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

← Nami Archive

Sail-World (Worldwide)

America's Cup: Chasing the significant seconds

10.25

Four members of the Emirates Team NZ design team talk about the nuances of chasing design and speed gains in the AC75s and how the trade-offs are still relevant as previously in monohulls, but now…

Speed & performance

Read at Sail-World (Worldwide) ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

America's Cup: Chasing the significant seconds

Related

ILCA 7 National Open 5 at the WPNSA Sail-World (Worldwide)

Allspars Final Fling Dinghy Regatta 2026 Sail-World (Worldwide)

Rip It Racing To Make Super Cat Debut In Key West Speed on the Water

MediterraneanPershing 37 (11,78 m) costruzione moderna, prestazioni sportive e grande tenuta di mare Barche a Motore

Northern EuropeSailGP: Versteigerung! Vettels Ferrari-Handschuhe und SailGP-Helme YACHT

MediterraneanX-43 (13,25 m) nasce come barca da crociera ma sulle performance non scende a compromessi Giornale della Vela