Yachts & Yachting magazine

A new era

‘Of course I love the Finn, but it’s not the only solution out there, let’s be honest’

Wandering around your average boat show these days, you can’t help noticing something different – something with a lurid colour scheme, a mildy anarchic logo, something that carries words and stickers unintelligible to the average Hallberg-Rassy owner. This, plainly, is a foiling kiteboard. But what’s it doing in a boat show?

Our late and greatly esteemed columnist Bob Fisher spent some time in the years following the Rio Olympics giving World Sailing a magnificently hard

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Yachts & Yachting magazine

Yachts & Yachting magazine9 min read
Getting A Hull-do
You can’t always tell a boat that’s had its hull wrapped. It isn’t always about a big logo splashed across the bow or a riot of colour adorning the transom. An increasing number of boatowners are choosing to have a single colour applied and some even
Yachts & Yachting magazine2 min read
Dinghy Fever!
With the buzz of the RYA Dinghy and Watersports Show still in the air we’ve rounded up some highlights from this jam-packed marine event. This year, the Farnborough Exhibition Centre had even more in store, housing over 170 exhibitors,with talks from
Yachts & Yachting magazine2 min read
Skipper’s View
THE STORY OF THE Sunday Times Golden Globe race of 1969 is an iconic sailing event and some of the most striking images from the archive relating to this race are the grainy photos of Donald Crowhurst and Nigel Tetley setting out in their trimarans -

Related Books & Audiobooks