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The must-see sailing yachts at the Monaco Yacht Show 2024

As the excitement for the Monaco Yacht Show 2024 builds, BOAT takes a look at the top sailing yachts that will be making an appearance this year – from the latest launches to the finest yachts currently for sale .

Norfolk Star

Builder: Perini Navi Year: 1996 (2020) Length: 37m

Pedigree sailing yacht Norfolk Star was designed and built by the Italian shipyard in 1996 and had a "multi-million euro refit" in 2022, according to her broker. The revamp included a new main engine room, two new generators, PLC system, Inmarsat VSAT dome, 505 Williams tender, Doyle sails and Reckmann rigging. With accommodation for six guests, the yacht boasts a family-friendly layout comprising a full-beam master cabin on the lower deck along with two twin cabins – with the option of an additional pullman berth. 

On deck, guests can benefit from the comfort the split cockpit area affords, where relaxed seating around a circular coffee table awaits as well as a dining area for eight.  The cherry wood interior also welcomes a bright upper saloon with panoramic views and a more formal main saloon with two sofas and dining area featuring an extendable walnut table.

Norfolk Star is listed for sale and will be exhibited by Burgess and Northrop & Johnson.

Builder: Wally Year: 2024 Length: 36.2m

Having hit the water in June this year, the first wallywind110, Galma , will make her global debut at this year's Monaco Yacht Show and is recognisable by her "luminous light metallic blue" carbon hull paint job "that changes slightly as the light hits her". The sailing yacht's naval architecture comes from German studio judel/vrolijk & co , while interior and exterior lines are designed by Wally in collaboration with Santa Maria Magnolfi . The design demonstrates the comfort of a cruising yacht while maintaining the spirit and performance of a racing boat, and is characterised by her 6.9-metre telescopic keel. 

Highlights include an 80-square-metre full-beam cockpit with seating and dining for up to 15 people, as well as an open-plan raised saloon. The yacht also benefits from natural light thanks to a skylight that runs the full length of the coachroof. Accommodation on the wallywind100 model can be a three-cabin layout with a full-beam master suite, or a four-cabin standard layout.

Galma will be exhibited by Wally .

Builder: Vitters Year: 2017 Length: 32.6m

Delivered in 2017 to experienced sailing yacht owners, Ribelle has recently joined the market following a refit, which included a repaint of the hull, mast and boom, and a brand new suit of cruising sails. The sailing yacht is built of carbon fibre by the Dutch yard to a design by Malcolm McKeon and can be sailing with a small crew in cruising mode or, thanks to a self-tacking jib, can be transformed into a true racer. 

She is a regatta regular and can often be spotted at some of the world's most prestigious events – including the Maxi Rolex Cup, Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta, Les Voiles de St Tropez and Palma Superyacht Cup. Her Rémi Tessier interior accommodates six guests in three cabins comprising a master suite, VIP suite and a twin cabin.

Ribelle is listed for sale and will be exhibited by Burgess.

Dreamcatcher

Builder: Nautor Swan Year: 2024 Length: 28.8m

With her diesel-electric propulsion, the Swan 88 is the Finnish shipyard's first hybrid sailing yacht and is based on an evolution of its previous yachts. Sitting at the entry point to the world of maxi yachting, the yacht was delivered earlier this year and will make her worldwide debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival .

Dreamcatcher has been described as a "no-compromise cruiser with a racer soul" with a draught of four metres, with options for a shallow-draught, telescopic and performance keel. The yacht is also designed for comfort with a maximum heeling angle of 20 degrees and sports "feminine exterior lines" penned by veteran Swan designer German Frers . Her warm, classic interiors have been styled by Misa Poggi with accommodation for 10 guests.

Dreamcatcher will be exhibited by Nautor Swan .

Builder: Baltic Yachts Year: 2018 Length: 26m

Delivered by the Finnish shipyard in 2018, Mini Y is a Baltic 85 model designed by UK naval architect Dixon Yacht Design . Her silver hull and superstructure were built of carbon-fibre composite and the owner opted for a telescopic lifting keel that can reduce the draft from 4.3 metres to 2.95 metres when required. Mark Whiteley Design handled the  yacht's interior décor , with accommodation for up to four guests split between an owner’s cabin and a guest cabin.

