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The Long Road to the Figaro

1 week ago | sailmagazine.com | Lydia Mullan

In January 2025, Jamestown, Rhode Island, native Erica Lush moved to western France for an intense and immersive training camp to prepare for the Solitare du Figaro, one of the world’s most competitive offshore one design races. This week she is competing in one of the final qualifiers for the event, hoping to secure her spot on the starting line. Lush began her sailing life with parents who taught her and her brother to sail as children.
Charter: Damn the Comfort Zone

1 week ago | sailmagazine.com | Zuzana Prochazka

I rocked forward on the trampoline, reaching for and digging into some of the best damn guacamole ever put in a bowl. The beer and sea stories were flowing and the 14 cruisers aboard Balam, a Fountaine Pajot Saba 50 catamaran that was ours for the week, were doubling over in laughter at their own misadventures. The omnipresent pelicans of Caleta San Juanico glided by in fine aviator formation as we settled in for the evening with our new-found friends.
Charter: Greece’s Cyclades Islands

1 week ago | sailmagazine.com | Zuzana Prochazka

The problem with going down 411 steps is that you must go back up them, because there are no elevators in a cave. Spelunking doesn’t usually come to mind on charter, but we were following in the footsteps of Lord Byron and loads of European royalty by exploring this 300-foot-deep, 45-million-year-old cave on the small island of Antiparos, in the heart of the Greek Cyclades Islands. It was worth the exertion.
Breaking the Cardinal Rule of Cruising

2 weeks ago | sailmagazine.com | Andy Schell

In February, Falken, our Farr 65, made landfall in Falmouth, Antigua, sailing just over 3,000 miles in 16 days from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, in brochure-perfect tradewind conditions. It was Falken’s fifth Atlantic crossing in just 24 months and successful by every measure. And yet, as I write this, there is some uncertainty whether she’ll leave the dock on time for her next passage thanks to a suddenly wonky windlass and some mechanical gremlins.
NOAA’s Custom Chart Program Updates

2 weeks ago | sailmagazine.com | Kim Kavin

The way that sailors now can get corrected, printed-out charts from the federal government is causing some frustration, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration saying the next big fix for the system won’t happen until November. This past December saw a full transition to the NOAA Custom Chart (NCC) program for providing paper charts for U.S. waters.
Wind Energy Harnessing Catamarans

3 weeks ago | sailmagazine.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke

Using wind to generate power is something sailors have been doing for decades to make their boats more energy autonomous and clean in terms of environmental impact. But what if you could use wind—and sailboats that consistently stay in that wind—to actually generate “green” hydrogen fuel to be delivered where needed?
Charter: There’s Always Next Time

3 weeks ago | sailmagazine.com | Zuzana Prochazka

A northerly had set down on the British Virgin Islands with 5- to 6-foot seas and 25 knots of wind. That’s not exactly a gale, but it felt like one to Frank and Cori on their bumpy ride aboard a chartered 42-foot Sunsail monohull. It was their first “solo” sail together. They first abandoned their track to Anegada, then bailed on Jost Van Dyck, then gave Cane Garden Bay a miss, and finally ran to hide in the lee of Tortola.
Cruising Tips for April

3 weeks ago | sailmagazine.com | Tom Cunliffe

This will be of no interest to anyone sensible enough to sail a 20-footer, but if your yacht is a long one, you’ll have had similar experiences to me. You’re coming into a strange berth—head-up box berths are the worst—perspective has foreshortened, and you’re unsure how far you are from the harbormaster’s woodwork. I recently asked one dockside loafer to call it out. “Ten feet,” he announced. On I came, and a second later I T-boned the piling. It turned out he’d been looking at the waterline.
Review: Lagoon 43, SAIL Top 10 Best Boats 2025 Nominee

4 weeks 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.
Seamanship: Rescue from a Sinking Boat

1 month 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.