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    On test video: folding bikes, e-bikes, electric scooters or unicycles – which is best?

    Carrying a set of wheels on board your boat makes life easier and more fun once you reach your destination. Whether it’s for a short trip to the marina office,…

    Video tour of Adventuress, the glorious 83ft Fife-designed 1924 schooner

    Take a walk through the stunning interior of newly restored 83ft Fife schooner Adventuress

    First look videos from 6 of the most recent launches from Bavaria, Dufour, Elan, Solaris and Hanse

    Bavaria C57 Bavaria has been promising something big and, sure enough, the C57 is Bavaria’s largest yacht yet. As you can see from our first look videos, the length, 57ft,…

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    Video: Five years sailing around the world in five beautiful minutes

    Sailing around the world is arguably the ideal way to see the very best of our planet. This film helps distil some of that wonder into five minutes  – and…

    Sailing the J Class Endeavour

    Video exclusive: what it’s like to sail the iconic J Class Endeavour

    She is often described as the most beautiful J Class ever built and one of the world’s most iconic yachts – so when we were invited to sail the J Class…

    Infiniti 46, Maverick, at the Rolex Middle Sea Race 2016. Photo Carlo Borlenghi/Rolex.

    Inside the Infiniti 46 – video tour of the world’s first production offshore racer with DSS foils

    Though most of us are captivated by the images of flying boats from International Moths to America’s Cup catamarans, the increased athleticism and technical ability required to manage these high-tech…

    CQS DSS foiler: Photo Daniel Forster/Rolex.

    Aboard CQS – video tour of the 12-year-old supermaxi that became a cutting edge DSS foiler

    CQS (formerly the 90-footer Nicorette) is something of a ‘back to the future’ hybrid in the supermaxi world, sporting cutting-edge foil technology – untested on this scale of yacht to…

    Dramatic Contest 67CS video: showing the new Judel-Vrolijk design with soul

    Dutch yard Contest commissioned Judel/Vrolijk for the first time to design its new 67CS. This is a size on the increase for owners who like to get places quickly and…

    Racing at night on board Quokka

    How to be a winning skipper – the surprisingly simple secrets to forming and leading a great crew

    What is the secret to a happy crew that bond at sea as a team and can go on to win? All good skippers try to form a harmonious team…

    Arcona 465 video review: Pip Hare tests the new Swedish all-carbon cruiser-racer

    Performance cruisers are designed and sold to chew up the miles on longer journeys without sacrificing too much comfort. Yet many new owners find that their boat that sailed so…

    MOD70 Maserati: Giovanni Soldini on the benefits of the ‘Manta’ foil on his ocean-racing trimaran

    Italian ocean racing legend Giovanni Soldini – the man who rescued Isabelle Autissier from her capsized yacht in the Around Alone in 1999, and still went on to win the…

    X6 video: daring new semi-custom 65-footer from X-Yachts

    The new ‘X’ line fills the gap between X-Yachts’ performance (Xp) and cruising (Xc) range and includes the new X4 (see YW X4 video) as well as this semi-custom X6.…

    X-Yachts X4 on test video: a sweet-sailing Danish performance cruiser

    When X-Yachts announced the X6 in 2014 (see YW X6 test video), revealing a powerful new raised saloon cruising yacht with aggressive lines, wraparound coachroof windows and a mainsheet arch,…

    Inch-perfect pilotage between the rocks along the coast of Norway aboard a Kragero Terne.

    Off-piste sailing: serene rock-hopping footage from Kragero, Norway

    Close encounters of the rocky kind are normally the stuff of sailors’ nightmares, but the unique glacial grooves cut into the coast of Norway have left something of a playground…

    Azuree 41 video

    Azuree 41 video – footage from our trials aboard Sirena Marine’s versatile new performance cruiser

    Over the last decade Sirena Marine has established itself as Turkey’s leading production boat builder. But its learning curve has been a steep one, matched by improvements in quality and…

    Jeanneau 54

    Video: we test the decidedly luxurious new Jeanneau 54 in a gale off Cannes

    One look at the deck configuration would lead most people to presume the Jeanneau 54 is a hedonists’ yacht, one for the sun worshippers anchored in warm climes. Indeed my…

    VO70 MAPFRE accidental gybe

    Video: 5 of the scariest accidental gybes – could you get out of these?

    1. The Southern Ocean stormer VO70 MAPFRE buries into a wave at high speed, slows down and when the apparent wind shoots back suddenly they gybe. Then the crew find themselves pinned…

    Video: is this the most exciting thing you can do with your crew?

    Scroll down for video How to swing aboard the First 40 Sailplane – the video that went viral on Yachting World’s Facebook page. We spoke to Joe Bottomley, the boat’s…

    Catamaran Sailing Techniques: Everything you need to know

    The attraction of sailing a boat that offers the vast living space found on a catamaran may one day mean that your average monohull sailor is faced with the need…

    François Gabart's 100ft trimaran MACIF

    Video: a look aboard MACIF, the giant trimaran designed to shatter world records

    Before he left on his first solo transatlantic race this weekend, French sailor François Gabart allowed us this look aboard his 100ft/31m trimaran MACIF. Designed by VPLP, MACIF has been…

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