This year’s Hanseboot was enlightening – literally! LED technology has really taken over and is now being used by many of the leading yards. Almost every boat looked lighter and brighter and LED tapes and spotlights were used to give a feeling of size and volume. Thanks to dimmers, cozy atmospheres could be created as

At Hanseboot 2013 in Hamburg, I held talks about women and sailing and the reaction was very interesting, and I must confess, they were not good at all during the first two days…. Not surprisingly, maybe, my first two talks were highly popular among women. I could see women sitting in the audience smiling, nodding

Refit is what everybody is talking about    The recent Interboot Friedrichshafen was, once again, a testimonial of the current winds: There is not only an interest in buying new boats, but also the desire to take care of old boats by means of a refit. Many newbuilding yards are very proud of the fact

I will be on this year’s Hanseboot on 30 October – 3 Nov, holding two talks per day:  First, the very popular “Sabbatical auf Sea” and then, new, a talk on how to inspire women and children to become genuinely interested to cruising, avoiding fear and seasickness.   This is what YACHT writes in their

A testimonial of a huge interest in refitting a classic boat Not to compete with  new-boat production, Regina Laska was not shown at the actual exhibition in the Hallberg-Rassy harbour, where only boats still in productions were shown (not all of them brand new, I noticed). Regina Laska was therefore shown at the adjacent official

Regina Laska was shown to the public for the first time Despite the rainy days, the recent Hanseboot Ancora Boatshow in Neustadt  was a great success! I would like to thank everybody who made this possible. Many had already heard of Regina Laska and came explicitly to see Regina Laska all the way from Sweden in