Sometimes the headline more or less says it all, as in Victor Mallet’s “Super Rich Buying Ever-Larger Yachts”.

His evidence, in this case, is drawn from SuperYachts.com’s new top 100 superyachts ranking list. Last year, there were nine new launches of vessels capable of making the list but they now “can proudly predict that 11 yachts will launch across 2012, bringing in some of the biggest new names on the water.”