Yacht Hop in Palm Beach

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More than 150 guests attended the Il Circolo Yacht Hop benefit at Palm Harbor Marina in West Palm Beach in February as part of the first Italian Week Palm Beach. Attendees were invited for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres aboard six luxury vessels presented by HMY Yachts and Worth Avenue Yachts: 190-foot Trinity 105-foot Azimut Lady Carole, 150-foot Palmer Johnson 138-foot Kanter Bread, an Arcadia 85 and a Riva 52. Proceeds benefited Il Circolo, the Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches. Il Circolo, Luxury Law Group, Ferrari of Palm Beach, Royal Blues Hotel, Fashion Doctors Media Group, Rabbit Coffee Roasting Co., Palm Harbor Marina, Wells Fargo Private Bank, Maus & Hoffman, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Discover the Palm Beaches, NYY Steak, HMY Yachts, Worth Avenue Yachts, Edward Beiner and

That’s the consensus of Vripack creative directors Bart Bouwhuis and Marnix Hoekstra on their awardwinning Steeler Panorama FF46 design. The radical new 48-footer (14.52meter) took the honors for European Powerboat of the Year at the 2015 Düsseldorf boat show. An international judging panel heralded the Vripack design in large part for its progressive one-level concept. The result was massive onboard living space for the 48-footer, which the judges deemed perfect for next-gen owners from DJs to IT specialists.

“That was actually the biggest compliment we could get,” said Hoekstra, whose firm has founded a trend-spotting platform called VriThink—a reference to free thinking—to identify global developments. “We analyze how these trends can be applied to the yachting industry, even predicting the color of 2016.”

Curious? You’ll have to pry that one from Vripack.