From the Cook Islands to New Zealand is some 1,600 miles of open ocean. In November 2025 10 Hawaiian sailors cast off their lines to make the passage. The wind…
We sailed through ‘the world’s most dangerous place to sail’
The message was short: “If I don’t make it, know that I love you.” I pressed send to someone who’d stood by me for many years and placed the phone…
Buying an electric weekender yacht
The concept of range anxiety entered the lexicon with the advent of electric cars a decade or so ago. The debate over whether they could really replace a conventional car…
Veya 53 – a new paradigm for powercats
Veya Yachts, the premium power-catamaran brand created by Fountaine Pajot and Couach Catamarans, created considerable interest in the industry when it was announced early last year. It brings together the…
Understanding and making the most of sea breezes
Sea breezes are the sailor’s saviour on hot, still summer days when the country is sitting under an enormous high pressure system with very little overall pressure gradient. As the…
What can we learn from the late Charlie Dalin? The love of the sea and sailing…
The sailing community around the world came together in mourning in June. The news of solo sailor Charlie Dalin’s death settled thick and heavy, as if moist winds of grief…
‘I visited the Ferrari factory in Maranello to see how their supercar technology is revolutionising sailing’
Give me two wheels any day – I couldn’t care less about cars. At least that’s what I’ve always maintained. But as my wife points out, it only takes the…
From the bonkers to the brilliant: The definitive top 100 coolest boats of all time
How do you define ‘cool’? It’s an unquantifiable quality. What’s cool to one person, might be banal or brash to another. But when it comes to boats, like people, some…
3 next-generation trimarans shaking up the market
Smart glass cabins, modular flat-pack builds, twin engines, and structural loads routed directly through the coachroof, the latest generation of performance multihulls is throwing out the traditional rulebook. While trimarans…
Has Cowes Week bounced back for good?
Friday afternoon, 7 August 2026, and the last boats are just tying up in the marinas and floating moorings of Cowes after seven days of full-on, sea breeze and sunshine…
World’s Coolest Boats: The AC40 – ‘You feel like a Formula 1 driver’
“The AC40 is the coolest boat in the world because it’s like a little go-cart, super responsive. You can really rip it around the turns. You feel the Gs, but…
How to extend your summer cruising season in the Med
The eastern Mediterranean is a treasure trove of beautiful cruising grounds, spectacular natural beauty, ancient cities and amazing food. Many sailors would love to linger there for at least a…
No fridge, no shower, no engine: How we sailed around the World on £450 a month
“We made it!” said Christophe, “L’Envol has crossed her own wake, we have just completed a circumnavigation.” I looked around. We were still more than 100 miles from the Brazilian…
Fixing rig failure mid-Pacific: ‘The mast groaned with every roll. It was physically and emotionally extremely stressful’
We were adrift, 2,800 miles into our 4,100-mile Pacific crossing, with only enough fuel to take us another 450 miles. After that, it was anyone’s guess. A month previously we’d…
Racing around the world via the great capes: ‘The feel-good factor you get from mastering complex skills is a big driver’
Four days from the Cape of Good Hope it’s still proving impossible to identify a safe route past the cape and the infamous west-going Agulhas current. At this point we’re…
Inside the Transatlantic sailing experiments stripping celebs (and filmmakers) of control
Should you be invited to be one of a group of 12 strangers sailing across the Atlantic ocean on a small yacht – and you’d all be filmed during the…
We lived our own Odyssey in the Greek Islands
In the lee of the island of Oxia and the low-lying mainland, we altered course and sheeted in, the wind pulsing across the deck of our Voyager 38, Namika. We’d…
How modern mega-ships are ditching fossil fuels in favour of sail power
Some of the largest, boldest yachts of all time are currently in production, and what makes these massive yet radically different projects even feasible is the practical sailing ability provided…
The tropical weather signals every offshore sailor must know
Sailing in the tropics, as you get to within about 30° of the equator the barometer will start to exhibit a twice daily rise and fall, on top of the…
Why 50 knots has been beaten but not defeated
The trouble with round numbers is they always feel a bit artificial, especially when we’re talking about limits. Sailing’s so-called ‘sound barrier’ at 50 knots is a perfect example. Surely…