Apparently there are two criteria that a new format must fulfil: 1. Winner of the last race of the regatta must be overall winner of the competition. 2. The whole finals format must fit into a ...

Beneteau’s First 36 was a planing masterpiece. The 36SE is a turbocharged version. Sam Jefferson dons his Bermuda shorts and prepares to go surfing.

Stravaigin Sailing ’s adventure sailing holidays aboard a 44ft 8-berth sailing yacht based in Oban, offers a huge choice of routes that include the Hebrides, St Kilda, The Shiants, Isle of Skye and ...

Tom Cunliffe is well known to readers of Sailing Today. This is partly thanks to the fact that he has become one of the closest things the yacht cruising world has to a celebrity and also because he ...

Seawind’s 1170 originates from a land down under. This seems to have given them a fresh new approach when it comes to designing a cruising multihull – as Sam Jefferson discovers A couple of years back ...

From the very outset, The Ocean Race Europe brought surprise. It began with a heart-stopper – the kind no-one wanted, or predicted... The seven IMOCA60s with their mixed gender crews of four (plus ...

Misunderstood and little used, the kicking strap or vang is often largely ignored by cruising sailors. It is an important sail control, however, helping you to flatten or open the main as required.

If you were asked to describe the design needs for a modern sailing cruising yacht to someone new to sailing, you might tell him/her that they were: with easy, and safe to handle, efficient sails, for ...

Ropes, sails, and safety... Ben Lowings put the best sailing knives to the test to see which ones you can really rely on when it matters most.

Dufour Yachts has been revamping its range over the last couple of years and the new generation of Umberto Felci-designed yachts feature quite remarkable levels of volume thanks to big beam and fuller ...