Superyachts – as seen by an academic

Emma Spence’s PhD study on the superyacht scene is one of the more readable.

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"The women come on board...go up to the top deck and ask for champagne"

PhDs are written about all sorts of cranky things, and most are probably unreadable. But this may not be true of Emma Spence's PhD. She is completing one on the superyacht scene, having spent much of the last six years researching it. She has crewed on superyachts around the world, and, according to David Batty in The Guardian, "shadowed a yacht broker in the tax haven of Monaco, observing how the boats are deployed to establish a pecking order among the super-rich".

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