We are thrilled to announce the Official Launch Party of The Yacht Week 2012 in Toronto! This exclusive event is happening on Friday February 3rd at one of Toronto’s hottest venues – The Hoxton – and we cordially invite you and your friends to come and join us.

The Yacht Week is a sailing getaway experience like no other, and whether you are new to The Yacht Week or a seasoned veteran of the trip get your crew together (past & present) and join us for the kick-off of the 2012 sailing season.

Get ready to meet former guests of TYW, who will most likely tell you about the best weeks of their lives and how they probably never wanted to leave.

We also have two awesome up-and-coming DJ’s that are going to keep everyone on their feet. Check them out:

• DJ AM-E
• DJ STIMS

Join the event on Facebook for more details!

We are looking forward to seeing you all at The Yacht Week Official Party in Toronto and kicking off what is going to be a great year of smooth sailing!

On this morning we wake up in the small natural harbor of the island. The breeze is picking up and the skippers are slowly starting to move along the row of yachts to prepare for departure. With just a 1-2 hour upwind sail through the stunning Cyklades archipelago, today’s destination is Hydra.

Outside the small port of Hydra the traffic is busy with private sailboats and minor super yachts with ferries trying to access and leave the docks every few minutes. On approaching the entrance you will see a Yacht Week representative on the pier to guide you to a good spot for the night. People are looking, talking and asking about this large sailing flotilla filled with upbeat young people ready to have the time in their lives. The small local port is filled with action and the yachts are moored on top of each other in row after row on the north side of the dock, protected from the gusts of wind.

It’s a beautiful day and the sun is tanning our necks as we walk through the narrow but steep alleys of this historical town. Just a minute’s walk from the dock the waterfront cliffs are filled with guests of The Yacht Week enjoying a swim while discussing the actions of last night. The more adventurous type jump from the 10m high cliffs straight into the pleasantly warm light blue water.

A hit on this destination is the Sun Set Restaurant where you can enjoy one of the most beautiful sunsets in the Mediterranean while sipping on a beautifully blended, sugar-rich Mojito. As soon as the sun is gone the party vibe starts to show and the group quickly relocates for dinner and drinks with a view over the nearby islands that slowly disappear as nightfall approaches. After dinner, we stop at the small bar Hydrolite for some great quality cocktails before moving onto the nightclub Omilios. This place knows how to throw a party like there’s no tomorrow and as the final hoorah of the week this is a night to remember for the rest of your life.

To experience Hydra for yourself and all the other marvelous places along the Saronic Route of our Greece event book now! Grab your friends for the experience of your life… it’s nothing like the real world!

Alana Hutton-Shaw, who Directed the video which was shot over the New Year event, told us, “This was one of the most insane Yacht Week trips I’ve done and the best start to the New Year – my only worry is that nothing this year will match up to it!”

We’ve got the medicine Alana… How about coming out again for our Spring Sailing event!?

Here in The Yacht Week bridge we can’t bear it any longer… the release of THE best yacht-inspired music video since Jay-Z’s Big Pimpin’ is soon to be released! Last summer, whilst on a Yacht Week event, our good friends from across the Pond, Pantless Knights, set about recording a music video for their new song – Fist Pump Sailing (The Real World). We are proud to announce that the song is available on Spotify and iTunes – as for the much anticipated video, we’ll just have to keep you waiting a few days longer and tease you with some screen shots of all the fun and frolics the guys got up to.

PATRICK: The Yacht Week cannot be overlooked by the curious. If language barriers are your concern, you must not be a very good dancer.

Thanks to modern technology (Skype) we didn’t have to jet across the Atlantic to get an exclusive interview with Patrick Dunnham and Peter Furia of Pantless Knights. Here the guys tell us about what inspired the upcoming video and some VERY exciting projects soon to be launched.


TYW: What inspired the song and video?

PATRICK: There is a famous quote from Peter’s first video for The Yacht Week where a girl says, “This is not real life.” We wanted to capture this sentiment by packaging The Yacht Week experience in a dream sequence, so we crafted an intro to the music video where I accidentally knock both of us unconscious. This dream quickly becomes the ideal world, the real world. People who experience The Yacht Week for the first time can become confused. Are they dreaming? Or did they just finally wake up for the first time in their lives? Many are interacting with people from all over the world in one concentrated experience. Celebrating life with people from all ends of the Earth is as real as it gets.

PETER: We chose the concept Fist Pump Sailing because we haven’t yet seen the two things combined. I think The Yacht Week, and sailing in general, has a highbrow reputation – we wanted to make the point that people don’t take themselves too seriously on The Yacht Week. So we appropriated the fist pump ironically. It was a fun project all around. We were also fortunate enough to have the instrumental produced by our very talented friend Jeff Kite, who is currently working with Beat Club and Julian Casablancas.

TYW: Where was the video shot?

PATRICK: Croatia and San Francisco.

TYW: What do you think of The Yacht Week?

PETER: The Yacht Week is a unique blend of sailing, exploring new places and cultures, and good times with close friends and new friends.

PATRICK: The Yacht Week cannot be overlooked by the curious. If language barriers are your concern, you must not be a very good dancer.

TYW: What was your best memory from the trip?

PATRICK: The first moment of silence when the motor shuts off and the sails fill.

