Yachts

Alfa Romeo Giulia Super Review
We decided to test the Alfa Romeo down in Cornwall with a visit to the Pendennis shipyard in Falmouth where they refurbish and restore some of the largest and most extravagant luxury yachts in the world. It was a round trip of ten hours and gave us time with some great roads to really get a feel for what the Alfa Romeo Giulia is all about.

Hunton Yachts are a British boating phenomenon, building unique luxury yachts in the UK to the highest standards. These fine craft are designed using the latest technology to the finest premium specifications for yacht connoisseurs. A blend of superb styling, looks, pedigree, performance and luxury unavailable elsewhere. Hunton Yachts may be the fastest, most comfortable boats on the water, but what is the fastest way to get from your home to your yacht?

A bellwether for the $37 billion U.S. boating industry, the Progressive® Insurance Miami International Boat Show®, docking Feb. 15-19, is the place to preview the latest boating trends. More than 100,000 boating enthusiasts will flock to the iconic waterside Miami Marine Stadium Park & Basin to see firsthand the newest products in the boating industry from hundreds of manufacturers, which use the world-renowned boating event as a platform to unveil new boat models and the most anticipated marine innovations.

In the Oxford dictionary luxury is defined as  ‘A state of great comfort or elegance, especially when involving great expense’. It is a fascinating topic as throughout history it always characterised specific levels of societies all around the world. It manifested itself with very different degrees of expressions depending on territory and accessibility to materials that would intrinsically define the luxurious nature of the products.

Quarterre is the luxury design studio that many people have never heard of and yet you will have seen their work everywhere. Have you ever wondered exactly who is behind the design of some of the most exclusive luxury cars in the world, or the style of the latest and greatest luxury yachts?
 
Quarterre’s four very talented designers are responsible for the limited editions of many of the top British and German luxury supercar brands as well as special editions of premium luxury luggage for these same iconic British cars and many other famous luxury brands.
 

When I was at Simmons & Simmons a partner in the corporate department, Richard, collared me in the corridor, ‘I don’t know what you do exactly, but could you meet two brothers; clients of mine, who are about to sell their company for hundreds of millions of pounds… they would like someone to talk to!’
Of course, the answer was yes, I saw them and they became clients of mine; a relationship which lasted many, many years – but, what did I do for them?

Aston Martin have announced a creative collaboration with Triton Submarines LLC, the acclaimed manufacturer of state–of-the-art submersibles. Codenamed Project Neptune, the venture enables Aston Martin to further enhance and grow the brand into new aspects of the luxury world, with all the performance, beauty and elegance one has come to expect from the British marque.

So International Excellence Magazine was in Greenwich for an event with Hunton Yachts, introducing this awesome British brand to ultra high net worth at the Delamar Hotel in Connecticut
The Delamar is of course set overlooking Greenwich Harbor so ideal for a yacht party, especially as Hunton were taking the VIPs out around Rocky Neck Point so they could really experience the comfort, speed and unbelievable stability of the boat. The New York yachting fraternity was extremely impressed and the evening was a great success.

The build has started!
World’s largest aluminium yacht under construction at Royal Huisman
The construction of the 81m / 266ft contemporary three-masted schooner has commenced at the shipyard’s facilities in Vollenhove. This new build project for an Asian client was unveiled by the joint team of Royal Huisman, Dykstra Naval Architects, designer Mark Whiteley and Bart Kimman of Northrop & Johnson Asia at the 2016 Monaco Yacht Show.

Decades ago, I asked a respected art critic where the next generation of big names in painting would come from; Scotland and three names were cited – regrettably I forgot and so missed out - their pictures were then selling for around £1,000.  Those artists’ prices have since gone into orbit.