Yachting World
Vismara VMM76
LOA 23.80m 78ft 0in • Beam 6.00m 19ft 8in • Displacement 31,000kg 68,400lb • Draught 2.50-4.00m 8ft 2in-13ft 1in • Sail area 280m2 3,010ft2 • www.vismara-mc.com
2 min |
January 2021
Yachting World
STORM CHASERS
HOW BIG A GAMBLE WOULD YOU TAKE TO WIN THE VENDÉE GLOBE? HELEN FRETTER FINDS OUT HOW THE SOLO SKIPPERS USE STORMS IN THEIR RACE STRATEGY
10+ min |
January 2021
Yachting World
SANITY CHECK
THE GRAVITY-DEFYING AC75S WILL RACE ONE ANOTHER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECEMBER. MATT SHEAHAN CHECKS OUT THE FOUR DESIGNS
10+ min |
January 2021
Yachting World
SPECIAL REPORT
HOW TO SELL YOUR BOAT, BY TERYSA VANDERLOO
8 min |
January 2021
Yachting World
Oystercatcher XXXV – a 52ft rocketship
Combining much of the concept behind Niklas Zennström’s radical Fast40 Ran VII with the experience of Oyster Yachts founder Richard Matthews is bound to result in an exceptional yacht.
3 min |
January 2021
Yachting World
OSCAR One 320
A decade ago the prospect of a device that, on a dark night, could detect a floating obstacle such as a shipping container or a sleeping whale in the path of a yacht, and automatically change course, would have firmly belonged in the realms of science fiction.
5 min |
January 2021
Yachting World
5 EXPERT TIPS
HOW TO TRIM FOR DOWNWIND SPEED
4 min |
January 2021
Yachting World
MINE'S THE PORSCHE - ON TEST // ELAN GT6
IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE BADGE: WHY PORSCHE BECAME INVOLVED IN THE DESIGN OF ELAN’S NEW FLAGSHIP
10+ min |
December 2020
Yachting World
MASTERCLASS
PIP HARE ON WHEN TO TURN BACK
5 min |
December 2020
Yachting World
PRACTICAL
SWAN 65 EVRIKA • WHEN TO TURN BACK • MAKE WINNING DECISIONS
7 min |
December 2020
Yachting World
THE SLOW LIFE
A LATE SUMMER CRUISE IN DENMARK PROVES A TONIC FOR TOM CUNLIFFE
9 min |
December 2020
Yachting World
NEW GEAR
RUPERT HOLMES INVESTIGATES A CLEAN ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCE FOR YACHTS
8 min |
December 2020
Yachting World
LIFE ON THE WING
SAILING HIS 16FT DOUBLE-ENDER OFF FINISTÈRE, RICHARD LINDSAY ENJOYS AN EXHILARATING SAIL WITH A RARE VISITOR
9 min |
December 2020
Yachting World
AIMING FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE
COULD THE 40-DAY AROUND THE WORLD RECORD FALL? HELEN FRETTER TALKS TO THIS YEAR’S JULES VERNE CHALLENGERS
10+ min |
December 2020
Yachting World
JIMMY'S ELECTRIC DREAM
JIMMY CORNELL REPORTS ON HIS NEW CATAMARAN, ABOARD WHICH HE PLANS A FOSSIL-FREE CIRCUMNAVIGATION
8 min |
December 2020
Yachting World
IN SEARCH OF PLAN B
WHAT ARE YOUR SAILING PLANS FOR 2021 AND BEYOND? ELAINE BUNTING INVESTIGATES THE OPTIONS FOR SAILING IN AN ERA OF UNCERTAINTY
10+ min |
December 2020
Yachting World
5 EXPERT TIPS
HOW TO MAKE WINNING DECISIONS
5 min |
December 2020
Surfer
THE LGBTQ+ WAVE
Surf culture has a long history of marginalizing the LGBTQ+ community, but a new generation of queer surfers is working to change that
10+ min |
Volume 61, Issue 3 / Winter 2020
Surfer
For Generations to Come
Rockaway’s Lou Harris is spreading the stoke to Black youth and leading surfers in paddling out for racial justice
5 min |
Volume 61, Issue 3 / Winter 2020
Surfer
Christina Koch, 41
Texas surfer, NASA astronaut, record holder for the longest continuous spaceflight by a woman
4 min |
Volume 61, Issue 3 / Winter 2020
Surfer
END TIMES FOR PRO SURFING
By the time the pandemic is done reshaping the world, will the World Tour still have a place in it?
10+ min |
Volume 61, Issue 3 / Winter 2020
Surfer
CHANGING OF THE GUARD
After decades of exclusive access to Hollister Ranch, the most coveted stretch of California coast is finally going public
10+ min |
Volume 61, Issue 3 / Winter 2020
Surfer
What They Don't Tell You
How does becoming a mother affect your surfing life?
10+ min |
Volume 61, Issue 3 / Winter 2020
Small Craft Advisor
Getting in Touch with Reality
As part of my usual in-depth research for this column I decided to ask Google whether sailing was safe. “In fact, it can be deadly,” came the response, “A study from Rhode Island Hospital concluded sailing is more dangerous, and has a higher fatality rate, than skiing and snowboarding combined with NFL football.”
2 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
Five Days in the Turnbull Islands
I rowed out of the marina at Blind River, Ontario, and raised the sail just offComb Point. It had been a ten-hour drive from Wisconsin, followed by the usual scramble to launch and load the boat.
10+ min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
The Worst Sailor Still Alive
Upon retirement I decided to learn how to sail, so I bought a little dinghy and taught myself how to efficiently capsize, founder on rocks, and embarrass myself in front of large groups.
5 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
SMALL BOAT CRUISE: Tobyhanna Lake by Sunfish
Tobyhanna is a Native American word for “a stream whose banks are fringed with alder.”
7 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
PLAN STUDY: Kombi Sail and Paddle Canoe
The first boat I designed was the Beth Sailing Canoe, which, for better or worse, made me a marked man.
4 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
Born Again
An 1881 Bowdish sailboat, abandoned in a northern Michigan junkyard, is rescued and restored to museum condition by John Parlin, wooden boat surgeon extraordinaire
10+ min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
AUSTRALIA THE HARD WAY
The David Pyle Interview
10+ min |