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Volvo Ocean Race – how could a yacht bristling with technology hit a known reef?
How is it possible for a yacht bristling with the latest technology to hit a well-known reef, as Volvo Ocean Race crew Team Vestas Wind did, with catastrophic consequences? How can it…
Tax, TV and timings – why the Americas Cup 2017 is to take place in Bermuda
The Americas Cup 2017 will take place in Bermuda. The confirmation of the venue for the 35th Americas Cup in June 2017 was announced by the America’s Cup commercial commissioner,…
New 100ft supermaxi Comanche arrives in Australia to prepare for the Sydney-Hobart Race
The superfast 100ft maxi designed as a record breaker for Netscape founder Jim Clark and his wife, Kristy, has arrived in Australia by ship in preparation for the Sydney-Hobart Race.…
Gunboat G4: the first flying cruising yacht could hit 40 knots. “It’s the baddest-ass coastal cruiser ever”
Meet the G4. This is Gunboat’s catchy name for a frighteningly fast new 40-foot weapon due to launch in early 2015. It is proof that the America’s Cup foiling effect…
New Pogo 3 is an even more powerful machine and a dangerously addictive pocket rocket
More power and less weight Matthew Sheahan discovers that Pogo Structure’s third generation mini transat boat is a dangerously addictive machine
First aerial shot of broken VOR 65 Team Vestas Wind on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius
A picture posted on the Volvo Ocean Race website shows the sad wreckage of Chris Nicholson’s Volvo 65 Team Vestas Wind that ran aground. The nine-strong crew abandoned ship in…
Foiling kiteboards at the ISAF Sailing World Cup. Could this crazy fast spectacle be the sport’s future?
A new event for foiling kiteboards has been made for the first time in this year’s ISAF Sailing World Cup. It looks the perfect side of crazy and some are…
Volvo Ocean Race skipper Chris Nicholson describes how his crew came to abandon their Volvo 65 and what happens next
– The damage is massive in the boat – We had to just hang with the boat breaking up around us – I can’t begin to describe how hard it…
Huff of Arklow sails again after a remarkable restoration
After a long refit, the legendary and once groundbreaking Uffa Fox-designed ocean racer Huff of Arklow has returned to the water. Elaine Bunting reports
Team Vestas crew abandon boat as they hit reef on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius in Volvo Ocean Race
At 1510 UTC, Team Vestas Wind informed Race Control that their boat was grounded on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, 200nm north east of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. All nine…
ARC 2014 – One week in and the crews are settling in but the weather has been a surprise – selection of logs
One week in and the ARC fleet is settling into the routine of their 2,700nm crossing although not in the kind of conditions that many had expected. Squalls, rain showers…
François Gabart reveals the new 100ft trimaran design that he will attempt to sail round the world alone
Vendeé Globe winner and French sailing wunderkind François Gabart has revealed the details of the new 100ft trimaran he is to build with sponsors Macif in a race programme from…
A rich history: 500 years of Trinity House, set up to safeguard lives at sea
Every year at Trinitytide a procession of Brethren emerges from Trinity House to be sworn in for another year of keeping ships safe around our shores.
ARC 2014 transatlantic rally finds dream conditions – downwind with dolphins
Crews in the ARC 2014 transatlantic rally, which left from Las Palmas for Saint Lucia on Monday, are happily settling into life at sea and are now 48 hours in…
Think something’s impossible in sailing, or too dangerous? Why I’ve learned never to say never
One thing I’ve learned about sailing is never to say something is impossible, and to take with a big pinch of salt any prediction that a venture is bound to…
Will they hold the next America’s Cup in Bermuda? Ben Ainslie on why it would be ‘a great challenge’
One question that needed to be answered following the apparent leak last week – ‘Was the next America’s Cup really going to be in Bermuda rather than the other option,…
ARC rally start delayed because of local strong winds. ‘Safety is our priority’ say organisers
Strong winds blowing through the harbour of Las Palmas have caused ARC organisers World Cruising Club to announce a delay to the start of ARC 2014
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston makes solo sailing history again at 75 with 3rd in class in the Route du Rhum Race – and vows to return in 2018
Sir Robin-Knox Johnston has made solo sailing history again by finishing in 3rd place in the Route du Rhum Race’s Rhum class. Sir Robin, 75, admitted that it had been…
What’s the best way to dispose of abandoned yachts? European options investigated
There is a need for a programme around sensible disposing of abandoned boats. Yachting World editor Elaine Bunting reports on boat recycling