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Yacht brokerage expands into Vermilion
New business brings 25 years of experience
This psychologist has a new theory for why orcas keep attacking boats
Live Science spoke with comparative psychologist Christian Frings to discuss a new theory for why orcas are attacking yachts.
Converting PSVs for Expedition Cruising Creates Compelling Business Model
Architect and yacht designer Stefano Pastrovich has developed a novel concept that he believes can create a compelling business model and entry for bo...
Is the WA ‘millionaires tax’ really coming for public pensions?
SEATTLE — When you think about the mansion- and yacht-owning millionaire crowd, retired schoolteachers don't typically leap to mind. Nevertheless, foes of Washington's new high-earner income tax are making a
Luxury Yachts, Entertainment, and a Cause: Yacht Rendezvous Returns to Fort Lauderdale
Some of the world’s most spectacular superyachts will arrive at the iconic Pier Sixty-Six for the 37th Annual Boys & Girls Clubs Yacht Rendezvous. The exclusive weekend will bring together yacht owners, business leaders, philanthropists, and special guests for unforgettable experiences, live entertainment, and networking opportunities, all in support of programs that help empower local youth throughout Broward County.
Below Deck is back! How to stream Season 13 premiere tonight on Sling
Stream the Below Deck Season 13 premiere tonight on Bravo with Sling TV and catch all the yacht drama live.
Jim and Marilyn Simons lent their 68-metre superyacht to ocean scientists; an $80,000 system tested whether luxury vessels could help validate satellite data
Superyachts are usually associated with luxury travel, but the 68-metre Archimedes, owned by Jim and Marilyn Simons at the time of the research, also became a platform for marine science. During several deployments between 2018 and 2020, an autonomous measurement system aboard the yacht collected ocean-colour observations at a range of locations, including remote regions such as the Antarctic Peninsula.
Billionaire boarding school drops $17M on superyacht for science class
Le Rosey in Switzerland, the world's most expensive boarding school, has taken delivery of a $17 million solar-electric superyacht just so that the students can leave campus to study sailing, ocean...
Fleet Week Yacht Rock Party on Front Street to Feature Free Oysters
A Fleet Week-themed Fridays on Front Street event is happening today (October 9), featuring bands playing yacht rock covers, a screening of Top Gun, a best mustache contest, and free oysters.
Back to The Ballroom: Yacht Rock Night
On Sept. 29, 2026, the “Dancing with the Stars” ballroom transformed into relaxing vibes and good times for yacht rock night. While there was smooth sailing, the 13 couples experienced some turmoil on the dance floor.
Pasha Pashkov gives update after that ‘DWTS’ injury that left Amber Glenn in tears
‘Dancing With the Stars’ pro Pasha Pashkov gives an update after that brutal injury he sustained while rehearsing the foxtrot with Amber Glenn for Yacht Rock Night.
Bend cheesecake business launches vending machine
Little Slice of Hell Cheesecakes launched its vending machine of cheesecakes earlier this month at Midtown Yacht Club, giving Bend a new way to grab local, homemade cheesecakes on the […]
'Dancing with the Stars' Yacht Rock Night ends in surprise elimination
"Dancing with the Stars" continued its star-studded 35th season Tuesday with a surprise elimination.
Christina Aguilera continues her European vacation and pops bottles and dances on a boat
Christina Aguilera dances on a yacht in Portofino, Italy, as fans ask for new music. The singer recently teased an album and documentary in the works.
Julia Stiles breaks down in tears, injures rib rehearsing for “Dancing With the Stars”’ ‘Yacht Rock Night’
Stiles staged a major comeback on week 3 after a disappointing sophomore outing, dancing to “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” by Hall & Oates.
Amber Glenn sobs after giving partner Pasha Pashkov a brutal bloody injury in “DWTS” rehearsal
The Olympic skater and pro dancer also received their highest scores of the season so far on “Yacht Rock” night.
Amber Glenn sobs after giving partner Pasha Pashkov brutal bloody injury in rehearsal
Amber Glenn broke down after giving partner Pasha Pashkov a brutal and bloody injury in ‘Dancing With the Stars’ rehearsal for ‘Yacht Rock’ night.
Sold-out Charity Regatta Raises Record $334,690 for VNA Health
For 22 years, the Santa Barbara Yacht Club (SBYC) has raced boats to raise funds and friends to benefit the Community Care Programs and charitable mission
'Below Deck' star Aesha Scott speaks out after Nathan Gallagher conviction
"Below Deck" star Aesha Scott is speaking out in defense of fellow yachtie Gael Cameron after their castmate Nathan Gallagher's conviction on charges of assault and choking.
