As you may be one day, we were new to the catamaran we were offered for this mission so we spent a good half hour in fairly open water practising…
Matthew Sheahan
Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 3: Anchoring and picking up a mooring – with Nigel Irens
Among the plus sides of cruising in a catamaran is that inherent shallow draught offers access to plenty of sheltered and attractive anchorages that are not available to deeper-keeled yachts.…
Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 4: Sailing a cat upwind – with Nigel Irens
If you were a visitor to Earth and found yourself sailing a run-of-the-mill cruising catamaran for the first time it would be easy to conclude that sailing upwind is not…
Top ways to use your tablet or iPad on board your boat
As iPads and other tablets become a part of the arsenal of electronics on board, their versatility, from slave displays and back-up navigation to streaming movies and storing photos, makes…
Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 5: sailing a cat downwind – with Nigel Irens
Generally speaking, the risk of getting into trouble in a catamaran when sailing downwind is greater than when sailing upwind. This is fundamentally owing to the fact that when heading…
Land Rover BAR capsize during training in Solent
The 45ft foiling cat named ‘T2’ is the team’s latest boat to be launched and is a more powerful and sophisticated version of the AC45f cats that are used in…
IDEC chases Jules Verne record pace and sets new record in the process
To date Francis Joyon’s crew aboard IDEC Sport has trailed Yann Guichard & Donna Bertarelli’s team aboard Spindrift 2, (formerly Banque Populaire), but by staying south and keeping a straighter…
Video: On test, the M32 cat and why you should try one
While America’s Cup foiling cats look spectacular and turn plenty of heads, the rate at which the demands of the new technology has been accelerating is leaving many of us…
Experts examine Oyster Yacht that sank after the keel and its stub broke off
Polina Star III, an extended version of an Oyster 825 that lost her keel and sank off the coast of Spain on 4 July 2015, has been raised and is…
Two giant trimarans take on the world and head off for Jules Verne attempt
To win the trophy will mean breaking Loïck Peyron’s blistering record pace of 45 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes and 53 seconds. For Spindrift 2 the trip will be a…
Rebellion – new grand-prix 40-footer is a downwind flyer
Ask any owner of the new breed of grand-prix 40-footers about their boats and they will start by describing the downwind performance. It’s hardly surprising. The new generation of lightweight,…
Americas Cup – Taking a sneaky peek at Land Rover BAR and Oracle Team USA’s latest boats
“We think this is the most powerful AC boat that will be built for this Cup cycle”, said Land Rover BAR crew member David ‘Freddie’ Carr as he pointed to…
Video: J11s – J Boat’s new launch for the amateur shorthanded racing scene. Matthew Sheahan reports
Several production builders such as Jeanneau and JPK have been tapping into the new enthusiasm with models such as the Sun Fast 3200 and 3600 as well as the JPK…
5 tips: reaching and downwind starts – some advice from Sir Ben Ainslie
The cut and thrust and elbow-shoving of a typical start is mostly about wrestling your way to the front of the queue. We all know the drill: assess the bias…
Artemis wins Bermuda Americas Cup World Series – crashing to victory
“That last gybe was the event,” said Iain Percy to his team as they crossed the finish line of the third and final race of the day. Artemis Racing had…
Americas Cup World Series – weather refuses to play ball on big day, but is there an alternative?
Once the weather forecast came into view earlier in the week there was always a risk that the first day of racing here in Bermuda was going to be tricky,…
Americas Cup World Series Bermuda – Practice day reveals new lessons for all
As with any practice race there will be those who go home grateful that their results didn’t count while others will wish the day’s action had been for points. Friday…
What it’s really like aboard a foiling Americas Cup boat in the heat of battle?
As we hammered our way downwind, smoking along at thirty-something knots, aside from the deafening noise, the force of the salty water in my face as the windward foil hit…
First impressions of Bermuda, the new home for the America’s Cup
You can Google it, Wikipedia it, or simply read a guide book about Bermuda, but during the last three days it has been the excellent and widely used online rainfall…
Nautitech Open 40 boat test – this cat will make you purr
Space, stability, performance and even safety, if you’re a monohull sailor you will be familiar with the key points of the arguments that multihull advocates present for having two hulls…