Our Editor Sam Jefferson takes the new Balance 580 out for a test, marking it one of the best new sailing boats on the market ...

The 2026 season of SailGP is underway, but the second race weekend, taking place in Auckland, set off with a bang, as the ...

Nothing can really prepare you for how completely your relationship with the water changes when you’re living on it. From ...

This lively offshore and coastal leg of the 2026 Clipper Round The World Race is where speed, precision and teamwork really come into their own. Using the tropical trades to leave the Whitsundays ...

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There’s no worse feeling that setting off to sea and realising you’ve forgotten something essential. From your latest high-tech sailing gadgets to home comforts, there’s often fairly difficult to go ...

Nevertheless, the remainder of the SailGP fleet battled it out in Auckland Harbour over the weekend. Auckland is one of the closest racetracks on the SailGP 2026 calendar, and this year they ...

Looking for a used yacht for sale? Here’s our pick of the latest sailing boats on the market.

Round the world alone in 64 days: Rupert Holmes reports on an extraordinary edition of the Vendee Globe. The 2024 Vendée Globe proved to be a record breaking edition in many respects that defied ...

Renowned monohull builder Dufour has taken its first foray into the cat market with the brand new Dufour 48.Helm charter broker and lifetime monohull sailor James Foot went out to Croatia to put the ...

The Sydney-Hobart Race remains one of the classics of the racing calendar, with the 2025 iteration, leaving Sydney on Boxing Day, delivering the first ever win for a female skipper. Jiang Lin, co ...

When our friends asked if we’d help them sail Tourterelles, their brand new Knysna 500SE catamaran on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic from South Africa, we jumped at it. We’d sold our own ...