Sailing Anarchy

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Sailing AnarchyDjango 7x Snatches Middle Sea Race Overall, Black Jack Repeats Photo: Rolex The 47th Rolex Middle Sea Race is in the books, and the wallyrocket 71 Django 7x walked away with overall honours on corrected time, proving once again that when the breeze builds, the…

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Sailing AnarchyFull electric furling The sailing yacht Zero, recently delivered by Vitters shipyard, is a unique opportunity for some of the suppliers involved to reengineer their products, systems and technologies for the future.

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Sailing AnarchyRobo-Sailboat Crosses a Cat 3 Eye, Lives to Upload Photo by Saildrone Here’s the pitch nobody on a crewed boat would take: point a 23-foot sailing drone at a Category 3 hurricane, steer it into the eye from an office chair in California, and hope it…

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Sailing AnarchyA-Cat Worlds Hits Tampa: 79 Boats, Two Divisions Photo by aclassworlds.com Davis Island Yacht Club draws the A-Class catamaran circus to Tampa Bay for the 2026 World Championship, November 9-14, with a 79-boat fleet and sailors flying the flags of…

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Sailing AnarchyGreat leap forward B&G’s latest Hercules WTP processors are giving trimmers, navigators and tacticians a level of real time data and graphics that would have been unimaginable a few years ago.

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Sailing AnarchyFerrari’s 100-Foot Flying Yellow Monster Gets Its Hull Photo by Ferrari Maranello has finally slapped the paint on. The Ferrari Hypersail, the 100-foot, 30-metre foiling monohull built entirely in-house in Pisa, now has a fully painted hull and finished…

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Sailing AnarchyGrand Soleil Drops the 80 Plus LC, a Floating Palace for Fano Loyalists Photo by Grand Soleil Cantiere del Pardo has rolled out the Grand Soleil 80 Plus Long Cruise, the latest addition to the Plus line, and the marketing department has clearly been left unsupervised.

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Sailing Anarchy

Sailing AnarchyControl from the cockpit You will find Ronstan batten car systems fitted on many of the world’s most iconic yachts. At the pointy end of the Sydney Hobart fleet there are numerous Ronstan-equipped super maxis, Volvo 70s…

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Sailing Anarchy

Sailing AnarchyA rare combination of speed and easy handling The design and build of a custom performance yacht is always a process of bringing together the visions of owner and design team to create a unique platform for racing, cruising or both.

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Sailing Anarchy

Sailing AnarchyNo easy answers The return of the Admiral’s Cup is already influencing the design, purchase and modification of serious raceboats.

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A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay