The world’s largest open yacht, the gorgeous Overmarine Mangusta 165, has surfaced for sale from the Rodriguez Group via global online luxury marketplace JamesList for about $40 million.

The 165-ft. superyacht can hit a top speed of 33 knots with its twin MTU 16V 4000 M93 engines producing 4556 hp. The craft breaks the open yacht record previously held by Rodriguez Group with the Mangusta 130′. The interior of the yacht, first shown at the Salon Nautique in Cannes, features five staterooms and is finished in a luxurious, elegant combination of neutral fabrics and dark woodwork. The 165′s interior includes an expansive main salon with cocktail tables, a long bar, and a surfeit of seating. Two pop-up, back-to-back flat-screen televisions face the main salon and the adjacent dining room.

The craft’s aft deck covers a garage that contains tenders and toys and opens hydraulically at the push of a button.

Is it just me or is every luxury brand trying to tap into the surfboard market?

For summer the storied British brand has come out with a limited edition surfboard, decorated with a modern take on Dunhill’s iconic Bulldog motif.

Designed for Dunhill by the acclaimed European surfboard company Pukas in conjunction with surfing legend Jed Noll, the 9 ft. board is constructed from lightweight but high-density polyurethane foam with a superior resin-soaked fiberglass hard outer surface, minimizing drag on the waves.

Only 10 of the exclusive boards will be offered for sale at the Alfred Dunhill flagships in London, Tokyo and Shanghai for about $3,000.

Have you ever wanted to indulge in surfing but shuddered at the garish colours of the boards?

Fear no more because New Zealander Roy Stewart has designed a $20,000 Makaha surfboard that has been fashioned from more than 400 individually crafted pieces of empress wood.

This amazing, handmade, limited edition surfboard is considered “museum quality”; however, it can be put through it’s paces.    At 12″9″, the  Makaha is modeled on the olo boards once reserved for royalty among Polynesian natives. It’s amazingly flexible and accelerates in the water aided by a Vort-X tunnel fin for serious performance and speed.  In spite of all this amazing handling it is considered extremely forgiving & easy to ride.  In other words, you can take it out on a Sunday cruise or show the boys in Maui how it’s done.

The Makaha has a three-month lead time for delivery and includes a posh custom travel bag.

The Grande Lakes Orlando Florida resort, which includes both a Ritz-Carlton and a Marriott hotel, as a new offering to tempt adventurers of all ages.

The Grande Lakes Orlando Adventure Course is a large multi-level structure consisting of poles, cables, and platforms laced with 25 traversing and climbing elements. The course is suitable for adults and children over the age of 10.

Adventurers can choose their level of challenge climbing from 15 to 55 feet in the air and navigating through a course with 600-foot zip lines and a 40-foot giant swing.

Packages vary in price from open sessions with up to 30 guests which cost $60 per adult to private adventures in which up to eight people can enjoy the course with one-on-one coaching for $850 for two hours.

Yacht lovers are finding that this is definitely the season to buy. The deals just keep coming. The latest is a $2 million price cut on the 123-foot Muse. Muse is the second in the 123 sports Flybridge series from Palmer Johnson and was built in 2006. The yacht accommodates eight guests overnight in a master suite plus three double cabins and cruises along at 14 knots with speeds up to 23 knots.

The elegant interior is ornamented with hardwood details in a large open area that includes the salon and main dining area. The sycamore dining table offers seating for eight guests and there is is a relaxed cluster of sofas and cozy arm chairs. Dining and cocktailing options also abound outdoors on the main deck where there is an outdoor bar and additional seating. The sundeck includes another table for eight, a webar, barbecue and fridge as well as a Jacuzzi and ample lounging areas.

The master cabin on the main deck has his and hers cedar wood closets, a sofa, writing desk and en suite bathroom and the VIP suite, on the lower deck offers a similar retreat. Muse chartered for as much as $98,000 a week last year during July and August (the charter site features more photos). This yacht is now listed at $11.9 million.

The days of being able to hang with fellow bicyclists on your sporting Huffy or Schwinn are long gone.  Now, it’s all about carbon fiber, titanium and aerodynamics — and these guys aren’t going for the  Tour de France, they are merely weekend warriors.

So how do you hang with the best?   Get yourself a sweet, custom Vanilla Bicycle.

Custom, handcrafted, one-of-a-kind bicycles come to fruition per the customer’s specifications in Portland, Oregon at a shop founded by Sacha White and his team of craftsman.  Sacha started building bicycles in the winter of 1999. Now, at just 31 years of age, Sacha is a pioneering member of the new generation of frame builders.

With approximately six weeks required for painting the frame to the ten hours spent polishing the lugs, owning a Vanilla Bicycle requires patience. Overall, more than 60 hours of labor are invested into these two-wheeled beauties and the price for the frame alone begins at $2,150.