Looking for some more action and adventure to pack into your sailing holiday? Sunsail has put together a hiking guide for your next charter holiday – where to find the best trails, beautiful spots to anchor, and tips for the perfect day ashore. Here are some of their top picks… 1. Croatia: Kornati National Park […]
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Sailing Today selected the Scaramouche Sailing Trust to be our charity of the year for 2025. Milly Karsten discovers what they are all about. Greig City Academy’s sailing programme is well known on the Solent and around the country for inspiring young sailors and providing dedicated support for future success on and off the water. […]
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The term ‘watch and learn’ is all very well, but when it comes to the art of wingfoiling, there is no substitute for doing your ‘apprenticeship’, Andy Rice tells us. After another phenomenally busy year of travel, my last overseas assignment of 2024 took me to Jericoacoara in the north of Brazil. This is the […]
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Take a peak… here are three of the best yachts for sale right now. Southerly 135: Yahoo £240,000 Tax not paid Yahooo is a well prepared Southerly 135, that is set up for long-range cruising. With a lifting keel and twin rudders, she has enormous versatility, providing both great sailing performance in bluewater, and well […]
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Salcombe sailor Meg Niblett on her preparation for the 2024 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, in which she is deemed to be the youngest ever female skipper. If someone had told me that I’d soon be on the start line of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race as the youngest double-handed female skipper to have ever entered […]
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The 2025 edition of the yacht and watersports show boot Düsseldorf is right around the corner! Here’s all the info you need, from exciting speakers and choosing which day to visit, to our Editor’s top picks of boats on show and how to grab a ticket. Key Info 18th-26th January 2025 D-40474 Düsseldorf, Am Staad […]
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After leading the solo, non-stop, unassisted race around the world for 16 days, Charlie Dalin crossed the finish line on Tuesday morning at 07:24 UTC, winning the 2024/25 Vendée Globe! Aged 40, the French skipper from Le Havre has reached new heights in his career. Taking a close second place in the 2020/21 Vendée, he’s […]
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The presence of clean, unpolluted waters around our coast seems like our birthright but sadly that’s not the case in recent years. What can be done? Sam Jefferson chats with Phil Horton, Environment and Sustainability Manager at the RYA to find out… The relationship between sailors and the water is a strong one; after all, […]
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The sailors annual, packed with seafaring stories, expert advice and your year on the water is here. It’s your ultimate guide to the year ahead – here’s a sneak peek… It’s cold, it’s dark, summer sailing seems like a long time ago, and still a long way to go… the good news is we can […]
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The Norwegian Fjords are high on many a sailor’s ‘bucket list’ trips but remain sufficiently distant to retain the magic of isolation as Leo Kenny narrates I had tired of the deliveries on other people’s boats. The ocean has neither reason, nor pity, but after a tough Atlantic crossing – via Azores – it convinced […]
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The new holiday charter season ahead looks set to deliver some exciting packages says Sue Pelling, with companies taking a fresh look at itineraries, flotilla routes, and fleets. The sailing holiday booking process for the 2025 season is well underway with many companies reporting a healthy start to the year. Dream Yacht Worldwide, for example, […]
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Sam Fortescue meets the ClubSwan 43, first of a new racer-cruiser concept. When Swan raised the curtain on a new mid-sized ClubSwan yacht at the 2022 Cannes boat show, it was pitched as a new breed of cross-over regatta boat. It was to be highly competitive around the racecourse, optimised for ORC rating but also […]
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Sponsored content in association with The new year is here, and so is your next adventure. With Sunsail’s Free Day Offer*, you can make your Mediterranean summer escape in 2025 even better—with one day on us to create more memories and experience the best of sailing. Whether it’s Greece’s sunlit islands or Croatia’s endless coastline, […]
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Moody Yachts has been producing deck saloon yachts for many years now. The company’s new DS48 proves it know precisely what it’s doing. Moody Yachts is a British icon that, back in the early 2000s, went all continental on us after being taken over by German manufacturer Hanse. While prior to this Moody had made […]
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Sailing across the Atlantic is the dream of many sailors. Why is that? Sam Jefferson chatted to sailors freshly arrived in Grenada at the end of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers to find out Crossing the Atlantic under sail from the Canaries to the Caribbean as part of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers is statistically […]
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As the leaders reached the half way mark, the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe was shaping up to be an extraordinary one in many respects, with thrilling battles at all levels of the fleet. Rupert Holmes reports. Records have repeatedly been broken, including from the Equator to the Cape of Good Hope, a stretch […]
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Glassfibre is an indestructible material and its legacy in the world of boatbuilding is thousands of unwanted boats. What’s the solution to this problem? Sam Jefferson talks to catamaran manufacturer Lagoon who thinks they have the answer Glassfibre is an extraordinary material; the combination of fine chopped strands of glass glued together and moulded with […]
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Endeavour rookies Oliver Groves and Esther Parkhurst from Beaver SC explain to Sue Pelling how it is possible to not only win the Endeavour Trophy at a first attempt but also how to win the ‘ticket’ to get there. Oliver Groves (27) and Esther Parkhurst (25) representing the [Laser] 2000 class won the 63rd Endeavour […]
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Clive Loughlin, his daughter Jess, and friend Keith put a Channel Island passage plan to the test. Here is what worked, and what didn’t… In a previous article ‘Channel Island Tidal Tactics’ (ST May 2024) I worked through a possible passage plan for a sailing boat leaving Swanage on 20 July and heading off for […]
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Is now the time to contemplate the workings of the America’s Cup? And how the SailGP circuit is re-shaping the grand prix racing landscape, including the introduction of ‘player’ transfer fees. At what point does a sailing boat cease to be a sailing boat and become something else? I’m off to the Yacht Racing Forum […]
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