NextTrip Launches "NextTrip LIVE" Destination Entertainment Platform with First Music Experience Scheduled for November in Riviera Cancún
LIVE, in partnership with YADA, combines destination travel, live entertainment, creator-led marketing and 's integrated group travel and booking technology into a scalable experiential travel platformInaugural November 13-16 event at Iberostar Selection Riviera Cancún to feature Yachty by Nature and Orlando Mendez, with additional LIVE destination experiences in developmentSUNRISE, FL / ACCESS Newswire / September 24, 2026 / , Inc. (NASDAQ:NTRP) ("," the "Company," "we," "our," or "us"), a tech
Platinum Exits De Wave Group
Beverly Hills-based buyout shop Platinum Equity has sold a yacht and cruise outfitter to Italian private equity firm Renaissance Partners. Neither
How Yacht Owners Are Designing Vessels Around Health and Wellness
Today's ship owners are obsessed with health and wellness. We explore how they are designing new vessels for keeping active while on the move.
How Luxury Yacht Owners Are Designing Vessels Around Health and Wellness
Forget lounging on the beach club. Today's ship owners are more interested in keeping active.
Peapack Private launches yacht financing business to grow specialty lending capability
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corp. and Peapack Private announced Sept. 9 its entrance into the yacht financing business.
Peapack Private Expands Specialty Lending Capabilities with Launch of Yacht Financing Business
Jim Velez Jim Velez, Senior Managing Director and President of Yacht Financing at Peapack Private BEDMINSTER, N.J., Sept. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market: PGC) and Peapack Private announced today its entrance into the yacht financing business, further expanding the Bank’s suite of customized lending solutions for high-net-worth individuals, families and their advisors. As part of the launch, Peapack Private has hired industry vete
The Science of Emotion: How Scentsophy Is Changing Modern Perfumery
Discover the world of luxury—elite travel, supercars, yachts, private aviation, fine living, and curated style from Upscale Living Magazine.
Yacht entrepreneur meets demand for high-end water access
After building a charter business, Brian Crotty has founded two additional boating companies and acquired a sailing and boating school out of bankruptcy.
Sophie Cunningham names WNBA legend as dream business partner
Sophie Cunningham already knows which WNBA star she would choose as a business partner: Diana Taurasi. She recently mentioned her as someone she wants to start a venture among all league players about. The Indiana Fever guard envisioned a yacht…
Small-Business Owners Put Millions Into “Good Faith Accounts.” He Bought a Yacht
Small-business owners transferred millions of dollars to William Thomas Engle after he promised to help them obtain large commercial loans and assured them that their ... Read More
In Italy, America does business on the ambassador’s yacht
A billionaire diplomat’s floating statecraft
Where science meets the sea
What if every yacht at sea could double as a scientific research vessel – quietly collecting critical data about the health of our oceans? The I...
MINNEAPOLIMEDIA PRESENTS | This Weekend in the Twin Cities – Entertainment Guide: July 19, 2026 Edition
From the Minnesota Yacht Club Festival to Aquatennial events, art fairs and family attractions, the Twin Cities wrap up the weekend with something for every age and interest.
Superyacht private chef shares 5 food upgrades for health, longevity
Chris Demaillet was a private chef on superyachts for almost 20 years. Ultra-rich clients now expect food that's healthy and boosts their longevity.
Biggest superyachts owned by tech billionaires: Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin
From Jeff Bezos to Mark Zuckerberg, tech billionaires have become some of the superyacht industry's biggest clients. Here's how their boats measure up.
Hundreds of sailors to enjoy weekend on the water
More than 80 yachts and hundreds of sailing enthusiasts will take part.
Superyacht designers reveal biggest trends among billionaire owners
Vripack's Marnix Hoekstra and Bart Bouwhuis design luxury superyachts for billionaires. Popular asks include high-end offices and gyms.
LVMH and Accor's Orient Express sets its sights on new tech billionaire class
Shuttling across the French and Italian Riviera, Orient Express's first giant yacht aims to attract a new class of billionaire.
