ShowBoats International is the leading magazine for big boat owners in the North American market. Since its launch in 1983 it has established itself as the indispensable guide for discerning, affluent buyers in the multi-billion dollar luxury yacht market. Published 10 times a year from Fort Lauderdale, the heart of the US luxury yachting community, Showboats International is the most authoritative voice, providing the best in luxury yachting and brokerage, written and photographed by the world's leading yachting journalists

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BIG CAT ADVENTURE • Metal Shark’s first private yacht will go far... and fast

Eye Opener • SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA

NEWS • Cool constructions kick off at Heesen and Canados; Arksen sets out on its first explorer; and a survey ship gears up to uncover new worlds

SPOTLIGHT NEW TO THE MARKET

SPOTLIGHT SERIOUSLY FOR SALE

ON BOARD Edit • FISHING TENDERS

PULL UP A CHAIR • …and enjoy a feast of art and design inspiration for this Christmas

Worldly goods • Architect André Fu is using his international perspective to create a unique global style. Claire Wrathall moves in

Winter warmers • Be cool this Christmas with bright colors, prints and patterns, says Robert Johnston

Raise the roof • Porsche has updated a true classic, and it’s the best-looking one yet, says Simon de Burton

PORSCHE 911 TARGA 4

Bright and beautiful • Switch on your design cred with these chic pendant lights

THE STORY BEHIND... • VEUVE CLICQUOT X YAYOI KUSAMA

ART PLUS FASHION • MAKE A CREATIVE IMPRESSION THIS WINTER

BOAT LIFE Edit • ART-INSPIRED RUGS

Owners’ Club • LIVING THE DREAM ON THE WORLD’S BEST BOATS

Jack Cowin • The Canadian businessman has built a fast-food empire, but has grown to love the slower pace of superyacht life, as he tells Charlotte Hogarth-Jones

JACK COWIN

Passages from Paradise • When off the boat, Pamela Ellertson likes nothing more than to stop and smell the petunias

PAM’S PICKS

Members’ Logbook • Every month you tell us where you are on the seven seas, how you are dealing with Covidrelated disruption and share your future cruising plans

JEFFREY SHAPIRO • Grace Trofa reveals one man’s journey from boat-loving hippie to marina owner

THE SMART BOAT • Cutting-edge research and imagination have made Artefact the brightest superyacht afloat. Cecile Gauert gets a lesson in the art of seaborne science

DINE WITH THE STARS

ARTEFACT NOBISKRUG

THE WORLD SUPER YACHT AWARDS 2020

SAILING YACHT OF THE YEAR

MOTOR YACHT OF THE YEAR

SEMI-DISPLACEMENT OR PLANING MOTOR YACHTS BELOW 500 GT 30M TO 34.9M

SEMI-DISPLACEMENT OR PLANING MOTOR YACHTS BELOW 500 GT 35M AND ABOVE

DISPLACEMENT MOTOR YACHTS BELOW 499GT 30-39.9M

DISPLACEMENT MOTOR YACHTS BELOW 499GT / 40M AND ABOVE

DISPLACEMENT MOTOR YACHTS BETWEEN 500GT AND 999GT

DISPLACEMENT MOTOR YACHTS BETWEEN 1,000GT AND 1,499GT

DISPLACEMENT MOTOR YACHTS BETWEEN 1,500GT AND 1,999GT

DISPLACEMENT MOTOR YACHTS BETWEEN 2,000GT AND 4,999GT

DISPLACEMENT MOTOR YACHTS 5,000GT AND ABOVE

SAILING YACHTS

REFITTED YACHTS

REBUILT YACHTS

VOYAGER’S AWARD

SUPPORT VESSELS

THE JUDGES

M5 • A MASSIVE SAILING YACHT REFIT FOR A PILOT WITH A NEED FOR SPEED – MARILYN MOWER DISCOVERS A PROJECT THAT COMBINES PRAGMATISM AND AMBITION IN PERFECT MEASURE

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The LUX List • BOAT International forecasts this winter’s greatest gifts, come rain or shine

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into...