Boating-Sailing
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
VAN DUTCH 75
Even as a 73ft boat with triple IPS engines, seating for 16, sleeping for six, an ensuite crew cabin and a lower lounge and galley, the new flagship of the Van Dutch fleet looks almost exactly the same as a scaled up entry-level 32.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
FERRETTI YACHTS 800
Given that this boat sits at the heart of Ferretti's acclaimed flybridge fleet, you would expect it to look and feel like quite a traditional flybridge cruiser but it's also a yacht with plenty of modern design cues.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BENETEAU SWIFT TRAWLER 54
Making its UK debut at the Southampton Boat Show, the Beneteau Swift Trawler 54 is arguably the best in a very long line of high-volume long-distance cruising boats.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
PERSHING GTX70
Want the kudos of owning a Pershing without the daunting size and complex drivability? Meet the new GTX70...
7 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
AQUAHOLIC
Nick Burnham: In an era where many boats are looking samey, there's a rich vein to be mined here
2 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
ABSOLUTE 52 FLY
This boat won the 2025 MBY Award for “Best Flybridge under 60ft” because in the context of its sector, it has pretty much no flaws.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
GRAND BANKS 54
This might be the smallest traditional Grand Banks cruiser you can buy but that shouldn't lead you to believe that it's in any way less capable than its big sisters.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
DUCHY 27
Dave Cockwell, the man behind the Cockwells Modern and Classic Boatbuilding yard based just outside Falmouth in Cornwall, summed up the Duchy 27 perfectly.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
HARDY 45 EUROPEAN
We're willing to bet you won't see anything at the Southampton Boat Show quite like this.
2 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
SANLORENZO SX120
With a length of 120ft and 270GT of volume, Sanlorenzo's largest-ever crossover yacht is set to be one of the Cannes Yachting Festival's most extraordinary exhibits.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
SUNSEEKER MANHATTAN 68
Making its debut in Southampton will be Sunseeker's updated Manhattan 68 - and it exhibits some very useful upgrades.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
MAJESTY 100 TERRACE
Just 12 short months after unveiling the original 100 concept, Majesty Yachts is set to debut the yacht itself in Cannes and Monaco.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
ADDICTED TO BOATS
You don't have to be loaded to get into boating as Glen Stanford discovered after a chance encounter with a boat-owning colleague
8 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
DELTA 33 COUPÉ
In search of a cooler coupé? Delta might have just the thing...
7 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
ARK SEN 85
With the promise of being the 'ultimate long range explorer' we've been hankering to test the Arksen 85 for some time. Did it live up to the boatbuilder's robust adventure credentials?
8 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
PRINCESS F58
Having enjoyed its world debut at the Düsseldorf Boat Show in January, the new Princess F58 will also be taking centre stage in Southampton.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
RUSTLER 41
Bored of ordinary? Rustler's first-ever powerboat might be just the tonic you need...
8 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
PRESTIGE F5.7
This second of Prestige's next-generation flybridge cruisers will be making a very welcome debut in Southampton.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
PRESTIGE M7
Looking for a comfortable cruise-friendly 75-footer? How about a 60ft cat instead?
8 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BAVARIA VIDA
Bavaria's revamped Vida features lots of useful upgrades.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
WHEN ONE IS NOT ENOUGH...
Per Harrtoft reflects on how it feels to own two private boats
4 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BAYLINER C21
While most of the world's builders continue to increase boat sizes in search of beefier margins, Bayliner's Southampton stand will be showing a simple 21ft outboard-powered cuddy that every one of us could aspire to own.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
£200 K BOAT
Price challenges are always my favourite to research and write about, so when I hit the internet (and the brokerage pages of MBY, naturally) with a mythical £200,000 burning a boat-sized hole in my pocket it didn't take long to come up with four cracking examples.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BOAT CUISINE
Phil Sampson enjoys a light bite on the Jurassic Coast
2 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
COCKWELLS DUCHY 25
There's a new entry point to the Duchy Motor Launch fleet and in spite of its modest length, it puts safe, sociable open-air space at the top of the priority list.
1 min |
October 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
PRINCESS 33 MK2
Can we call the Princess 33 MK2 a classic? I believe so because this is actually quite an iconic boat in the history of Princess Yachts.
1 min |
September 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
YARROW & CO
If you want history, Lady Hertha has it in spades. Originally called Destiny she was built in 1935 by Yarrow & Co on the Clyde River in Scotland for Lt Eric Gordon, a veteran of World War One.
1 min |
September 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
GRAND BANKS 42
The Grand Banks 42 could be credited for setting the template for every Grand Banks up to recent times, and indeed arguably the template for the entire trawler yacht genre, with many other companies such as Island Gypsy and C-Kip producing boats modelled along similar lines.
1 min |
September 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
PRINCESS 58
When Princess began building boats 60 years ago, the firm was known as Marine Projects (Plymouth) Limited.
5 min |
September 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
SWORDSMAN 40
Does a classic have to be vintage to qualify? I don't think so, and this 2004 Swordsman 40 backs me up.
1 min |