The 18ft skiffs of Sydney Harbour have a long and rich history that takes in wood and canvas right through to carbonfibre and ...

The split backstay is fitted with a manual hydraulic tensioner, which we make good use of to coax every last ounce of power ...

So, if you view the Grand Soleil Blue as a super well-equipped dayboat with a performance rig, then it’s clear that a few ...

Harald Hart took even himself by surprise on a trip to the Faroes and back by stretching the voyage to a rounding of Iceland ...

Hempel’s silicone-based paint has been on the market since 2012, when it represented a revolution in thinking about fouling ...

We’ve picked out a few beautiful yachts off the market for you - just some we think you might like ...

You can certainly get around it, says Paul whose lived with colour blindness all his life Did I ever tell you I was colour ...

When our friends asked if we’d help them sail Tourterelles, their brand new Knysna 500SE catamaran on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic from South Africa, we jumped at it. We’d sold our own ...

Beneteau’s Oceanis 51.1 features a radical hull shape with ‘champagne glass’ sections. But does that lead to the sailing equivalent of Lambrusco? Sam Jefferson finds out Chines. Back in the days ...