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CLASS ACT

CRUISING WITH THEIR CHILDREN ALLOWED RALF AND DINA SCHLAEPFER TO FULFIL THEIR PACIFIC DREAMS, ALTHOUGH SET LESSONS WERE OVERTAKEN BY THE SCHOOL OF ADVENTURE

MAIDEN VOYAGE

SINGLE-HANDED SAILOR TREVOR ROBERTSON DESCRIBES A MAIDEN VOYAGE FROM FLORIDA TO MARTINIQUE IN A NEWLY PURCHASED 38-FOOTER

SPACE DISCOVERY

BRITISH BRAND DISCOVERY IS ONE OF THE FEW MONOHULL YARDS TO BUILD CATAMARANS. COULD THE BLUEWATER 50 BE ONE FOR MONOHULL PURISTS?

TAKING CONTROL

HOW MODERN AUTOPILOTS CAN BE YOUR BEST HELMSMAN, BY MATTHEW SHEAHAN

CALEDONIAN BLUES

JANNEKE KUYSTERS AND WIETZE VAN DER LAAN ARE CAPTIVATED BY THE PACIFIC ISLANDS OF NEW CALEDONIA

5 EXPERT TIPS

HOW TO MAKE STRUCTURAL REPAIRS OFFSHORE

A SMOOTH NEW START

PRIVILÈGE IS RENEWING ITS RANGE UNDER HANSE, STARTING WITH THIS 50-FOOTER. FRANÇOIS TREGOUET REPORTS

SMALL BOAT CRUISE: Waldo Lake, Oregon

I decided to go to Waldo Lake, in the mountains east of Eugene, Oregon in mid-September, hoping to be on the water from Friday through the following Tuesday or Wednesday. Having been to Waldo five times in June and once in early August. I wanted to feel the nighttime chill announcing the coming winter, and be both grateful for it and fortified against it, in my winter sleeping bag. I wanted to watch the long and early shadows of Autumn seizing the forest in the afternoon.

Small-Boat Gear

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SHALLOW DRAFT

It is early May and, like many of you, we’re thinking about life in a challenging time—about gains, losses and what might come next.

SAFE AND SIMPLE

Changing rigs extended this sailor’s time on the water

S-CAMPING

Glenn Tripp on building a bunk

RESTORATION

The true cost of bringing and old boat back to life

READER BOAT: A Drake 13 called Grebe

I have always wanted to build a sharpie. For me they are archetypal—like a boat from some dream. And mine is a very specific dream: sitting low in the cockpit on a sunny, breezy day, sailing on starboard tack, tiller and sheet in hand, just cruisin’ along in my beautiful little sharpie.

PLAN STUDY: Annabelle Skiff

Standing around after boating on the local pond, I suggested to my friend, the remarkable Paul Helbert, that I thought he would be better served by yet another boat—specifically, the “10' Rowing and Sailing Dinghy” designed by Howard Chapelle. I would modify Chapelle’s hull for skin-on-frame construction, and Paul would build the prototype. Paul could, for a minimal investment in both time and money, have a sailboat that would be lightweight enough to car-top, yet still had room for a passenger. More importantly, the boat promised jaunty performance as well.

Future Physics of the Birdwing Mast

An inventor’s perspective

Bike Sailing

Building a small, bike-trailerable boat for big water

SET FREE & GO

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GET READY AND PREPARED TO SAIL AWAY FOR A LIFE AFLOAT? RALLY ORGANISER JEREMY WYATT GUIDES US WITH HIS ADVICE

SHOGUN 50 AND 42.6

This new brand is the result of a Swedish owner seeking a very light displacement boat with performance (and some design aspects) akin to that of the ClubSwan 50, but with easy handling for day sailing and occasional overnighting with family and friends in the Stockholm archipelago.

LESSONS FROM A LIFE AFLOAT

PETE GOSS HAS DECIDED TO CHANGE HIS VOYAGING PLANS AND SAIL NEARER TO HOME, BUT HE REFLECTS ON WHAT HE’S LEARNED

SailGP will restart in 2021

All events due to take place this year in Russell Coutts’s grand prix circuit SailGP have been rescheduled for 2021. The ‘Season 2’ series planned for San Francisco in April, New York in June, and in UK and Denmark in August and September are all being moved to the same venues running from April next year.

FINE BALANCE

AT FIRST ACQUAINTANCE THIS CRUISER/RACER SEEMS CURIOUSLY AT ODDS WITH ITSELF – UNTIL YOU GET BEHIND THE WHEEL

THE SWAN PRINCE

FASHION MAGNATE LEONARDO FERRAGAMO HAS CULTIVATED NAUTOR’S SWAN INTO THE WORLD’S MOST RESPECTED YACHT BRAND

Solo race to the Arctic

A new race to the Arctic in July is to be run for the IMOCA 60 class as a qualifier for the Vendée Globe round the world race in November.

AFTER THE STORM

‘A LOVE AND HATE AFFAIR’ IS HOW MICHAEL VAN BREGT DESCRIBES SAILING THROUGH THE MAGELLAN STRAIT AND AROUND THE SOUTH OF THE AMERICAS

American classics to be auctioned

Two beautiful and classic yachts are to be sold at auction on 25 June. The 1926 Herreshoff NY40 Marilee and the famous S&S-designed 12 Metre Enterprise are to be sold individually, without reserve, to the highest bidder.

A WORLD BENEATH

FREEDIVER ANDREAS B HEIDE HAS SPENT A DECADE WHALE WATCHING IN THE FAR NORTH FROM HIS 37FT PRODUCTION YACHT

Four Things to Make You Feel A Little Less Shitty About Everything

Helpful reminders for the quarantine era

The Art of Being Seen

How a group of black women are finding creative ways to make diversity in surfing more visible

Surftech

Everyday surfers weigh in on Surftech’s newest models, and the Best of the Test was the “Untitled” by Haydenshapes