Yachting World

Published by TI Media Limited 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.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

PICTURE THIS • Perfect Caribbean blues for Geoff Manchester’s J/133 Vamoose competing at Antigua Sailing Week this year, where they won the Peters & May Round Antigua Race. The regatta rounded off a strong 2023 Caribbean season with many events reporting solid entry numbers and particular growth in the bareboat charter and multihull classes.

PICTURE THIS • Things are looking brighter for 11th Hour Racing in The Ocean Race. After a Southern Ocean stage to forget, Charlie Enright’s team won Leg 4 into their home town of Newport. This puts the top three boats within two points of each other for the double-scoring transatlantic leg, which set off as we went to press.

Three finish Golden Globe Race

Slingsby takes SailGP hat-trick

America’s Cup Saudi controversy

Twelve for Youth & Women's Cup

Starlink changes for cruisers

Classics go offshore

The lifeboat without crew

Clipper fatality settlement

Buddy Melges • 1930-2023

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Yachting World • ESTABLISHED 1894 • VOLUME 174 • ISSUE NO 3379

MATTHEW SHEAHAN • DO CARBON RACING MACHINES HERALD PROGRESS, OR IS IT THE CLASSICS THAT ARE THE REAL BEASTS OF THE RACECOURSE?

NIKKI HENDERSON • DOES THE SAFETY CULTURE OF SAILING NEED A REVAMP?

ATLANTIC ON AUTO • OVER 250 TRANSATLANTIC SKIPPERS FROM THE MOST RECENT ARC FLEET REPORT BACK ON THE EFFICACY AND RELIABILITY OF THEIR SELF-STEERING AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY EQUIPMENT

SIZE MATTERS • The average ARC yacht gets longer and longer each year and autopilots have been getting more and more powerful, intelligent and reliable.

HOW AUTOPILOTS WORK

WINDVANE NUMBERS

HOW A WINDVANE WORKS

AUTOPILOT PROBLEMS

IT TAKES TWO • THE DOUBLE-HANDED GLOBE 40 TEAMS POWERED AROUND THE WORLD OVER EIGHT LEGS IN JUST NINE MONTHS. RUPERT HOLMES DISCOVERS WHAT CRUISERS CAN LEARN FROM THEIR TOUGH CIRCUMNAVIGATION

EVE IN EDEN • A 7,000-MILE PASSAGE FROM AUSTRALIA TO THE SEYCHELLES VIA BALI ABOARD A CLASSIC SWAN 65 WAS A TROPICAL ADVENTURE FOR MEG NIBLETT

LONE STAR • AS WINNER OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE RACE, KIRSTEN NEUSCHÄFER IS THE FIRST WOMAN TO WIN A SOLO AROUND THE WORLD RACE. HELEN FRETTER FINDS OUT WHAT DRIVES HER

GOLDEN GLOBE TIMELINE

ITALIA YACHTS 12.98 • ITALIA YACHTS HAS SUCCEDED WITH ITS SMALLER DESIGNS, BUT IS THERE ROOM FOR YET ANOTHER PREMIUM BRAND IN THE 40-45FT CRUISER-RACER SECTOR?

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RUNNING FOR SHELTER • A GRIPPING TALE OF OUTRUNNING A SIROCCO STORM OFF ITALY’S SOUTHERN SHORE IN AN 18FT DRASCOMBE LUGGER

SCALE OF THINGS TO COME?

WHAT’S HOT • TOP NEW LAUNCHES, CRAZY CONCEPTS AND TOYS YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED

WHERE EAGLES DARE • STUNNING IMAGES OF THE 81M SCHOONER SEA EAGLE II IN FRENCH POLYNESIA ARE A RARE CHANCE TO SEE ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST MAGNIFICENT SUPERYACHTS IN FULL FLIGHT. TOBY HODGES FINDS OUT MORE FROM THE TEAM BEHIND THE DESIGN

BATTLE OF THE GIANTS • SOME OF THE FINEST SLOOPS ON THE PLANET WILL GATHER AGAIN IN PALMA THIS JUNE FOR THE ONE AND ONLY SUPERYACHT CUP. SAM FORTESCUE REPORTS

THE ENTRIES • A PREVIEW OF THE RUNNERS AND RIDERS

LAST SHOT • A palette of Pacific patterns and perfect sailing conditions as Sea Eagle II skirts the...