The RYA is pleased to announce a new partnership with Global Currency Exchange Network (GCEN) to launch a brand new member benefit; the RYA Prepaid MasterCard®.

Available to all existing and new members, the RYA Prepaid MasterCard® is a cost effective way for you to buy currency.  

With foreign exchange built in, prepaid cards are a smart way to travel enabling you to prepay currency on to your card in Sterling, Dollars or Euros (one currency per card) and can give you peace of mind, convenience and cost-savings so you can get on and enjoy your trip away.

As the 2013 Seawork International Show approaches, UK based marine exhaust specialist, Halyard, has announced yet another commercial success story with renowned Great Yarmouth based boat builder Alicat Workboats, to ensure its new four WFSV (Wind Farm Support Vessels) remain quiet on the water and to provide increased comfort for those on board.

With a growing need for all commercial vessels to be built with increasingly high levels of safety, reduced noise levels and enhanced crew comfort, Alicat Workboats has commissioned Halyard - internationally known and respected for its innovative design solutions - to design, build and install a full exhaust silencer system, for all four of its new state-of-the-art Offshore Wind Farm Service  Vessels.

RYA Scotland has now completed the first major step of the facilities strategy which saw clubs and club members complete a survey and give their responses to a number of questions such as; what facilities are available to clubs, centres and marinas? 

The survey helped RYA Scotland to establish what facilities are available to dinghy sailors, keelboaters and windsurfers in Scotland.

Currently there is very little information available on this topic and this is where the facilities strategy hopes to help make a change.

Being an experienced all-round naval architect, Vripack takes great pleasure in designing a 43ft supply vessel together with Ribbon Yachts in the Netherlands. And by looking at the correct proportions between line and surface, one can easily see that the design of the agile and modern Ribbon 45 SC is the foundation for the sturdy Ribbon Offshore. 

Vripack’s challenge is to fit all their practical knowledge into this perfect design without having to make any concessions. To accomplish this task, close collaboration with Ribbon Yachts takes place. This will result in a strong design with the most practical size and ergonomic layout in which the characteristics of the Ribbon 45 SC will be kept as much as possible. 

Scorpion, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high quality production and bespoke RIBs for leisure owners, commercial and superyacht users, has announced it has selected Raymarine as its preferred supplier for marine electronics.

Kevin Hunt, General Manager at Scorpion, says the company has chosen Raymarine’s most technically advanced e7D HybridTouch™ multifunction display as the product of choice for all its RIBs. He says, “Raymarine is the market leader in advanced marine electronics.

This high level of technical innovation and superb quality reflects the characteristics found in Scorpion RIBs, which makes Raymarine the naturally preferred choice for us to offer to our customers.”