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THE LAW OF YACHTS AND YACHTING
FILIPPO LORENZON
Senior Lecturer in Maritime and Commercial Law
Director, Institute of Maritime Law,
University of Southampton
Consultant, Campbell Johnston Clark LLP
RICHARD COLES
Partner, Gateley LLP
and
Graeme Bowtle
Solicitor
James Gopsill
Partner, Gateley LLP
Michael N. Tsimplis
Professor of Oceanography and Maritime Law,
Institute of Maritime Law,
University of Southampton
Nigel Cooper QC
Quadrant Chambers
Richard Shaw
Senior Research Fellow,
Institute of Maritime Law,
University of Southampton
Pawel Wysocki
Associate, Hill Dickinson LLP
First edition published 2012
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The Law of Yachts and Yachting is the first comprehensive and detailed monograph entirely dedicated to the study of the English law relating to the ownership and operation of yachts. It does not focus on the leisure market or competitive yacht racing, but is primarily intended for use by lawyers, yacht-brokers, yacht-builders, researchers and others concerned with the legal aspects of the construction, operation and use of professionally crewed motor and sailing yachts: the specialist world of superyachts.
Although for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the large yacht world was the exclusive preserve of a rich and famous elite, the last three decades have witnessed a massive growth in this market and huge investment in technical research, design, dedicated infrastructure and specialist service providers. International, regional and national regulators, industry associations and lawyers have followed suit. The result is a complex and somewhat fragmented legal picture which, very much like a cubist painting, may be thoroughly understood only when looked at in its entirety and in a proper context by an expert eye. This is what