Las 52 Super Series son conocidas como uno de los circuitos más competitivos del mundo de las regatas. Siete de los nueve equipos que compiten por la temporada 2021 cuentan con velas North Sails, lo que convierte al circuito en excepcional campo de ensayos y desarrollo en la evolución de las velas 3Di. Mucho de lo aprendido en las 52 Super Series llega a los productos del catálogo North Sails.
...They say you're never more than a mile or two from a J/24 but is there a cruising future for this 1970s race design, asks Rupert Holmes
Photos: David Harding/SailingScenes.comThe 1970s saw plenty of innovation on the USA’s north-eastern coasts. The wide-beam almost flush deck 24-footer Ragtime that Rod Johnston built in his garage over the winter of 1975/76 went on to win almost every race she entered the following summer.
That led to an agreement for Tillotson Pearson to build the boat on a production basis, while Rod’s...
Two solo sailors finish their round-Britain attempts on the same weekend
The youngest sailor ever to circumnavigate Great Britain single-handed and an octogenarian undertaking a similar feat in the opposite direction completed their journeys at the weekend at opposite ends of the country.
Fourteen-year-old Katie’s homecoming to the River Exe on Saturday, seven weeks after setting off on 30 June, marked the culmination of an...
If you need room to swing a cat (or two) on passage the Island Packet 350 is rock steady and roomy enough, writes Rupert Holmes
Photos: David Harding/SailingScenes.comThis Florida-based yard has produced a range of distinctive long keel serious cruising designs for more than 40 years. These are quality yachts, with a high level of standard equipment and a great deal of attention to detail.
The Island Packet 350 was launched in 1996, with the first examples arriving in the UK soon afterwards via importer Opal Marine.
When you...
In part two of the PBO Project Boat survey we take a look at the seacocks, gas installation, electrics, engine, sails and more...
A boat survey is really important for anyone buying – or even acquiring – a secondhand boat.
Last month we asked marine surveyor Ben Sutcliffe-Davies to take a look at the PBO Project Boat, Maximus. The 43-year-old Maxi 84 was offered to us by reader...
Allan Terhune from Annapolis, MD is the 2021 Inland Lake Yachting Association (ILYA) MC Scow Champion, winning 4 of 7 windy races on Lake Okoboji, IA. Allan has won multiple national class championships. He is the manager of one-design sails…
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Liveaboards Dave and Hazel McCabe spent five years converting a wooden trawler into a motor-sailer.
When my partner, Dave, has a mad idea, he normally finds a way to make it happen. “I’d like to sail across the Atlantic,” he declared one day. “Uh-oh!” I thought.
We were already liveaboards – we had a motor-cruiser that was suitable for winter jaunts down the French Canals and earned us a living as a passenger ferry across the River Exe. But it was hardly suitable for an ocean crossing.
We needed something bigger, sturdier...
The brilliant DIY determination of 13-year-old Katie McCabe earned her a wooden boat with a whole new life ahead of it
My name is Katie, but I prefer to be called Sade (pronounced Sayd). I am 13 years old and over the winter and spring (2019-2020), through the pandemic, I restored a 1950s Morgan Giles-built West Channel One Design sloop.
I have spent my whole life on boats. In 2000, my parents bought an old fishing trawler, Ros Ailither, which they spent five years converting into a motor-sailer. They lifted the whole deck...
This poster child for the 1990s bowsprit revolution now looks more like an affordable offshore/coastal performer, writes Rupert Holmes
While no subsequent J-boat has matched the J/24 in sales, the brand nevertheless became hugely successful across the globe.
The company went on to lead the world in adopting asymmetric spinnakers, first with the J/22 in 1983 and then the J/92 in 1992 and J/105 three years after that.
The latter was also set up to allow easy short-handed sailing. Cowes Week photos...
A compelling episode from Youtube channel Sailing Fair Isle makes embarrassing viewing for the Croatian tourist board. Kass Schmitt reports
While in the past I’ve been mildly critical of Steve and Judy on Sailing Fair Isle for struggling to leave their former day jobs as news editors/correspondents behind, this surfeit of polish and professionalism has not kept me from watching and enjoying their videos for the past...