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Boats
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The Reason You’re Seeing More Ships On Cape Town’s Coast And Docking At Our Ports
22 Jan 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
If you’ve walked along Sea Point’s promenade in the last while and noticed an atypical amount of cargo ships milling about, you can probably blame the attacks on ships out in the Red Sea.
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Like Fyre Festival At Sea – Passengers Call For Criminal Investigation After Cruise Gets Cancelled Two Weeks Before Maiden Voyage
22 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
A group of 78 disgruntled passengers are now demanding a criminal probe into the company as they’re desperately trying to claw back R302 million in refunds.
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Nine-Month World Cruise Becomes “Unedited Reality Show That Was Never Meant To Be A Reality Show” [Videos]
18 Jan 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate World Cruise, which set sail a month ago, has unexpectedly captured the internet’s imagination.
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Local Couple Finds Their Stolen Yacht In Brazil After Four Month Search
23 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Thanks to another South African couple who had been sailing around the area, the owners were notified that their yacht, Mischief, had been spotted in Natal, off the Brazilian coast.
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That Ozzie Castaway Revealed How Helping His Dog Survive For Three Months At Sea Helped Him Survive Too [Video]
24 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
When Timothy Shaddock quit his corporate job and moved to Mexico to pursue his dream of sailing solo across the ocean, he probably didn’t quite realise what the big blue had in store for him.
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Completely OTT – The Saudi Prince’s $400 Million Superyacht Has A ‘Snow Room’ Next To The Controversial ‘Salvator Mundi’ Painting
10 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The Saudi royals are renowned for their expensive taste and extravagant lifestyle and their completely OTT superyacht called Serene is the gold-leaf proof in the pudding.
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They’re Calling Out Jeff Bezos’ Hypocrisy For Making Plentiful Progressive Promises While Sailing A ‘Blood Timber’ Superyacht
26 Jun 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
A journalist has called out Jeff Bezos’ superyacht Koru for potentially being constructed from so-called “blood timber”.
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Another Superyacht Worker Reveals The Wildest Secrets Of Life Out At Sea
20 Jun 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The rules already don’t really apply to billionaires. Put a billionaire out at sea on a yacht, and by golly, anything goes.
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26 Casualties Brought To Safety After Boat Caught On Fire Near Cape Point
17 Apr 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Just after midnight on Friday, a 35-metre support vessel, based in Hout Bay, had caught ablaze south of Cape Point.
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Equatorial Guinea’s ‘Playboy’ VP Got His Yacht Back From V&A Waterfront After SA Businessman Relinquished Damages Claim
02 Mar 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
On Sunday, Obiang’s superyacht sailed away from Cape Town, released as it was apparently “unlawfully attached” and leaving South African businessman Daniel Janse van Rensburg in the lurch.
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We’re Jealous Of The Celebs Rich Enough To Cruise The Luxury ‘Octopus’ Superyacht In Antarctica, Pose With Penguins, And Snowboard
17 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s hard to look at the photos from Lewis Hamilton, Shaun White, Nina Dobrev, Zoey Deutch & Jared Leto’s Antarctic trip with all this jealousy clouding your vision.
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All The Real Estate Steven Spielberg Owns, Including A Mega-Yacht
25 Jan 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The director has bought and sold properties in Malibu, New York City, East Hampton, and Naples, Florida, among other areas.
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Remember F1 Driver Nikita Mazepin? His Dad Is Being Naughty With His Yacht
09 Dec 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dmitry Mazepin, Nikita’s billionaire father, is back in the news after his luxury yacht, Aldabra, vanished into thin air.
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Confirmed: That Oligarch Superyacht Skipped Cape Town
02 Dec 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The 141-metre Nord superyacht, which was sanctioned by the EU, the UK, and the US, was due to dock in Cape Town Harbour on November 11 after setting sail from Hong Kong.
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Did That Oligarch Superyacht Use Cape Town As A Decoy?
11 Nov 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The 141-metre Nord superyacht that was due to arrive in Cape Town on Wednesday has gone off the radar. After all the uproar, was that Cape Town story just a ruse?
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You’re Allowed To Make Preposterous Requests When You Spend R54 Million A Week Chartering Paul Allen’s Superyacht
02 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The interior of ‘Octopus’ remained an enigma until Allen’s death, at which point it was bought, refurbished, and opened to paying guests.
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Yachtie Dishes The Dirt On Lifestyles Of The Uber-Rich
03 Oct 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Staff working on yachts often become so swept up by the massive amounts of money and the exclusivity of the industry that they don’t dare rock the boat.
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Our Five Favourite Yachts From Film And TV
21 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Yachts hold their own kind of star power and their glitz and glamour make them ideal stars for that box office blockbuster or Netflix drama.
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Paul Allen’s Other Superyacht Has Gone On Sale
14 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Another of Paul Allen’s superyachts, a 91-metre whopper known as Tatoosh, has just hit the market.
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Another Superyacht Bites The Dust [Video]
09 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
A James Bond-themed superyacht that sails under the British flag, and is owned by a Swiss businessman, just sank into the shallow, azure waters of Greece.
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You Can Now See The Titanic Wreck In Full 8K [Video]
06 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
No footage of this quality has ever been captured since the British passenger liner hit an iceberg on the night of April 15, 1912.
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It’s Painful Watching How Quickly This Superyacht Sinks [Video]
25 Aug 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
A video captured the moment a 40-metre-long superyacht capsized over the weekend, sinking a few kilometres off the coast of Italy.
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Guy Receives New Superyacht – Watches It Burn During First Med Season [Video]
15 Aug 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Seven crew members and nine passengers on the yacht were able to evacuate to other boats nearby unharmed, but the superyacht is thought to be unsalvageable.
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Elon Musk Ignores Twitter Mess And Breakup On A Yacht In Greece
19 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The world’s richest person is dealing with a lawsuit from Twitter as well as a breakup, among other CEO/rich-guy things.
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Larry Ellison’s $160 Million Superyacht Was Inspired By A Famous Samurai
01 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The magnate is really into Japanese culture, which he so dotingly showed off with the design of his 87,7-metre superyacht named after a legendary samurai.
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Eerie Pictures From Deepest Ever Shipwreck Discovered
29 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Explorers were excited to find the US vessel famed for a heroic final stand against the Japanese.
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Boating Aficionados Pick The Year’s Best Luxury Vessels
15 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Cruising the high seas on a luxury vessel is not within reach for most of us, but if it was, what kind of boat would you go for?
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18th-Century Gold Coins And Other Sunken Treasures Found In Colombian Sea [Video]
09 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
As the Colombian navy was monitoring the secret site recently, they chanced upon two new historical shipwrecks in the area with tons of treasures to be found.
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Why They Think They’ve Got Putin’s Superyacht [Video]
26 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
On paper, the owner of Scheherazade is non-sanctioned Russian billionaire Eduard Khudainatov, but he is likely just acting as a “straw owner” to hide the true owner of the superyacht – Putin.
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We Want: David Bowie’s Classic Yacht For $5 Million
20 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Nautical neutrals are out and hot pink is in if you’re the Ziggy Stardust of the high seas, or channelling the pop star at least.
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