On deck, the cockpit has a fold-out table for guests to enjoy, while the helmsman has the choice of two wheels. The guest cockpit can be completely covered for protection while racing, the navigation instruments still visible on the aft face. Mini Y joined the market earlier this year.

Mini Y is listed for sale and will be exhibited by Baltic Yachts and Edmiston.

Builder: Yonca Year: 2019 (2023) Length: 26.8m

Tuzla-based shipyard Yonca officially entered the leisure marine market with the launch of Mishi Yachts earlier this year. The new brand made its debut with two sailing models, measuring 26.8 metres and 31 metres – the first of which is the Mishi 88, which will be on exhibit at the Monaco Yacht Show 2024. Osman Tanju Kalaycıoğlu , Özgür Terzioğlu and Taka Yacht are responsible for the naval architectecture and exterior design, while interiors are the work of Aylin Örs .

The sloop's defining features include a spacious aft deck with a dining space which can comfortably seat ten guests. Offering shelter from the elements, the large cockpit features a carbon composite hard-top aft, while the swim platform has enough room in its back for a 3.5-meter inflatable tender. Accommodation is for six guests across a master cabin and two guest cabins, with further space for the captain and crew.

Mishi 88 will be exhibited by Mishi Yachts.

Builder: Yyachts Year: 2024 Length: 23.9m

German yachtbuilder YYachts is bringing its Y8 model to the Monaco Yacht Show. Javier Jaudenes of Surge-Projects worked alongside the in-house design team on naval architecture to create the model's new silhouette with a Scandi-inspired interior by Danish designer David Thulstrup. YYachts offers four pre-designed interior styles where owners can tailor the saloon area to their tastes. 

A particular highlight is the owner's suite, which includes a separate saloon and can be located either in the bow or in the stern with direct access to the cockpit. In terms of technical details, the Y8 features a standard carbon mast, hydraulic main sheet system and all winches close to the helm stations. These features, along with the self-tacking jib and a lack of a backstay, enhance the yacht's performance and ease of handling.

Y8 will be exhibited by Yyachts.

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New protections for the Rice’s Whale in the Gulf of Mexico delayed until December

Editor's note : This story has been updated to reflect a new court filing to delay the critical habitat designation.

The Gulf of Mexico is haunted by a ghost. The animal is as big as a school bus, but glides unseen through the ocean’s twilight zone, its low moans echoing in the dim water. A creature so elusive, researchers can spend days searching without ever glimpsing one.

This is the Rice’s whale , one of the Gulf of Mexico’s largest and most mysterious animals. Found nowhere else on Earth, it is the only baleen whale that lives in the Gulf year-round.

Previously thought to be a sub-species of the Bryde’s whale, the Rice’s whale was only declared a unique species in 2021. Yet experts fear it could disappear before people ever get to know it. NOAA Fisheries researchers estimate that fewer than 100 Rice’s whales remain in the Gulf, with recent counts putting that number as low as 50.

“Our scientists have not been seeing many calves when they do surveys for Rice’s whales, which is obviously problematic,” NOAA Fisheries Southeast Large Whale Recovery Coordinator Clay George said.

NOAA Fisheries was to publish a new critical habitat designation for the species this week under a settlement agreement with environmental organizations to better protect the endangered whale. But the parties have agreed to extend the deadline to no later than Dec. 2.

The designation means federal agencies would have to consult with NOAA Fisheries before any activity that could change or harm Rice’s whale habitat. Required under the Endangered Species Act, the rule wouldn’t create protected areas or restrictions, George said, but serve as a baseline for those conservation measures in the future.

“It essentially creates an extra layer of review for us to consider impacts to the whales’ habitat,” he said.

The proposed critical habitat designation follows the continental shelf from the Florida Keys to Texas’ southern border, though the final rule may reflect changes to this range. Unfortunately for the Rice’s whale, its Gulf home is also a major focus of the gas and oil industry.

Deepwater Horizon and Industry Threats

Like many researchers, Tracey Sutton was first introduced to the Rice’s whale through the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Before 2010, little data existed on the deepest waters of the Gulf or the creatures living there.

Then on April 20, 2010, the BP-licensed Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. The disaster killed 11 workers and leached 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, making it the largest oil spill ever recorded in U.S. history

The spill had catastrophic effects on Gulf ecosystems, saturating shorelines and causing a massive die-off of sea life. Scientists estimate that 22% of the Rice's whale population was lost as a direct result of the spill. Fourteen years later, Rice’s whales— and other impacted species— still haven’t recovered.

