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Boot Düsseldorf commences this month to host a plethora of world premieres within the powerboat world. At the largest indoor boat show in the world it is to be expected to feel overwhelmed, so we have selected our top ten debut motorboats that are a must-see at this year’s show.

The European Yacht of the Year awards is a worldwide prize that has been hailed as the ‘most important, influential and widely communicated’ international sailing accolade, having previously been referred to as the Yachting ‘Oscars’. The award is presented each year and is celebrated by millions of sailing enthusiasts, yacht owners and industry execs.    The prize was set up by German magazine YACHT in 2004, but has grown over the years to encompass judg...

With Christmas over and the weather taking a turn for the wet, we’re all willing away the time until we can get back onto the water. This January however, there’s a chance to fulfil your sailing needs in other ways - because if we can’t enjoy being out on the water, we can at least enjoy watching others out on the seas!   The Woolverstone Project and the Woodbridge Riverside Trust are here to give your sailing fix for the winter. They’ve organised a Maritime ...

50 years ago on the 27th November -  it is a typical foggy November day, in the middle of the Rhineland in the German North Rhine-Westphalia region, when the first boot Düsseldorf opens its gates. Just 116 exhibitors are on board in the exhibition halls on Fischerstraße. But right from the start the people in Düsseldorf were enthusiastic about "their" boat show.   Two passionate water sports enthusiasts ignited the spark. The journalist Horst Schlichti...

Fitted with Volvo Penta’s ultra-reliable D4-300 diesel engines, this high-specification boat strikes the optimum balance between performance and fuel efficiency. The D4-300 is an in-line 4-cylinder, 3.7-litre cubic capacity engine with common-rail fuel injection, double overhead camshafts and turbo blending rock-solid reliability with super performance and excellent fuel efficiency. Morgan Marine believes the Leader 40 fitted with Volvo D4 engines strikes the optimum balance between perfor...

Escaping the rat race sounds romantic, but could you live without instant power and a postcode? Tony Jones describes life on a narrowboat. “It depends on what you consider cramped,” laughs liveaboard convert Tony Jones who runs a copywriting business from his beautifully appointed but distinctly bijou 50ft narrowboat home, the Watchman. He’s currently moored in St Mary’s Marina, Rufford, south of Preston, Lancashire but will be moving on soon. “I have a sim...