274: BOAT Design & Innovation Awards 2026: The Winners revealed

About this episode

The episode reveals the winners of the 2026 BOAT Design & Innovation Awards and discusses the judges' selection process.

In this special edition of BOAT Briefing Caroline White and Cecile Gauert project themselves to a cool evening in Kitzbühel, Austria, when the winners collected their beautiful Minervas at the 2026 BOAT Design & Innovation Awards ceremony. The two go through all the winners and categories, and reveal some of the thought process involved in the judges' choices to select winners among a strong field of finalists. This episode of BOAT Briefing is sponsored by Amico & Co, a Genoa-based, family-owned refit yard with more than 200 years of maritime heritage, renowned for its full-service refit expertise on large yachts, delivered through highly specialised in-house teams. BOATPro: https://boatint.com/3qw Subscribe: https://boatint.com/3qx Contact us: podcast@boatinternationalmedia.com

Topics covered

• Design
• Innovation
• Awards
• Yachting

Keywords

• Kitzbühel
• Minervas
• finalists

Sponsors

Amico & Co

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Kitzbühel, Austria, Genoa

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