Yacht Refit

With a major refit, the 170-foot Amels M/Y Kiss the Sky, launched in 2001, finds new life as the 180-foot M/Y Harmony.

Demand for superyacht refit is booming, and yards in the Mediterranean region are rising to the occasion.

Watch 154-foot S/Y ASOLARE get hauled out and moved into Front Street Shipyard in Belfast, Maine.

A nautical restoration job for the ages reached a milestone Sunday with the launch of the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.

Few public figures had the charisma and audacity of the late Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate who converted a warship into the yacht Christina. Inseparable from his ocean-going palace, Onassis lived aboard for decades, reveling in a life of partying and pleasure that by turns made him hated, envied and admired while attracting the global celebrity set of the era to his jewel of the seas, now reborn as Christina O.