Most French marinas have been completed from the sixties to the nineties, often with public investments, to foster regional coastal planning and respond to the rising boating practice. The mayors of coastal towns wanted at all costs to have their own marina to show their pride, stimulate attractiveness, and offer berthing infrastructures to local inhabitants. […]

*This article has been originally published in French, to address the marina operators in Brittany, France.   During a speech at the Nautik Deiz conference organized by the Brittany region last October, I introduced the different modes of management of marinas on an international scale, briefly sketching the panorama of their particularities, pros and cons, […]

Monitoring, recording, tracking. Then processing, data analyzing, even driving artificial intelligence… The more information we collect, the more efficient we can be! Not so long ago, the marina industry was still in the Middle Ages and many marina operators were using a marina management software application like a simple spreadsheet. To list the boat names […]