Backfire News Weekly Recap: June 4–6, 2026
It was a packed week on Backfire News, with coverage spanning Formula 1, NASCAR history, truck culture, collector cars, and a few somber losses across the racing world. Thirteen posts went live between June 4 and June 6, 2026. Here is the full rundown. Formula 1 in the Spotlight F1 dominated the week. A feature on the Monaco Grand Prix experience explored why the street circuit remains the sport's most iconic and unusual weekend, while a look at a $75 million superyacht captured the glamour that
Resch plaza to host Hairball, Yachtley Crew for end-of-summer party
The Resch Complex Plaza is hosting its first concert in three years. Where else can you get '80s arena rock and '70s soft rock in the same night?
Is Mina the Hollower too hard? The debate is on, as players discuss the challenge of Yacht Club's smash hit
The action adventure has proven mighty popular, though some have questioned the challenge of this retro-inspired hit.
Why One of This Year’s Best Games, ‘Mina the Hollower,’ Is Only $20
The developers at Yacht Club say that charging $20 for their slick new platformer was a no-brainer
31 hours with the spit-shined Mina the Hollower (and 34 with the four games that came before it)
To truly appreciate Mina The Hollower, an extraordinary new throwback of a game, I sent myself to Yacht Club University. That’s not a real institution of higher learning, but it’s the best way I can explain much of the past several weeks as I prepared to play Mina by playing the four biggest game previously made by studio Yacht Club Games. I had expected Mina the Hollower, in development for six years for PC and consoles, to potentially be something special. A demo I tried in March had felt great. Mina the Hollower had an old-school premise: a singular move for its hero that felt so good to control and so rich with possibilities that, in the hands of skilled designers, it could be riffed on in various ways for the length of a full game. Mina’s core maneuver, her hollowing, made her sort of an upside down Super Mario. Nintendo’s hero jumps through the air, discovering power-ups at the apex of his jump by bonking overhead blocks, then defeating enemies by landing on them. Mina essentially jumps into the ground, digging (“hollowing”) into the earth to fetch buried treasure, then burrows for a short distance to emerge on the other side of a wall that hides treasure or an enemy that needs some battering. I wanted to understand how good Yacht Club was at making games. I wanted to see how far they’d come. If Mina was terrific—as I predicted it might be—I wanted to feel how they got there, one button press at a time. On May 6, 21 days before the writing of this review, I checked with Yacht Club Games co-founder and programmer David D’Angelo, to ask which of the studio’s games I should play to truly appreciate the new one’s design. “Hmmm all of them?” he wrote back. “Starting with Shovel Knight definitely is helpful,” he continued, referring to Yacht Club’s first game. He gave me a link to a spreadsheet of over 400 cheat codes that could help me out, if I found the game too tough.1 “Most folks say Specter of Torment is the least difficult and quickest to finish in terms of playtime, and [it] refines much of Shovel Knight,” he told me. “King of Cards is a big celebration of everything we did in [the Shovel Knight compilation] Treasure Trove— might work for you better if you’re a fan of shorter, Mario-style courses. And it’s probably the closest to Mina in terms of polish.” So that was that. Four games, none of which were required. Mina is a whole new game in a whole new world, best I can tell. I’d barely played that first Shovel Knight before and never the other three. I just thought it’d help. It did. It turns out that playing a game studios major works before their latest is very illuminating.
Mina The Hollower Surpasses The Greatness Of Shovel Knight
With Mina the Hollower, Yacht Club Games has cemented itself as one of the premiere independent studios in the industry today. Its breakout hit, Shovel Knight, was a retro-throwback platformer that merged classic 8-bit-style action with some modern touches. Mina the Hollower looked similarly old-school, with a look and feel that obviously pays tribute to...
Review: Mina The Hollower - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (Switch 2) - Yacht Club Is Back With Another Masterful Love Letter
The Legend of Mina
Self-Storage Business Powers U-Haul Holding Company’s (UHAL) Valuation
Yachtman Asset Management released its first-quarter 2026 investor letter for its AMG “Yacktman Focused Fund”. A copy of the letter is available to download here. The Fund returned 10.37% for the first quarter, outperforming both the Russell 1000® Value Index and the S&P 500 Index, which returned 2.10% and -4.33%, respectively. The U.S. markets continue […]
UWF Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business and Combined Rotary Clubs of Pensacola name 2026 Ethics in Business Award Recipients - University of West Florida Newsroom
The University of West Florida Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business and the Combined Rotary Clubs of Pensacola named Sam Young and Tom Vaughn as the 2026 recipients of the annual Ethics in Business Award during the 24th Combined Rotary Luncheon at the Pensacola Yacht Club. The Ethics in Business Award recognizes individuals who exemplify […]
Florida Yacht Charter Business Fights $1.5 Million Tax Bill
A Florida yachting venture that participated in high-stakes offshore fishing tournaments before unforeseen setbacks forced a pivot to luxury charters told the US Tax Court the IRS wrongly defined its business as a hobby and assessed more than $1.5 million in tax liabilities.
