July 2024

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Sailing Today
EDITORIAL EDITOR Sam Jefferson 020 3943 9261sam.jefferson@chelseamagazines.com ART & PRODUCTION EDITOR Gareth Lloyd Jones WRITER AND SUB EDITOR Sue Pelling PUBLISHING CONSULTANT Martin Nott PUBLISHER Simon Temlett simon.temlett@chelseamaga
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Skipper’s View
WELCOME TO THE July edition of Sailing Today and it is fitting that this, our blue water issue, should open with a celebration of one of the great bluewater sailors - Don Street - who passed away last month at the ripe old age of 94. A native Long Is
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Ebb And Flow
Funding issues threaten to stymie Pip Hare’s plans to race in the 2024 edition of the Vendée Globe as her Medallia campaign threatens to hit the financial buffers. Although Hare retains the support of main sponsor Medallia, both her team’s second tie
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New Boats
The Hanse 360 will round off the new generation of Hanses that have been designed by the French naval architects Berret-Racoupeau. This new generation of yachts is quite starkly different from the Judel/Vrolijk designs that came before and there has
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Low Season In Paradise
Pelicans soar over white sand beaches that fringe perfectly sheltered anchorages. Rum punch flows freely and the aroma of barbequed chicken drifts on the breeze. The bright colours of Carnival and steel drums playing into the night. Markets selling b
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Time And Tide
A few weeks before, we had delivered my neighbour’s boat, Inthral, from Victoria Dock, Caernarfon, to Deganwy for some deck repairs. With phase one complete, it was time to return to Caernarfon before what remained of the sailing season passed us by.
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Let's Go Round Again
The Round the Island Race remains one of the most iconic events of the sailing calendar, enjoyed by both top professional sailors on the international stage and families in modest cruising yachts, many of which take part in no other races during the
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Paul Heiney
If Van Gogh can do it, why can't I? How difficult can it be to wield a paintbrush and achieve a work of art. The answer is, too difficult for me. I'm lousy at paintwork, always have been. I can't cope with one colour let alone Vincent's vivid palette
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Andy Rice
Imagine being able to race a 40-year-old Fireball dinghy and actually have a chance of winning. That’s where we’re looking to take the Selden Sailjuice Winter Series six months from now. The Series has become a focal point for bringing together the m
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A Fitting Tribute
The world of multihulls has long been an esoteric one and the fact that it is now a multi million pound industry doesn’t mean that certain oddities and prejudices do not remain. One of the most troubling for many manufacturers has been the sharp divi
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Tom Cunliffe
Like the rest of us, I’m always keeping a weather eye on my boating budget. I never begrudge a penny on sails and I won’t sell my engine short on filters, oil, coolant, belts and the rest. There’s no escape from the annual hit for antifouling, and if
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Ladies First
I would have liked to record that the last bastion of male chauvinism within our sport had been blown away at the finish of the Ocean Globe Race at Cowes in April by cannon fire from the heart of male dominance – The Royal Yacht Squadron. But health
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Better Safe Than Sorry
Man overboard recovery is a topic that inspires healthy respect among sailors. For many, in fact, it is a question that provokes outright fear, and it’s not hard to see why. Offshore, far from help, or even for shorthanded coastal outings, the prospe
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The Best Laid Plans...
Early May after nine days on anchor in Shelter Bay we were cleared to enter the Panama Canal. I was taking part in a delivery of Kokomoko, a Leopard Cat 47 from New York to Sydney and the job was half done. The Pacific beckoned. Two local line handle
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Tackling Tanzania
As a Canadian registered sailboat, as long as Cassandraville has been in Kenya, every November, we must make what I call our annual pilgrimage to Tanzania along with a flotilla of other foreign registered yachts to avoid having to pay VAT. This year
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Cowes Preview
Cowes Week takes place this year from 27 July to 2 August. Entries for 2024 are already up on 2023, with around 500 boats expected, drawing sailors and spectators in their thousands. With 2026 set to mark the 200th anniversary of this iconic event, t
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Brighton Marina
50.8121° N, 0.0985° W Brighton Marina is one of 11 Premier owned and operated, award-winning south coast marinas that run from Cornwall to Brighton. Opened by the late HM The Queen in 1979, Brighton Marina is indeed the largest marina in the UK. It i
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Cordon Bleu Water
The days are long gone, if they ever really existed, when sailing folk opened a tin of something for dinner or like Tilman, cooked up a pot of gumbo or burgoo which was added to for weeks until it got too mouldy to eat. Most cruising people eat very
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Islands In The Sun
French Polynesia, in the South (central) Pacific Ocean, with its vibrant blue lagoons and Robin Crusoe-style remote, pure white sandy beach-lined islands, is just one location that evokes charter holiday paradise. From the picture-perfect lagoons of
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200 Years Of Saving Lives
As a sailor in UK waters it is sometimes easy to forget just what an extraordinary institution the RNLI is. The fact that this massive network of lifeboats and lifesavers are on hand 24/7 is somehow easy to take for granted. It is only when we are co
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Launched
Musto’s base layer is a super light thermal layer that is ideal for dinghy sailors and yachtsmen and women alike, writes Sam Jefferson. I was sent this top to test at the end of last summer when it was still very warm where I live but it served me we
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Jess Lloyd-Mostyn
After all these years at sea I am often asked questions about whether I worry about storms or get nervous over thoughts of pirates. But, truth be told, there is honestly only one situation that I tend to get a little jittery over and, when compared t
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Three Of The Best
S&S and Nautors Swan 44, Astrid, is an evergreen classic. She has recently enjoyed a comprehensive refit, including new teak decks, updated spars, rigging, sails, and winches plus new engine and B&G nav. You will find professionally refurbished woodw

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