Max Klink's Botin 52, Caro has been declared winner of the 2023 Rolex Fastnet Race, the 50th edition of the event after a big breeze start on Saturday
It’s a packed issue of Sailing Today with Yachts & Yachting that comes out today in the UK, with two major boat tests of the new Dufour and new Arcona, as well as a review of all the main yacht and multihull launches of the last year and those to come.
A young couple survives a seemingly hopeless situation when their 21ft clinker yacht is rolled mid-Pacific. Tom Cunliffe introduces this extract from The Voyage of the Aegre
Monty Halls gets to grips with the intricacies of the marine toilet and discovers a distinctly unappealing right of passage for all owners
The Botin 52, Caro has won the class in IRC Zero in the Rolex Fastnet Race - while their corrected time also puts them top of the leaderboard for the IRC prize, though the race win is still too close to call.
Legendary offshore yachtsman, Pete Goss, talks us through the design of his latest boat, Oddity, a one-off designed with purpose
The brand new IMOCA Macif, skippered by Charlie Dalin, was first monohull home to take line honours in the 50th Rolex Fastnet Race and set a new monohull course record of 2 days 07 hours 16 minutes and 26 seconds.
It was a fast and furious start to the 50th Rolex Fastnet Race with four dismastings and one yacht sinking in the winds of 40 knots
A 7,000-mile passage from Australia to the Seychelles via Bali aboard a classic Swan 65 was a tropical adventure for Meg Niblett
August 2023 By Jack Farrell “Security call, security call, security call. The motor vessel Shining Star is outbound from Portsmouth Harbor to the Isles of Shoals, passing Fort Point Light. We’re standing by on channels 13 and 16 for concerned traffic.
August 2023 By Pat Brogan We started cruising in Tilly Twin, the 35.5’ Laurent Giles-designed ocean racer in the spring of 1962, when I was nine years old. We cruised the same harbors that we previously did while sailing Flame...
. . and master of most. Capt. Linda Greenlaw Wessel is a renaissance woman of seacoast life, the writing craft, mariculture, the charter trade, and commercial fishing in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Lessons learned -- the hard way.
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. . . hath a man for his boat than when he restores her two different times, from square one, two decades apart. Groves did this with his Hinckley Pilot 35 My Girl, with late drama, and he doesn’t regret a single minute of it.
