Mark Nicholls heads to the French resort of Les Sables d’Olonne for the start of the Golden Globe single-handed round-the-world yacht race. Les Sables d’Olonne has all you expect of a French harbour town: narrow […]
New cruise line Tradewind Voyages has launched the spectacular five-masted ship Golden Horizon and Our Man On The Ground was on the inaugural sailing. “This has been my dream since I was a boy,” says […]
diYachting was founded by Matt and Lizzie Abbiss almost 20 years ago in 2001 and specialises in chartering sailing yachts over 60ft and this month they have announced that their 88ft (26.82m) flagship yacht, Vivid, […]
Yachts come in all sorts of classes and sizes and they do not have to be big to be beautiful. Yachting should never be thought of as an elitist pastime and is much more than […]
The yacht charter company, The Moorings, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its inauguration this year. Established in 1969, the company began with just six yachts. It has now expanded and covers over 20 destinations […]
Belgium takes a bow with the new DOMANI The Belgian yacht builder Domani Yachts introduced their S30 sailing boat at the Düsseldorf Boat Show in January 2018. Their first ever sailboat immediately became a hit […]
A new model in the Horizon Yachts’ Fast Displacement series, has completed sea trials successfully and is now on her way to the U.S. to make her debut at the Palm Beach International Boat Show. […]
With all-electric cars, the likes of the Nissan Leaf and those from Tesla, catching on quickly, it was only a matter of time before the all-electric yacht made an appearance. Silent-Yachts, an Austrian company have […]
To be part of the yachting cognoscente you need to forget chartering a plastic fantastic and skip out on sailing the Mediterranean summer and Caribbean winter milk run. Today’s in crowd are cruising Raja Ampat […]
All at sea on a tall ship bound from Barbados to Lisbon With a collective ‘heave ho’ we tugged on the stout rope in a disjointed fashion and staggered backwards on the gently rolling deck […]
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