Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2025 i Yachting World

This month I spoke at length to both the rescuer and rescuee crews after a Class 40 was smashed in half by a cargo ship in the English Channel (all crew are safe and well, see page 54). I also read the full report into the 2024 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, which saw numerous serious incidents (see page 17), including an MOB who was safely recovered – in rough seas, in the dark. The stand-out from these accounts is how valuable the offshore sea survival training each crew had completed was. That well trained crews knew what to do, and how to use the safety equipment for real, saved lives. But the other thing that stood out was how much impact the little things, or apparently inconsequential decisions can have.…

The hull of the 183ft Perini Navi Bayesian, which sank after capsizing off Sicily with the loss of seven lives last August, has been raised from the seabed. The lifting of the intact hull of the superyacht is a major milestone in a complex salvage operation to recover the yacht from approximately 50m depth in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Bayesian was knocked down during a sudden violent storm while at anchor off the northern coast of Sicily, and sank rapidly, resulting in the deaths of seven people in the early hours of 19 August, 2024. TMC Marine, the specialist British company leading the salvage operation, reported that the vessel was slowly brought to the surface over multiple days. In a statement TMC explained: “Over three days the hull has been…

An in-depth report has been published on the 2024 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race. The report noted that the weather forecast was ‘challenging’ with strong wind running conditions, building seas and an abrupt direction change within the first 24 hours. These conditions were a major contributor to a number of serious incidents including two fatalities, one person overboard and three other serious injuries, three boats dismasted and 14 retirements over the first night. In addition, there were at least nine inadvertent Personal Location Beacon (PLB) activations in the first 18 hours. The report considered the circumstances of each major incident. On Flying Fish Arctos, a crew member was killed and another injured during a crash gybe when other crew members were attempting to pole out the headsail, despite the boat being…

All in it together Rallies have never been more popular, with increasing options for all types of boats and owners. Helen Fretter meets crews from the Grand Large Yachting Odyssey to find out why their world tour in company was so special. Catamaran skills class Nikki Henderson on the key multihull skills you shouldn’t leave home without, plus expert advice on cat-handling and preparation. New at the shows It’s show time! We preview the bumper crop of new yachts that will be making their debuts this autumn at Cannes and Southampton shows. Multihull special: ModX + Fountaine Pajot 41 We take a tour of the brilliant but bonkers ModX, the wing-sailed catamaran that has taken the internet by storm. Plus Rupert Holmes tests the latest Fountaine Pajot cruising cat, the…

One of the biggest gifts you can give yourself is time. Time to do the things you love, time to set off on a world voyage on your own yacht. But where do you even start to plan a circumnavigation? There are many variables to consider – not least how much time you actually have. In the end, every world voyage is a tailor-made unique cruising experience. But, to help you get started, there are roughly four basic itineraries or approaches. Here we guide you through them. KEY QUESTIONS The first step is the best of all. Grab a world map and start marking all your dream destinations that you NEED to go to. Next, mark all your ‘nice to go’ choices. Then, before you start to connect the dots…

“Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! The boat is cut in half.” The chilling call was heard across the Class 40 fleet on the night of 27 May off the coast of Ushant, northern France. Thirty-one Class 40s started the CIC Normandy Channel Race on Sunday, 25 May, one of the first big races of the season. It had been a tough test from the outset, with 25 knots and a building forecast. By Tuesday there had been several retirements, including a collision between two boats on the start, a dismasting and gear failures. But the Class 40 is one of the most competitive fleets around – entries included Vendée Globe legends Michel Desjoyeaux and Vincent Riou, such is the level of experience. The double-handed pairings had rounded the Isle of Wight, and…

You have to admire the ambition. A goal to create the fastest race boat in the world (on corrected time) is no small feat, and a particularly punchy thing to claim from the outset, 18 months before splashing the first boat. To then produce a yacht that looks this go-fast good with the Marvel-like heroic name to back it up… It’s brave, it’s brash, it’s bullish. Perhaps only a brand such as Wally could hope to pull it off. Racing yacht designs are typically fickle things, their potential success often at the mercy of trends and rules. To ensure some longevity, they not only have to prove successful on the water, to give their owners enjoyment and a chance at silverware, but they also need some versatility. Swan, for example,…

