Cruising the world in a large, fast, comfortable yacht is everyone’s dream. Even if your finances allow the dream to become a reality, however, you’re still faced with the practicalities…
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Kiboko Tres: This 105ft carbon superyacht delivers the full sailing experience
Repeatable designs are where the safe money is being spent in sailing superyachts today. While some custom yards are still attracting one-off orders, in recent years it has been designs…
Sailing Greenland’s frozen frontiers on 90ft modern classic superyacht Acadia
Our thirst for adventure is as unquenchable as ever. In the marine world, that desire to escape the beaten path seems only to be increasing. There are more and more…
Sailing around Cape Horn on the world’s largest ketch Aquijo
When asked to help guide the 86m/282ft ketch Aquijo for a cruise in Tierra del Fuego and a Cape Horn rounding I was very sceptical. Accustomed to sheltering in small…
Baltic 142: The superyacht bringing foiling technology into cruising
The Baltic 142 may not be using the hydrofoils popularised by the America’s Cup, but her 29ft 6in long (9m) horizontal sliding foil employs the same principle of lift to…
The perfect lift for St Barth as Bucket begins with a bang
St Barth did what it does best and turned on the perfect conditions for Bucket racing around the outlying rocks and islands surrounding this idyllic island. And in return for…
New Wally 145 unveiled – a lightweight hybrid global super cruiser designed by Frers
Wally has started to build its third largest yacht yet, a Wally 145 / 44m carbon fibre fast cruiser that will have a hybrid propulsion system. Designed for an experienced…
VIDEO Onboard Sojana: racing a 115ft ketch with an all-star crew in Antigua
Sojana, the 115ft Farr-designed ketch belonging to businessman and philanthropist Sir Peter Harrison, is the largest yacht competing at Antigua Sailing Week 2017. The event, which celebrates its 50th anniversary…
On board My Song: Inside the Baltic 130 Custom superyacht
The first thing you see on descending into the saloon from the deck of the 40m sloop My Song is a series of eight half models arranged vertically on the…
Endurance is a 110m expedition superyacht concept with styling inspired by Airstream
Here is an expedition yacht with a difference – namely, its size. Were this to be built it would be second only in size to the world’s largest sailing vessel,…
The world’s biggest yachts – what’s behind the growth of the gigayacht
Dwarfing not only any other yacht that happened to be on the River Eider, but even the buildings along the foreshore, the monolithic Sailing Yacht A made quite an impression…
A look on board the extraordinary 86m Aquijo, the world’s largest ketch
The largest Bermudan rigged ketch ever launched, the 86m Aquijo was designed by Bill Tripp and launched last year. The build came about through a new collaboration between the two Dutch yards…
What is life cruising on a superyacht really like? To the Antarctic on Adele
David Glenn finds out what it's really like cruising on a superyacht
Why yacht designers see a major role for toughened glass in new structures
It was once virtually a given that the bigger and more elaborate the superyacht, the more detached and cut off those on board were from the outdoors they had invested…
Cygnus Montanus – see inside the new Frers-designed sailing superyacht
This is Cygnus Montanus, the new 33.83m lifting keel oceangoing sloop launched last month by Yachting Development. She was designed by German Frers, and has an interior design by Adam Lay Studio.…
Meet the radical new BlackCat, a 50m/165ft luxury multihull that can do 30 knots!
Every now and again you see a radical new concept that makes you grin in the knowledge that yacht design has just taken one brave step forward. This new BlackCat…
Video: what is it like to sail a Swan superyacht? Onboard footage from the Swan 115
The Swan 115 is very much a Swan of today, a prepreg carbon fibre performance machine that offers supreme comfort and quality, built by the most famous production yard in…
Truly a classic – the 127ft Atalante from André Hoek is a head-turner
It was a certain kind of look. It happened as we sailed back towards Antibes over azure waters, carried along under a cutter rig in idyllic afternoon conditions. We pointed…
Elfje – is this 170ft performance cruiser the consummate yacht?
Some say the ideal yacht is one that sails like a racer, has the accommodation of a cruiser and the looks of a classic. That’s a wry joke because at…
Video of Sailing Yacht A, the world’s largest sail-assisted vessel, during early sea trials
This video footage of Sailing Yacht A shows her with her towering free-standing masts and illustrates the jaw-dropping scale of the world’s largest sail-assisted yacht. It is when a tug passes that you…