Commodore is also a title held by the senior captain within a shipping company and by the senior officer of many yacht clubs and boating associations.

In addition to being offered better, more diverse roles, in 1948 he started his own production company, Santana Productions, named after his private sailing yacht.

The Monaco yacht company Wally has announced a " gigayacht " designed for billionaires torn between buying a mansion and a superyacht.

He owned several specially designed motor yachts, among them Elsa built in 1906, Loris ( 1913 ), Tärnan ( 1925 ), and the most famous, Svalan ( Swallow ), built at Lidingö in 1928, a 37 ft, 4. 9 ton motor yacht, equipped with a V12, 31. 9 liter Hispano-Suiza engine from the US company Wright, with 650 HP output, capable of more than 50 knots.

He also ran a theatre company, and found time to visit the North Pole, race his yacht The Contessa and crossed South America on a motorcycle.

* Yachts-BCT Holdings, owner of Intermarine, a yacht building and repair company in Georgia.

They are about to part company forever when the Jackal, under a new disguise, as a loud New York real estate developer named Paula, suddenly arrives at Lawrence's villa with a yacht filled with wealthy people.

In 1983, the company joined with America's Cup to form the Louis Vuitton Cup, a preliminary competition ( known as an eliminatory regatta ) for the yacht race.

The Bradley Amendment is credited with increases in the collections success of wealthy debtors including a New York plastic surgeon who owed $ 172, 000, a professional athlete who owed $ 76, 000 and a yacht company owner who owed $ 50, 000.

The Global Challenge ( not to be confused with Global Challenge Award ) was a round the world yacht race run by Challenge Business, the company started by Sir Chay Blyth in 1989.

Sir Chay started the company Challenge Business, to operate the Global Challenge Round the World yacht races.

They include sizeable stakes in Sunseeker, the luxury yacht company, insurance specialists eSure and Go Compare, Alexander Dennis, Britain ’ s biggest bus and coach manufacturer and Argent, the world renowned producer of biodiesel.

Latsis invited the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, who had been a student friend at the London School of Economics, to be a guest on his yacht a month before the Commission approved € 10. 3 million Greek state aid for Latsis ' shipping company ; but the approval had been given by the previous European Commission, before Durão Barroso had succeeded to its presidency.

* In 1993, Brooke Group Shareholder Frank Gyetvan sued LeBow on behalf of other company shareholders, claiming Brooke had improperly lent Lebow money for luxury personal items, such as a $ 21 million dollar yacht.

. we have a great brand in Nordhavn, and as a company we work hard to make every Nordhavn yacht better than those that came before it.

* The yacht Santana, once owned by Humphrey Bogart, after which he named Santana Productions, the film production company he founded

The first successful colonization of Sankt Thomas employed ships of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy, the yacht Den forgyldte Krone and the frigate Færøe ( referring to the islands, but often erroneously translated as Pharaoh ), but the company quickly began employing ships of their own, while occasionally relying on the royal navy for escorts and protection.

The head of the company, Herbert Dreuther ( played by Gielgud ), offers them a wedding and to pay for a honeymoon in Monte Carlo, as well as the use of his yacht.

Moorings yacht charter company have their Grenadines base in Canouan in Grand Bay.

He formed the Wally Yachts company after having directed the design of a yacht for his own use in 1991.

In these cases, larger vessels are referred to as ships, smaller vessels as either ships or boats, although boat is a generic term that could be applied to a recreational yacht or a commercial or military vessel of smaller size.

Combined with modern waterproof battery packs, electric outboards are also ideal for yacht tenders and other inshore pleasure boats.

Additionally, the lagoon acts as a harbor for commercial fishing vessels, cruisers, sport fishing boats, outrigger sailing canoes and the occasional luxury yacht.

* Hunter Medina, a yacht produced by British Hunter boats

Maritime attractions include a yacht club, marina and charter boats for fishing and touring.

In some countries the yacht ensign, used on recreational boats or ships instead of merchant vessels, differs from the civil ensign.

It also caters for smaller boats, with a major expansion of the facilities at the yacht harbour completed in May 2000.

Recently there has been increasing use of jetboats in the form of rigid-hulled inflatable boats and as luxury yacht tenders.

In 1887 Thomas Middleton, A Dublin Solicitor considered that yacht racing was becoming an excessively expensive activity, with boats becoming eclipsed by better designs each year.

He wanted yacht racing to be an exercise of skill with all boats being built to the same design.

Classic dinghies are typically used as yacht tenders or shore boats, and emphasize beauty and versatility over sailing performance.

However, Farr's Volvo Ocean Race boats fared less well in 2006 as all four of his designs experienced problems after various failures in their Farr-designed keel canting mechanisms, including an abandonment of the yacht Movistar which was unable to prevent the flow of water through the keel box and, to this day, lies on the ocean floor, unrecovered.

Pevensey Bay Sailing Club offers a variety of classes of boats: the club played a leading role in the development of the National 12 and Merlin Rocket Development Class racing dinghies in the 1970s when it was the home club of Phil Morrison, the British yacht designer and father of Stevie Morrison, a British Olympic 49er sailor in the 2008 games.

During this time the Solent, which is a busy commercial waterway, is filled with boats of all classes and is particularly colourful due to the spinnakers ( the large rounded sail hoisted at the front of a yacht when running downwind ).

More than 55 boats were built by Robertsons in preparation for the First World War and the yard remained busy even during the Great Depression in the 1930s, as many wealthy businessmen developed a passion for yacht racing.

The first ' match race ' in a one-design racing yacht i. e. technically identical boats, was the King Edward VII Gold Cup in Bermuda ( now known as the Argo Gold Cup ), that was first sailed in 1937.

The Inglis River, with its yacht club and anchorage for fishing boats is the most notable feature of Wynyard itself.

This race has entered the Guinness Book of Records for the most boats in an inland yacht race.

While there is a small but active group of amateur designer / builders around the world, around 90 % of boats are the commercially produced Norlin Mark III designed by yacht designer Peter Norlin of Sweden.

A ruined water mill lies further up the Almond along a quiet walk past a yacht club and sailing boats moored in the river.

Everyone silent, but many with tears running from their eyes ... The King was very pallid, Amélia animated, Maria Pia was overwhelmed ... The boats had hardly come alongside the yacht, when in the village there appeared, coming from Sintra, a automobile with civil revolutionaries, armed with carbines and bearing bombs, which they later indicated they were prepared to throw at the beach, if they had reached it at the time of the departure ...".

Many yacht clubs will offer a fenced area where boats are conveniently stored near the water, but without the maintenance associated with continual water storage ( bottom growth, etc.

It was in Ribeiras that the first boats were launched to link inter-island commerce, such as the Andorinha ( launched in 1915 ) and the Ribeirense ( launched in 1916 ), the first motorized yacht to circulate in the waters of the Azores.

More than 55 boats were built by Robertsons in preparation for the First World War and the yard remained busy even during the Great Depression in the 1930s, as many wealthy businessmen developed a real passion for yacht racing on the Clyde.