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Why is boat length measured in feet?
You can often hear that someone owns a yacht that is 30 feet long. But why not just say that the size of my yacht is 9.14 meters? This is much clearer. Why is it always feet that are used to indicate the length of boats, and not the meters familiar to us?

I have spent the last seven years on a yacht, sailing all the seas and oceans.
I was seven years old when I, together with my parents, went on a round-the-world trip on a yacht from Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) where I was born and raised. We planned to make a round-the-world trip and come back one day. In fact, we did not set ourselves any time frame, we just went out to sea in order to travel. I agreed with this development of events. I was seven and wanted to see dolphins, ru

Barcelona Salon Nautico opens on October 12th.

From 9 to 30 October 2016 in the south of France the Photo Festival "IMAGE DANS L'OEIL"

Sailing Yacht A, the world's largest sailing yacht built by the Nobiskrug shipyard, has left the German port city of Kiel for sea trials.

The British Kiel Yacht Club is located on the Baltic coast of Germany, belongs to the UK Department of Defense, and served as a training center.

From September 24 to October 2, the annual Voiles de Saint-Tropez regatta was held in Saint-Tropez. The launch of sailing in 2016 took place in a rather emotional atmosphere of healthy competition.

The Fountaine Pajot yacht yard is expanding. A new factory with a total area of 8,000 square meters has opened in the French city of Aigrefeuille.

Aquila is a conceptual 50 meter sailing yacht equipped with flexible solar panel sails, made possible by the use of CIGS solar cells technology.