classé

Becoming a yacht captain.

4 May 20204 May 2020 Bernard

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, […]

 Non classé

Building the “Pit”

17 April 202029 December 2020 Bernard

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 […]

 Classic Yachts

New Classics – Sail

27 March 202029 December 2020 Bernard

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 […]

 Classic Yachts

Yachting differently

25 January 202029 December 2020 Bernard

The launch of yacht RAGNAR finally prompts me to write this piece about yachting differently. For those not in the loop, RAGNAR is a conversion from an ice-breaking PSV (platform […]

 Conversions and Refits

Wings or no wings?

11 November 2019 Bernard

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 […]

 Breaking the Deadlock

SOLAS and other animals.

21 June 201921 October 2019 Bernard

(Breaking the Deadlock series.) In our industry, we often hear people talking about specific yacht certifications (LY3, PYC etc…) as opposed to SOLAS, the latter being considered as the certification […]

 Breaking the Deadlock

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