The fifth edition of India’s largest and only truly international boat show will bring a unique opportunity to participate in a well established and trusted platform to cater to arguably the last large untapped leisure boating market in the world. With the Middle East reaching a saturation point, the focus of sales is bound to move to India, which has the potential to be the largest market in the region for boats.
Based on the suggestions and feedback of many exhibitors, attempts are being made to bring the land and water …

The Maharashtra Maritime Board has invited developers to build marina across the state’s 720-km coastline. If things go according to the plan, Mumbai alone may get a few marinas, which will be equipped with restaurants, plazas and water sports facilities.
A marina is a harbour with wharfs keeping boats and yachts, and with services for recreation boating. Normally, a marina has refuelling, washing and repair facilities, ship chandlers, stores and restaurants. A marina has ground facilities like parking lots and boat trailers. Unlike a port, marina does not handle large passenger …

Dutch 14-year-old Laura Dekker will leave Portimão, Portugal, tomorrow to begin her attempt to become the world’s youngest solo circumnavigator.
Her manager Peter Klarenbeek said the teenager was at sea today doing final equipment tests before leaving tomorrow on a journey that could take up to two years.
Dekker arrived in Portugal on her red-hulled, 11.5-metre ketch Guppy last Saturday with her father after a ten-day voyage from her native Netherlands.
She left Den Osse in the southwest Netherlands days after winning a 10-month court battle with child welfare authorities who had been …

The last time Guy Barnett was bobbing around Dartmouth harbour it was aboard a leaky 80-year-old trawler as he attempted to scrape a living taking tourists mackerel fishing.
The last time Guy Barnett was bobbing around Dartmouth harbour it was aboard a leaky 80-year-old trawler as he attempted to scrape a living taking tourists mackerel fishing.  But after marrying the daughter of one of Canada’s richest men he has returned to the Devon port at the helm of something a little grander – a £100 million super yacht.
The 35-year-old left Dartmouth …