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From Jules Verne trophies to solar-powered exploration, Matt Sheehan explores how the world’s toughest boats refuse to head for the scrap Powered up on IMOCA Vulnerable ahead of the 2024 Vendée Globe. Photo: Pierre Bouras From crushing it to make garden furniture, to sending it through a complicated process to strip the resin from the…

The Singapore Yachting Festival 2026 closed on a high note, reinforcing its growing importance as a gateway to Asia’s expanding charter and yachting market. Held at ONE°15 Marina Sentosa Cove, the fourth edition welcomed a record 14,280 visitors and 211 brands, marking its largest and most internationally diverse showcase to date. Singapore Yachting Festival For…

The Boat International World Superyacht Awards 2026 returned to Venice in spectacular fashion, celebrating not just the finest yachts delivered this year, but the stories, ambition and human creativity behind them. The awards honour vessels – delivered in the previous year – that push the boundaries of design, engineering and experience – driven by vision…

Is seasickness all in the mind? Nobody who’s suffered can doubt that it’s a real, physical problem. But could a new ‘brain training’ approach offer a solution? Kristina Rechenbach explains all Seasickness is surprisingly common – around one in three people are estimated to suffer from it, including long-term cruisers and even professional sailors. While…

After 135 years, one of the oldest trophies in American sport has finally changed hands. Eric Kane and Helen Fretter report To understand what happened in Red Bank, New Jersey, in the first 10 days of February this year, you first have to understand the cold. This wasn’t a regular winter. This was a freeze…

Two-boat tuning is a huge part of any Olympic campaign, John Gimson shares some trade secrets with Andy Rice Before he specialised in foiling catamarans, John Gimson was long-time tuning partner to Iain Percy and the late Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson in the Star keelboat, playing a key role in helping them win gold and silver…

Once a rarity the aluminium bluewater cruiser is now something being embraced by a great many builders. Here’s four adventure yachts being launched this year The modern cruising landscape is undergoing a metallic makeover as shipyards double down on aluminium new builds. No longer reserved for utilitarian workboats, the latest wave of adventure yachts combines…

A squall can add to, subtract from, or totally reverse the wind. Learning to map it by any means is the key to staying upright, says Simon Rowell Squalls are self-contained convective systems, often confined to less than a mile or so in diameter, but they can occur in clumps of several hundred miles in…

If your family hasn’t – yet– fully caught the sailing bug, we have the latest ideas to get them hooked. Here’s how to get your family into sailing Beach club holidays in sunny climates are a great way to get youngsters involved in sailing – either learning from scratch or brushing up their skills. Photo:…

Modern yacht owners are increasingly turning to connected systems to ensure their boat is ready to sail the moment they step aboard If you leave your yacht in the marina – can you monitor it on your phone? Photo: VW Pics/Universal Images Group/Getty Walk the pontoons in any busy marina and you can often feel…