“Nobody really considered the fact that we could change these deep living large ecosystems with our activity,” said Sutton, director of the NOAA DEEPEND Consortium.

For Rice’s whales, oil spills can lead to a multitude of problems. Exposure to oil can cause respiratory infections, stomach ulcers and organ failure. Indirect impacts such as a loss of prey, reproductive failure and stunted growth are also concerns. Deepwater Horizon was not a one-off event; oil and gas spills are routine in the Gulf, making exposure a constant threat.

Soon after Deepwater Horizon, researchers began to look closer at the creatures of the Gulf. Experts had suspected for decades that an elusive Gulf whale classified as a sub-species of the Bryde’s whale, was its own unique species.

Then in 2019 , a deceased Bryde’s-like whale washed up in the Florida Everglades. Scientists confirmed it was genetically distinct. In 2021, the Rice’s whale was officially classified as a species and named after Dale W. Rice, the first scientist to publish evidence about the whale in 1965.

Some of the oil and gas industry’s most harmful impacts to the whale are heard, not seen. Rice’s whales use low-toned calls to communicate with each other and find a mate. They also use their hearing to navigate the Gulf and find prey.

Yet the Gulf is not a quiet place. Industry uses low-frequency seismic air guns to survey for oil and gas deposits underneath the seafloor. Blasts from these airguns can reach 250 decibels, louder than a large rocket launch. During underwater surveys, the shots are fired every 10-12 seconds for weeks or months without ceasing.

The noise can mask the calls of Rice’s whales, reducing the distance over which they can communicate and disrupting their behavior and migration patterns. Ocean noise can also lead to chronic stress, harming reproduction and hiking the likelihood of disease.

“Industry noise completely dominates the soundscape of the entire Northern Gulf,” said Michael Jasny, director of the Marine Mammal Protection Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

NRDC challenges oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. While the oil and gas activity is one of the primary threats to Rice’s whales, holding the industry accountable is a David-and-Goliath battle, Jasny said. With 15% of all U.S. crude oil coming from the Gulf, the industry has a multi-billion dollar stake in the area.

The industry “is willing to do whatever it needs and use all of its resources to prevent meaningful changes in its activity,” Jasny said.

NRDC and partners such as Earthjustice won a short-lived victory in 2021, after suing federal agencies over Lease Sale 261 , a colossal oil lease in the Gulf. The 73-million-acre oil lease overlapped with Rice’s whale habitat, which NRDC argued violated the animal’s protections under the Endangered Species Act.

In a settlement, the Biden Administration excluded six million acres of Rice’s whale habitat from Lease 261. That action was quickly appealed by oil and gas drillers. A federal appeals court ruled last fall that the Rice’s whale habitat must be included in the sale.

“The nation's energy, economic, and security future hinges on annual lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico to secure new acreage,” National Oceanic Industries Association President Erik Milito said in a press release following the sale.

“The industry is throwing lots of money at these cases,” said Earthjustice managing attorney Steve Mashuda. “And is pursuing a strategy of trying to hold on to the status quo as long as they can.”

Vessel Speed Limits

At the docks of the Santa Rosa Yacht and Boat Club in Pensacola, local recreational fishing teams haul mahi-mahi and tuna off boats to be weighed. For its annual Ladies’ Tournament, the Pensacola Big Game Fishing Club sent 17 boats jetting into North Florida waters to compete. As the boats return to dock, country music blares, beer flows and the competition is friendly.

Tournament organizer Keith Johnson has spent his life fishing recreationally in the Gulf, and has spotted the Rice’s whale twice. Other local fishermen have spotted the rare species—but are less likely to admit to it.

“The overall sentiment within the recreational community is not to report the sightings,” Johnson said.

This don’t-ask-don’t-tell position ramped up in April 2023, when NOAA Fisheries announced it was considering a petition filed by several environmental NGOs, including NRDC and Earthjustice. The petition would limit year-round vessel speeds to 10 knots in key Rice’s habitat, an area that stretches from near Pensacola to just south of Tampa. The original petition was later amended to apply only to vessels measuring 65 feet or longer.

