Innehållsförteckning för February 2023 från Yachting World

· 11th Hour Racing Team First to sign up and with way more current sea miles under the keel than any of the other teams, 11th Hour Racing Team skippered by Charlie Enright has been the favourite for some time. Designed specifically for this race and with plenty of runway to refine and develop the boat including four transatlantic crossings, this is the best prepared team. The crew line up is impressive too. · Team Malizia Skippered by Boris Herrmann, who finished 5th in the 2020 Vendée Globe on his first attempt, his team launched their brand new, radical 60 with its distinctive central accommodation area last July. The boat was designed by VPLP to not only compete in the Ocean Race but also for Herrmann’s 2024 Vendée Globe campaign.…

The Caspian Sea Monster was every bit as intimidating as its name suggests. At over 100ft long it flew at 230 knots just 20ft above the water’s surface. With a lift capacity of 550 tonnes and 10 jet engines spread along its stubby wings and tail fin it was a beast of a machine. Known officially as the Korabl Maket (KM) it was the largest in a line of ground effect aircraft designed and built in the Soviet Union from the late 1950s through to the mid-1980s as part of the Ekranoplan project. Despite having unusually short wings the KM could cover long distances at high speed as well as being able to carry much higher payloads more efficiently than a conventional aircraft of a similar size. In theory it…

TIME TO BEAT 40d 23h 30m 30s Ocean racing is an unsentimental world. It’s deeply unglamorous, stripping its participants of every iota of vanity. Failures in preparedness will be hurriedly found out, but even the most careful and thorough, most deserving of campaigns can see their chance of victory slip away in the sudden tumbling of a rig or the slow veer of a weather system. It’s an arena where the funds required to play are eye-watering – but where money, ultimately, cannot buy success. So why on earth would a billionaire choose to undergo all the privations of six weeks at sea, of using a bucket for a toilet and eating freeze-dried food, sleeping in a damp, hot-bunk, and living in a state of constant adrenaline and anxiety? Because…

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For foraging on land a sharp knife or machete can go a long way. Make sure to dip all fruits in the ocean and then give them a freshwater rinse to get rid of any unwanted bugs before they come aboard Can you imagine not going to a supermarket or farmer’s market for a month or more? Could you make nourishing, appetising meals out of only what you have in stores? By the end of the first week, it would be a little challenging. What about after three weeks when all the fresh food has been exhausted, the bottom of the freezer is starting to show and all your go-to dishes are missing key ingredients? Could you sustain yourself for even longer? For two months, maybe three? As long-distance cruisers,…

PRO SERIES In this third of a new series on double-handed sailing techniques, Pip Hare explains the skill of inside gybing a spinnaker Double-handed sailing is gaining in popularity across many disciplines – we now regularly see crews of two managing all sizes of boat, and sailing them with the same efficiency and expectations as full crews. Here I’m sharing how I approach key manoeuvres with a crew of two, how to minimise risk, prepare for success and advance your techniques. Outside gybing an asymmetric spinnaker is an under-utilised technique by the average sailor. It can be trickier to learn than other techniques, and may require a little adaptation of your boat, but it has some significant advantages over the inside gybe, particularly when trying to avoid the spinnaker ‘wine-glassing’…

The Royal Yachting Association and World Sailing have published new guidance for cruisers regarding piracy and safety abroad, particularly for yacht skippers. The new information – ‘Danger of Piracy – Guidelines for yachts’ – can be found at sailing.org and includes new guidelines written this year, intended for sailors who may be considering a passage through the Gulf of Aden, Yemeni and Somali waters, including the north-west Indian Ocean north of 5°S and west of 60°E. While shipping organisations recently declassified a section of Indian Ocean coastline (the ‘Indian Ocean High Risk Area’, as shown on UKHO Chart Q6099) because the number of successful pirate attacks on merchant shipping in the area has greatly reduced, World Sailing and The RYA guidelines emphasise that the danger of piracy and consequent loss…

UK Jeanneau dealers team up Investment company Colburt Marine Group has acquired UK boat dealerships Sea Ventures, which represents Jeanneau from headquarters on the River Hamble, and Atlantic Yachts SW Limited, which has offices in Plymouth and Noss marina on the River Dart. Ian Atkins, chairman of Colburt Marine Group, said: “This initiative brings new levels of availability, service and support." The Tour de France à la Voile, the famous multi-stage crewed event which saw many legends of the sport cut their teeth in offshore racing, is returning to an offshore, coastal and inshore format in one-designs, moving to the Figaro Beneteau 3 for 2023. The Tour Voile, as it is widely known, has run every year since 1978 until lockdown restrictions paused it in 2020, and was where many…

I ‘ve reached 100 folks. Not in age, as that’s still three decades away, but in the number of columns written for this esteemed magazine. Leading up to this magical, purely arbitrary number I had a think and decided this might be a good time to quiver my pen. When the editor asked me to take over the column from Robin Knox-Johnston for the October 2014 issue of Yachting World, I readily agreed. Not only do I enjoy writing down my thoughts, but I had some axes to grind, scores to settle from previous civilized discussions, points to make with particular orthodoxies in the marine industry and observations of some worrying trends in boating in general. What a great soap box to climb on to! The editor said I could…

