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Armchair Sailing
Some years, I want to keep pushing the sailing season through the winter. Those gorgeously crisp clear days, the sea to yourself, and a snug boat at the end of an invigorating day. That might be what the brave souls of the Little Ship Club are doing
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Yacht Builders Fined For Using ‘Blood’ Teak
Two landmark court cases in the UK and the Netherlands have seen stiff penalties handed out to luxury yacht builders for using illegal ‘blood’ teak imported from conflict-torn Myanmar on vessels, notably on Jeff Bezos’s superyacht Koru, the largest s
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New 24-hr record in Vendée Globe
Super-fast conditions riding the edge of a low pressure system in the South Atlantic have seen solo sailors in the Vendée Globe race repeatedly smash the 24-hour solo record, now standing at an astonishing 579 miles. The front pack of Charlie Dalin,
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News In Numbers
1 Million pounds government investment for British coastal towns to grow local economies and skills 8 Sailing holidays are 18-34% more affordable for a group of eight, compared with hotel stays in the Mediterranean 30 Salvage efforts to recover the 5
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NOC Study Predicts UK Marine Heatwaves
A new study by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton has revealed where marine heatwave events are most likely to occur in UK waters and how long they are likely to last. The study, led by NOC biogeochemical modeller Dr Zoe Jacobs and
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Lifejacket Wins Top Prize At DAME Awards
Sailing equipment featured strongly in the 2024 DAME Award winners at Metstrade 24, the marine industry’s annual exhibition in Amsterdam. The overall winner was TeamO’s 150N Hi-Lift Lifejacket & Harness. A panel of expert judges shortlisted 58 new pr
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Man Overboard While Crossing The Atlantic
Swedish sailor Dag Eresund was tragically lost overboard from Volvo 70 racing yacht Ocean Breeze while sailing across the Atlantic with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) which sees hundreds of yachts safely cross the ocean each year. An 18-hour s
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Zero Waste To Landfill In 2024 At Fambridge
Fambridge Yacht Haven has successfully diverted 66,505kg of waste from landfill in 2024 through its partnership with Green Recycling, a significant milestone for the group which reflects the marina’s 2022 commitment to ensuring that no waste generate
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MCA Launches PLB Rescue Consultation
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has launched a public consultation into new safety measures set to make the search and rescue response faster and easier for people carrying Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) on the water. The MCA is proposing a
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Scotland’s Boaters Unite Against Clyde Fees
Scotland’s recreational boaters have united against Peel Ports Clydeport’s plans to introduce a conservancy fee on the Clyde estuary – citing concerns that this will restrict freedoms to sail in Scottish waters and will have a negative impact upon ma
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Letters
I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling very let down by paper chart producers, The Admiralty and Imray. Earlier in the year, after The Admiralty announced they would no longer be producing paper charts, I updated all my relevant charts to Imray charts, as
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Next Month
Plan your next adventure afloat. Where to go sailing? The best of the Saronic Gulf and all its history Cast off with youngsters BE THE FIRST TO READ IT Subscribe at www.yachtingmonthly.com It occurs to me that it could be possible to reuse yachts as
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Are We Really A Maritime Nation?
Many years ago, I was on a family motoring holiday driving towards Brittany when, in a small town, we passed under a banner proclaiming a regatta. I was baffled: we were still 40 kilometres from the coast. Such hinterland support for sailing was new
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With Boats, Does Beauty Matter?
Aseagoing boat is not a toy. It is the most serious of vehicles, built to let humans brave an unpredictable, lethally dangerous element with efficient control and reasonable dispatch. Boat design and boatbuilding are therefore solemn endeavours, dema
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Best New Gear For 2025
£285 www.teamomarine.com Outstanding innovation from Southampton-based firm TeamO Marine who impressed the DAME jury with this new design which features a twisted bladder that moves most of the wasted buoyancy above the waterline, found on convention
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First Test Beneteau Oceanis 37.1
The Beneteau Oceanis brand is one of the bestknown and recognisable in cruising yachts today. Sixty different models or variations have been built over a span of nearly 40 years, ranging from 28ft to 62ft, and in large numbers, making Oceanis almost
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SKIPPERS’ TIPS & YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
The introduction of AIS has made our lives much easier, especially if you integrate it in such a way that the vessels or objects are presented on your chartplotter. Although I am not a fan of integrating all electronics, it certainly adds to the conv
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A Question Of Seamanship
Q Jim is regretting taking on Ed as crew on a transatlantic voyage. Bellatrix is a sturdy 13m production GRP yacht in good condition with all the recommended safety gear for ocean sailing. Jim, who is well qualified and experienced, sailed from the U
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How [not] To Moor Your Yacht
Sailing itself is not that difficult, with a few basic techniques and rules to keep you and your boat safe, whether you’re on a 50-footer or a dinghy. Since Covid 19, plenty of people have bought a boat and crossed the Atlantic without any major issu
