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.

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Yachting World • ESTABLISHED 1894 • VOLUME 177 • ISSUE NO 3411

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MATTHEW SHEAHAN • OCEAN RACING TECH SEEMS TO BE DEVELOPING AT BREAKNECK PACE – BUT IT TAKES YEARS TO GET THESE COMPLEX BEASTS UP TO SPEED

NIKKI HENDERSON • THE SEA IS USUALLY OUR HAPPY PLACE. BUT WHEN IT ISN’T, FACTORING IN RECOVERY – BOTH MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY – IS PART OF GOOD SEAMANSHIP

FAMOUS FIRST • THE FAMOUS PROJECT CIC’S JULES VERNE TROPHY BID DID WHAT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE, AS HELEN FRETTER REPORTS

GET YOUR FAMILY INTO SAILING (& LOVING IT!) • IF YOUR FAMILY HASN’T – YET – FULLY CAUGHT THE SAILING BUG, WE HAVE THE LATEST IDEAS TO GET THEM HOOKED

PACIFIC’S HIDDEN PATHS • SAILING FROM CHILE TO POLYNESIA’S LEGENDARY SHORES WAS AN ADVENTURE ACROSS THE LESS TRAVELLED ROUTES OF THE PACIFIC FOR LAURIC THIAULT

GRUDGE MATCH • AFTER 135 YEARS, ONE OF THE OLDEST TROPHIES IN AMERICAN SPORT HAS FINALLY CHANGED HANDS. ERIC KANE AND HELEN FRETTER REPORT

PURE CLASS • CLEVERLY DESIGNED, METICULOUSLY BUILT, GENEROUSLY CANVASSED – THE PURE 42 IS FIRST OF A WHOLE NEW BREED OF FAST, GO-ANYWHERE-YACHT. BUT WHAT MAKES HER EUROPEAN YACHT OF THE YEAR IN THE BLUEWATER CATEGORY?

AMAZING MACHINES • THE MOST REMARKABLE BUILDS EVER?

THE REAL ‘SUPERS’

THE RAVEN SOARS • CROSSING THE ATLANTIC IN UNDER SEVEN DAYS ON A FOIL-ASSISTED SUPERYACHT MARKED THE ULTIMATE PROOF OF A MIND-BOGGLING CONCEPT. THE ULTRALIGHT BALTIC 111 RAVEN REDEFINES AMAZING SUPERYACHTS, ARGUES TOBY HODGES.

PROJECT ZERO • IS A 70M YACHT WITH ZERO EMISSIONS EVEN POSSIBLE? SAM FORTESCUE VISITS VITTERS SHIPYARD ON THE EVE OF THE LAUNCH OF THIS TRULY GROUNDBREAKING YACHT, BUILT TO PROPEL THE INDUSTRY INTO A GREENER FUTURE

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NEW YACHTS • ALUMINIUM IS STILL TOP CHOICE FOR EXPLORER YACHTS, SAYS TOBY HODGES

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EXTRAORDINARY BOATS • LOUAY HABIB ON PALANAD 4

WEATHER BRIEFING • SIMON ROWELL ON MID-OCEAN SQUALLS

5 EXPERT TIPS • JOHN GIMSON ON TWO-BOAT TUNING

TAKING OWNERSHIP • WILL BRUTON ON REMOTE MONITORING

WORLD’S COOLEST YACHTS • WE ASK TOP SAILORS AND MARINE INDUSTRY GURUS TO CHOOSE THE COOLEST AND MOST INNOVATIVE YACHTS OF OUR TIMES