Lydia Mullan

3 weeks ago | sailmagazine.com | Lydia Mullan

A few years ago, I signed up for a fitness class at a climbing gym. Their policy was that before they could register me in their system to even enter the gym, they had to teach me how to use belaying systems and fall safety techniques. I wasn’t even there to climb, but that was the rule. These days, in pretty much any instance where your feet leave the ground, you sign a waiver and get some kind of training—except for going up a mast.

3 weeks ago | sailmagazine.com | Lydia Mullan

Last weekend Bentley College hosted the Northeast Ocean Racing Symposium, a day of lectures, panels, and networking centered around all things offshore. After a long winter, the late-March event was a welcome opportunity to get excited about the coming season and reconnect with the community. The symposium is now in its third year and co-sponsored by the four major offshore races out of New England–The Newport-Bermuda, Marblehead-Halifax, Bermuda One-Two, and Marion-Bermuda races.

4 weeks ago | sailmagazine.com | Lydia Mullan

“This is by far the best finish line I’ve ever crossed. Today, I can confidently say I’m the happiest man in the world,” reported an exhausted Charlie Dalin shortly after crossing the Vendée Globe finish line on January 14, 2025. The 40-year-old skipper had spent 64 days, 19 hours, and 22 minutes at sea, racing solo around the world to win the 2024/25 Vendée Globe in MACIF Santé Prévoyance and smashing the course record by more than nine days.

1 month ago | sailmagazine.com | Lydia Mullan

At a little table outside of the train station in Narbonne, France, my friend Derick set two glasses in front of me, one with emerald liquid, the other a deep amethyst. We’d spent several days picking our way by train across the southern coast of Spain and France on our way to the Cannes Yachting Festival. We had precious few days left together before I had to get to work, and he had to catch a flight.

1 month ago | sailmagazine.com | Lydia Mullan

“This is by far the best finish line I’ve ever crossed. Today, I can confidently say I’m the happiest man in the world,” reported an exhausted Charlie Dalin shortly after crossing the Vendée Globe finish line on January 14, 2025. The 40-year-old skipper had spent 64 days, 19 hours, and 22 minutes at sea, racing solo around the world to win the 2024/25 Vendée Globe in MACIF Santé Prévoyance and smashing the course record by more than nine days.