{"id":138171,"date":"2026-01-27T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/?p=138171"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:11:05","slug":"behind-the-scenes-at-the-motor-boat-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/motor-boat-awards\/behind-the-scenes-at-the-motor-boat-awards-2026-138171","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes at the Motor Boat Awards 2026"},"content":"The winners of the highly anticipated Motor Boat Awards 2026<\/a> were unveiled Tuesday 2o January at a spectacular reception at the Hyatt Regency in D\u00fcsseldorf. The event brought together leading figures from the boating industry to celebrate innovation, design, and excellence in motor boat manufacturing.\r\n\r\nMotor Boat & Yachting\u2019s editor,\u00a0Hugo Andreae<\/a>, alongside his co-host and MBY deputy editor Alex Smith<\/a>, led the event with humour, celebrating the industry\u2019s resilience and innovation.\r\n

Motor Boat Awards in Pictures<\/h2>\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138188\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Azimut 82 Fly winning Custom Yacht over 80ft award[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138186\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Absolute Navetta 62 winning Passagemaker category[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138183\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Beneteau Swift Trawler 37 Fly winning Flybridges up to 55ft category[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138182\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Princess F58 winning Fybridge over 55ft award[\/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138191\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Nordkapp winning Sportsboat up to 30ft[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138181\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Wessex Marine winning Customer Service award[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138172\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" CEO of Saxdor Erna Russi accepting Judges' Special award on behalf of Saxdor founder Sakari Mattila[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138185\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Navan S30 winning Best Weekender up to 40ft[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138180\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Volvo Penta winning Technical Development[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138184\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Pardo GT75 winning sportscruiser over 45ft[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_138175\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Viknes 10 winning Family Cruiser up to 45ft[\/caption]\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nRead about all the winners, nominees and finalists of the\u00a0Motor Boat Awards 2026.<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nWe\u2019d like to thank\u00a0Sleipner<\/a>\u00a0for once again partnering with us as the headline sponsor of the 2026 Motor Boat Awards and our individual category award sponsors\u00a0Garmin<\/a>,\u00a0Lumishore<\/a>,\u00a0JL Audio<\/a>, and MBY Awards drink sponsor\u00a0Marinedi<\/a>.\r\n\r\n
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The winners of the highly anticipated Motor Boat Awards 2026 were unveiled Tuesday 2o January at a spectacular reception at the Hyatt Regency in D\u00fcsseldorf. The event brought together leading figures from the boating industry to celebrate innovation, design, and excellence in motor boat manufacturing. Motor Boat & Yachting\u2019s editor,\u00a0Hugo Andreae, alongside his co-host and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3349,"featured_media":138178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,28,31],"tags":[463],"review_manufacturer":[],"acf":[],"introduction":[""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138192,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138171\/revisions\/138192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138171"},{"taxonomy":"review_manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_manufacturer?post=138171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}