West Nautical’s yacht management team has put together a bespoke training programme to demonstrate their skills in responding to urgent assistance requests from superyacht masters anywhere in the world. From a successful initial programme, the Command and Control course has been re-engineered and become available to the superyacht community. Delegates from the UK, Australia and...

Having sponsored the club during the 2015 season, West Nautical are delighted to continue their role sponsoring the club’s Development Team. ‘Westoe’, founded in 1875, changed 140 years of tradition in the 2015/16 season by changing their name from Westoe Rugby Club, by adding in the location of their club, South Shields which is a...

Andrey Lomakin, owner and CEO of West Nautical, talks through his first commissioned project, a Mulder 94 Voyager named Firefly. Yachting was, for so long, the preserve of ‘old money’ – a marque of lineage and an affinity with the ultimate gentleman’s pursuit. However, with the collapse of communism at the beginning of the 1990s came an explosion...