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Emirates Team New Zealand win World Series in first clues for 36th America’s Cup

  • December 19, 2020

Can the Kiwis be beaten for the 36th America’s Cup? They must be on short odds already, three months out from the main event, given the dominant performance of Emirates…

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Evrika: This classic Swan 65 has been refitted for the 2023 Ocean Globe Race

  • December 16, 2020

Evrika got her name from Archimedes, the ancient Greek mathematician who discovered the basis of water displacement. Legend has it that when Archimedes noticed the level of his bathwater rise…

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How hydrogen fuel cells could provide a truly clean energy source for yachts

  • December 16, 2020

Nearly a decade ago there was plenty of talk about hydrogen fuel cells becoming the carbon-free future for the automotive industry, yet we rarely hear about it now. So what…

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Electric dreams: Jimmy Cornell reports on life aboard his eco-friendly catamaran

  • December 16, 2020

We couldn’t have picked a more miserable day to go out for our first sail on Aventura Zero. As we left the marina, grey skies hung low over the bay…

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Spirit 72DH first look: New project sees woodworking maestros embrace carbon

  • December 16, 2020

The Spirit 72DH will be configured to suit the owner’s specific requirements for fast cruising, racing and charter sailing in the Mediterranean. A key request was for the displacement to…

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Vendée Globe racer Pip Hare explains how sailors decide when to turn back

  • December 16, 2020

Whenever I show new sailors how to fill out the logbook I make a point of heading the page ‘Passage towards’, rather than inserting an end destination. It’s an old…

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Pro navigator Mike Broughton explains why paper charts are still irreplaceable

  • December 16, 2020

We now have sailing apps that help with navigation planning, that explain rules, apps that track you and apps that track all other vessels with AIS. Weather forecasting apps continue…

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Ovni 650 first look: This new flagship looks ideal for long-distance cruising

  • December 16, 2020

This 65-footer incorporates many of the developments first seen on the Ovni 400 that was launched 18 months ago and reviewed in Yachting World earlier this year. These include the…

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Expert sailing advice: Mike Broughton explains the importance of tidal laylines

  • December 16, 2020

Rather like the poker player who unwittingly plays into a trap, starting in a strong steam easily ensnares the unwary. To reduce this risk, getting to the start area early…

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London to Stockholm on an 87ft houseboat: An extract from Sailing Barge Venta

  • December 16, 2020

Back in the 1960s when the last Thames sailing barges were coming out of trading, a few were taken by bold individuals as yachts or houseboats. The best of them…

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Post-Brexit sailing rules explained: Restrictions loom for 20,000 UK cruisers

  • December 15, 2020

There are three major areas of concern. For UK citizens an immediate impact will be losing the right to spend longer than 90 days in any rolling 180-day period in…

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Aiming for the impossible: The inside story of the 2020 Jules Verne contenders

  • December 14, 2020

Forty days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds: that is the time that is embedded in the psyche of crews currently challenging for the Jules Verne trophy. The clock…

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How Formula 1 tech is helping the America’s Cup contenders fly around the course

  • December 10, 2020

But in reality it’s difficult to make such a collaboration work because the differences tend to outweigh the points of crossover. However, the word from inside Ben Ainslie’s team is…

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C. Sherman Hoyt memoirs: A typically frank extract from Yankee Yachtsman

  • December 8, 2020

Born in 1878, C Sherman Hoyt sailed in every racing yacht imaginable for the best part of 60 years. Tireless, highly skilled, with an almost uncanny ability to spot a…

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Why stand-up paddleboards have become the must-have boating accessory

  • December 7, 2020

The advent of high-strength PVC inflatables and high-pressure pumps has transformed the world of marine toys. The variety of inflatable stand-up paddleboards, kayaks and windsurfers is getting all ages afloat…

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How a sperm whale collision sank our yacht and sparked a mid-Pacific rescue

  • December 3, 2020

It’s noon on Sunday, 23 August, and just another day in the life of our small crew sailing across the Pacific. The Atlantic 46 catamaran One Tree Island is making…

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Eddie Warden Owen interview: The offshore boss who changed the RORC’s fortunes

  • December 3, 2020

Whether at the windswept finish of the Rolex Fastnet Race, or in the wood-panelled rooms of the Royal Ocean Racing Club in London, Eddie Warden Owen is one of the…

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Sailing Newfoundland: Swan 59 skipper shares his summer on ice

  • December 2, 2020

“Humpback, 300 metres. Hard to port, Tom!” Icebear encountered her first whales in Cabot Strait, the deep passage separating south-western Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island on the far north-eastern corner…

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Vendée Globe rescue: Le Cam plucks Escoffier from liferaft after ‘shipwreck’ sinking mid-Atlantic

  • December 1, 2020

Escoffier was adrift in his liferaft for over 11 hours, some 840 miles south of Cape Town, at night in 25-knot winds and 3 metre seas, when Le Cam –…

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ClubSwan 80: New design promises the ultimate owner-driver racing experience

  • December 1, 2020

Another ambitious and innovative project from the Finnish brand, the ClubSwan 80 is aimed at becoming the ultimate in owner-driver one-design racing. Nautor’s group vice-president Enrico Chieffi said they wanted…

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