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ONBOARD Magazine summer 2021

The magazine is published quarterly and is the only publication aimed purely at the superyacht professional on the Mediterranean. Produced here on the Côte d’Azur, ONBOARD is a B2B industry magazine with a consumer feel. Designed to be entertaining and informative in equal balance, ONBOARD is packed with varied articles on superyacht paint & coatings, crew training, essential refit services, crew uniforms, shipyards, the very best superyacht chase boats, product launches and features from leading industry experts on relevant superyacht matters. If you need to get your products and services in front of the right crew and industry buyers, then talk to us.



The magazine is published quarterly and is the only publication aimed purely at the superyacht professional on the Mediterranean. Produced here on the Côte d’Azur, ONBOARD is a B2B industry magazine with a consumer feel. Designed to be entertaining and informative in equal balance, ONBOARD is packed with varied articles on superyacht paint & coatings, crew training, essential refit services, crew uniforms, shipyards, the very best superyacht chase boats, product launches and features from leading industry experts on relevant superyacht matters.

If you need to get your products and services in front of the right crew and industry buyers, then talk to us.

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photographer. “Honestly, it still brings me out in a cold sweat...

I can remember it like it was yesterday. At the time, it set me

back, for sure. Now I’m always very careful to look around for

walruses and other dangerous mammals.”

From more recent stints around the Antarctic, to charting the

tropical waters of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, to chasing the

next shot remains everything for Doug, and despite turning 70

this year, retirement is far from his mind, even though, by his own

admission, time away from chilly temperatures can be therapy

in itself. “It’s sometimes enough to come back and enjoy the

simple things.” he says. “Being able to turn on a light switch

without firing up a gas cylinder, – that, for me, is therapy; that’s

what makes me relax.”

And yet his greater ambition remains to stumble across a narwhal,

the three-metre tusked arctic whale. It is so shy of human contact

that it’s never been photographed properly underwater before.

“Somewhere there is an affable tusked narwhal — and I would

give anything to spend 10 minutes in his company.”

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