The latest action from the annual Isle of Wight sailing festival
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GB’s Clipper yacht to be unveiled in London
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race has announced it will be officially unveiling Great Britain’s yacht in Trafalgar Square at the end of this month.
Red Arrows return to Cowes Week
The aerobatic team return for 2013
Dorade wins Transpac
The classic S&S yawl Dorade won the 1936 TransPac. Now, 77 years later, she has not only claimed victory for a second time but has blown her own record out…
Tales from the Oyster Rally
An unusual request for assistance
Cowes Week ‘top tips’ from 2012 winners
What does it take to be a winning team at Cowes Week? Check out this five point plan from last year's White Group winners 'Harlequin'
Fiji ideal pit stop for Oyster Rally
David Glenn gets a taste of the other side of Fiji, the marina at Denarau and, in complete contrast, the superb island groups that lie off this coast
Dream team go it alone with Oyster
Some young crew in the Oyster World Rally got more than they bargained for when their parents had to return home to England leaving them to face a Pacific crossing…
Stitched up by the Canadians
There have been a few calls for medical help on the Oyster World Rally and a crew of Canadian doctors aboard Chinook have been the go-to ‘field hospital’. David Glenn…
Not all plain sailing for the Oyster World Rally
Alan and Jean Du Toit sailed the longest Pacific leg aboard their Oyster 575 with no other crew and managed to cope with a broken boom only days after they…
Oyster sleighride to Savusavu
David Glenn enjoys a glorious 125-mile downwind sail aboard Eddie Jordan’s Lush as he reports from the Oyster World Rally
Young Oyster circumnavigators
Of the 100 or more yachtsmen and women taking part in the first Oyster World Rally nearly a quarter of them are youngsters in their 20s. David Glenn met some…
The Royal Yacht Squadron, but not as you know it….
Editor David Glenn is in Fiji with the Oyster World Rally enjoying the remote beauty of the Lau island group where a temporary official port of entry has been established
Contessa 32 returns to family Rogers
David Glenn is shown aboard Willy Ker’s famous Contessa 32 Assent by her new owners, Kit and Jessie Rogers whose family built the yacht in 1972
Monster rigs revealed by Magma
Two enormous carbon rigs are being built at a new UK company. David Glenn visited Portchester to look at the impressive Magma Structures operation
On his sixth Pink Gin
Baltic Yachts have given themselves a 40th birthday present in the form Pink Gin VI, a 175ft sloop. Her owner recently bought Baltic Yachts and plans to launch his new…
Slow down, you’re going too fast
In the wake of the death of Andrew Simpson Yachting World editor David Glenn comments on what he sees as an unsatisfactory state of affairs surrounding the America's Cup
Could you cut away your rigging?
Are cable cutters worth their three- or four-figure price tag if you dismast and need to cut away your rigging, or will a £40 set of boltcroppers slice through shrouds…
Blazing in Antigua
Day three of Antigua Sailing Week saw the Trade Winds return in full force and deliver some spectacular racing
Navitus Bay windfarm public consultation
Consultation will close soon so have your say now