In the second of our Volvo Ocean Race video documentaries from the stopover in Auckland, Team Alvimedica navigator Will Oxley puts words to the extraordinary images of the team’s leg…
Skippers wanted for sailing holiday with a difference
Traveleyes, a unique travel company that runs tours for sighted and blind travellers, is seeking qualified yacht skippers for their next sailing holiday. The organisation, now in its tenth year,…
25ft quarter ton yachts have been having something of a revival racing in the Solent
They’re old, small and decidedly quirky, but quarter tonners are providing some of the hottest handicap racing in the Solent now.
Video: Volvo Ocean Race – Their words and pictures
Having met the crews as they arrived in Auckland after more than 5,000nm of racing win which the front three boats finished within 8 minutes of each other it seemed…
Flyer flies again – Conny van Rietschoten’s famous round the world ocean racer has been meticulously restored
One name dominated ocean racing in the late 1970s and early 80s: Dutch round the world racer Cornelis van Riestchoten, who owned two yachts named Flyer. This great sailor died…
Yacht refit overseas: it may look cheaper, but is it a good idea to have a refit done abroad?
Yacht refit in a far-flung part of the world can appear to be an attractive proposition, particularly if you can reap the benefit of lower labour rates. However, if it…
Volvo Ocean Race: The Boatyard sets to work on another 6,000nm service, Matthew Sheahan finds out how
Forty years on from the first Whitbread race, plenty has changed. Gone are the long lazy stopovers and in come tightly controlled, time conscious turnarounds to keep the Volvo show…
Focus on liferafts: are you ready should the worst happen?
For six days in May last year Britain held its breath as the search went on for Cheeki Rafiki and her crew. Signals had been reported and hopes were kindled…
Rustler 37 boat test – Just your cup of tea?
They say the key to the perfect cup of tea is to use a good old-fashioned teapot. It brews the leaves properly and provides an altogether different tasting cuppa, more…
Volvo Ocean Race: Auckland arrivals….all at once
Leading the night time charge from Sanya in China to to the finish line off Auckland’s Viaduct Basin breakwater, Xabi Fernandez’ Mapfre maintained their pole position, followed closely by Ian…
The Barker debacle – Team New Zealand embroiled in a bitter row between skipper Barker and boss Dalton
The country, it seems, is outraged at the way in which its long serving skipper is being squeezed out of the team after a recent leak disclosed that the team…
Bella Mente claims impressive win at the 2015 RORC Caribbean 600
Hap Fauth’s American JV72, Bella Mente has been declared the overall winner of the 2015 RORC Caribbean 600. Whilst several yachts are still racing, by the morning of Friday 27th…
Far east 28R: a fast, fun one-design in a lightweight, affordable package
One-designs can provide fun, fair racing, as epitomised by the Volvo Ocean Race fleet currently sliding round the planet. But modern one-designs tend to come with off-putting prices, particularly if…
Gallery: Spectacular highlights from the RORC Caribbean 600
These fantastic images from the RORC Caribbean 600 have landed on the Yachting World picture desk, straight from photographers Tim Wright, Ted Martin and Richard Langdon. If you’ve missed all…
Phaedo3 shatters course record to win line honours in the RORC Caribbean 600
Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD 70 trimaran Phaedo3 has broken the course record of the Caribbean 600, setting a new time of 1 day, 9 hours, 35 minutes and bettering the line…
Hungarian skipper injured in Southern Ocean while competing in Barcelona World Race
Having to stitch up your crewmate’s head wound whilst slamming over rough seas in the Southern Ocean is a nightmare situation that even the most experienced of medics would find…
Blog: ‘It’s going to be a wet and windy ride’ Pip Hare reports from the RORC Caribbean 600
The Caribbean 600 yacht race will start on Monday at 11am local time under a beating Caribbean sun for 600 miles of intense and full on racing passing 11 Caribbean…
VIDEO: take our exclusive video tour of MOD70 trimaran Phaedo³, primed for the Caribbean 600 record
Racing sailors like to say that if you want to win, then take a gun to a knife fight. US sailor Lloyd Thornburg has got himself an appropriate weapon in…
Broadblue Rapier 550 boat test – Are you ready for a 54ft catamaran that steers like a car?
Marty McFly, Michael J Fox’s lead character in the 1980s film Back to the Future, breaks into a wild electric guitar solo while playing a Chuck Berry number during a…
Fast and furious Neo 400 is claimed to be the ‘fastest cruising 40-footer in the world’
A sign that brags ‘the fastest cruising 40-footer in the world’ is a sure-fire way to attract attention. My first impressions of the Neo 400 stern-to at the Genoa Boat…