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OWNERSHIP · CREW

When the Boat Needs a Crew

There is a point at which a boat asks for more hands than the owner can supply. Knowing when you have reached it, and who to bring aboard, is one of the quiet arts of ownership at scale.

DESTINATIONS · CRUISING GUIDE

First Crossing to the Bahamas

Fifty miles of open water separate South Florida from Bimini, the closest landfall in an archipelago of seven hundred islands. For the first-time captain, the crossing is short — and entirely unlike anything on the inside of the coastline.

Profile · Aaron Fidler · AK Royalty

From the Engine Room to a Yacht in Gold

A deckhand from Perth who became an industrialist, then turned the proceeds into a 41-metre Palmer Johnson finished in 24-karat gold leaf. Aaron Fidler's story is the rarer one in superyachting: ownership built from below.

Crew & Operations · Chapter 7

Building your Crew

Who you actually need, what they must hold in their licenses, what they earn, and where you find them — a working guide to assembling a professional crew, written for the Fort Lauderdale market and the boats that move through it.

BAYESIAN. INVESTIGATION

Twenty Months Later

Twenty months after the loss of the superyacht Bayesian off the Sicilian coast, the case has produced an interim technical report, a refloated hull, three crew members under criminal investigation, a half-billion-dollar civil claim, and two parallel theories of why she sank — one technical, one operational, both unresolved.

MUSHA CAY. BAHAMAS

An Archipelago Drawn for One Guest

Eighty-five miles southeast of Nassau, a magician built the closest thing the modern Caribbean has to a private kingdom — eleven cays, forty beaches, and a guest list that can only ever hold one name at a time.

Cruising Logbook · Twelve Days at Sea

The long way around the Bahamas

A circular route from Miami through Bimini, Eleuthera, the Exumas and the Berry Islands — and the case, told quietly, for never crossing direct.

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