How We Source This

Every article on this site starts from a simple rule: a claim that can be checked gets checked before it is published.

That applies to anything specific — a date, a length, a tonnage figure, a boat or project name, a shipyard, a percentage, a delivery schedule. If a sentence states a fact that a reader could look up and find wrong, we look it up first.

How we source

We prioritize primary and industry sources: a boat show's own event pages, a shipyard's own announcements, and reporting from established marine industry publications. General marketing copy from a supplier or brand — including our own — is not treated as a source for a factual claim. If a number or a date only appears in promotional material, it is either verified against an independent source or left out.

Where two sources disagree — on an edition number, a measurement, or a date — we do not average them or pick the more flattering version. We either find a third source to settle it, or we drop the specific claim and describe what we can support instead.

How we verify

Before an article is published, it goes through a separate review from the person who wrote it. That review opens every linked source and checks two things: that the page is still live and says what the article says it says, and that the article has not rounded, softened, or reworded a claim into something stronger than the source actually supports. A source that mentions a yacht's length does not automatically support a claim about its speed, its cost, or its ranking against other yachts — each of those has to be checked on its own.

If a claim cannot be verified this way, it is not published. This applies to technical specifications as much as it applies to industry news: a measurement, a material process, or a performance claim that cannot be confirmed against a source does not appear in the article, even if it would make the piece more complete.

Corrections

Errors get found after publication sometimes, despite this process. When that happens, the article is corrected and the date it was last updated is noted at the top of the piece. A published claim is never quietly edited without leaving a record that it changed.

Why articles are not bylined

Articles on this site are published under the site's name rather than an individual writer's. This is a deliberate choice, not an omission: the standard held is the same regardless of who did the research or the writing, and a claim is judged on whether it holds up rather than on who is credited with making it. The review process described above applies to every article the same way, independent of authorship.

If a reader finds a factual error in something published here, that matters to us. When the specific claim and a contradicting source are identified, it is checked against our own sources and the article is corrected if it is wrong.