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Carkeek Design Partners
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Carkeek Design Partners
Carkeek Design Partners
recently opened a new Palma
office. Company founder
and lead designer Shaun
Carkeek’s, experience spans
20 years designing custom and
semi-custom yachts. These
include winning grand prix
racing (Volvo 70, TP 52, IRC
and ORC GP) and performance
cruising yachts around the
globe including prestigious
production brands such as
Grand Soleil/Cantieri del
Pardo. While remaining within
the vanguard of Grand Prix
yacht racing development, the
company has re-structured
and expanded to focus their
unique high performance
design knowledge and
methodology into the growing
performance Superyacht
market. ‘’Through our designs
and process we’re challenging
and re-defining current
standards and thinking by
developing a new breed of
superyacht.’’ With satellite
offices in Cape Town and
Newport RI, we’ve centralized
our global operation in Palma
enabling us to deal with
clients and projects efficiently,
while delivering the highest
level of personal attention and
design support at every stage.
‘’Listening to and
understanding our clients’
needs and requests forms
the foundation and success
of our business model. Our
experience, technological
expertise and ability to
communicate lie at the heart
of our approach to building
strong relationships and
innovative ground breaking
designs. Within the complex
network of design elements,
we strive to deliver the
right solutions by asking
the right questions via a
tailored design process. Each
project is treated individually
through a customized and
comprehensive strategy in
order to not only meet the
clients’ expectations, but
exceed them.’’Carkeek Design Partners
caters for new build and refit
contracts with the ability
to offer a turnkey design
solution including high end
naval architecture, styling
design, yacht optimization,
engineering, systems and
management. The company
currently has new racing
and cruising designs in
build and under development
up to 80m.By Olivier VoituriezFrench Parliament Passes
Mooring Tax for Corsica’s
Protected ZonesIt is feared that the new
law will eventually affect all
protected maritime zones
in France.After throwing out a Bill for
mooring taxes in France’s
protected marine areas in
February, French Parliament
last week passed an
amendment that will mean
mooring taxes will now apply
to Corsica’s Bouches de
Bonifacio and the
Scandola reserve.Very similar to the initial Bill,
the amendment put forward
by Corsican MP Paul Giaccobi
was passed on 4 March
by 43 votes to 27, and will
affect leisure boats mooring
in protected marine zones.
The amount of tax, initially
suggested at €20 per metre of
hull, has not been confirmed
and will be the object of alater decree.Although Parliamentarian
Giaccobi stated that the
law would apply only to
the Corsican coast, it is
widely feared in the nautical
community that the measure
will eventually affect all
protected maritime zones
in France, with a surface of
88,000sq km – or 24% of the
mainland coast and 50% of
the Corsican coast.Leisure boating professionals
and sailing associations have
reacted strongly against this
law, which they consider a
privatisation of the traditional
right of access to the sea.
They also fear it will give
France a bad image to
foreign sailors.The French Federation of
Nautical Industries (FIN)
considers the measure a
tax, there being no services
offered in exchange. In a press
release, FIN stated that it will
lead to a “divorce between
leisure boaters and those in
charge of the environment,
whereas leisure boaters
are in fact major players in
safeguarding the marine
environment. Now boaters
may consider that extending
protected marine areas, a
measure they have supported,
is a threat to their freedom.”