Russian superyacht Nord sails through blockaded Strait of Hormuz
The Nord, a multideck 464-foot pleasure vessel, is one of the few private ships to have made it past the blockaded strait.
X Shore Is Back in Business
Now that X Shore is back in business, Hanson adds, it can provide customers and dealers with spare parts and service. It will do so on
Mina the Hollower has gone gold
Mina the Hollower has now gone gold, Yacht Club Games just announced. Typically we don’t post about games going gold. If a title hasn’t been announced and wasn’t cancelled, it’s eventually going to release. However, this is a bit of a special case. For one thing, we’ve been waiting a long time for Mina the Hollower at this point. Originally,...
Local businesses face demolition as NCDOT continues Carolina Beach Road widening
The most recent business to announce they’re being affected is the Greenfield Lake Yacht Club.
Puttin' on the glitz, and reveling in beauty
A gala at the NorthRiver Yacht Club offered many reminders of how power and wealth can enrich the lives of others.
Forbes Business Council Accepts Komodo Luxury Founder Agung Afif as Member
Agung Afif, founder and CEO of Bali-headquartered yacht charter company Komodo Luxury, has been accepted into Forbes Business Council. The compa...
Man aims to cross the Atlantic using 3-foot boat smaller than an airline seat in adventure of a lifetime
This man wants to cross the Atlantic from Canada to Ireland in one of the smallest boats the world has ever seen - it's a far cry from luxury superyachts
Paris says 'oui' to booming business of romantic proposals
STORY: This Texan couple have been dating for one year.And Josue Perales wanted extra special celebrations with his girlfriend Kayla Balboa. On a candlelit terrace, overlooking the Eiffel Tower, she says "yes".Balboa had always wanted a Paris proposal. "She's always been mentioning how...""This is my dream place.""This is her dream... well, here we are."To make sure every detail was perfect, Perales employed the help of a local marriage proposal planning agency.And he's not the only one.Paris is seeing a surge in demand for elaborate marriage proposals like this one.Thanks to social media, TV shows and events showcasing the "City of Love", the entire industry catering to love-struck couples willing to pay thousands for unforgettable moments is booming.Les Entremetteuses, or "The Matchmakers", helped Perales get his "yes".Founder Pauline Le Tendre says Valentine's Day is her "busiest day of the year."But she says she's busy all year round - after demand started growing in 2019, with a brief lull during the pandemic."Once the borders reopened, it steadily increased. After that, there were a couple of boosts with (the TV show) 'Emily in Paris,' the Paris Olympics also. We had a lot of work after the Games."The company's proposal packages start at 590 euros, or just under $700, for a proposal on the Seine river banks.The average spend can go up to $2,400 - with some clients spending more for extras, like performers.:: Kiss Me in Paris/Artem Martynov & Anastasia KalynaFor those wanting to splurge even more, Kiss Me in Paris has them covered.The agency says its clients typically spend an average of about $12,000 on their experiences - or as much as some $118,000.:: Kiss Me in Paris/Tuan Nguyen FilmsLuxurious proposals are choreographed in high-end hotels, aboard yachts on the Seine, or in authentic French chateaux."To just be able to, in your social circles, say, 'We got engaged in Paris,' is great, right? It has prestige, it has cachet." That's Cengiz Ozelsel, who co-founded Kiss Me in Paris with his wife Chantelle Marie Streete.They say bookings have more than doubled since 2015.While the more budget-friendly Oui Love Paris agency told Reuters, its bookings have quadrupled since 2020.For many planners, though, the payoff is more than just numbers."I absolutely love it because... people are inviting you into their lives at one of the most special times in their lives."
Superyacht broker on 3 surprising things about selling to ultrawealthy
AJ Blackmon, the CEO of Ikonic Yachts, shared three surprising things he's learned about selling superyachts to the ultrawealthy.
Investors lost at least $40 million on a Florida business that never had a client
His guilty plea says among his purchases with the fraudulently gained money were a 2011 54-foot Cruiser Yacht 540 Sports Coupe.