The announcement caused an uproar. Environmental activists argued that the restrictions were crucial to saving the whale from extinction, while fishers and shipping companies argued the limits would decimate the Gulf’s economy.

NOAA Fisheries ultimately denied the petition in October 2023, citing the need to establish baseline conservation measures such as the critical habitat designation. Once the designation is set, environmental advocates hope to see vessel speed limits back on the table.

For the Pensacola recreational boating community, Johnson said, the original petition came like a freight train. Local fishermen felt blindsided by scientists and activists, leading to an atmosphere of polarization and resentment.

“There’s just a massive hostile attitude, but I think that’s because there has been no real attempt at stakeholder input,” Johnson said.

Recreational fishing pumps millions of dollars into local communities, and attracts scores of tourists. The proposed speed limit would threaten those benefits, Johnson said, adding hours to already lengthy boat trips and making people less likely to participate in tournaments.

If a 10-knot limit is brought forward again, the Pensacola Big Game Fishing Club plans to submit a strong opposition. However, many local stakeholders are still willing to work toward a middle ground, Club President Justin Williams said.

“We just want access like everybody else,” Williams said. “There should be some kind of plan to where we could work together for everyone to have access and achieve their goals as well.”

Vessel strikes are identified as one of the greatest threats to the Rice’s whale. Blunt force trauma from a ship’s bow can kill a whale instantly, and whirring propellers can leave gashes that prove fatal over time.

The whales spend most of their lives at the top of the water column, usually resting within 50 feet of the ocean’s surface at night. This makes them difficult to see, Michael Jasny, with NRDC, said— but easy to hit. With its habitat constantly crisscrossed by boat traffic, collisions are just a matter of time.

“It’s hard to design a species that has a greater risk of being struck by ships than the Rice’s whale,” Jasny said.

Large oil tankers and cargo ships, which pose the greatest risk for Rice’s whales, should be mandated to follow a 10-knot speed limit, Jasny said. He added that there should and can be more flexibility in relation to the recreational boating community.

Large vessels can have their speed monitored by digital technologies, making it easier to enforce restrictions. Most recreational vessels, especially smaller boats, don’t have the transponders needed to track them. Instead of trying to mandate rules for the recreational community, Jasny said he supports community outreach to find a compromise.

“It’s one thing to establish regulation in the ocean,” Jasny said. “It’s another to affect change in the ocean.”

An Uncertain Future

While oil spills, noise and vessel strikes are immediate threats to the Rice’s whale, climate change in the Gulf could raise new pressures, said John Hildebrand, an oceanography professor at the UCSD Scripps Whale Acoustics Laboratory.

The waters of the Gulf are getting significantly warmer , at a rate faster than the rest of the global ocean. With such a small population size, the Rice’s whale is particularly vulnerable to environmental changes and habitat loss.

A changed Gulf could also limit the whale’s already scant source of prey. Whales dive deep to feed at the seafloor, expending a lot of energy to hunt favorite prey like the silver-rag driftfish. This behavior is a high-risk high-reward hunting strategy, said Florida International University marine biologist Jeremy Kiszka.

According to Kiszka’s research , the driftfish may comprise up to two-thirds of the whale’s diet. As far as whales go, this makes the species a picky eater. Yet over-reliance on one type of prey in a changing environment could lead to a food shortage for the Rice’s whale.

“If your food disappears one day, that might put you in trouble,” Kiszka said.

Yet Kiszka described himself as a pragmatist. The Rice’s whale is at a high risk of extinction, he said— but it's still possible for the species to make a comeback if humans make the right investments.

Staving off further harm from climate change ultimately means moving away from oil and gas investments in the heavily industrialized Gulf, advocates said. As Steve Mashuda from Earthjustice can attest, change won’t come easy.

In the face of a multi-billion-dollar industry, 50 whales may not seem like much. Yet Mashuda believes that the clock on the oil and gas industry is running down. As the nation moves toward clean energy alternatives and the Rice’s whale becomes more well-known, he hopes the current power imbalance will shift.

“The American public writ large really loves whales,” Mashuda said. “I have some optimism.”

Humans have the power and resources to save the Rice’s whale, Mashuda said. In the meantime, the grey ghost haunts an increasingly perilous Gulf.

University of Florida journalism senior Kylie Williams is a Fellow with the Florida Climate Institute, which supported reporting for this story.