Dutch yacht builders enjoy a growing well of talent
DRIEBERGEN – Leon Kortekaas is a Feadship project planner. Christel Hollemans does sales support at Lengers Yachts. Hans van Doornmalen is a broker at...
90-year-old business thrives in specialty coatings
MOORDRECHT – PPG. AkzoNobel. Sherwin-Williams. Nippon Paint Holdings Co. The world of paints and coatings is packed with high-profile players. Yet the list also...
PROFILE: Gerard Dijkstra
As part of an ongoing series of profiles of Dutch yacht designers and naval architects, we talked to Gerard Dijkstra, founder of Amsterdam-based Dykstra...
A hydrogen-powered superyacht? That’s has to be Feadship!
AMSTERDAM – At the 2019 Metstrade show here, Feadship Director Henk de Vries spoke about how the ‘First Export Association of Dutch Shipbuilders’ became...
Steeler to build 1st full-electric motor yacht, fast tender
STEENWIJK – Steeler Yachts ends 2019 with a bang.
After an extensive pre-design study with the Vripack design and engineering studio and its suppliers, the...
PROFILE: Werner Yacht Design
As part of an ongoing series of profiles of Dutch yacht designers and naval architects, we talked to Theo Werner of Werner Yacht Design
VOLENDAM...
Interboat nicely blurs dayboat-motoryacht gap
LOOSDRECHT – Time it right and doing business can feel like surfing. Get a board, grab a wave, stand up and you may ‘hang...
From Royal Huisman, a new age of Aquarius
FORT LAUDERDALE – The 56m (184ft) Royal Huisman-built Aquarius collected 2 awards at the start of the 2019 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show: the...
Times are good in Holland! Just ask Heesen Yachts
MONACO – As is its wont, Heesen Yachts used the 2019 Monaco Yacht Show to make a significant announcement: the sale of the most...
Dutch strut their superyacht stuff at Monaco
MONACO – The Dutch superyacht sector turns out in force again at the Monaco Yacht Show, the annual high mass of high-end yachting.
“The superyacht...
