PMY - Power&Motoryacht

In the March issue, I wrote that Moonen was working on building their biggest yacht to date at 133-feet. The owner had owned two smaller Moonens previously and was outfitting his newest with all sort of toys—include a two-person submarine capable of descending 100 feet.

Report on the Gulf 1 year after the BP Oil Spill

Today is my father's birthday. And he's the reason I'm here ... no, no. Not in the "reason I'm on this Earth" way though it's true in that sense as well. My father is the reason I'm in this job.

He bought our family's first boat - a 21-foot Bayliner bowrider named Why Knot - when I was about a year old. We had that boat for almost two decades before upgrading to a 26-foot Sea Ray named the Sea Hawk.

Former ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus (far left) is developing a large, new marina in Sweden. If it’s a success, maybe Florida should ask Barry Gibb to help solve its dock shortage.

A beloved Rhode Island yacht club was destroyed by a fire in January. Although investigators do not know what caused the 102-year-old Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston to go up in flames during a blizzard, they do not believe it was foul play. The building stood on pilings overlooking Narragansett Bay, which made the blaze difficult to fight from land, so fireboats battled the flames from the water. The club’s building, which was built in 1908 after the former building burnt down, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Word on the docks is that Tiger Woods is looking to unload his 155-foot Christensen named, ironically, Privacy. The Palm Beach Post has reported that the golfer is searching out a broker for the deal after his ex-wife Elin decided that the reported $2 million dollars of upkeep per year was not worth the price tag and turned ownership of the yacht down.