Blackbird's wings clipped
Peter Harrison's Sojana got close to her Antigua round the island race record but aboard Jan Rupert's Blackbird we had issues right from the start
View ArticleCowes Week of the Caribbean
Editor David Glenn offers his thoughts on this year's Antigua Sailing Week
View ArticleSojana has to settle for 2nd
Antipodes get the better of Sojana on a day of close calls, some heated moments on the start line and a dismissed protest. David Glenn reports from onboard
View ArticlePush button problems
Hydraulic winches which can be randomly activated because of malfunctioning control buttons
View ArticleUncharted waters
Inaccurately charted waters are being surveyed by a superyacht crew who have identified many anomalies when using electronic chart plotters with software based on (very) old surveys
View ArticleScarlet finishes with a bullet
A relaxed crew from Guernsey knew they couldn't win their class but they were out the get 'The Fly'. David Glenn was aboard to watch them hunt her down...
View ArticleSailing Week re-invented
David Glenn offers his final thoughts on a superb week in Antigua
View ArticlePendennis saves the best until last
Mariette wins after a ghastly error by Unfurled and Firebrand stamps her authority on the Little Dennis Cup. David Glenn was on the race course.
View ArticleA brilliant Olympic experience
Editor David Glenn went to Weymouth to watch Ben Ainslie become the greatest Olympic sailor and to soak up more of the irresistible Olympic spirit
View ArticleEditor Glenn claims a first off Cape Horn
One of the highlights of team YW's trip to Tierra del Fuego was rounding Cape Horn aboard Skip Novak's Pelagic. Let me describe the experience...
View ArticleCould you cut away your rigging?
Are cable cutters worth their three- or four-figure price tag if you dismast and need to cut away your rigging, or will a £40 set of boltcroppers slice through shrouds just as efficiently?
View ArticleSlow down, you're going too fast
In the wake of the death of Andrew Simpson Yachting World editor David Glenn comments on what he sees as an unsatisfactory state of affairs surrounding the America's Cup
View ArticleOn his sixth Pink Gin
Baltic Yachts have given themselves a 40th birthday present in the form Pink Gin VI, a 175ft sloop. Her owner recently bought Baltic Yachts and plans to launch his new yacht in 2017. Cheers!
View ArticleMonster rigs revealed by Magma
Two enormous carbon rigs are being built at a new UK company. David Glenn visited Portchester to look at the impressive Magma Structures operation
View ArticleContessa 32 returns to family Rogers
David Glenn is shown aboard Willy Ker's famous Contessa 32 Assent by her new owners, Kit and Jessie Rogers whose family built the yacht in 1972
View ArticleThe Royal Yacht Squadron, but not as you know it....
Editor David Glenn is in Fiji with the Oyster World Rally enjoying the remote beauty of the Lau island group where a temporary official port of entry has been established
View ArticleYoung Oyster circumnavigators
Of the 100 or more yachtsmen and women taking part in the first Oyster World Rally nearly a quarter of them are youngsters in their 20s. David Glenn met some of them in Fiji
View ArticleOyster sleighride to Savusavu
David Glenn enjoys a glorious 125-mile downwind sail aboard Eddie Jordan's Lush as he reports from the Oyster World Rally
View ArticleNot all plain sailing for the Oyster World Rally
Alan and Jean Du Toit sailed the longest Pacific leg aboard their Oyster 575 with no other crew and managed to cope with a broken boom only days after they left Galapagos. David Glenn met them in Fiji
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