Hints and tips:
...It’s quite possible that while on a yachting trip in the Hamptons, sipping on some Ace of Spades, they came up with the idea that Square should buy Tidal. The reason? Because it can....
...The watch sold for £75,000, and all proceeds were donated to the Royal Yachting Association....
...Exhibitions and conference group Informa is looking to go places, as well: last week, it bought Yachting Promotions Inc, operator of some of the largest boat shows in the US, for £106m....
...They found an old workshop in the yachting hub of Mallorca but by December, “we hit rock bottom”....
...The world’s most successful Olympic sailor has been fundraising to support the £80m British bid for the America’s Cup yachting race....
...“It is an industry in which large yachts often change hands quietly without the press even knowing,” said Richard Coles, partner at law firm Gateley and co-editor of Law of Yachts and Yachting....
...Even so, the owners come back every year and the competition is growing when other parts of the yachting market have been shrinking. They regularly upgrade their yachts with new sails and equipment....
...But from his office at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, the one-time surgeon who represented Belgium in the yachting events at three Olympics, insists the Games are no more or less commercial than when...
...Superyachts.com, the luxury yachting web portal, says 11 new vessels, some the size of cruise liners, will join its annual top 100 ranking by length this year, compared with nine new entries last year....
...“Everyone here is hoping that the Chinese get into yachting quite soon,” said Jamie Edmiston, director of the Edmiston broking group. “There is a little bit of interest....
...“A lot of people who were new getting into yachting didn’t realise it was going to cost them between €5m and €10m a year to run.”...
...Brazil is fast becoming one of the top new investment destinations for the yachting industry thanks to surging salaries, the country’s 7,400km of coastline and year-round warm weather....
...The idea, he says, was to end an arms race of yachting technology that Bertarelli himself had won so comprehensively that races became boring for the winner as well as the losers....
...Then I call in on B&Q for yachting varnish to give the goliath tiger fish a nice wet look. I also invest in several feet of dowelling and another litre of PVA, for Sam seems to be drinking the stuff....
...A keen sailor himself, he did not like losing to Mr Ellison in big yachting competitions. And he clearly does not want to see his old Oracle rival sailing ahead in the international software stakes....
...What do the maker of McDonald’s fast food cartons, Europe’s biggest book printer, and a French yachting accessories group have in common?...
...Brokerage prices have been cut by up to 50 per cent, heralding the end of the yachting investment business....
...Camper & Nicholsons International, the yacht group, which produces its own slightly different statistics in its annual Yachting Index, says that the crash in financial markets after the collapse of Lehman...
...As leader of BT Team Ellen, a group of sailors who take part in ocean races and other yachting challenges, she has ensured they are, “a team who care about the state of the planet they race around, and are...
...“I think yachting has been affected quite badly. There most certainly are bargains out there.”...
...As well as being deputy chair of the organising committee for the London 2012 Olympics, he heads a leading yachting team and serves on the board of England’s bid to host the 2018 Football World Cup....
...Schools teaching cooking, ski instruction, professional yachting and mountaineering have all reported big increases in inquiries from recently redundant bankers and analysts, as have gap year programmes...
...A glance at the sponsors’ list for the Vendée Globe single-handed, round the world yacht race should quickly dispel the notion that yachting is an elitist sport attracting support from only the most expensive...
...A marina development of 450 apartments, maisons and villas, designed to exploit the Seychelles’ world-class snorkelling and yachting offerings, it offers owners their own moorings as well as electric vehicles...
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