PETER: For me, it was a day trip we took on the island of Vis. We rented scooters at the port, got a tip from a Croatian local on a special restaurant, and then road 45 minutes into the rural countryside to a remote village. We were welcomed by the restaurant owner, who cooked us a five course meal with ingredients entirely harvested from his property. We also discovered Rakija.

TYW: What are you working on for your next project?

PETER: We’re excited to be working on a brand new YouTube channel called “American Hipster”. We’ve partnered with YouTube on the project and are excited to be launching 3 weekly shows starting in April, each with its own unique angle on hipster culture. It’ll be a very entertaining blend of pop culture and comedy. We’ll also be producing some hilarious music videos between now and then so keep an eye out for those.

Patrick and Peter joined us on Week 34 in Croatia to film the music video for Fist Pump Sailing (The Real World). Their next project, American Hipster, launches on April 2nd, 2012 on YouTube in what can be described as a comedy channel that explores pop culture through the lens of hipsterism – that ironically popular movement built on not being popular!

Our Dj Pierce’s who join us during week 28 is now sharing his top 10 The Yacht Week hits! Enjoy!!

Pierce Fulton’s Yacht Week Top 10 by PierceFulton

Tracklisting:

• Alesso vs Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso – Together Nillionaire (MKC Reboot)
• John Mayer – Bigger Than My Body (Michael Brun Bootleg)
• Calvin Harris feat. Kelis – Bounce (Extended Mix)
• LMFAO vs. Bassjackers – Party Rock Mush Mush (Quintin Bootleg)
• The Temper Traps & Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams Disposition (Eddie Thoneick Bootleg)
• Avicii – Nothing Without Adele (Avicii Rolling Bootleg)
• Axwell vs Adrian Lux vs Sander Van Doorn – Teenage In The Air (Tristan Garner Bootleg)
• Nadia Ali, Starkillers, & Alex Kenji – Pressure (Alesso Remix)
• Steve Angello – Open Your Eyes (Tim Mason Remix)
• Pierce Fulton vs Coldplay – Every Teardrop Is In Technicolor (Pierce Fulton Unofficial Remix)

Thanks Pierce!

The Yacht Week Tour

As you probably know by now we just launched the promotion tour which took numerous hours of trailers and website construction, planning, and designing. So now all the Country Mangers are working around the clock to ensure everything is in place for them to pull off what will hopefully be 16 spectacular events.

The British Virgin Islands

We also have our BVI trip that runs over New Year so we are dealing withour last minute bookings, payments and arrangements for that event as well as future planning for next summer. After agreeing dates and locations (which are soon to be realeased) we are now are working towards securing the right number of boats, in the right place and the right time so there will be space for all of you to come and join us with out any one following on home made rafts! (But still make sure you book soon to ensure you get the boat you want – I know there were many people who left it too late last year and so missed out as all the boats had gone).

On top of this we have final route and event planning to be done so that all our information is ready for you to mull over and decide where you want to go – Greece, Croatia or our new destination – Turkey.

Our media guys are also working around the clock to get our new trailer out in time for when our bookings open on the 4th of December. This, we are all eagerly awaiting after seeing some great previews at our annual meeting in Stockholm last month.

Anyway, enough for now, so much work, no time to blog! Make sure to check out our tour dates and hopefully see you at one of our parties this Autumn!

Play it here on Sound Cloud:
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French Cuisine – The Yacht Week 2010 TOP TEN by French Cuisine

1- Alex Lamb feat. Christina Skaar – Freedom (Original Mix)
2- KitSch 2.0 & The Skywalkerz – My Life (Club Mix)
3- Disco Harder (French Government Bootleg)
4- Norman Doray, David Tort – Chase The Sun (Original Mix)
5- Watch My Apocalypse (Axwell Bootleg)
6- Silvercreen On Acid (Tristan Garner Bootleg)
7- Super Hey Hey (Tristan Garner Bootleg)
8- Dan Castro – Eastern Ensemble (Original Mix)
9- Tristan Garner, Gregori Klosman – Fuckin Down (Alesso Remix)
10- Sweet Sad Disposition (Avicii Bootleg)

This summer has been crazy, even the way back to France ! It was fun to discover the airport of Split on saturday morning, at 6, full of Yacht Weekers, still in a very good mood – I would love to know the turnover of the small bar at the first floor this day…

I don’t know how many people I met those last 5 weeks. From the crazy spanish week 30 to the american girls in the plane on my way back 2 days ago.
I also don’t know how many languages I’ve been speaking ! Especially at night !
I can’t name everybody I had a good time with (the list is too long!) but I would like to thank ALL OF YOU for an AMAZING spirit every week.

A lot of people asked me how I do to manage 5 weeks of parties. The answer is pretty simple : you gave me so much energy ! (Especially every wednesday in Hvar)

…And maybe also because of the Redbull

I also would like to thank everybody I shared the crew boat with. No exception. Everybody added his own “touch”.
A lot of respect to Emma & Fortuna, the girls from behind to every guest DJ and to the staff of every venue we rocked. All together they made every party possible, even when we were banned from an harbour ! And of course the same respect for William, Erik and Johan that have been managing this season as good as possible, considering the incredible number of hysteric people we had as customers !!! – Should I also speak about the skippers…?

In my opinion The Yacht Week stays the best way to spend summer holidays. Sailing during the day, partying at night, smiling every time.

Stay tuned because a looot of events will be organized this year, before and after our trip in the Caribbean in december.

It has been a real (and intense) pleasure to play music for you this summer,

Lots of love from a little village in the North of France

Pierre