Lee County may be a boating mecca, but it isn t home to the likes of behemoth boats of the stripe favored by sultans and business megamagnates. The waters here if not the pockets may be just too shallow.
BYM leads us to the news that the first Azimut 105 has been delivered to her Mexican owner and is now cruising the Mediterranean. In September the yacht will be exhibited at the Cannes and Monaco boat shows and the second unit will be at the Miami Boat Show in February 2006. The new yacht can hit a cruise speed of 24 knots and is a two-and-a-half deck ship that has a flybridge with two sunroofs
Nicole and Patrick Tepe were looking to buy lakefront property when they came across something they liked better - a 39-foot sport yacht that sleeps six with more comforts than their Middleton home, including central air- conditioning and a central vacuum.
WORTH A CLICK! Concours d Elegance: Wooden boat week continues today through Thursday featuring a boat cruise at 8 a.m. today from the Tahoe City Marina. A barbecue and potluck at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Gatekeepers Museum in Tahoe City. Cost: $20 one-day tickets, $25 two-days.
Have you become tired of the term megayacht? This article speaks of the next really big thing, the gigayacht. It?s a new way to define the elite class of 400+ footer. At this year?s cruise industry convention in Miami, Barry Gilmour, chairman of Oceanic Investment Corp. announced that there is a plan for a 630-foot yacht. Gilmour insists that someone will order it. The U.S. is currently second