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In addition to the impressive new launches to be exhibited at the upcoming Monaco Yacht Show , including Wally 50m superyacht Better Place as well as Baltic 72 sailing yacht Stig , Hall Spars fitted yachts have celebrated plenty of victories on the race course this season. Successful Hall Spars fitted yachts 2012 has been a good year for Nilaya The Baltic 112 superyacht Nilaya is fresh from a victory in the Supermaxi Class at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup , where Hall- rigged yachts swept the top three. Other highlights for Nilaya include a Groupe Maxi second place finish at Les Voiles de St . Barth and Line Honors in the Rolex Volcano Race , with Hall- rigged Wally luxury yacht Y3K taking second. Wally 45m sailing yacht Saudade earned a second place finish in the Supermaxi Class at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup , behind Nilaya. Farr 115 charter yacht Sojana rounded out the top three, following a third place finish in the RORC 600. JV72 sailing yacht Bella Mente has seen her share of ...

If you like having your cultural compass skewed , you' ll love Pantelleria . The map says Italy, but everything about the island spells North Africa . Villages have names like Bukkuram, Bugeber, and Gadir. Dwarfed by palm trees and built of rough volcanic stone , clusters of one- story cubic dwellings with humped roofs erupt from the prickly black-brown landscape like oases. The port's architecturally challenged concrete apartment blocks and souk-like alleyways lend it the louche, scrappy allure of Tangier. The heat is the heat of the desert, with sun so strong that only crazies leave the cool of a shop awning to cross the street without first picking out a patch of shade on the other side. Citrus trees are grown in circular, high-walled giardini arabi that protect them from the wind. Locals count the days until restaurants serve the weekly special—fish couscous. I first visited Pantelleria , which is marooned in the strait between Sicily and Tunisia and has a mere 32-mile ...