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Before every race in the Louis Vuitton Cup and also from October 12 in the America’s Cup, the conditions are checked. The winds must be consistently above 6.5 and below 21 knots at several points on the Cup course between nine and four minutes before the start for a race to start. If the limit […]

Just over two years will have passed since the first races of the Germany SailGP team in Chicago in June 2023 when the World Sailing League heads to a German port for the first time. The Sail Grand Prix will celebrate its German premiere in its fifth season on August 16 and 17, 2025 in […]

On Sunday afternoon, an apparently drunk skipper went overboard in Lindau’s sailing harbor while trying to dock. This is reported Vorarlberg Online. According to the report, the 66-year-old Austrian fell into the water while trying to moor his boat to the jetty. Witnesses were able to pull him out. The drifting yacht was secured by […]

Elba is still one of the most popular Italian destinations for German sailors, as the charter bases on the mainland near Piombino are also good for traveling by car, especially from southern Germany. The island and its neighbors, such as Capraia, are ideal for a relaxed week-long cruise or can be extended to include a […]

Big, bigger, biggest: The world’s superyachts lie side by side at the Palma Boat Show. Easily 30 meters long or even more, the toys of the rich and famous are moored here at the pier, impressive, exciting and polished to a high gloss. You are allowed to look and marvel, but only from a distance. […]

The Youth America’s Cup on the agile AC40 foilers thrilled the audience with lots of action in extremely close races. Sometimes only a few seconds separated the six boats on the course at the finish. In today’s match race final between Italy and the USA, the smaller offshoots of the AC75 yachts reached upwind speeds […]

Glass fiber reinforced plastic (GRP) has been the benchmark in yacht building since the 1970s. However, the composite material is controversial: its production consumes a lot of energy and the epoxy resins used to laminate the glass fiber layers are based on crude oil. What’s more, GRP cannot be recycled satisfactorily. For this reason, efforts […]

“Like a Ferrari on ice” – that’s how Luna Rossa helmsman Jimmy Spithill described sailing in today’s conditions off Barcelona. The upper wind limit of 21 knots was exceeded more than once on this first day of racing in the final round of the Louis Vuitton Cup. With top speeds of over 52 knots in […]

When it comes to the minimum requirements for yacht steering systems, the Recreational Craft Directive 2013/53/EU is so meagre that it could be omitted. Point 5.4 states: “Steering and propulsion control systems shall be designed, constructed and installed in such a way as to enable the transmission of steering forces under foreseeable operating conditions.” Consequently, […]

A big appearance for Fountaine Pajot at the Yachting Festival in Cannes: the French catamaran manufacturer presented all seven of its current models from 42 to 80 feet at the trade fair on the Côte d’Azur. The Isla 40 (test YACHT 9/2021) was no longer there. The previously smallest model with a hull length of […]