Sailing Today

Sailing Today is the magazine for hands on cruising sailors, offering a wealth of practical advice and a dynamic mix of in-depth boat, gear and equipment reviews. It is written cover to cover by sailors for sailors. Since its launch in 1997, Sailing Today has sealed its reputation as the magazine for essential sailing information and advice. Thanks to our superb team of experts, Sailing Today is packed with news and advice for the hands-on cruising sailor. Specialising in yachts between 25ft and 60ft, with fantastic market leading boat and gear tests, and regular advice about seamanship and navigation, Sailing Today delivers the practical back up needed for those who enjoy using their boats, be it cruising around the coast, across the channel or in blue waters.

Skipper’s View • LIFE THROWS UP ALL SORTS OF CHALLENGES – AND THOSE WHO VENTURE OUT TO SEA KNOW THAT ALL TOO WELL

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Beauty laid bare

Rolling on

RNLI FACES FUNDING CRISIS AS IT URGES ‘NO SAILING’

‘Refugee’ blue water cruisers turned away from port

NEWS BRIEFS

Cowes Week presses ahead

America’s Cup team makes PPE

Emergency fund to support sailing clubs

Sailing online

Oceans ahead • With The Ocean Race route announced, skipper Charlie Enright talks about what lies ahead for the event and for 11th Hour Racing

SUSTAINABILITY WITH MUSTO

Must go down to the seas again

Olympic sailors keep their places

Swanwick Marina expansion

UKHO needs feedback

Youth sailing skills online

Conservation zones no deterrent

Boat show with no queues!

New boats

Tom Cunliffe • Covid-19 has set us on a strange voyage with an uncertain destination, and the parallels with long-distance cruising certainly don’t end there, as Tom reflects

Paul Heiney • Land-locked and boat-deprived, take time to imagine how you would prepare for a singlehanded voyage when everyone has shut up shop and there’s no one to come and get you out of trouble

Hooray for dolphins • The relationship between sailors and nature is a special one, and that is particularly true when it comes to dolphins, as Jess Lloyd-Mostyn notes

Andi Robertson YACHTS • Ocean racing sailors are used to being isolated. The question right now is how to organise a startline

Andy Rice DINGHIES • I have been reliving some great sailing moments with Olympians past and present – and taking lessons in how to adapt to the unexpected

The rest is Istria • Nicola Beykirch headed to Venice in search of a cheap winter berth and endured the hardship of sailing the length of the Croatian coast en route

Eire on a shoestring • The Irish sea deserves respect, but the rewards of a summer cruise can be great, as Don Smith notes

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Grinding to a halt • Sent home from warm weather training in Sardinia amid Covid-19 restrictions, grinder Freddie Carr updates us on what is now for INEOS TEAM UK and the America’s Cup

Tony’s Virgin territory • When the first air service arrived in the BVIs half a century ago, Tony Rainold and pal Charlie were ahead of the curve in setting up The Moorings yacht charter. Emma Bamford discovers more

Round the Island Q&A • Dave Atkinson, director of the Round the Island Race, now postponed until the autumn, explains some decisions and breaks down misconceptions about the race in a revealing chat with Rupert Holmes

Super, smashing, great • How do you stand out in one of the most competitive sectors of boat building? Sam Jefferson steps aboard the Dufour 390 to find out

SAM’S VERDICT

THE SPEC

ALTERNATIVE YACHTS

Zoom lens on Tokyo •...