Superyacht industry makes Radio 5 Live
It’s 06.40 on a Tuesday morning; you’re listening to 5 Live Breakfast and you hear about – superyachts. Imagine then my surprise and pleasure at hearing Toby Allies, the eloquent Superyacht UK committee member and sales and marketing director at Pendennis Shipyards Ltd, talking so optimistically and enthusiastically about the UK super yachts industry on air this morning…
Just as the wake settles after another stunning Monaco Yacht Show, Toby’s commentary on the buoyant UK superyacht sector made a refreshingly exotic change from the economic doom and gloom so often heard on breakfast time radio.
The UK – a leading centre in the superyacht world
Like so many others who enjoyed the recent Monaco show, I was impressed by the latest from Pendennis, Hemisphere – at 44m, the largest sailing catamaran in the world. Mention of the stunning Van Peteghem Lauriot Prévost (VPLP) design gave perfect focus to Toby’s positive perspective on the UK’s role as a leading centre for building, refitting and repair of superyachts. And then, as we know, there are all the associated brokerage, design, interiors and other services that go with the world’s most luxurious vessels.
The whole spectrum of superyachting in five minutes
I enjoyed hearing such an interesting commentary on the state of the industry. During the satisfyingly detailed interview, Allies covered the whole spectrum of superyachting. It was all in there, from the beginner-friendly ‘What constitutes a superyacht?’ (length exceeds 24m) to a comment on typical super yacht prices (£6m upwards) that clearly impressed the show’s presenter, Rachel Burden. And when Allies mentioned the UK industry’s £420m-plus annual value, no one could doubt the substantial contribution superyachting makes to the economy.
That’s bomb-bay doors, not Bombay doors!
Naturally, there were several mouthwatering descriptions of the latest must-have superyacht accessories, such as continuous-flow swimming pools and tender hangars with duos of 7.5m RIBs behind the bomb-bay doors. I had to chuckle as one of the BBC team heard this as ‘Bombay doors’, which led to a deluge of texts and emails from alert listeners, keen to put her right and dispel any associations with Indian cuisine…
The superyacht world – a beacon of optimism and light
Whether your taste is Hemisphere’s groundbreaking spaciousness, the Moroccan themes on Benetti’s Told U So, or the Prix du Design winning Satori, Monaco 2011, and Toby Allies’s radio interview, remind us that, in a world of angst and despair, the superyachting world remains a welcome beacon of optimism.
And of course, when it comes to getting the most from superyachting as an owner or operator, our own Super Yachts Directory just goes from strength to strength. Yacht shows come and go, but with the Super Yachts Directory as your partner it’s never been faster, easier or more convenient to source the highest quality products and services around the clock and around the world. And as Toby Allies told us this morning, it’s highly likely that those products and services will be British too – just like the Super Yachts Directory!
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