On the Water: Entertainment

Today is July 1, the date that the Greek government has set for increasing VAT (value-added tax) on yacht charter vacations. Any charters in Greek waters that end after today will be subject to the increased VAT rates, no matter when the charter was bo... …Read More

Edmiston and Company has launched a revamped website with some nice new features in the yacht charter section. If you click on "yacht charter" and then "yachts," you come to this page, which lets you search for charter yachts by motor or sail, length,... …Read More

Maggie Vale, a charter broker with Rikki Davis Worldwide Yacht Charters at Churchill Yacht Partners, attended last week’s industry-only charter yacht show in Newport, Rhode Island, where her office is based. Here is my interview with Vale about the b... …Read More

Management company CEO Expeditions sends word that Joseph Bayley, a winner of the Food Network cooking competition show "Chopped," has signed on for the summer season as chef aboard the 120-foot motoryacht Kayana. "We are delighted that Joe can join u... …Read More

Management company Ocean Independence sends word from Athens that the 68-foot Azimut charter yacht Sea Wise, a 2001 build that joined the OCI charter fleet in April, has been destroyed in a fire in Greece. No cause for the fire was given. Thankfully, ... …Read More

Northrop and Johnson tells me that the owner of the 154-foot Delta motoryacht Mr. Terrible is actively seeking charter bookings for the rest of this summer in either the Bahamas or New England. To entice potential clients, Mr. Terrible is now being of... …Read More

Edmiston and Company sends word this week that the owner of the 154-foot Amtec motoryacht Out is so keen to get more charter bookings this summer that he is not only dropping the yacht's weekly base rates by 15 percent, but is also willing to move the ... …Read More

Fishing in Long Island Sound and the near by ocean is, according to long-time boating and saltwater fishing writer Kevin Falvey, blessed. And those of us who have hunted for stripers, blues, fluke, sea bass, and other species here will probably agree. Kevin wrote a book on fishing for these species and others, Falvey’s Guide [...] …Read More

The 207-foot motoryacht Force Blue, which Italian authorities seized last month on tax-evasion charges, was released from custody on June 21 and will be allowed to perform yacht charters this summer in Italy and along the Mediterranean coast. Milan-ba... …Read More

Sunreef Yachts updated its Facebook page this week with the first-ever photographs of the newly launched sailing catamaran Ipharra. At 102 feet long, Ipharra will be the largest catamaran by far in the Sunreef charter fleet, whose previous flagship po... …Read More