It’s tricky to gauge speed and scale against anything else when you have to sail a few miles offshore to avoid dredging the English Channel. Nevertheless, sailing onboard the new…
New yachts
First look: Swan 98 – high performance, Italian flair
The pandemic seems to have in no way slowed Nautor’s Swan, as it presented two new superyachts at the Monaco Yacht Show, the Swan 98 and Swan 120 – this…
First look: Swan 120 – designed for outside living
Being moored stern-to in Monaco’s Port Hercule during the recent Monaco Yacht Show 2021 was the perfect place to showcase a trump feature of the Swan 120. Its ‘beach deck’…
Video tour: YYachts Tripp 90
Over the past few years YYachts has cemented a reputation for producing large composite yachts that are remarkably uncomplicated and therefore easy and fun to sail. The German yard’s latest…
Is this the boat Batman would sail?
Imagine a boat that combines the aggressive loom of a Lamborghini with the controls of a fighter jet. Pop a rig on top, open the transom like the cargo door…
Neel 43 on test: Is three the magic number?
Until recently it would have been easy to assume the pioneering cruising trimarans of the 1960s and 1970s showed that cruising on three hulls has too many drawbacks to be…
First look: Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 380 – roomy 35 footer
Jeanneau’s latest model, the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 380 incorporates some of the features first rolled out on its larger designs, including the sloping side decks that provide an easy passage…
Saecwen: Queen of the seas
“Look at that piece of oak behind you. I first met that tree when I was a kid, growing up in the New Forest. Ten years ago it blew over…
5 exciting multihulls at 2021 Cannes Yachting Festival
The 2021 Cannes Yachting Festival has been a long time coming with the majority of 2020’s Boat Shows cancelled due to Covid-19. Hundreds of sailing yachts will be at the…
First look: Tanna 47 – relaxed cruising on two hulls
Fountaine Pajot’s latest model, the Tanna 47 catamaran is a successor to the successful Saona 47. The newest addition to Fountaine Pajot’s range offers a much larger and completely reconfigured…
5 exciting monohulls at 2021 Cannes Yachting Festival
The 2021 Cannes Yachting Festival has been a long time coming with the majority of 2020’s Boat Shows cancelled due to Covid-19. In fact, it has been fully 20 months…
First look: C-Cat 48
The C-Cat 48 is a lightweight and fast Italian cruising catamaran from the Comar Yachts yard near Rome, Italy. The newly announced catamaran features C-foil daggerboards, which should reduce displacement…
First look: Baltic Café Racer
Baltic Yachts has been responsible for some of the world’s most iconic yachts of the past five years, including the 142ft Canova, which is fitted with DSS foils, the 175ft…
First look: Sunbeam 32.1
The Sunbeam 32.1 is the first model developed under the new ownership of this 70-year-old Austrian yard is the result of a collaboration between established Slovenian naval architects J&J Design…
On test: Oceanis Yacht 54
There’s something surprising and quite brilliant about the new Beneteau Oceanis Yacht 54, which I bet you won’t notice at first. I certainly didn’t. It’s not the powerful looks or…
First look: Ovni 370 – smaller rugged alloy yacht
Ovni is another French yard that builds rugged shoal draught aluminium boats. It has recently focussed on larger models, but this Ovni 370 brings much of the thinking behind the…
First look: Allures 51.9
The third generation of the flagship of this French bluewater range, the Allures 51.9, retains the brand’s core concepts of a rugged aluminium hull combined with a composite deck that…
Pelagic 77: onboard one of the world’s most extreme sailing machines
The latest and largest Pelagic design, Pelagic 77, the 77ft Vinson of Antarctica, created in collaboration with legendary adventurer and expedition sailor Skip Novak, has hit the water after years…
First look: X43 – second generation
Mark 2 versions of a good yacht are often a lot better than the original, with many small changes that improve ergonomics and collectively make life on board easier and…
First look: Oceanbel 128 explorer
The man behind this new Finnish brand set up Nautor’s Swan in the 1960s and then built 41m luxury monohulls in Thailand as Concorde Marine. Now Pekka Koskenkylä has teamed…