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MATT SHEAHAN

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS AFFECTED THE BOATING INDUSTRY AND THE SPORT OF SAILING IN A BIG WAY. . . BUT IT'S NOT ALL BAD NEWS

CRUISE THE WORLD... WITHOUT A BOAT

ELAINE BUNTING GETS TIPS FROM CREW ON HOW TO HITCH-HIKE YOUR WAY AROUND THE OCEANS, AND FROM SKIPPERS ON HOW TO TAKE ON EXTRA HANDS

DARING TO DREAM

A RECORD FLEET OF 33 SKIPPERS WILL LINE UP IN THIS YEAR’S VENDEE GLOBE. PIP HARE EXPLAINS HOW IT FEELS TO BE ONE OF THEM...

5 EXPERT TIPS - HOW TO HELM AT NIGHT

HENRY BOMBY has raced a lot of miles through the night. He talks to ANDY RICE about how to keep your boat speed up after dark

OFFSHORE BOSS

AFTER AN ENVIABLE PROFESSIONAL SAILING CAREER, EDDIE WARDEN OWEN HAS A RARE PERSPECTIVE ON THE WORLD OF RACING, AS ELAINE BUNTING HEARS

SURFING INTO EL SALVADOR

SUZY CARMODY STUMBLED UPON A SOCIABLE CRUISING COMMUNITY AS SHE EXPLORED EL SALVADOR

ROCK HARD

A VOYAGE ROUND CAPE HORN AND THROUGH THE BEAGLE CHANNEL IS INTERRUPTED BY AN ENCOUNTER WITH A SUBMERGED ROCK

MATT SHEAHAN

THE CLASSIC J CLASS AND THE LATEST SPIRIT 111MAY BE 90 YEARS APART, BUT THEY SHARE A COMMON THEME

SUMMER ON ICE

ANDY SCHELL EXPLORED NEWFOUNDLAND’S RUGGED FJORD COAST ABOARD HIS SWAN 59 ICEBEAR

SPECIAL REPORT

HOW TO CROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN, BY JANNEKE KUYSTERS

SECRETS OF BOAT THE TESTERS

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHICH YACHT IS RIGHT FOR YOU? WILL BRUTON GETS EXPERT ADVICE FROM SAILORS WHO TEST DRIVE BOATS FOR A LIVING…

Show season curtailed

Sailors wanting to see this season’s new launches and latest equipment will have to contend with reduced shows and private viewings.

NAVIGATION BRIEFING

CHRIS TIBBS ON SAILING FROM CAPE TOWN TO EUROPE

CREATIVE SPIRIT

A TECHNICAL MASTERPIECE OR A PIECE OF ART? THE NEW SPIRIT 111 IS SOMEHOW BOTH, AND IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE LARGE YACHTS TOBY HODGES HAS EVER SAILED

PLEASURE ISLANDS

HOLIDAY HOMES, RESTAURANTS, EVEN CITIES MAY SOON BE COMING TO A QUIET BEACH OR HARBOUR NEAR YOU, REPORTS SAM FORTESCUE

ON THE LIMIT

THIS YEAR’S VENDÉE GLOBE IS A RACE FOR FUTURISTIC FLYING MACHINES. HELEN FRETTER AND ANDI ROBERTSON TAKE A CLOSER LOOK

MASTER YOUR MAINSAIL

KNOWING HOW TO SET UP A MULTIHULL’S MAINSAIL IS CRUCIAL. BRIAN THOMPSON, ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST EXPERIENCED MULTIHULL SAILORS, SHARES HIS TIPS

MAIDEN VOYAGE

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

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

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

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