EDITOR’S LETTER
Each year at our Design & Innovation Awards (revealed on page 27), we celebrate a single designer with a very special Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring his or her contribution to the field of superyacht design. There was no debate about this year’s winner. Few can boast a resume like Tim Heywood’s: Topaz, Pelorus, Al Raya, Symphony, Al Mirqab, Radiant, Quantum Blue… and they’re just the yachts over 100 meters (330ft). But to all this, I’d like to add another, utterly extemporized award: the nicest guy in yachting. Despite all his success, Tim remains totally unaffected and commits himself year after year to helping us unearth new design talent with our Young Designer of the Year competition. Never seen without an impeccably tailored blazer, neatly trimmed mustache and an ever-present smile,…