Fourteen teams, racing on iconic yachts such as Maiden and Pen Duick VI, start the crewed ‘retro’ around the world race, the Ocean Globe RaceAmost exactly 50 years to the day since the first Whitbread Round the World Race, the …
For fans there is a great deal of silence between America’s Cups, but the teams have been working 24/7 since 2021. With a little over 1 year to go what have the teams been up to? Several years after Emirates …
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We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times. Adrian Stead nominates Maxi 72 Ran IIThe Maxi 72 Ran II was a dominant force both inshore and offshore, sailing an …
As summer draws to a close boat show season arrives. Here’s our pick of the best new yachts at Cannes Yachting festival 2023.Cannes Yachting Festival has always featured a wide-array of new multihull launches – it is France, after all …
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The 2023 edition of The Ocean Race was all change for this historic event. Helen Fretter gets the inside story from the teams at the finish in GenoaIn the sweltering heat of midsummer in the Ligurian Sea, temperatures and tensions …
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As summer draws to a close we pick some of the most interesting boats set to be launched during this year’s boat show seasonThe northern hemisphere summer is drawing to a close and for sailors this means that boat show …
