Purpose

As yachting starts to illuminate its doors of opportunity to non-traditional talent pools, an increasing number of industry professionals like captain Craig Thurlbourn are standing up to help that new talent through.

Superyachting offers extraordinary career opportunities, but equally new cultures and continents offer an extraordinary depth of diverse talent that knows nothing about yachts. A new programme called Grit is aiming to put the two together.

A superyacht may be near the pinnacle of experiences, but there is more to superyachting than just luxury and glamour. From philanthropy to humanitarian endeavour, people remain central, as the inaugural Honours seeks to highlight.

Studies are showing that from charter spend to home-porting, supply, refit and maintenance works, superyachts are not a resource hog – they are a creator of jobs and opportunity.

Croatia offers budding owners and charterers a spectacular, wild and beautiful playground to explore, but it also offers ordinary Croatians an extraordinary opportunity – to own and run their own superyachts.

When an Indian aerospace engineer and a Canadian roboticist joined forces, they showed not only what can be done with tech in yachting, but also how yachting offers opportunities for a diverse range of next-gen thinkers.

If you want a prime example of the positive impact of superyachting on a region, you need only look at Australia and the extraordinary development, driven by superyachts, of the past 20 years.

Conceived as an initiative to get the New Zealand marine industry supporting island communities and cultures across the Pacific, the Pasifika Collective is already proving its worth in the wake of the Tongan volcano disaster.

New recyclable materials and construction methods being developed for yachts are leading the way to a more sustainable future – and not just for the superyacht industry.