Yachting Monthly UK
TESTED EWINCHER ELECTRIC WINCH HANDLE - £2,099
Designed for yachts from 30 to 60 feet, Ewincher is an electrically assisted winch handle recently upgraded and relaunched with more power and longer battery life.
2 min |
August 2023
Yachting Monthly UK
The lessons we should not forget
Sailors have famously short memories. Arriving in New Caledonia after blast-reaching in near gale conditions up from New Zealand, we had that slightly wild-eyed, salty-haired look that comes with an eventful passage. And we weren’t even meant to be in New Caledonia. A weather forecast shortly after setting out from Opua showed a low forming just off these islands, deepening rapidly and moving eastwards. Our planned passage up to Fiji would have meant we would effectively be ‘racing’ this weather system to Fiji. Our ETAs would be pretty much equal. Not good.
2 min |
August 2023
Yachting Monthly UK
My boat is a welcome retreat
Tracey and I have just commenced construction of our very own Grand Designs in so much as we are self building a long dreamed of off-grid house in our little corner of Cornwall. It’s cool to be using technology that we used to test and develop during the early days of short-handed racing.
2 min |
August 2023
Yachting Monthly UK
HOW TO NAVIGATE 'ORCA ALLEY'
In the last three years, orcas have started 'attacking' yachts on their way through the Gibraltar Straits. James Kenning looks at how to minimise the risk
10+ min |
August 2023
Yachting Monthly UK
'THE ORCAS SHOOK THE BOAT LIKE A TOY'
Theo Wakefield’s boat was significantly damaged and his nerves shaken after an encounter with orcas off Portugal
7 min |
August 2023
Yachting World
SWAN STYLE
CAN A MODERN FAST CRUISER BE ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE? TOBY HODGES TRIALLED THE FIRST SWAN 55 TO FIND OUT IF NAUTOR'S DECADES OF EXPERIENCE CAN ACHIEVE SUCH A FEAT
10 min |
August 2023
Yachting World
GEAR FOCUS
TAKING THE OIL OUT OF OILIES: SAM FORTESCUE ON ECO FOULIES
8 min |
August 2023
Yachting World
SHAKING UP THE INDUSTRY
THE BIGGEST TRANSFORMATION OF BOATBUILDING - AND THE WIDER MARINE INDUSTRY IN OUR LIFETIME IS UNDER WAY, WITH THE DRIVE TO ELIMINATE CARBON EMISSIONS AND USE COMPOSITES TH THAT CAN BE RECYCLED INTO A NEW BOAT. RUPERT HOLMES VISITS THOSE YARDS SPEARHEADING THE CHANGE
10+ min |
August 2023
Yachting World
EXTRAORDINARY BOATS
SEAN MCNEILL ON MALIZIA-SEAEXPLORER
7 min |
August 2023
Yachting World
SPECIAL REPORT
ANNABEL FINDING ON CRUISING IN TÜRKIYE
7 min |
August 2023
Yachting World
CALLING THE SHOTS
TERRY HUTCHINSON IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST TACTICIANS, BUT HE'S YET TO ACHIEVE HIS ULTIMATE AMBITION. SEAN MCNEILL FINDS OUT WHAT IT TAKES TO CALL THE SHOTS AT THE TOP
9 min |
August 2023
Yachting World
CITY OF WATER
PHIL AND ROXY JOHNSON ENJOY A MEMORABLE CRUISE TO VENICE, EXPLORING THE ‘CITY OF LOVE’ BY BOAT
8 min |
August 2023
Yachting World
5 EXPERT TIPS
ROBERT STANJEK ON TACKING
4 min |
August 2023
Yachting World
VOYAGE OF THE AEGRE
A YOUNG COUPLE SURVIVES A SEEMINGLY HOPELESS SITUATION WHEN THEIR 21FT CLINKER YACHT IS ROLLED MID-PACIFIC
8 min |
August 2023
Yachting World
MAKING A BREAK FOR IT
WANT TO SAIL AROUND THE WORLD WITHOUT RETIRING? MAX GOODMAN AND CHARLOTTE BRANNSTROM ON HOW THEY ACHIEVED THEIR DREAM AS ‘CAREER BREAK’ CRUISERS
10+ min |
August 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
SOLARIS POWER 52 OPEN
Having launched two new smaller models in the wake of its original 48ft Open, Solaris Power is now working its way up the range, starting with this new 52 Open.
1 min |
August 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
AEGEAN ADVENTURE
MBY regulars Thomas and Jutta Kittel continue their annual Mediterranean cruise this time heading towards Albania and Greece from Montenegro
8 min |
August 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
THE FUTURE IS HYBRID
When Volvo Penta and the Beneteau Group team up on a quest to make sustainable powerboating a reality, it's time to sit up and take notice...
6 min |
August 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
FRAUSCHER DEMON 1414
If looks could kill, then Frauscher's super-cool weekender would slay everything in its wake. But is its performance as deadly? We take it for an early-morning spin in Palma to find out...
8 min |
August 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Hull design HOW IT IMPACTS PERFORMANCE
Peter Poland explains how hull design has evolved over the years and how this affects boat handling and accommodation
10+ min |
August 2023
Practical Boat Owner
A modern take on the traditional proa
Ali Wood finds out more about visionary designer Rob Denney
4 min |
August 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BOAT CUISINE
Phil Sampson witnesses the rebirth of one of the Isle of Wight's most charismatic restaurants
2 min |
August 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
FAIRLINE TARGA 43
It’s not often we feature two models from one manufacturer, and especially not from the same model line but this Targa 43 shows just how far Fairline had progressed the Targa line by 1997, when this model launched. Whilst keeping the open cockpit ethos (now lost on the latest Targas – every current model comes with a hard top) this is a larger, more sophisticated boat than its forebears.
1 min |
August 2023
Practical Boat Owner
How NOT to start the sailing season
It's like the boat-launching Olympics for Greg Manning as he leaps hurdles and avoids cutting corners to cover 1,920 miles back and forth in 15 days to get his yacht safely afloat
7 min |
August 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Cruising through mountainous Wales
Charles Beddingfield takes a nostalgic tour of Milford Haven and the Pembrokeshire coast
8 min |
August 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Frank and Margaret Dye
Roger Barnes reflects on the legacy of small-boat sailors Frank and Margaret Dye
7 min |
August 2023
Practical Boat Owner
It's the voices
When you can’t do right for doing wrong, doing wrong Is the right thing to do
3 min |
August 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Lost at sea
Cruising pioneer Peter Tangvald's son, Thomas, disappeared after sailing from South America in 2014. Kathy Catton recalls her memories of him
5 min |
August 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Safe mast climbing
Most of us prefer to climb the mast when safely alongside, but what if you have to climb it at sea? Pip Hare shares tips and techniques
3 min |
August 2023
Practical Boat Owner
e-Cat conversion
Michael Sanatani’s electrification of a British fishing catamaran into a Canadian family cruiser
6 min |