Motor Boat of the Year Awards - Nominate a company

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Each year Motor Boats Monthly and Motor Boat & Yachting host the Motor Boat of the Year Awards.

The awards celebrate the best the motor boat industry has to offer and there are ten categories, nine of which are decided by our panel from the two magazines.

The tenth prize, the Garmin Europe Ltd Outstanding Service Award, will be decided by nominations from the public. The award goes to a company that has provided extraordinary service in the marine industry and is particularly poignant this year as companies have sought to provide something special to differentiate themselves in a tough market.

You can register your nomination right now by emailing the name of the company and an explanation as to why you think they should win the award to ybw.com@ipcmedia.com

Find out more about the Motor Boat of the Year Awards here.
 
danfoley said:
The awards celebrate the best the motor boat industry has to offer and there are ten categories, nine of which are decided by our panel from the two magazines
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Why not get the readers to vote for all ten? It can hardly be objective for the magazine to decide on the best boats, when they clearly have to spread the awards around as they (understandably) have advertisers to appease.
 
Dont you think that would be a little unfair on the Manufacturers Nick ?

All they have to do now is take half a dozen journalists on a booze up charter, if we get to vote how could they cope taking all of us out ?
 
Strictly Come Motorboating

Nick_H said:
Why not get the readers to vote for all ten? It can hardly be objective for the magazine to decide on the best boats, when they clearly have to spread the awards around as they (understandably) have advertisers to appease.
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Too right. Leaving it to a couple of drunken hacks to sort it out in a smoke filled room whilst comparing the size of each manufacturer's brown envelope won't do. It should be like Strictly. The judges give their marks but the great British public decide who doesn't get thru to the next round, even if it is the latest Fairseekerline Squadron
 
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Too right. Leaving it to a couple of drunken hacks to sort it out in a smoke filled room whilst comparing the size of each manufacturer's brown envelope won't do. It should be like Strictly. The judges give their marks but the great British public decide who doesn't get thru to the next round, even if it is the latest Fairseekerline Squadron
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Goodness. is that sort of thing still legal?
 
Well after a quick glance at Decembers MBY lets hope the Sessa C68's "amazing wine rack" gets the recognition it surely deserves.
 
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Too right. Leaving it to a couple of drunken hacks to sort it out in a smoke filled room whilst comparing the size of each manufacturer's brown envelope won't do. It should be like Strictly. The judges give their marks but the great British public decide who doesn't get thru to the next round, even if it is the latest Fairseekerline Squadron
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Just a quick question.........how do I become one of these 'hacks'????
 
actually to be fair to YBW and IPC there votes are quite honest on what I have seen so far or remember of these Awards
they have given prices to Sessa in the past, as well to companies like Nord West so if they see something good around I am sure they give big consideration of this
the problem you say is existant true but is not so big as you make of it
what I mean is if you don't advertise on the Mag we don't know about the other boats and the companies, but once you do we might know you exist
as for FairPrincSeeker comment what I dont like from MBY is that they always set them as a bench mark which in pure honesty if you go around boats you surely know they are not, good boats but not the best and the most innovative
think of the balconies on the SS 130 Predator this was publicised as a first on MBY to a MY of this size when 1) San Lorenzo presented this on the 40 Alloy (131ft) over two years ago 2) Dominator 29 M (95ft) offered this in the fall of 2008 not only on the main deck but also on the lower deck in the owners suite
it is fair to say who pioneers this first, as copying the others work has always been easy
I remember in 1991 Sunseeker presented its first garage on the 60 Renegade and MBY did the same thing when Italcraft with the C51 in 1986 was five years before of this invention, and Ferretti on a 35 also offered already a similar garage concept, for the Italcraft I read on MBY on a review of the Viareggio boat show so I think they forget what they did

now as a comparison I can speak for the Absolute 70 presented last year and all Italian mags said this was an Italian interpretation to the Lazzara 75, none of the mags I see and read said that Absolute where the first in this concept of big quadruple IPS Sport Yacht...
 
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PowerYachtBlog said:
actually to be fair to YBW and IPC there votes are quite honest on what I have seen so far or remember of these Awards
they have given prices to Sessa in the past, as well to companies like Nord West so if they see something good around I am sure they give big consideration of this
the problem you say is existant true but is not so big as you make of it
what I mean is if you don't advertise on the Mag we don't know about the other boats and the companies, but once you do we might know you exist
as for FairPrincSeeker comment what I dont like from MBY is that they always set them as a bench mark which in pure honesty if you go around boats you surely know they are not, good boats but not the best and the most innovative
think of the balconies on the SS 130 Predator this was publicised as a first on MBY to a MY of this size when 1) San Lorenzo presented this on the 40 Alloy (131ft) over two years ago 2) Dominator 29 M (95ft) offered this in the fall of 2008 not only on the main deck but also on the lower deck in the owners suite
it is fair to say who pioneers this first, as copying the others work has always been easy
I remember in 1991 Sunseeker presented its first garage on the 60 Renegade and MBY did the same thing when Italcraft with the C51 in 1986 was five years before of this invention, and Ferretti on a 35 also offered already a similar garage concept, for the Italcraft I read on MBY on a review of the Viareggio boat show so I think they forget what they did

now as a comparison I can speak for the Absolute 70 presented last year and all Italian mags said this was an Italian interpretation to the Lazzara 75, none of the mags I see and read said that Absolute where the first in this concept of big quadruple IPS Sport Yacht...
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True. What they don't seem to say is that the Boat of the Year awards are really only limited to boats they have tested which means that the awards tend to be limited to UK and Scandi boats sold in the UK and that omits loads of Italian and US boats, for example
Really it should be called the Best Of The Very Few Boats We've Tested This Year Awards.
 
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maybh1 said:
I bet poor Dan wishes he had never mentioned the flippin awards now:mad:

May
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The replies are a good source of amusement....and I have yet to find a brown envelope anywhere near the editors offices...As for their daughter (if they all had them) well that's fighting talk.
 
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The award goes to a company that has provided extraordinary service in the marine industry and is particularly poignant this year as companies have sought to provide something special to differentiate themselves in a tough market.
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Sea Ventures seems to fit the bill then. It certainly ended up giving out of the ordinary service and managed to differentiate themselves from the rest of the market rather spectacularly.
 
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