Famous and fabulous yachts that visited Malta

Malta has played host to both famous and fabulous yachts and the sixth edition of "Yachting in Malta" includes some of the more prominent examples of these vessels.

"Yachting in Malta" is published by Wilfred Sultana who has been absent from the local sports scene for the past six years mainly due to health reasons.

The first edition of the magazine was published 27 years ago to, as Mr Sultana himself points out in the introduction to the sixth edition, "promote a then relatively juvenile yachting industry". Mr Sultana notes that today there is "an extensive and sound yachting activity with a potential of nearly 2,000 berths in five defined yachting centres".

The fifth edition of the magazine was published in 1989.

This sixth edition is dedicated to people with disability, particularly seafarers with disability, 2003 being declared by the European Union as the Year for the Disabled.

Six pictures of "famous" yachts feature in a two-page spread under the title "Famous yachts and Malta". These are the Victoria and Albert , the Hohemzollern, the Standart, the Medina, the Britannia and the Savarona.

More than three pages are dedicated to what "Yachting in Malta" describes as "super visitors that have included Malta in their Mediterranean cruising journey". Ten super yachts are pictured in this feature, including the Savarona that was originally built in Germany in 1930 but was then transformed into a training ship for naval cadets after it was sold to Turkey in 1936.

"Yachting in Malta" was printed at Progress Press.