On September 24, 90 singlehanded sailors will take off from Les Sables-d’Olonne, France, racing 21-foot (6.5-meter) Classe Mini boats alone for 4,050 nautical miles to the Canary Islands and then Guadeloupe in the legendary Mini Transat. They sail without chartplotters, laptops, or satellite …
DetailsWindward PassageA Maxi Yacht in Her Sixth DecadeBy Randall Peffer, Steve Jost, Ronald GeismanWoodenBoat, $75.00 Few world class racing boats have had such improbable beginnings as Windward Passage—conceived by a somewhat renegade logger-entrepreneur-sailor, drawn by an untested young designer, …
DetailsIt’s no secret that testing dinghies is my favorite part of SAIL’s Top 10 Best Boats competition. They’re sporty, playful, and give sailors an opportunity to explore finer points of performance sailing with instant feedback. The Tiwal 3R took home a spot on our 2023 Top 10 list for being a standout …
DetailsThe third annual Safe Harbor Race Weekend wrapped up on Sunday after three days of racing that included 66 teams in 11 classes with two divisions for superyachts. While the nine superyachts ranging from 72 to 138 feet competed on Rhode Island Sound, the remaining nine fleets—including PHRF, ORC …
DetailsA record-warm Atlantic Ocean, possibly competing with the usually mitigating effects of El Niño, has caused scientists at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center to amend their May annual hurricane outlook, increasing the likelihood of an above normal Atlantic hurricane season from 30% to 60%. The …
DetailsEven before they joined forces with Beneteau back in 2018, Seascape’s Slovenian principals, Andraž Mihelin and Kristian Hajnšek, were brainstorming with their go-to French designer, Sam Manuard, on how to create a truly multipurpose 36-foot performance boat. Their goal was to build a boat that …
DetailsAug. 10/2023: My summer sailing schedule has been chopped up by intermittent book appearances, and it certainly didn’t help that the first several weeks were unremittingly rainy, foggy, and windless. The last few weeks I’ve been more active, but my outings have been limited to only a few days at a …
DetailsSimon Fisher, who has twice stood on the winner’s podium for the world’s premiere professional crewed round-the-world race, has earned the Magnus Olsson Prize, awarded to a sailor who has made a powerful impact on the sport of sailing. The Ocean Race veteran and father of two, affectionately known …
DetailsJeanneau brings a catamaran design brief to the monohull market with the new Jeanneau Yachts 55. The cockpit layout is unconventional, with twin helms moved forward in front of the main outdoor area aft, which is comprised of two dining tables/lounging spaces bisected by a clear path to the …
DetailsBack in the 1960s, the ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson was watching a tragedy unfold in and near Great Island saltmarsh, where the Connecticut River enters Long Island Sound. Just a decade or so earlier he’d counted some 150 osprey nests. By 1965 there were only 13. By 1972, when only a single …
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