NAVIS June/July 2019

Bleary-eyed and stepping off our flight into Heathrow Airport, we knew things were going to run like clockwork as soon as we spied our chauffeur waiting. The chauffeur effortlessly loaded our Edison leather bags from Korchmar into the gleaming brand-new Mercedes and together we swept seamlessly through London’s silver drizzled streets.

The Rolls-Royce Cullinan - super-luxury off-roader impresses

The Rolls-Royce Cullinan has been hailed as the most fun to drive super-luxury SUV that is currently available and the NAVIS team cannot disagree after spending time in it.

After waking early and a quick breakfast at our London apartment in Grosvenor House Suites by Jumeirah Living, the concierge called us to announce that our car had arrived. We packed our photo and video equipment quickly, and some clothes for the weekend in our Edison leather bag from Korchmar, and we headed down to meet the new Cullinan.

Galateia Allows Wallycento to Show Off what they do Best

Following the launch of the Magic Carpet and several other sailing yachts, the yachting community has learned to have very high expectations for Wally’s beautifully crafted yachts. The company’s world-renowned reputation has been a hard-earned consequence of their commitment to luxury, sailing performance, and efficiency throughout the design process.

A Ship Inspired by Human Complexity

The word Solo rolls off the tongue and comes with some poetic connotations. It murmurs of intrepid adventures, serene afternoons, and shrug-worthy style that comes without the confines of compromise. This is exactly what M/Y Solo exudes. 

The 72m yacht from Tankoa Yachts has all the finesse and finery you would expect from one of the world’s most noteworthy Italian shipyards, especially when you hear the design has been curated both inside and outside by Francesco Paszkowski with detailing from Margherita Casprini. 

Sometimes it takes nothing more than the gentle curve of a ships lines to set men on edge, indeed sometimes over the edge, as their desire to possess a thing of beauty overrides their common sense. Luckily for Dutchman Ed Kastelein this was not the case. Oh he was set on edge by the stunning beauty of the famous three-masted schooner Atlantic, but it was not beyond his means to recreate one of the most famous sailing boats of the early twentieth century, and that’s precisely what he did. Kastelein, working closely with the naval architect Doug Peterson to recreate the lines and yachting historian John Lammerts for historical accuracy and as a team, they created a replica of Atlantic that is as close to identical as the original as humanly possible.