Boating_Sailing
Yachting Monthly UK
Mile-long RNLI flotilla for 200th anniversary
As the RNLI celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, more than 40 rescue vessels formed a flotilla more than a mile long in Poole in May.
1 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Ella Hibbert to sail to Norway and Russia in Arctic preparation
Intrepid 27-year-old sailor Ella Hibbert has made the difficult decision to delay her departure to sail solo around the Arctic circle until next year, but will instead depart this summer on a training expedition to Norway and Russia in preparation.
2 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Orcas sink a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar
A pod of orcas attacked and sank a 15m yacht in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar in May, the latest in a series of encounters in the area that have sunk five yachts in the past four years, the Spanish maritime authorities reported.
2 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Why Pip Hare needs you now
Sailing with Pip Hare last week reminded me of my father’s sailing mantra: ‘It’s all about drag.’
2 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
ADVENTURE THE CALL OF THE SOUTH SEAS
What is the call of the South Seas? The Hoiland family were curious to find out, so they set off west to explore. This is the story of their year sailing through the islands and atolls of French Polynesia
9 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
HOW TO DODGE GALES IN THE ISLES OF SCILLY
Ken Endean tries a two-anchorage strategy
8 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Picking up fore and aft moorings
Mooring fore and aft can be a fiddly process, never more so than in Cornwall's Polperro. If you can do it here, says Rachael Sprot, then you can do it anywhere
6 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
TECHNICAL PURCHASING POWER
Sam Fortescue explains how to check you have the power needed to handle your running rigging safely - and how to fix it if you don't
10+ min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
NEW GEAR
Dennis O'Neill reviews the latest products designed to make sailing safer and easier
3 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
'NEVER BEFORE HAVE I SAILED IN SUCH WILD WEATHER'
When Jeremy Edwards and his sister were hit by a 'weather bomb' en route to Tonga it gave him a new-found respect for his sister's skippering ability
9 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
ADVENTURE RACING AROUND THE WORLD
First Mate Rachel Burgess tells YM what it was like to race 28.000 miles around the world to win the Ocean Globe Race with her all-female crew aboard Maiden
7 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
FIRST TEST DUFOUR 41
There have always been yachts that claim to offer the best of all worlds. They lure you in with the promise of being able to luxuriate in spacious opulence after a day of exhilarating sailing.
9 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
How to rig preventers and boom brakes
Rigging a preventer or using a boom brake is just good seamanship when sailing downwind, but doing so badly is asking for trouble, says Rachael Sprot
10+ min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Don't let Thames sewage kill off this lovely boat
Samuel Pepys mentions oysters in his diaries 68 times, but that was when they were as common as winkles along the banks of the Thames and when they were a source of cheap protein for the masses.
3 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
I finally found the magic of the sea
I won’t be in theatres with a notebook as much as usual this month – time for some wider, wetter horizons – but may be musing, as I often do, on how rare it is for theatre to express a convincing reality about the oceans and the trade or pursuit of seafaring.
3 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
TECHNICAL GOLDEN OLDIES
Ken Endean looks back on the boats he has owned over 50 years and explains why the hull lines of older yachts continue to offer first-class handling
10+ min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
HOW IT WORKS MARKING
Many cruising yacht skippers mark very little on board their boats.
1 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
TECHNICAL INSTALLING A NEW ENGINE
When a mysterious loss of coolant jeopardised his sailing, Andy Du Port knew the time had tome to replace his yacht’s:veteran Volvo Penta
7 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
NEW GEAR
Dennis O’Neill rounds up the latest marine innovations, including developments in women’s sailing jackets
6 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
MARIE TABARLY HONOURING HER FATHER
Marie Tabarly took line honours in the Ocean Globe Race, surpassing her father’s record while racing aboard his famous 73ft ketch Pen Duick VI
3 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
HEATHER THOMAS SMASHING RECORDS
In leading her all-female crew to victory in the OGR, Heather Thomas has broken records and taken women's sailing into the stratosphere
3 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
MAIDEN MAKES HISTORY AGAIN
Being the first all-female crew to win a round-the-world race is seismic in itself, but the diverse nationalities of the crew are just as significant for the future of sailing
10+ min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
HOME WATERS CONQUERING THE SOUTH COAST
Intrepid novice skipper Monty Halls takes his family sailing along the south coast of Devon and Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly and back
7 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
'WE GOT BATTERED BY A STORM THAT WASN'T FORECAST
When David and Sarah Smith decided to take on their first proper ocean passage, they didn’t anticipate storm Oscar, but survived unscathed and relished the experience
7 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
FIRST TEST GRAND SOLEIL 42LC
Performance pedigree and Italian panache certainly make for stylish boats, but how do they translate into a serious cruising boat? Theo Stocker tests the baby of the range
10 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Orford Sailing Club celebrates 100 years
Situated in arguably one of Suffolk’s prettiest villages and under the watchful eye of its medieval castle and church, Orford SailingClub celebrates its centenary in 2024.
1 min |
June 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF AIS IN THE NIGHT-TIME
When container vessels mysteriously started keeping clear of Peter Webb's yacht, it seemed odd, but the answer to their unusual behaviour didn't emerge until they were safely in harbour
7 min |
June 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
A sea change in lifejacket design
Mustang Survival introduces ils new ISO approved Atlas 190
2 min |
June 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Are you brave enough to have a go?
The flexing of spring’s muscles calls for a dusting down of my jobs list.
2 min |
June 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Translated 9 retires from OGR with hull damage
Translated 9, one of the leading yachts in the Ocean Globe Race (OGR), has been forced to retire from the round-the-world race with hull damage and has diverted to Madeira.
1 min |