How do you top a design that reigned for nearly a decade and launched 500 hulls? That was Beneteau’s quandary as they contemplated building a successor to the Oceanis 51.1 that initially splashed in ...

Soon after I bought my aluminum cutter Lunacy it became apparent I needed to remove the heavy 20-year accumulation of hard antifouling paint from her hull. After I brought the boat from Florida to ...

Perhaps not as well known on the yachting circuit as Rolex, Panerai, the Italian watchmaker, is hot on the sponsorship heels of its Swiss counterpart. The finale of the 2007 Panerai Classic Yachts ...

The Jeanneau Sun Odyssey line is in its eighth generation, which is to say that the new Sun Odyssey 350 represents the eighth time this 34-footer has been reimagined. And this time around, the ...

Not only is Bavaria Yachtbau one of the world’s largest boatbuilders, it has got to be one of the hardest working. When it came time to begin work on what would become its new Vision line, the company ...

In sailing magazines, articles about rudders are almost never really about rudders. They are about being rudderless. Such stories make for exciting reading, but I don’t want to know how to steer ...

This is NOT a Chicken Little article. While it’s true that it is exceedingly rare for a keel to separate suddenly from its hull (radical race boats aside), cases of keels separating slowly from their ...

Let’s face it—as much as we love the shiny topsides and new-boat smell of a brand-new catamaran, not everybody is ready to pay the premium such demands. You can save a lot of money by finding a ...

Just six years after Maiden captivated the sailing world by becoming the first all-female team to compete in the Whitbread Round the World Race, team Mighty Mary was assembled to do the same in the ...

Every year, sailboat manufacturers around the world launch their latest models, and every year, SAIL magazine’s experienced boat reviewers spend days and weeks learning what’s new, talking with ...

It’s been a long time coming, but 2027 is truly the year of the cat. For the first time ever, new catamaran debuts out number new monohulls by nearly two to one, with an incredible 11 of them up for ...

If you’re a regular reader of SAIL’s gear reviews, you may recall that I love my Mustang Survival EP 38 life jacket for offshore sailing. Imagine my surprise when I learned that it was being ...