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Shared Ownership
All the fun at a fraction of the cost? Many sailors dream of owning their own boat, with heady dreams of a seafaring life, but the mundane reality is that many yachts sit unused for the majority of the year, with a few weekends and weeks of cruising
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‘Fog, Gales, Hurricanes And Calms In One Voyage’
Zen Again, our Japanese designed and built 1980s IOR ¾ tonner, is a wellequipped ‘pocket’ blue-water cruiser. She has over 50,000 miles under her keel with us and about twice that with previous owners. The original Japanese owners circumnavigated Sou
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Provident’s Centenary Voyage
Eight days after leaving Oban on the west coast of Scotland, we arrived at the Fowey estuary on the Cornish coast. The guests and crew on board were oblivious to the magnitude of the occasion for us. For them, Steve’s dash ashore to Polruan’s Lugger
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Adventure sailing The Northwest Passage
The Atlantic passage had been strange. The crossing from Scotland to the west coast of Greenland, or vice versa, is usually ‘the meanest Atlantic crossing of them all’, fraught with gales halfway across due to the depressions regularly spinning up fr
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Useful Information
The Northwest Passage was completed via Lancaster Sound – Beechey Island – Resolute – Peel Sound – Tasmanian Islands – Victoria Strait – Cambridge Bay – Tuktoyaktuk – Barrow Head – Chukchi Sea – Bering Strait – Nome, Alaska (where we left the boat fo
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Rounding Cape Horn
There is not a sailor in the world who does not recognise the craggy, conical peak of Cape Horn. It is, like it or not, the ultimate sailing goal, the siren of all nautical aspiration, the rubicon, once crossed, that bestows sailing spurs upon the vo
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Cruising blow Away Those Winter Blues
And then there was light, most welcome it was, too after a gruelling drive via several motorways into the pitch black New Forest. I drove on, motivated by the thought that somewhere ahead of me, a berth aboard a Nicholson 35 awaited and a glass or tw
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Little Ship Club History
Novice boat owner Robert Gibbon, who described himself as ‘keen but ignorant’ wrote to YM sister journal, Yacht Sales & Charters in October 1926 suggesting a forum where yachtsmen could gather in the winter months, to ‘swap expertise and yarns’ and s
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Your Cruising Community
The Royal Tay Yacht Club has been awarded the RYA Scotland Impact Award thanks to the members’ keen focus on promoting a sailing community, expanding the range of events and moving to a new eco clubhouse, all of which were facilitated by volunteers.
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Gamming In Maine On Board Lewis R French
There’s no one, it seems, who truly knows the derivation of the nautical term ‘gam’. Yet everyone on the waterfront in New England on the Atlantic coast of America knows it means a gathering of sailing ships. Some suggest it is a whaling term dating
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A Dream Achieved!
www.yachtingmonthly.com/books During the last two days of the gale, I noticed that the wind tended to drop a little after sunset and freshen up to its full fury by nine or ten next morning. Bearing this in mind, I left Furusand at daybreak on 1 Septe
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Book Club
£27 Graham L. Cox Random Boats Graham Cox was born in 1952 and grew up in Durban. As a young man, he wasn’t comfortable with himself or his life but developed a passion for cruising yachts and the people who sailed them. He loved their books too. Thi
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Technical Starlink Enterprise
For our Atlantic crossings in 2015 and 2016, we installed an Iridium satellite communication system together with special equipment to compress emails in order to limit the colossal expense of communicating using it. It meant we could keep abreast of
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5 Satcom Alternatives
While Starlink can certainly be considered a marine satcom game changer, it shouldn’t be relied on as a sole means of distress signalling as it comes with the risk of occasional signal ‘drop out’ and the fact that its geofencing (areas of operation)
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How It Works Cleaning An Anti-syphon Valve
On sailing boats the exhaust pipe is swept up into a ‘swan neck’ to stop following waves flooding the exhaust when the engine isn’t running. Exhaust gas normally drives water up over the swan neck and out of the system, but of course if the engine is
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Hunter Ranger 245
You can’t miss Peter Waite’s boat Curlew. As you come out of the Stoke Gabriel estuary on the River Dart, she’s the first yacht you meet on the line of deep(er) moorings that run up and down the river proper. This means the Hunter Ranger 245 is visib
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Expert Opinion
BEN SUTCLIFFE-DAVIES, Marine Surveyor and full member of the Yacht Brokers Designers & Surveyors Association (YDSA) www.bensutcliffemarine.co.uk Hunter Boats was incredibly successful in the production of small racing yachts, including the Squib that
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Alternatives To Consider
A more conventional yacht with a massive reputation, which was on Peter’s list of possible purchases before he bought Curlew, is the Sadler 26. This was the third design built by father-and-son team David and Martin Sadler, following on from the Sadl
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The Confessional
Jeremy Evans We set off in our 40-year-old new yacht from Wolverstone Marina. We say she sailed like a dinghy, and that’s probably because she was only a fraction bigger than one. But she was ours, and we loved her. Being new to boat ownership, we ha

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