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The Admiral’s Cup is set to return, for the first time in over 20 years, with a bumper fleet of 15 international teams in the Solent this summer. The 23rd Admiral’s Cup will take place from 17 July-1 August, 2025, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, with racing organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Competition begins with a short offshore race on 19 July followed by three days of inshore racing, with the grand finale being the Rolex Fastnet Race starting on 26 July. The format for the revitalised event is a two-boat team competition, under IRC, with the larger boat from 45-56ft and the smaller yacht 36-44ft. Entries may represent yacht clubs and/or countries, with three teams from Germany and two from the UK, as well as entries from…

Supercar brand Ferrari has announced a radical new 100ft foiling monohull to be launched next year. The project – named ‘Hypersail’ in reference to Ferrari’s three-times Le Mans winning Hypercar – is being led by legendary Italian skipper Giovanni Soldini, with design by foiling wizard Guillaume Verdier. The Hypersail project will not only be the largest fully ‘flying’ foiling monohull ever built, but is also designed to be the first yacht of its size to be entirely energy self-sufficient. The 100-footer will stabilise in flight on three points of contact: an innovative canting keel, a foil on the rudder and, alternately, one of two lateral foils. While the T-foils, with flaps, and rudder with elevator look reminiscent of the AC75s, the bulbous canting keel with elevator is unique (the keel…

Unsightly and unnecessary public spat that has little to do with sailing… or another example of the extraordinary lengths some teams will go to win the America’s Cup? Whatever your view, the recent public exchanges between the Defender and the Challenger of Record are illustrations of how the Cup’s capacity to both incense and entertain also demonstrate how much the Auld Mug means to those who want it in their trophy cabinet. One thing is clear, the 38th America’s Cup has started. The trouble is that the dispute could lead the next cycle down a difficult alley with the risk of yet another Cup re-set. By the time you read this, things may have developed further – hopefully for the better with both sides getting on. But the dialogue has…

I was a man obsessed. I longed to see the sea, to sail quietly across its surface driven only by a puff of wind, to smash through the night in a great tempest. I had become seduced by the books I read describing strange distant lands, postcard-esque shorelines, foreign cultures and a complete absence of bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic. William Albert Robinson’s 10,000 Leagues Over the Sea was the first cruising book I read, and it made me want to run away – or rather sail away – from home immediately. Robinson circumnavigated between 1928-1932 on his 32ft ketch Svaap and wrote tales of exploring then-still-exotic Tahiti and spending time with headhunters in Papua New Guinea. I went on to read Harry Pidgeon’s book Around the World Single Handed. Pidgeon…

Susan Smillie’s book The Half Bird tells the story of a former Guardian journalist who commits to a life at sea in the immediate wake of Brexit. Her boat is the Nicholson 26 Isean, which she acquires for little money and much work – a scenario many readers will recognise. Her decision to start with a voyage around Britain taking departure from the Solent does not last beyond Land’s End. Many a plan has failed to survive in the presence of the enemy. Some would put in to Falmouth and sell the boat. Not Susan Smillie. She heads instead for the Mediterranean. Things take a highly unusual turn on passage towards Ibiza when she comes into direct contact with a boat overloaded with African migrants on a dark night. Many…

PEGASUS 67 LOA 20.46m 67ft 2in • LWL19.50m 64ft 0in • Beam 5.60m 18ft 6in • Draught 3.00m 9ft 10in • Displacement (light) 21,000kg • Price €3.5m ex VAT • pegasus-yachts.com The Pegasus 50 is one of the standout yachts we have trialled in recent years. It’s a brilliant design for both its performance ability in lighter breezes, and its deck and cockpit layout, which will look after short-handed sailors while sailing serious passages. Having built 18 of these since this Slovenian yard formed in 2019, and after multiple requests for a larger version, Pegasus is now announcing this P67. It gave YW the exclusive. As you can see, the concept is very much in line with the original yacht, so is again aimed at owner-drivers. It’s a platform which…

