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- New Year, New Adventure: Sunsail’s Free Day Offer December 27, 2024Sponsored content in association with The new year is here, and so is your next adventure. With Sunsail’s Free Day Offer*, you can make your Mediterranean summer escape in 2025 even better—with one day on us to create more memories and experience the best of sailing. Whether it’s Greece’s sunlit islands or Croatia’s endless coastline, […]Sailing Today
- Boat Test: Moody DS48 December 18, 2024Moody Yachts has been producing deck saloon yachts for many years now. The company’s new DS48 proves it know precisely what it’s doing. Moody Yachts is a British icon that, back in the early 2000s, went all continental on us after being taken over by German manufacturer Hanse. While prior to this Moody had made […]Sam Jefferson
- How Risky is Crossing the Atlantic? Transatlantic Safety & the ARC December 17, 2024Sailing across the Atlantic is the dream of many sailors. Why is that? Sam Jefferson chatted to sailors freshly arrived in Grenada at the end of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers to find out Crossing the Atlantic under sail from the Canaries to the Caribbean as part of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers is statistically […]Sam Jefferson
- Vendée Globe Halfway Mark: Around the World Updates December 17, 2024As the leaders reached the half way mark, the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe was shaping up to be an extraordinary one in many respects, with thrilling battles at all levels of the fleet. Rupert Holmes reports. Records have repeatedly been broken, including from the Equator to the Cape of Good Hope, a stretch […]Rupert Holmes
- Upcycling Old Boats: Lagoon’s Green Boat Refit Scheme December 13, 2024Glassfibre is an indestructible material and its legacy in the world of boatbuilding is thousands of unwanted boats. What’s the solution to this problem? Sam Jefferson talks to catamaran manufacturer Lagoon who thinks they have the answer Glassfibre is an extraordinary material; the combination of fine chopped strands of glass glued together and moulded with […]Sam Jefferson
- How to Win the Endeavour Trophy December 13, 2024Endeavour rookies Oliver Groves and Esther Parkhurst from Beaver SC explain to Sue Pelling how it is possible to not only win the Endeavour Trophy at a first attempt but also how to win the ‘ticket’ to get there. Oliver Groves (27) and Esther Parkhurst (25) representing the [Laser] 2000 class won the 63rd Endeavour […]Sue Pelling
- Channel Islands Sailing Guide: Navigating the Channel Tides December 11, 2024Clive Loughlin, his daughter Jess, and friend Keith put a Channel Island passage plan to the test. Here is what worked, and what didn’t… In a previous article ‘Channel Island Tidal Tactics’ (ST May 2024) I worked through a possible passage plan for a sailing boat leaving Swanage on 20 July and heading off for […]Clive Loughlin
- Is the America’s Cup Real Sailing? Tech & the New Sailing World December 11, 2024Is now the time to contemplate the workings of the America’s Cup? And how the SailGP circuit is re-shaping the grand prix racing landscape, including the introduction of ‘player’ transfer fees. At what point does a sailing boat cease to be a sailing boat and become something else? I’m off to the Yacht Racing Forum […]Andy Rice
- Sailing Start Line Tips: How To Avoid a Bad Race Start December 11, 2024A good start cannot win you a race but a bad one can lose it for you. Jon Emmett takes a look at some of the classic errors made on the startline. In a previous article we highlighted that in order to win, you first have to finish! While this is most definitely true, getting […]Sailing Today
- Managing Bilge Pump Issues at Sea: Tom Cunliffe’s Column December 10, 2024Whatever sort of boat you buy, whether it’s brand-new or used, you’ll find it will inevitably bring the sort of trials and tribulations that you could well do without… The thing about buying a used boat is that, however diligent you have been in your inspection, there’s always some horror lurking in a dark corner […]Tom Cunliffe