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Sailing Today
EDITORIAL EDITOR Sam Jefferson 020 3943 9261 sam.jefferson@chelseamagazines.com GROUP EDITOR Rob Peake ART & PRODUCTION EDITOR Gareth Lloyd Jones WRITER AND SUB EDITOR Sue Pelling PUBLISHING CONSULTANT Martin Nott PUBLISHER Simon Temlett
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Skipper’s View
THE BRITISH YACHTING AWARDS occur but once a year and this is the month in which we reveal our nominations. Awards ceremonies come in all sorts of different flavours but what makes this one a vital part of the sailing world is that it is voted for by
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Ebb And Flow
Leading sailing organisations paid tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, following her death on Thursday, 8 September. Statements were released by a number of organisations, which recognised the Queen’s and Prince Philip’s support of sailing ove
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Conwy
The North Wales town of Conwy is a paradise for sailors, with two marinas, a beautiful estuary and a quaint old town. There are also some stunning cruising areas to be explored in the rugged coastline nearby, and around the Isle of Anglesey ■
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The Nominations
The British Yachting Awards celebrate the finest of both the cruising and racing worlds. This year it offers recognition at the end of an extraordinary year, which has seen sailing bounce back from the pandemic and deliver an astonishing breadth of w
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Tom Cunliffe
Many a good yarn at the yacht club bar starts out with the universal intro, ‘There I was…’. To guarantee continued attention, this is best followed by ‘… and the waves were 40ft high’, but if drama on this scale floats your boat, the account below wi
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New Boats
Italian manufacturer ICE has been turning out stylish, lightweight cruiser/racers for sometime now and the ICE 66RS is the latest addition to its fleet and pretty much sticks to the template. The boat has been designed by Farr Yacht Design while styl
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Paul Heiney
How is your energy crisis going? Not too well for me, I’m afraid. If you’ve been reading this column for some time you will know that my boat doesn’t plough through the water driven by wind or diesel, but by its skipper being regularly fuelled with t
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Andy Rice
The Italian coach was only half joking when he asked us to switch off our drone footage of the boat that was running away with the championship. I’m just back from commentating at the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Nova Scotia, and
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How We Won The Round Britain And Ireland Race
Before this summer only nine double-handed teams had ever finished RORC’s gruelling, nonstop 1,800 mile Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Yet from the outset this year promised to be different, with the star-studded entry list including 16 ve
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Skills and Thrills
For this series I suggest options for a specific Saturday a few weeks after the date of publication. I will concentrate on building skills and fun activities for all the crew to enjoy. I would encourage all confident skippers to delegate various acti
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A Voyage Of Self Discovery
I braced all the muscles in my body, I held on with both hands as the yacht pitched and rolled in some of the biggest waves and swell we had seen in the last three weeks. The wind whistled in the mast and rigging, as crashing waves surged the boat fo
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A Tectonic Shift In Design
Many years ago in what seems another life I used to teach sailing in the Caribbean in Hobie Cats. To be brutally honest, there wasn’t a lot to do and, occasionally when the torpor got too much, I would take a Hobie out and play around in the waves; g
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Caribbean Dreamin’
The best sailing area in the world? In my opinion, the Grenadines. Without a shadow of a doubt. I just can’t get enough. Every time I fly in, on a little twin-prop, gazing down at the blue paradise that is Tobago Cays, my heart skips a beat. The nerv
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Mamma Mea!
At the start of the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland race in Plymouth, on 29 May, few people would have bet that the little wooden boat Mea, a 1959 Vertue 25 designed by Jack Laurent Giles, would manage to complete the 1,900 miles of the race cour
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The Great Escape
The winter sun Caribbean charter season, which runs from December to April avoiding the hurricane period, continues to be one of the all-time favourites for yacht charter. Consistent tropical temperatures, good sailing winds and some of the most spec
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Gull's Eye Burnham Yacht Harbour Marina
Tucked away 13.5nm up the River Crouch, off the wild, flat Dengie Peninsular is the quaint old market town of Burnhamon-Crouch. Among its many attributes is Burnham Yacht Harbour Marina, located on the north bank beyond the quayside moorings, at the
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Back To Basics
Writing about new yachts can be a funny game. I often catch myself writing that a boat a little short of £1m represents ‘very good value’. Given my own boat cost £5k this doesn’t seem to stack up. Yet it is, of course, often true. There aren’t that m
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Never Mind The Balearics... Here’s The Top 10 Anchorages In Mallorca As Chosen By Users Of The Navily App
A stunning and peaceful mooring on the islet of Cabrera. Mooring buoys only and reservations should be made online but in reality this is so complex most users just turned up and were rewarded with beautiful clear waters and peace. Lat/long: 39° 8.75
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Run To Reach
Coaxing extra speed from the boat downwind is not only a matter of sail trim. There comes a point where more radical steps are required if your symmetrical spinnaker is beginning to look a bit asymmetrical, or the genoa is more belly than bite. It’s
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North Sea hazards
- Rigging a gybe preventer- Switching from single to doublehanders- Richard Falk on contingency planning- Racing vs cruising Dee recently competed in RORC’s gruelling Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race - an 1,800nm marathon in which she sailed
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Prevention Is Better
The first way is to have an accidental gybe – especially if it could have been anticipated and prevented. Over the years I have heard a good number of Maydays. Most are not too dramatic and are down to engine failure, but of the serious Maydays when
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The Close Cross
It’s the last roll of the dice at the end of the final run to the finish (fig 1) Blue gybes onto port tack, initially looking vulnerable. These foiling cats accelerate quickly though: it looks like the cross may be on. But Green thinks otherwise: ini
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What If…?
Play around on boats for long enough and you will experience something going wrong. This may be an engine failure, a halyard that parts, a broken deck fitting or steering damage. This is not about being cynical or a doomsday theorist, it is simply a
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Love Your Dinghy!
Susan Koning has several years of experience living on board and exploring exotic destinations. Here she offers her top tips to increase confidence and comfort when living aboard. This month, she considers why you should show respect for your tender.
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Lijia Xu Doubling Up
What was the biggest challenge during the event? I’m not used to talking while sailing, so my crew Callum (Farnden) had a hard time knowing when to react during manoeuvres, as I often forgot to give him notice beforehand. And in stronger winds or he
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Fast Lane Vs Slow Lane
Then? Fountaine Pajot Lipari 41 Fille de Joie And now? F50 catamaran with Canada SailGP Team. Then? 8 kts trip average; the maximum we saw was 16.8 kts. And now? Probably about 35 kts in a decent breeze; maximum for me was 50.9 kts sailing with Japan
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Three Of The Best
Grace is an excellent example of her kind, beautifully presented, well cared for, and has a good inventory and modern creature comforts such as heating, hot water, and shorepower. Derived from an earlier Scandinavian cruiser-racer design, the Hanse 3
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Launched
EWOL has launched its new stainless steel EnergyMatic propeller, a lightweight, high-performance and hi-tech propeller that allows the pitch to be altered to increase motor cruising speed on a yacht, and aids manoeuvrability during mooring procedures
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Jess Lloyd-Mostyn
Before we bought our boat I was actually pretty normal. It’s now over 11 years since we pushed off from the dock at Falmouth and pointed our bow southwest and beyond. And, if you’d asked me even a year prior to that if I was likely to be doing what w

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