It was early morning aboard Anasazi Girl. As I exhaled, I could see my breath curl like smoke through the cold air. I was lying with our three children in…
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…
Quant 23: Why this radical Dukes of Hazzard throwback is one of the most fun, exciting designs in years
All this foiling malarkey turns a lot of people off. The pumped-up, Red Bull-fuelled adrenaline junkies flying around on ludicrously expensive exotic mulitihulls – before falling of the skinny foils…
First look: Carbon Arcona 465 for fast, safe passagemaking in style
Arcona Yachts produces elegant performance cruisers using tried-and-tested build methods and styling. These are sailors’ yachts, richly rewarding to helm, with a quality fit-out. The yard has a niche recipe…
Minoprio wins Argo Group Gold Cup in Bermuda
Minoprio’s BlackMatch team from New Zealand defeated Keith Swinton’s Black Swan Racing from Australia, 3-2, in the final of the 67th annual Argo Group Gold Cup. Minoprio and crew Nick…
Storming the ARC – the fast way to cross the Atlantic in a cruising rally
Fish caught… 0 Freshly cooked meals …0 Books read …0 Sunbathing hours …0 Sundowners… 1 Vaquita was sailing so fast she sounded as if she were electrically charged. “We were…
Skip Novak: Setting out on sea trials inadequately prepared? Been there, done that
Anyone who owns a boat knows the subject. We’ve all done it, setting out to sea on an extended voyage, with little or no sea trials. I can consider my…
Quant 23 – on board the first foiling keelboat, created by Hugh Welbourn
Winner of the Special Yacht category of the European Yacht of the Year Awards 2015. Read more here Flying multihulls may be grabbing the headlines, but the next development in…
MOD70 Musandam-Oman Sail report man overboard off the coast of Croatia
Updated 14:00 GMT Thursday 8 October The Italian and Croatian coastguards continue to assist Oman Sail with the search and rescue operation for Mohammed al Alawi, a 26-year old…
SAIL FASTER SAIL SAFER advanced techniques series Part 7: Light airs sailing
We all know the frustration of trying to sail in light airs – it can be hard to resist firing up the engine. Yet most of us love to trim…
World Match Racing Tour draws Americas Cup crews in Bermuda
If you thought that the lure of high performance foiling 45ft cats would render an event that is held in classic IOD’s irrelevant for teams’ path to the America’s Cup,…
Land Rover BAR launches latest Americas Cup boat T2, but what’s different?
A year after the launch of its first boat, Land Rover BAR has splashed their next development machine. T2, as she is called, follows on from their first boat T1…
5 tips: the gybe set spinnaker hoist – when to use it and how
There is always a temptation to keep things simple on the racecourse and opt for a bear away spinnaker set. However, some basic compass and tide checks can reveal how…
‘Did you sail that thing here?’ – solo across the Atlantic in a Folkboat
It’s a funny thing, the further I sailed away from northern Europe, the more attention my boat attracted in marinas and anchorages. In Cornwall, people barely noticed the little Folkboat…
Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 7: should the worst happen – with Nigel Irens
Different strategies for keeping a catamaran safe from the risk of capsize have been discussed in other features in this series, but we do need to look more closely at…
Nautor’s Swan announces an exhilarating new ClubSwan 50 one-design by Juan K for its 50th birthday
This is very positive news from a yard that one may have presumed was concentrating on its larger yacht range, after recently launching its first of four new 115ft superyachts.…
Bluewater Sailing Techniques Part 1: introducing our 12-part series with a cruise in the Pacific
We begin our new 12-part multimedia series on Bluewater Sailing Techniques in stunning Fiji
Video: 33 of the world’s finest classic yachts at Les Voiles de St Tropez 2015
Each year, Les Voiles de St Tropez regatta attracts a dazzling mixture of yachts from day sailers to superyachts, and some of the finest-looking maxis and performance cruisers in the world.…
100 years old and going strong – sailing Mariette across the Atlantic
This year the 138ft gaff schooner Mariette is 100 and to celebrate, her owner and her captain, Charlie Wroe, decided to take part in the Transatlantic Race. As she was…
Gallery: Over 70 beautiful classic yachts take to the water for the Régates Royales in Cannes
The Régates Royales celebrated its 37th anniversary in style in September, with more than 150 boats, divided into classics, vintage, metric classes and Dragons, racing off the Bay of Cannes.…