What happens when the screens go dark? Although this seems pretty unlikely in today’s world of über-connectivity, with Iridium and Starlink on board many boats and every device seemingly having…
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The International contenders hoping to make their mark in the 2024 Vendée Globe
The Vendée Globe is one of the most quintessentially French sporting phenomena. Fans who make the four-yearly pilgrimage to Les Sables d’Olonne – rising long before dawn to secure their…
Innovation, performance and sheer good looks: Wally’s 30-year sailing success story
Wally’s sailing soul shines bright in its 30th year. Some 30 years ago, a visionary sailor looked around the market for a boat and decided that there must be a…
Cannes World Premiere For All-New 19-Metre Contest 63CS
In the words of Yachting World’s test editor Toby Hodges, Contest Yachts is one of the largest and oldest family-run yards in the world, and conducts the whole build process…
Quick Nautical Equipment – Olympic Anchors
A couple of decades ago there was a rush of innovation in anchor design, but the pace of change has slowed since then. However, Quick Nautical Equipment, brand of Quick…
Become a part-time explorer. Sail the world in comfort and at speed. Be part of something extraordinary!
Some spend their whole life merely dreaming of a circumnavigation. Others seize the moment, sell up and slip the lines. But there is another way to sail the world –…
Taking ownership: Buying a yacht abroad
Buying a yacht abroad is a scenario few cruisers might dare to pursue. Quite apart from the giant leap of faith required, there are very real costs associated with a…
How the America’s Cup weather favours Team New Zealand
The Louis Vuitton Challenger Series kicks off at the end of August and runs through to late October. Why so long? Well, the addition of two more teams compared to…
Cayman 28 first look: An all-carbon skiff with a rack for five people
Impressively, the first Cayman 28 boat’s second outing was the 96-mile Blue Riband race around Lake Balaton, where it was one of 600 boats in a mass start. “It was…
How to watch Olympics 2024 canoe sprint live streams today from anywhere
This guide will tell you everything you need to know to watch an Olympic canoe sprint live stream, as the action concludes at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium on the outskirts…
Olympic Sailing Penultimate Day Highlights: Golds for Britain, Italy, and Austria
Britain’s Ellie Aldridge closed the Olympic Sailing at Paris 2024 for Team GB on a huge high, saving the best performance of her career so far for kiting’s Olympic medal…
Unstoppable Australia: Wearn takes fourth-straight Olympic Sailing Dinghy gold
Winning the Men’s Olympic Dinghy medal race in an assured fashion, Matt Wearn today not only continued his nation’s extraordinary run of gold medal titles to four but became the…
Marit Bouwmeester secures second gold becoming greatest Olympic Female Sailor
As the capricious, fitful breezes finally expired in the intense late afternoon heat on the Bay of Marseille, when Race 10 for the Women’s Olympic Dinghy (ILCA 6) was abandoned…
Italy’s Magetti secures gold but it’s heartbreak for British Olympic windsurfing star
Britain’s iQFOiL windsurfer Emma Wilson failed to beat Olympic sailing’s cruellest, toughest made-for- TV medal format again as she landed the bronze medal finishing behind Italy’s Martta Magetti and Israel’s…
How to watch Olympics 2024 rowing live streams today from anywhere
This guide contains all the information you need to watch an Olympic rowing live stream as the 2024 regatta comes to a close. Olympics live streams are available for free…
Favourites take top Olympic Skiff Sailing medals after dramatic Marseille Medal Races
Riding a huge wave of confidence after guiding Spain to victory as underdogs in Sail GP’s grand final in San Francisco, Diego Botin and Florian Trittel produced a gun-to-gun medal…
World’s Coolest Boats: The Olympic 470 class
The two-man 470 dinghy was designed by André Cornu over 50 years ago and been an Olympic boat since 1976. At the Olympic Sailing in Paris 2024 it will be…
A slow hot start but a glamour Olympic sailing weekend lies ahead
It has long been held that the Olympic sailing medallists emerging from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be the athletes best able to perform across a wide range of…
How to plan a route across the South Pacific
We leave Tahiti with strong trades. Easterlies funnel along the side of the volcanic island, and Elixir tears downwind toward Mo’orea. It’s humpback season. Occasionally, behind foaming crests, we glimpse…
‘Lava explodes way up into the sky above us’ – sailing among active volcanoes
Our hulls cut through the translucent waters of the lagoon around Fiji’s largest island, Viti Levu. As we make our way towards the pass, the wind is a perfect 10…