In many ways, it was like any other day on the race course. It wasn’t until the afterparty that I really looked around and thought “wow, who knew there were so many of us?” Charlie Enright (left) and ...

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 ...

The 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race has not only been attracting more participants in recent months, but has also become more interesting for sailing fans in the United States. First came news that U.S.

“Please move forward,” came the order from Ruby, my precocious teenage driver, who trimmed her 8-foot inflatable for speed in pursuit of a swarm of dinghies flying downwind like a cloud of butterflies ...

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 ...

The best winter storage location for your boat is a sunny, tropical place with palm trees swaying at the shore, turquoise water gurgling in her bow wave, and you ensconced at the helm. But if your ...

Ater months of testing, walkthroughs, reviews, and deliberations, we’re proud to announce the Top 10 Class of 2026. These boats fall across a spectrum of LOAs, numbers of hulls, and price points, and ...

After battling the foul currents and light night winds throughout Nantucket Sound, we finally scooted through Pollock Rip Channel and found ourselves about 10 miles east of Cape Cod. Alison and I were ...

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 ...

Late last year, 59º North had our first annual “staff training” weekend aboard our Farr 65 Falken and an interesting debate emerged…how to calibrate the depth sounder? Since I was a kid and for my ...

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 ...

How’s this for a thought experiment: imagine setting a diminutive Tiwal 2 inflatable dinghy alongside a Catalina 545 cruiser? It would be hard to imagine two more different watercraft, and yet they ...