Boat of the Year winners
announced at In-Water HISWA As is traditional, Boat of the Year winners were announced on the opening day of the In-Water HISWA Boat Show in the Netherlands. New this year was the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award for Dutch designer Gerard Dykstra.
There other award winners were as follows:
Start-up Award: Watt Boats, a young company of nautical sector management students who thought of recycling old lifeboats from cruise and commercial ships and equipping them with electric propulsion. The lifeboats come off ships in Bangladesh. The judges lauded Watt Boats for “helping to save the earth by working innovatively and sustainably with existing, usable but discarded boats that would otherwise have gone into the shredder.”
Tender Innovation Award: Woodler 28, a fast open-cockpit tender with a unique construction method combining an aluminum underwater hull with a mahogany hull. The essential speed is nicely low, and the boat maneuvers easily. However, there are some minor improvement points: The standing position could be better, and handles are missing.
Motorboat Innovation Award: Super Lauwersmeer 54 SLX. The jury unanimously selected the Super Lauwersmeer. “Ultimately, the innovation criterion in competing yards was the deciding factor.”
Sailboat Innovation Award: For the Saffier Se 24 Lite. After counting the scores for design, construction, sailing characteristics, innovative character, value for money and success of the concept, all scores were close to each other but still revealed one unanimous winner: The Saffier Se 24 Lite excelled in all aspects.
Nominations coming in for
European Yacht of the Year 2024 As the final decision for the 2024 European Yacht of the Year (EYOTY) Awards draws closer, nominations in some of the categories are emerging. EYOTY is one of the front running award schemes for yachts each year, with the winners announced at boot Düsseldorf in January.
The latest nomination is from Dutch shipyard Contest Yachts, which has had its newly-launched 15m Contest 50CS shortlisted in the Luxury Cruiser category. Of the dozens of new sailboats launched yearly, only the exceptional receive such recognition for this most prestigious of yachting awards. The sailing trials took place over the last weekend of September.
The EYOTY Awards are the ‘Oscars of Yachting’, judged by Europe’s top yachting magazine writers from more than a dozen nations.
Other recently announced nominated yachts include the XC 47 by X Yachts, which will have its world debut at boot Düsseldorf 2024, and the Elan Impression 43 designed in partnership with Humphreys Yacht Design, as well as Pininfarina.
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