Are rebranded ‘Mk II’ models just an elaborate marketing exercise? Occasionally, yes. But a number of well-respected boatbuilders adopt the practice, including Hallberg-Rassy, Oyster and Discovery – in fact, HR…
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Solaris 50 boat test – when style meets substance
Winner of the Performance Cruiser category of the European Yacht of the Year Awards 2015. Read more here Production yachts are rarely referred to as trendsetters. Like a mainstream saloon…
Drogues and sea anchors: we test a Jordan Series drogue and a ParaAnchor
Drogues and sea anchors are designed to slow a boat or allow it to hold station in extreme weather conditions. They can prevent a possible capsize, roll or broach by…
Why multihulls are becoming ever more popular for cruising
“Actually, there’s an awful lot of space on offer, isn’t there?” you might say after a quick look aboard a modern cruising catamaran at the boat show. “How nice to…
Isn’t this what family cruising is all about? Kicking back on a gentle ocean passage to Hawaii
For ten years my wife, Tiffany, and I had been sailing west round the world on our 34ft gaff-cutter, Vixen. There had been a few detours, for instance up into…
Gallery: Pictures from the start of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
Scroll down for video Hundreds of amateur sailors from around the world passed under Tower Bridge on Sunday as they began the 40,000 nautical mile Clipper Round The World Yacht…
Video: Oyster 475 and 545 on test, which would you choose?
Oyster’s range spans 48-125 ft LOA and provides a wide variety of routes to achieve the same goal, long distance, luxury cruising. Yet among the nine current models, two of…
Kiwis take overall win in needle match at AC World Series in Gothenburg
When asked how his close friend and skipper of Artemis Racing, Iain Percy would be feeling after his team’s run of poor performance and bad luck, Ben Ainslie took his…
Rocks, rock stars and short legs at Day 1 Americas Cup World Series in Gothenburg
The practice day in Gothenburg had been a hair raising experience for many of the teams as gusty conditions saw several bury their bows and come perilously close to capsize.…
Breezy, nerve wracking conditions for LV Americas Cup World Series in Gothenburg
There is an air of tension around the dockside here in Gothenburg as the six teams prepare for the first of two days racing. The practice races on Friday saw…
Video: Dramatic aerial footage and pictures of the new Mono60 Edmond de Rothschild
These spectacular images and aerial footage of the new Mono60 Edmond de Rothschild have emerged after the boat took to the water for a test sail in Brittany. Launched on…
5 tips: sailing with an asymmetric – how to get yourself out of impossible-seeming situations
You’re blasting downhill on port with the big asymmetric set, searching for a fast route over the next set of waves. As you glance back over your right shoulder to…
How to watch the next Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Gothenburg this weekend
If you don’t want to miss the America’s Cup action, there are a number of different ways to follow the high-octane racing in Gothenburg. Yachting World ‘s Matthew Sheahan will…
Bestevaer Pure – a series-built 45ft junior member of the renowned Bestevaer range
Could this be the hardiest 45ft production-build ever? KM Yachtbuilders, based in Makkum in the Netherlands, has announced plans to build a series of 45-footers under the name Pure. The…
Extreme Sailing Series move to super-light GC32 foiling catamarans for 2016 season
Scroll down for video The Extreme Sailing Series will now be held on foiling GC32 catamarans, as the competition moves to foiling yachts as part of a long-term strategy. The…
GC32: A profile of the cat that learned to fly at 30 knots
First published February 2015. “Hike her down, guys, and we’ll get her up,” called our helmsman Paul Campbell-James to the five crew of the GC32 Richard Mille. As our backsides…
Quantum Racing TP52 – Doug de Vos’s new boat is the last word in ‘tweaky’
Celebrating its tenth anniversary in Europe this year, racing’s premier keelboat class, the TP52, is in surprisingly good health. Through careful management it has avoided the dramatic cost escalation that…
Meow, a supercharged Contessa 26 with 3Di sails and seriously tweaked rig and gear
A long-standing tenet of big fleet handicap racing is that either a very fast boat, or a very slow one, is likely to have an advantage compared with those in…
Top 25 yachts of the year – a full breakdown of this year’s European Yacht of the Year nominees
If you want to know what the best new production yachts on the market are at the moment, the best indicator is to look at the boats nominated for the…
Eagle 54 – an immaculately clean-decked daysailer from Hoek and Dutch builder Leonardo Yachts
Leonardo Yachts’ co-founder Melle Boersma sent us these first sailing pictures of their new Eagle 54. When I first saw them I presumed they were computer-enhanced renderings, but no, she…