Rolex Nomination Deadline Looming

Public nominations for the Rolex Awards close on December 15; we put ours in the mix. How about you?

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Ashby Fastest on Terra Firma

It wasn’t easy, but Emirates Team New Zealand’s terra squad claims the land speed sailing record and says there’s more speed to come.

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Forecast for the North Sea: Clouds of Sail

Clouds in the sky will be competing with clouds of sail in summer of 2025 in the North Sea and English Channel, when Europe’s tall ships fleet takes part in a racing tour to celebrate the classic ships. Beginning on July, 4, 2025, the Sail Training International Tall Ships Race of 2025 will take …

Know-how: All-New Battery Tech, Part 2

Read All-New Battery Tech: Part 1, here. When I started the lithium project on our 65-foot Farr, Falken, Mia, and I were hell-bent on induction cooking. Cool factor, baby, plus it would rid us of the hassle of refilling propane tanks in exotic ports (and make galley cleanup easier with a flat, …

Sailing Convention for Women Returns

After a three-year pandemic hiatus, the Sailing Convention for Women is back with expanded learning opportunities taking place at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club in Corona Del Mar, California on April 1, 2023. Some of the workshop topics include Suddenly Singlehanded, Steer with the Sails, …

Simple Ways to Optimize Running Rigging

Erik Shampain explains how to select the right line for the right job with a few pro tips on shackles and tapers.

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The Marblehead-to-Halifax Ocean Race Returns

It’s been four years since racers last sailed the cold North Atlantic in the venerable Marblehead-to-Halifax race—and finally, the wait is over. The Boston Yacht Club and the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron have announced the 39th Marblehead-to-Halifax Ocean Race set for this July, resuming …

Boat Review: Fountaine-Pajot Aura 51

If you can sell more than 150 catamarans off-plan before the resin has even hit the fiberglass, you must be doing something right. Despite costing around $1.1 million once fitted out and on the water, Fountaine-Pajot’s new 51 has done just that. The French yard has been at it since 1986 and has …

Cruising: Old Sailors Never Die

“Old sailors never die, they just get a little dinghy.” It may be a hoary old joke, but one of my problems at age 79 is I can no longer get easily in and out of a little dinghy, and neither can my (several years younger than me) wife. For this, and various other reasons I will list in excruciating …

Ready to Fly a New Sail

It’s a typical humid, southern Chesapeake Bay summer day when I show up on the doorstep of Latell & Ailsworth Sailmakers in the one-stoplight, one-lane-roadway, rural tidewater town of Deltaville, Virginia. I’m late getting here to work on a new jib for my 29-foot, Bill Tripp-designed sloop, …