Yachting World - September 2024

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ACROSS THE TOP
Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria – where the outback meets the sea – is a cruisers’ gateway to the Indian Ocean.

HEAD TO HEAD
On the cusp of the 37th America’s Cup we take a look at the six contenders. Could this be the closest contest yet?

MATTHEW SHEAHAN

AMERICA'S CUP HISTORY IN MINIATURE REVEALS A LOT ABOUT HOW AND WHY THE EVENT HAS SUCH AN ENDURING APPEAL

3 mins

Nikki Henderson- Want to be a better skipper? think like an instructor

Recently I was fortunate enough to find myself on the bow during a race. Well, I thought it was fortunate but appreciate that sentiment could be up for debate... I don’t get so much opportunity to play on the pointy end these days. It was fun!I was readying the symmetric spinnaker for a bear away set. Having just fed the sheet and guy around to the starboard side and under the jib, I was bracing myself in some sort of yoga-starfish position. Right foot braced on a stanchion, left foot on the pulpit, my core muscles just about keeping me upright as I rolled the lines around to make sure they weren’t twisted before attaching them to the clew.

3 mins

MOVE TO A MULTI

MULTIHULLS HAVE SOARED IN POPULARITY, BUT WHAT'S IT REALLY LIKE TO GO FROM A MONOHULL TO A CATAMARAN? LIVEABOARD CRUISER JOSHUA SHANKLE SHARES LESSONS LEARNED

9 mins

EXPECTATION VS REALITY

TERYSA VANDERLOO ON WHAT THE FIRST YEAR OF SAILING AND LIVING ABOARD A PERFORMANCE MULTIHULL HAS TAUGHT HER

6 mins

ACROSS THE TOP

“That sea sure is mean,” our kind driver observes as my salty trio climbs into his truck, fresh off a roughand-tumble crossing of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

10+ mins

IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE?

DOES BRITAIN FINALLY HAVE A SHOT AT THE CUP? HELEN FRETTER TALKS TO INEOS BRITANNIA SKIPPER BEN AINSLIE AND HELMSMAN GILES SCOTT ABOUT WHY THIS TIME, IT'S DIFFERENT

4 mins

AMERICAN CLASSIC

THE NEWPORT BERMUDA RACE IS THE OLDEST OCEAN RACE IN THE WORLD. WILL SOFRIN TOOK PART IN THIS YEAR'S 636-MILE BLUEWATER CLASSIC

9 mins

PACIFIC FIRE

CAUGHT IN A WALL OF LIGHTNING IN A TRADITIONAL SAILING CANOE, THOR F JENSEN'S BID TO SAIL AROUND NEW GUINEA IS IN JEOPARDY

9 mins

DUFOUR 44

IT'S NOT JUST VOLUME THAT HAS CHANGED DRASTICALLY IN PRODUCTION CRUISING YACHT DESIGN, IT'S HOW DESIGNERS AND SAILORS USE IT

7 mins

CLUBS WAN 43

THIS CONTEMPORARY MULTI-MODE CRUISER-RACER IS ONE OF 2024'S MOST EXCITING LAUNCHES. TOBY HODGES WENT TO THE FINNISH YARD FOR THE FIRST SEA TRIALS... SORT OF...

8 mins

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Yachting World is world's leading international yachting magazine. From ocean racing and blue water cruising to the most glamorous super-yachts, Yachting World has the very best in nautical writing and stunning photography, with up-to-the-minute technical reports, race analysis, new boat tests and much more...