lt’s the last sail of the season. The harbours are empty save for a few stragglers in denial of a season that never was, hoping to catch a final magical…
Video: Loïck Peyron talks about racing solo across the Atlantic on Pen Duick II
It is 52 years since Eric Tabarly won the OSTAR. The late, great Frenchman’s victory, on his first ever solo Atlantic race, was feted in France and ignited a passion for…
Skippers prepare for The Transat bakerly, one of yacht racing’s toughest tests
Plymouth is where the sport of solo ocean racing was minted in 1960. The first transatlantic race to New York, the race that became famous as the OSTAR, was a…
Loïck Peyron: is the legendary French yachtsman the world’s greatest sailor?
Loïck Peyron's extraordinary career shows him as the ultimate all-rounder
Raymarine Quantum – a revolutionary new radar using Chirp technology
Raymarine claims its new Quantum Chirp radome is the lightest and most efficient radar in its class. Chirp technology is used increasingly by marine manufacturers in echo sounders to increase…
Canadian yachtsman is murdered following kidnapping in Philippines
John Ridsdel, 68, was taken hostage from the Ocean View Marina on Samal Island, Davao in 2015, along with another Canadian sailor, Robert Hall, Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad and a Philippine…
Skip Novak: want a larger yacht? Sometimes smaller is better for exploratory cruising
Some years ago I piloted a 170ft superyacht down the coast of Chile. It was the owner’s 12th sailing boat, each one progressively larger than his original 40-footer. I assume…
Land Rover BAR launches its third America’s Cup test boat, ‘T3’
Land Rover BAR is the first of the America’s Cup Challengers to launch a third test boat, ‘T3’. With just over a year until the America’s Cup qualifying races begin…
World ARC crews talk to us in Colombia, first stop on their circumnavigation
Thirty-three yachts are in the early stages of a 26,000-mile circumnavigation with the sixth World ARC. It’s a 15-month cruise in company from Saint Lucia and the first stop was…
Planning an offshore passage? Get expert advice at the Bluewater Open Weekend
A free open boat weekend for bluewater sailors is being run by ARC rally organisers World Cruising Club at Berthon Boatyard in Lymington on the weekend of 14 and 15…
Join the Yachting World team – we’re looking for an enthusiastic all-rounder
Yachting World, the world’s most widely read sailing magazine, is looking for an organised and enthusiastic person to join our team, which is based in Farnborough, Hampshire. This is an…
Video: Watch our pick of the craziest stunts on sailing boats
1. The ‘Keel walk’ Alex Thomson made one of sailing’s most iconic images when he was photographed walking the keel of his yacht Hugo Boss. Getting the conditions right for…
A marine vacuum cleaner to suck up plastic? Meet the Seabin Project
Dame Ellen MacArthur made headlines recently by quoting memorable statistics that included: “One refuse truck’s worth of plastic is dumped into the sea every minute”, which will result in there…
A brief affair with Graham Greene – a double-ender lists the author as an owner
Graham Greene is not noted for being a great sailor. The author of Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair and other popular novels from the 1930s onwards is better…
Meet the radical new BlackCat, a 50m/165ft luxury multihull that can do 30 knots!
Every now and again you see a radical new concept that makes you grin in the knowledge that yacht design has just taken one brave step forward. This new BlackCat…
X-Yachts X4 – a new X to mark the spot between cruising and performance
Two years ago X-Yachts announced a new flagship, the appealing X6. Although later than anticipated, the first of these 63-footers is due to launch this April and three have now…
Gallery: Stunning photographs from the seventh edition of the Les Voiles de St Barth
Photos by Christophe Jouanay The seventh edition of Les Voiles de St. Barth is underway, with racing taking place around the French island of Saint-Barthélemy and the various smaller islands…
5 tips: the port and starboard cross – the simplest rule?
With the wind slowly clocking right your original decision that the pin end was the best place to start may be in doubt, so if a half decent result is…
Green flash: fact or fantasy? Weather man Chris Tibbs explains the science
Caribbean cruising is not complete without sundowners on a beach watching the sun slowly dip below the horizon. Invariably the conversation will turn to the ‘green flash’ and the group…
Obituary: Ed Dubois 1952-2016
Few yacht designers were as influential as Ed Dubois, who died in March at the age of 63. He trailblazed a path from racing boats to superyachts and was one…