Boating_Sailing
Yachting World
CREATIVE SPIRIT
A TECHNICAL MASTERPIECE OR A PIECE OF ART? THE NEW SPIRIT 111 IS SOMEHOW BOTH, AND IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE LARGE YACHTS TOBY HODGES HAS EVER SAILED
10+ min |
October 2020
Yachting World
PLEASURE ISLANDS
HOLIDAY HOMES, RESTAURANTS, EVEN CITIES MAY SOON BE COMING TO A QUIET BEACH OR HARBOUR NEAR YOU, REPORTS SAM FORTESCUE
7 min |
September 2020
Yachting World
ON THE LIMIT
THIS YEAR’S VENDÉE GLOBE IS A RACE FOR FUTURISTIC FLYING MACHINES. HELEN FRETTER AND ANDI ROBERTSON TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
10+ min |
September 2020
Yachting World
MASTER YOUR MAINSAIL
KNOWING HOW TO SET UP A MULTIHULL’S MAINSAIL IS CRUCIAL. BRIAN THOMPSON, ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST EXPERIENCED MULTIHULL SAILORS, SHARES HIS TIPS
10+ min |
September 2020
Yachting World
MAIDEN VOYAGE
SINGLE-HANDED SAILOR TREVOR ROBERTSON DESCRIBES A MAIDEN VOYAGE FROM FLORIDA TO MARTINIQUE IN A NEWLY PURCHASED 38-FOOTER
10 min |
September 2020
Yachting World
CLASS ACT
CRUISING WITH THEIR CHILDREN ALLOWED RALF AND DINA SCHLAEPFER TO FULFIL THEIR PACIFIC DREAMS, ALTHOUGH SET LESSONS WERE OVERTAKEN BY THE SCHOOL OF ADVENTURE
9 min |
September 2020
Yachting World
SPACE DISCOVERY
BRITISH BRAND DISCOVERY IS ONE OF THE FEW MONOHULL YARDS TO BUILD CATAMARANS. COULD THE BLUEWATER 50 BE ONE FOR MONOHULL PURISTS?
9 min |
September 2020
Yachting World
TAKING CONTROL
HOW MODERN AUTOPILOTS CAN BE YOUR BEST HELMSMAN, BY MATTHEW SHEAHAN
9 min |
September 2020
Yachting World
CALEDONIAN BLUES
JANNEKE KUYSTERS AND WIETZE VAN DER LAAN ARE CAPTIVATED BY THE PACIFIC ISLANDS OF NEW CALEDONIA
7 min |
September 2020
Yachting World
5 EXPERT TIPS
HOW TO MAKE STRUCTURAL REPAIRS OFFSHORE
4 min |
September 2020
Yachting World
A SMOOTH NEW START
PRIVILÈGE IS RENEWING ITS RANGE UNDER HANSE, STARTING WITH THIS 50-FOOTER. FRANÇOIS TREGOUET REPORTS
3 min |
September 2020
Yachting World
SET FREE & GO
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GET READY AND PREPARED TO SAIL AWAY FOR A LIFE AFLOAT? RALLY ORGANISER JEREMY WYATT GUIDES US WITH HIS ADVICE
10 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
SHOGUN 50 AND 42.6
This new brand is the result of a Swedish owner seeking a very light displacement boat with performance (and some design aspects) akin to that of the ClubSwan 50, but with easy handling for day sailing and occasional overnighting with family and friends in the Stockholm archipelago.
3 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
LESSONS FROM A LIFE AFLOAT
PETE GOSS HAS DECIDED TO CHANGE HIS VOYAGING PLANS AND SAIL NEARER TO HOME, BUT HE REFLECTS ON WHAT HE’S LEARNED
10 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
SailGP will restart in 2021
All events due to take place this year in Russell Coutts’s grand prix circuit SailGP have been rescheduled for 2021. The ‘Season 2’ series planned for San Francisco in April, New York in June, and in UK and Denmark in August and September are all being moved to the same venues running from April next year.
1 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
FINE BALANCE
AT FIRST ACQUAINTANCE THIS CRUISER/RACER SEEMS CURIOUSLY AT ODDS WITH ITSELF – UNTIL YOU GET BEHIND THE WHEEL
9 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
THE SWAN PRINCE
FASHION MAGNATE LEONARDO FERRAGAMO HAS CULTIVATED NAUTOR’S SWAN INTO THE WORLD’S MOST RESPECTED YACHT BRAND
9 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
Solo race to the Arctic
A new race to the Arctic in July is to be run for the IMOCA 60 class as a qualifier for the Vendée Globe round the world race in November.
2 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
AFTER THE STORM
‘A LOVE AND HATE AFFAIR’ IS HOW MICHAEL VAN BREGT DESCRIBES SAILING THROUGH THE MAGELLAN STRAIT AND AROUND THE SOUTH OF THE AMERICAS
10 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
American classics to be auctioned
Two beautiful and classic yachts are to be sold at auction on 25 June. The 1926 Herreshoff NY40 Marilee and the famous S&S-designed 12 Metre Enterprise are to be sold individually, without reserve, to the highest bidder.
1 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
A WORLD BENEATH
FREEDIVER ANDREAS B HEIDE HAS SPENT A DECADE WHALE WATCHING IN THE FAR NORTH FROM HIS 37FT PRODUCTION YACHT
9 min |
July 2020
Yachting World
Yacht builders keep working
Although most yards ceased production or were operating at a vastly reduced capacity during March and April, yacht manufacturing continued in some countries. Some European countries had less stringent measures in place, which meant yachts were still getting built and order books fulfilled.
3 min |
June 2020
Yachting World
WHERE EAGLES DARE
PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD LANGDON SAILS A HIGH PERFORMANCE WINGSAIL CATAMARAN FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO FLORIDA
8 min |
June 2020
Yachting World
ELIXIR OF YOUTH
MAX CAMPBELL DREAMS OF A WORLD CIRCUMNAVIGATION WITH FRIENDS, BUT FIRST THEY MUST RESTORE A 50-YEAR-OLD SWAN...
10+ min |
June 2020
Yachting World
INSIDE AND OUT
TOR JOHNSON SAILS WITH HIS FATHER, SISTER AND FRIENDS ON A VOYAGE OF REDISCOVERY AROUND SPECTACULAR VANCOUVER ISLAND
10+ min |
June 2020
Yachting World
WINTER IN FIRELAND
A BRITISH-CANADIAN COUPLE EXPERIENCE A ROUGH TIME OF IT WHILE CRUISING THEIR 27FT YACHT IN PATAGONIA
9 min |
June 2020
Yachting World
DOWN FOR THE COUNT
SKIP NOVAK PROVIDED LOGISTIC SUPPORT FOR AN AMBITIOUS SCIENTIFIC MISSION TO THE REMOTE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS ARCHIPELAGO OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
10+ min |
June 2020
Yachting World
ABSOLUTE ELEGANCE
THE TOFINOU 9.7’S BLEND OF MODERN DESIGN AND TIMELESS LOOKS CREATES INTOXICATING RESULTS
9 min |
June 2020
Yachting World
5 EXPERT TIPS HOW TO CREATE A COHESIVE CREW
Round the world sailor DEE CAFFARI shares her advice on getting a team to gel with ANDY RICE
4 min |
June 2020
Yachting World
THREE HULLS ONE PLANET
A SWISS SAILOR AND ORGANIC FARMER HAS CUSTOMISED HIS NEEL 51 TO PROVE THAT BOATS CAN BE COMPLETELY SELF-SUSTAINING.
7 min |