Aussie stunner Miranda Kerr was in Sydney recently, where she was spotted cavorting aboard a classic mahogany Comitti motor launch. La Dolce Vita, as the vessel is called, is billed the only Italian-made wooden speedboat imported to Sydney available for charter, handbuilt at the Comitti Wooden Boat Company in Italy on the shores of Lake [...]

Updated: What is French designer Philippe Starck working on for Apple? Prior to his death, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was working with Starck on a yacht. And this is very likely the “fairly, if not very, revolutionary” project he was talking about. To be built by luxury superyacht builder Feadship, the yacht is believed to [...]

Toyota Motor Corp. is increasing its seaborne fleet with the launch of a new leisure boat, the Ponam-35. But the 11.95-meter cruiser is still related to the car manufacturer’s mainstream products as its two V8-cylinder engines are adapted versions of the 4.5-liter V8 diesel engine that can be found in the Toyota Land Cruiser. Weighing [...]

Five thousand items recovered from the Atlantic grave of the Titanic, from a 17-ton piece of the hull to china used to serve first-class passengers, will go on auction in New York a century after the liner sank. The unprecedented collection will be sold as a single lot by Guernsey’s Auctioneers on April 11, 100 [...]

De Basto Designs is a progressive design firm based in Miami, specializing exclusively on creative and innovative design solutions for luxury yachts, custom, production and commercial boats. We’re a bit in love with their Aston Martin Voyage 55 concept, designed by Luiz de Basto. “Like so many yacht designers, besides being an architect by training, [...]

Did you know that you can rent Johnny Depp’s Yacht Vajoliroja? Indeed, you can… Burgess Yachts rents the Depp yacht for €98,000 (approximately $130,000) per week in the high season and €84,000 (approximately $110,000) in the low season. Depp named the yacht “Vajoliroja” — a combination of the first letters of the names of his [...]

The Stingray 225 SX, hailed as the world’s fastest boat in the 23 foot model category, in now available. The Stingray 225 carries a price tag of $78,590. Available in two models, the boat will feature a tinted windshield, an acrylic cockpit cover, LCD transom stereo remote, digital depth finder, automatic fire extinguishing system, and [...]

Designer Maria Malindretou-Vika has created an eco-sustainable catamaran yacht named “Marvin the Martian.” It measures in at 50 feet long and is hulled of white fiberglass. The goal in this project was to create a boat capable of being both autonomous and self-sufficient in energy. The catamaran can sail and/or run on it low gas [...]

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Oceanic is taking the next step in human exploration. This time, the voyage is to the last frontiers of our own Blue Planet: the very bottom of our seas.

“Steven Spielberg was recently spotted in St. Barth’s and St. Maarten aboard his new toy, the 86-metre Oceanco superyacht Seven Seas. Featuring naval architecture by Azure and an interior design scheme by Nuvolari & Lenard, the impressive ship was launched by the Dutch shipbuilder a few months back and is a fitting vessel for the [...]

When looking for a fast, sporty car, you can’t go wrong with a Lamborghini. So why not bring the reputation of Lamborghini into a new field altogether? That gives us the Lamborghini yacht. Auto aftermarket specialists Fenice Milano has teamed up with Italian car designer Mauro Lecchie to create a prototype of a yacht inspired [...]

At $600,000 per week the 60 metre Lürssen superyacht Solemates designed by the great Espen Oeino is one of the world’s most exclusive charter craft. It’s also one of the most cutting edge thanks to a new system that lets guests control various functions via an iPad. Don’t happen to own one? Not a problem [...]

Music and film mogul David Geffen now completely owns the world’s 6th largest yacht. Geffen bought out Oracle founder Larry Ellison of his share of the Rising Sun, which was built in 2004 at a cost of $250 million. The yacht measures 138 meters and was built by Germany’s Lürssen shipyard. It has luxury accommodations [...]

U.S.-based Atlantic Yachts has contracted with Rolls-Royce’s Marine division to design and engineer a new line of superyachts dubbed the NVC 85 Y. The 85-metre craft will be built by Germany’s Nobiskrug GmbH while Atlantic’s founder Paul Madden, formerly of Blohm + Voss (builders of Roman Abramovich’s gigayacht Eclipse) will oversee the project. Available in [...]

A new made in Italy Icon is born. Gucci and Riva, in collaboration with Officina Italiana Design, the design company which created the original Aquariva in 2000, are proud to unveil the exclusive made to order “Aquariva by Gucci”, a model customized by Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini. This initiative will be one of the [...]