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Online www.yachtingworld.com YouTube Yachting World Facebook @yachtingworld twitter @yachtingworldmagazine Ocean crossing departures can be emotional moments. For some crews there is trepidation about what lies ahead, for others emotive farewells wit

The long-awaited Protocol for the 37th America’s Cup was unveiled in November by the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, and the Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia for the Royal Yacht Squadron. The Protoco

The 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race, the 600-mile offshore that starts and finishes in Malta, proved ferocious both on and off the water. Big wind conditions saw course records fall, with the MOD70 trimaran Argo taking multihull line honours and setting a

The next edition of The Ocean Race will feature the longest Southern Ocean leg in the event’s 50-year history, a 12,750-mile marathon between Cape Town, South Africa to Itajaí, Brazil. The course change removes the New Zealand and China stopovers, re

The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit organisation hoping to rid the oceans of plastic, says it has proved its technology after harvesting 29 tonnes of plastic garbage in three months from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The organisation will now sh

The yachting industry lost one of its titans in early November when Christoph Rassy, of Hallberg-Rassy yachts fame, passed away at the age of 87. From starting out on his own in the mid-1960s to buying the Hallberg yard in 1972 and establishing one o

The Clipper Round the World Race is scheduled to return after being cut short due to the Covid pandemic. The 2019/20 edition was postponed in March 2020 but organisers plan to restart in March 2022, with the aim of finishing in London that summer. Th

The International Maxi Association (IMA) is to hold its first race series in the Caribbean in 2022. The IMA Caribbean Maxi Challenge is open to all maxi yachts of 60ft-plus LOA and includes one offshore and three inshore events. The IMA Caribbean Max

World Sailing has launched a bid to reinstate sailing as a Paralympic sport in time for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. The ‘Back the Bid’ #SailtoLA campaign is being supported by many big names in the sport. Sailing was first introduced in 1996 as a

Six skippers have set off on the first start of the first Globe 5.80 Transat, a new ocean racing class and event conceived by Don McIntyre, who is also behind the Golden Globe and Ocean Globe races. The Globe 5.80s are built from plans out of plywood

Nautors Swan is busier than ever, with a flurry of new designs. The latest is the Swan 58, a refined cruiser from German Frers designed to be sailed anywhere in the world in comfort and high style. We took it for a test sail Terysa Vanderloo swaps he

Shortly after televisions switched to colour a duck caused controversy in the UK. Despite the non-existence of social media, the news of its behaviour spread like wildfire. Broadcast on the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme Nationwide

My son Luca took his final high school matriculation exams in November. He’s not university material, at least not yet. “I hate sitting in a classroom,” he says, which is a chip off the old block. When asked what he wants to do in life he has often t

There is a pent up enthusiasm for experiences right now. After nearly two years of limitations, many of us are hankering for wider horizons, to escape the Zoom meetings, look beyond the box-set, and sense freedom once again. But international travel

What is the mark of a truly great sailor? Is it an Olympic gold medal, an America’s Cup win, offshore racing victories – or something else? Because Australian Tom Slingsby has all of those, but it is the sailing he does for fun, his downtime dinghy r

‘Take care in Colombia,’ was the general theme of our farewell conversations as we prepared to leave the flat, arid island of Curaçao. There was something unsettling about the string of casual warnings that led up to our departure; stories of politic

The tireless whirring of my coffee machine brought me back to my senses as I stood, lost in thought, in the cockpit of Mirniy Okean, my 40ft Boden South Sea steel ketch. I watched the sun rise over Bora Bora knowing that today was checkout day: I was

Lou Boudreau shipped out of Nova Scotia in the 1950s at five months old in the 98ft schooner Doubloon. His father, Captain Walter Boudreau, was one of the pioneers of the Caribbean charter business. As he grew, young Lou served under his father until

This latest Hallberg-Rassy is a near masterpiece. German Frers has once again sprinkled his fairy dust over the design, conjuring up a modern hull shape that will continually surprise you with the volume it provides, yet one with enough character and

SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS AND DISRUPTIVE TRENDS ARE NEEDED TO SHAKE UP THE BOATBUILDING INDUSTRY FOR A GREENER FUTURE When enjoying a glorious day on the water it’s easy to assume sailing must be one of the most sustainable activities on the planet. Yet

LOA 8.2m 26ft 11in LWL 6.9m 22ft 8in BEAM 2.25m 7ft 7in DRAUGHT 1.4m 4ft 7in LIFTING KEEL 0.6-1.4m 2ft-4ft7in PRICE: €129,600 ex-VAT. green-boats.de This was one of the stand-out boats at Düsseldorf two years ago. It’s a work of art that showcases wh

Every so often an invention comes along that is so original and useful you’re amazed it was never thought of before. The Joy self-tailing cleat is that: a brilliant idea that solves a real problem of how to handle a mooring line under heavy load. The

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For a full list of Caribbean events and latest news see the Caribbean Sailing Association at caribbean-sailing.com The BVIs' Bitter End Yacht Club, which was devastated by Hurricane Irma in 2017, is set to reopen in December, with the inclusion of mo

This season event organisers are anticipating the return of most pre-Covid regattas and a full season of racing, with a shift of emphasis away from the shoreside parties and live music events towards on-the-water action. Major events including St Maa

3D printing was used to reduce wastage and carbon dust during the build by creating components such as line organisers and cover plates he Malãma mould is now being used by Vendée Globe winner Yannick Bestaven to build his new Maitre CoQ IMOCA Around

Be wary of boats described as fully restored – they may only have had a cosmetic makeover. Look for proof of what work has been done It’s essential that any epoxy-sheathed boat is well maintained to prevent water ingress that can remain undetected an

“In 1983, at 16 years old, I dreamed of building my own keelboat. An IOR Half Tonner was the top of my list, but I soon realised this was far out of my budget. “Instead, I designed my own Quarter Tonner-style boat, which was empty inside, to keep it