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    The Round the Island Race – the history of Britain’s favourite race

    • June 23, 2016

    When Major Cyril Windeler suggested to the Island Sailing Club that it should run a…

    Blog: Pip Hare and her all-woman team win Leg 3 of the Three Peaks Yacht Race

    • June 20, 2016

    At 1049 on Wednesday morning Jo and Lowri ran over the finish line and straight…

    Ed Dubois, one of the best-known yacht designers of modern times.

    Obituary: Ed Dubois 1952-2016

    • April 6, 2016

    Few yacht designers were as influential as Ed Dubois, who died in March at the…

    Millbrook – home of the British multihull is up a creek in Cornwall

    • March 16, 2016

    The estuaries and rivers that probe into the green hills of Devon and Cornwall’s south…

    Alex Thomson's 2006 Hugo Boss

    Great Seamanship: dramatic account by Mike Golding of rescuing Alex Thomson in the Southern Ocean

    • February 22, 2016

    Mike Golding OBE, ex-firefighter and twice winner of the IMOCA (Open 60) World Championship against…

    Silver Rudder race – the solo challenge for Danish Ironmen

    • December 7, 2015

    ‘If you want to feel real bliss, you have to experience real pain as well,’…

    The foiling phenomenon – how sailing boats got up on foils to go ever-faster

    • July 20, 2015

    Here’s a challenge. Design a way to support the weight of five saloon cars on…

    Is everybody ready for the thrill of foiling? Maybe not all of us

    • July 7, 2015

    As the back end of the 200bhp rear wheel drive Toyota GT86 snapped out and…

    Cheating at yacht racing – how honest a sailor are you?

    • June 22, 2015

    In football a dive in the penalty area in search of an easy goal is…

    Inside the Royal Yacht Squadron – we get a rare view of this most exclusive club

    • May 18, 2015

    Flags flutter from the ramparts, race officers look down from the imposing starting platform, and…

    Rudder failure in the Med: how Ross Applebey made it to safety and fashioned a replacement

    • March 9, 2015

    Losing a rudder is a big issue, but in bad weather it can quickly become…

    A day with the Falmouth Coastguard, Britain’s busiest maritime rescue centre

    • February 18, 2015

    On a headland outside the town Falmouth Coastguard station looks out to sea like a…

    Mayday! What happens in the 12 minutes (tops) it takes an RNLI lifeboat crew to respond to a rescue

    • February 7, 2015

    How long would it take you to roll out of bed, dress and get out…

    Whale encounter – there seems to be an increasing number of collisions with whales as yachts get faster

    • January 18, 2015

      The first I heard about a sailing boat colliding with a whale mid-ocean was…

    Steely determination: the voyage that won Sir Robin Knox-Johnston a fourth Yachtsman of the Year Award

    • January 13, 2015

    In a storied history of sailing still very much in the making, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston…

    What’s it like going on a rescue with an RNLI lifeboat crew? We go on exercise to find out

    • January 12, 2015

    Yachting World’s Matthew Sheahan goes out with the crew of the Falmouth RNLI lifeboat and…

    Keel safety self-help: you may not be an expert, but you can keep track of changes to your keel

    • January 9, 2015

    Following Matthew Sheahan’s feature on the shocking facts of keel failure, he looks at what…

    Trinity House

    A rich history: 500 years of Trinity House, set up to safeguard lives at sea

    • November 28, 2014

    Every year at Trinitytide a procession of Brethren emerges from Trinity House to be sworn…

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