After 92 years, lights out at legacy Dutch boating magazine
THE HAGUE _ After 92 years, The Royal Dutch Touring Club is closing down its legacy boating magazine De Waterkampioen due to shrinking readership....
To protect pedigree, Feadship starts global refit, services unit
HAARLEM – Dutch superyacht maker Feadship has launched a unit that will implement the company’s new customer support strategy built around 3 pillars: Feadship...
AkzoNobel wants your help to paint the future
AMSTERDAM _ AkzoNobel, the Dutch multinational paints and performance coatings maker, tracks its history back to the 18th century. Yet, it says, there is...
DMS shows Anti-Roll ‘All-in-One’ at 2018 METSTRADE
AMSTERDAM _ Dynamic Marine Systems, the Dutch yacht stabilizing specialist, will launch the next evolution of its Anti-Roll fin system at the 2018 METSTRADE:...
RHMarine weighs smarter, safer superyachts
SCHIEDAM _ To Marcel Vermeulen, autonomous sailing _ i.e. with minimal or no crew _ is a dot on the horizon, approaching fast despite...
Dutch investment firm acquires Alewijnse
NIJMEGEN _ Investment firm Strong Root Capital of the Netherlands has acquired Alewijnse Holding BV, a worldwide technical services provider to superyachts and commercial...
AkzoNobel launches high seas-tested Awlgrip HDT
AMSTERDAM _ AkzoNobel, the Dutch multinational paints and performance coatings maker, has begun marketing AwlGrip HDT, a high-tech clearcoat it has tested on the...
PROFILE: Yacht interiors engineering studio SDSI
NOORDWIJKERHOUT – The idea came to Erik van Dongen in the 1990s when he worked at Hoek Design. “I saw a need to support...
WhisperPower SQ PRO-series targets low-speed generator markets
DRACHTEN _ WhisperPower, the Dutch maker of electrical systems for cars, vessels and other off-grid users _ will introduce a new line of low-speed...
In good times, METSTRADE goes from strength to strength
AMSTERDAM _ The SuperYacht Pavilion at the 2018 METSTRADE Show (Nov. 13-15) will feature a new, 3rd hall that includes a networking area, called...
