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Cruising Colombia: An extraordinarily friendly country for visiting sailors

  • July 8, 2020

If I asked you for five words to describe Colombia I bet they wouldn’t include ‘welcoming’, ‘safe’, ‘fun’, ‘sophisticated’ or ‘beautiful’. I bet you’d be surprised if I told you…

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Cruising Australia: Everything you need to know about sailing Down Under

  • July 7, 2020

“It doesn’t matter where you choose, you can’t go wrong in Australia. There are so many wonderful cruising grounds,” says Hank Rosendal, a Dutch-Australian sailor. His Amel 53 Tempest is…

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Sailing to the Canary Islands: Everything you need to know

  • July 6, 2020

Our focus tends to be on the crossing to the Caribbean of around 3,000 miles. If done at the right season the weather for the transatlantic stage will likely be…

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Leopard 45: Hard-top adds fresh appeal to this popular catamaran design

  • July 2, 2020

Drawn by Simonis Voogd and built by Robertson & Caine in South Africa, every Leopard cat gets put through its paces in the Southern Ocean before sailing on its own…

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Catamaran sailing across the Atlantic: Why multihulls are taking over the ARC

  • July 2, 2020

Something big has happened in ocean sailing. It could be the tipping point in the 34-year history of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, when multihulls move from minority element to…

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Bali Catspace 40: Spacious catamaran promises 20% more room than its rivals

  • July 1, 2020

The idea is attributed to Bali’s founder, Olivier Poncin, who has built up a €63m turnover business in this short space of time. It’s easy to appreciate why the one-level…

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Cruising Patagonia: An extract from Winter in Fireland by Nicholas Coghlan

  • June 30, 2020

Nicholas Coghlan circumnavigated in the late 1980s with Jenny, his wife, on their small yacht, Tarka the Otter, before taking up a career in the Canadian Foreign Service. Many years…

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Privilege Signature 510: What’s changed on the first Hanse Group era model?

  • June 29, 2020

But the new boat has had more than just a name change. It has had an aesthetic makeover with dozens of small details improved, from the strips of continuous glazing…

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X56 first look: New model combines powerful hull with spacious accommodation

  • June 25, 2020

The ethos of this range, which appeals to those looking for a state-of-the-art performance cruiser, is now firmly established. “Around 80% of cruising is reaching or downwind, which is where…

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Expert sailing tips: Dee Caffari’s top 5 tips for creating a cohesive crew

  • June 25, 2020

To win the Volvo Ocean Race you need proven, battle-hardened experience on board. However, the youth-focussed, multinational Turn The Tide On Plastic entry had very different goals. While every sailor…

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Finishing a solo circumnavigation: An extract from Solitaire Spirit by Les Powles

  • June 23, 2020

If he hadn’t chosen to write a book, Les Powles could well have remained one of the unsung heroes of the ocean, men and women who dare to do in…

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Sailing Vancouver Island: Braving bears and bad weather on the inside-out route

  • June 22, 2020

At 94 years of age, my father, Donald, still hates sitting in harbour. He lives in La Conner, Washington, on a cliff overlooking the Swinomish Channel, where he can keep…

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Grand Soleil 44 Performance: New cruiser-racer to expand Italian yard’s range

  • June 18, 2020

With 4,500 yachts built to date, this Italian brand has recently increased capacity to 200 builds a year across its three model ranges. Turnover has also grown sharply, increasing from…

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Hi-Line transfers: Pip Hare explains how to prepare for a helicopter evacuation

  • June 18, 2020

As a sea survival instructor, I have been evacuated from a liferaft by helicopter and over the course of my sailing career I have helped with several practice Hi-Line transfers. …

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Sea Eagle II: The inside story of the world’s largest aluminium sailing yacht

  • June 17, 2020

Royal Huisman has an enviable track record of producing superlative sailing superyachts, with hundreds of projects completed to date. Yet the latest vessel to leave the shipyard is extraordinary even…

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South Sandwich Islands sailing: Skip Novak on an ambitious scientific mission

  • June 17, 2020

The rule of thumb when doing these tricky inflatable beach landings is to hang in above the surf line for a good ten minutes to watch the sets coming through.…

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Sailing the Southern Ocean in a 27ft boat: Extract from Captain Bungle’s Odyssey

  • June 16, 2020

Captain Bungle’s Odyssey by Paddy Macklin is a great sailing book belied by its humble title. Extraordinarily self-effacing, Paddy makes light of a remarkable circumnavigation executed in truly Corinthian spirit,…

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Home schooling at sea: Top tips for tutoring your kids from 6 liveaboard sailors

  • June 15, 2020

For many, the opportunity to trade a bricks and mortar school for classes on deck or on the beach is part of the appeal of a cruising lifestyle. Here we…

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Lagoon Sixty5: Home comforts abound on this new luxury catamaran

  • June 11, 2020

Measuring 20.55m length overall, a generous 10m at the beam and spanning three levels with a huge flybridge, the Lagoon Sixty5 is all about volume and offers up to six…

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Special delivery: Sailing Dominican Republic to Florida in a foiling catamaran

  • June 11, 2020

It was an experience I’ll never forget: blasting downwind across the Northeast Providence Channel, on a deep water passage from New Providence to Chub Cay. We were sailing inside the…

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