Having spent 20 years working on and captaining superyachts up to 73m, Tom Leyland, Head of Yacht Management at West Nautical, explains why, in his opinion, the captain, rather than the owner, is sometimes the best client for a management company. When I moved to West Nautical, I joked that I had sold my soul...

West Nautical prepares to introduce a fresh new approach to professional services for the superyacht sector, beginning with the appointment of Kurt Fraser as commercial director. Fraser departs Camper & Nicholsons International after more than three years as the group’s director of marketing and executive committee member, where he orchestrated a highly successful renewal of...

KD, a new 52-metre superyacht that was commissioned for a client and built under the careful management of West Nautical has officially launched in La Spezia, Italy. Built by leading shipyard Sanlorenzo, KD is an extremely well-designed displacement yacht with transatlantic range and class-leading levels of comfort, quality and refinement. A highly customised version of...