Yachting News Archive

11-Aug-2005

(yacht cruise)

  • 'CRN Explorer (Luxist)
    • This may look like the designs for a merchant ship but it?s actually the plan for a luxury yacht. CRN?s steel and aluminum Explorer is a 60-meter yacht designed to cruise at 14 knots. Designed to accommodate up to 16 guests and 21 crew, the yacht has a main deck that is almost entirely uncovered and sits close to the water. The Explorer is designed with three main zones, a public zone which is

  • 'Russian Billioniare's Yacht Docked By Fuel Error (Forbes)
    • Could cost more than $1M to clean Abramovich yacht of bad fuel.

  • 'Between Rock and a hard place, hope rises (International Herald Tribune)
    • No historical slights are ever forgotten in Europe, but few flourish quite as robustly as the one between Gibraltar and its formidable neighbor, Spain.

  • 'Yeltsin, Visiting Alaska, Gives Putin a Tepid Endorsement (The Moscow Times)
    • ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Former President Boris Yeltsin, in his first stop on what he described as a long-anticipated journey to commune with nature in Alaska, said Tuesday that he believed President Vladimir Putin's embrace of democracy had been adequate.

  • 'New Azimut Yacht Launched (Luxist)
    • 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

  • 'Russian Billioniare's Yacht Docked By Fuel Error (Forbes)
    • Russian Billioniare's Yacht Docked By Fuel Error

  • 'Goose mess doesn't spoil beach fun (Knoxville News Sentinal)
    • We've seen lots of folks using the new beach at the back of the Yacht Club basin - despite a recurring problem with goose poop. Steve and Pat McAvoy, their six children, their spouses and 17 grandchildren used the beach "every day" when they had their annual reunion recently.

  • 'Gigayachts? (Luxist)
    • 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

  • 'Let's Go: Events and happenings for today and Thursday (The Union)
    • Stretch and Strength Class with Geri Campbell, 8 a.m., Community/Senior Center. $3-members, $4-nonmembers. 273-4961. Good Morning Yoga 8:30-10 a.m., led by Marianne Reagan, Moving Ground Studio, St. Joseph's Cultural Center, in Grass Valley. A multi-level lyengar style class. $8. 272-4240.

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