Sail Magazine

1 week ago | sailmagazine.com | Zuzana Prochazka

With more than 1,100 hulls launched, the Lagoon 42 was a tough act to follow. In designing its successor, Lagoon Catamarans knew they had to hit it out of the park, so they tossed tradition, took risks, and stretched comfort zones. If the long lines waiting to see the boat at its debut at the Annapolis Sailboat Show last fall are any indication, they’ve succeeded in reinvigorating people’s perceptions and excitement about this model.

1 week ago | sailmagazine.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke

In March, the Cruising Club of America honored Carter Bacon of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with its Rod Stephens Seamanship Trophy for his “his meritorious handling of the sinking of his classic 50-foot K. Aage Nielsen sloop Solution during the return sail after the 2024 Newport Bermuda Race.

1 week ago | sailmagazine.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke

If you believe that our earliest memories can imprint upon us our future—like baby birds who will identify themselves with the first living creature or object they see—then Jesse Terry’s 39-foot ketch Abigail, designed by John Alden, was a foregone conclusion long before she came into his life. Growing up in Essex, Connecticut, his first memories were of watching his parents and their friends restore a 48-foot wooden yawl in the family’s backyard over the course of a decade.

2 weeks ago | sailmagazine.com | Zuzana Prochazka

I sucked in my gut as if that was going to skinny up our draft. A quick check of the chartplotter said we definitely were in the right place, but the coral heads reaching up from the bottom in the clear water below said otherwise. With the engines in neutral to protect the props, we drifted, tensely waiting for the breeze to push us into deeper water. When we cleared, the group exhale was audible. “They weren’t kidding about Belize being shallow,” said Joe.

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.