It’s hard to imagine what life is like beyond the borders of our imagination. Sometimes, when you’re lucky enough, life presents itself with opportunities that take you into the realm of the unknown. That’s what our voyage to Greenland was. The trip came about through the combination of one man’s imagination, a crew hungry for adventure, and a remarkable boat to take them there. Sea Tilt’s owner had a dream to explore the wilderness of Greenland, and we – skipper Sebastian and chef/crew Xiara – were excited to make it happen. The first things that come to mind when thinking of Greenland are impenetrable ice sheets, towering mountains and the vast unknown. To this day parts of Greenland’s borders remain undefined due to constant shifts along its fluid coastline. In…

Where: Port Ginesta, Spain When: mid October 2022  Wind: 5-17 knots Sea state: smooth to short 1-1.5m onshore waves  Test boat: Pulse version with additional sail area, owner layout and options including air conditioning, generator, Code 0, electric winches and Harken Flatwinder mainsheet traveller We’re sailing upwind in 12-14 knots of true wind, with boat speed hovering between 7.4 and 8.0 knots. The helm feels positive and responsive, the boat tacks easily and responds readily to accurate sail trim. Aside from the lack of heel, it’s the type of experience and real-world cruising speeds you might expect of a 50-something-foot monohull performance cruiser. Yet, this is an enormously spacious 26ft wide platform from the world’s largest boatbuilder, not a niche builder of expensive high performance designs. Until now, anyone looking…

Steve Fossett used two replicas of Pierre 1er for the 1995 film Waterworld, featuring Kevin Costner navigating a world overwhelmed by water following melting of the polar icecaps. There are many iconic raceboats, but few capture the feeling of an era as much as the 60ft trimaran in which Florence Arthaud won the 1990 Route du Rhum. She beat Philippe Poupon, winner of the previous edition, by eight hours to become the first woman to win a major offshore race, inspiring a new generation of young women to follow in her footsteps. Arthaud had already broken the west to east transatlantic record earlier that year, taking a whopping 20% off Bruno Peyron’s existing time. She also became the first sailor to be awarded the title 'Champion des Champions français de…

The 12,000-mile leg The course for The Ocean Race has a new first stopover mid-Atlantic at the Cape Verdes, before an extra long Southern Ocean leg of 12,750 miles from Cape Town, South Africa, to Itajai, Brazil. This new stage passes south of all three Great Capes and is expected to take 34 days. It’s been a long wait for the next fully crewed lap of the planet since the last one finished in 2018, but finally The Ocean Race will start from Alicante on 15 January. The total fleet is expected to comprise 11 boats in two classes, including the VO65 one-designs from the previous two events and a fleet of five fully crewed IMOCA 60s. Compared to the previous race around the world under former sponsors Volvo, there…

Our image of the lone sailor as the hero of the high seas, battling the elements in isolation, does all the second-in-commands of the world a disservice. Every skipper needs a dependable first mate. Even solo sailors rely on someone ashore, somewhere, and those professional solo racing skippers that make the front covers usually have a whole technical team on call 24/7 to support and help them when equipment malfunctions or things go wrong. With a full crew, a first mate or second in command (call them what you will) may run the watch system, share in the decision making process, and help with repairs or problem solving. They can act as a co-skipper, making independent decisions on their watch, or have a specialised role such as navigation or weather…

Where: Den Helder and Texel, the Netherlands Conditions: 20-30 knots, 1-2m seas Model: Hull No1, with options including in-mast vertically battened 3Di mainsail and furling genoa, electric winches and furlers, larger navstation and climate control system They weren’t the sort of conditions you’d ordinarily choose to go out in. It had been blowing 30 knots for the past 30 hours straight that we’d been aboard and despite the protection the small fishing port on the Dutch island of Texel offered, there was still enough swell bouncing around inside its walls to make the warps groan as we pitched up and down against the old musselling barge alongside. No, were time not an issue – were you cruising proper – you’d choose to stay warm and dry, read a book in the…

Jeanneau Yachts 55 Here’s a novel design we’re eager to view. Following the recently launched Jeanneau Yachts 60 and 65, and yet offering something totally different, the Jeanneau Yachts 55 features a highly innovative layout, which focuses on the privacy of the owner. We all like our own space sometimes, another reason behind the popularity of multihulls. Never afraid to try new things, Jeanneau has created a full apartment for the owner – by providing separate companionways giving direct access to the aft guest cabins, everything from the main companionway forward can be used for the owner’s space. The split cockpit is also unusual. The forward end is for sail handling, under the protection of a fixed arch and sprayhood or fixed windscreen, while the entire aft section is dedicated…

‘To sail a trimaran flying a hull was something very new’ VINCENT LAURENT PREVOST NOMINATES BISCUITS CANTREAU 2 Biscuits Cantreau 2 was a Formula 40 trimaran designed for Jean Le Cam in 1987. “Formula 40 was a class born in France with a very simple rule for multihulls for offshore racing,” explains Laurent Prevost. “The boat had to be 40ft long, about 40ft wide, the mast height was 21m, with a sail area of 90m2, and weigh 2.3 tonnes minimum. “In 1986 the majority of the fleet were catamarans, but we started with a trimaran. For 1987 we sat down with a blank sheet of paper. The challenge was to be at the minimum weight with a trimaran. We wanted to go for a trimaran which sailed like a catamaran,…