Liveaboard cruisers Larissa Clark and Duncan Copeland on how sailors can get involved with ocean conservation and citizen science projects There is a fierce and surprisingly passionate debate unfolding on the deck of Freeranger, our 50ft Beneteau. The question at hand is which weight to use: the big one or the small one? All around us, other boats are not wasting their time. It’s the first day of coho salmon season in the glassy waters of British Columbia, and everyone else is bobbing joyfully in the midday sun, hauling fish out of the sea with jubilant ease. Cries of “Fish on!” echo across the sound. The salmon are biting. The FOMO is real. But we’re not here for the fish, and this isn’t a conversation about fishing tackle. We’re here…

Even the best can’t win all the time. Terry Hutchinson talks to Andy Rice about how to turn a bad race into an opportunity You learn more from your mistakes than from your successes. But when you’ve had a bad result, how do you get past the negative emotion and start turning that into a positive to take forward into your next race? Terry Hutchinson has been grappling with this challenge for more than four decades. He says he’s still learning. Even for someone of Terry’s deep experience at the top of the sport, every day brings up new scenarios and new lessons, sometimes painful but always useful if processed in the right way. But how to learn those lessons and improve teamwork without resorting to finger pointing and ending…

In April Yachting World shared a request from the University of Washington for any cruisers in the Pacific who could help retrieve one of their ‘Seaglider’ underwater ocean research drones which had gone off course. The plea was shared widely in the sailing community, and was heard by the Ventilly family on their 36ft yacht Oatmeal Savage, who were sailing from Tahiti to Hawaii. However, as the family approached the last known location of the drone – known as Pigeon – they received a distress call from another yacht, SV Flow, some 200 miles behind them. Frances Ventilly of Oatmeal Savage explains they were tracking the Seaglider when the situation developed. “Matt was keeping an eye on its co-ordinates, watching how it followed the currents and how our paths would…

Yet another wave slammed into our topsides. The carbon drum hull of the yacht we were racing echoed with a thunderous hum as we accelerated, surfing a wave. We were flying! And then we weren’t. SLAM. The boat crash-gybed, rounded up violently and then stalled. The companionway was a mass of people scrambling into foulies. The boat slopped about in irons. Gong, gong, gong went the broken checkstay as it swung and clanged against the rig. And me? I stood frozen, can opener in hand, assessing the carnage. Amazingly, the pan was still on the stove. But its contents? The ceiling had turned red. The floor resembled a murder scene of squashed meat. I put my hand to my forehead, dreading the clean up, only to feel coagulated tomato paste…

The afternoon sunlight had that sharp clarity of spring in the Baltic; warm and golden, but with cold shadows in which the world felt suspended, undecided at winter’s retreat. Silently, we drifted out past the church spire, the lighthouse on the harbour mole, and the deserted basket-chairs on the white sand beach. The mirror flat water began to ruffle into the softest of carpets across which to glide, as the breeze tumbled over the town before steadying itself further out. With the wind gusting from 5 to 17 knots, and shifting several compass points at a time, our wake was that of a drunkard, though my eyes were glued to the telltales. I was in Eckernförde, where Germany teeters on the edge of Scandinavia, to sail the new Saare 47,…

GOT THE DRIVE? If you are into action watersports but haven’t yet heard of hybrid or foil-assisted flight, you’re missing a trick – and a Foil Drive may be that ideal addition to your toy locker. Essentially, it involves using your existing foil setup, whether you’re into surf, SUP or wing foiling or even Moth sailing, and clamping this lightweight propeller on the foil mast in order to give you just enough lift to get foiling. A push on the finger-controlled remote activates the prop, taking the furious pumping or paddling out of the equation and, if using a sail, gets you foiling by increasing the speed and apparent wind enough to maintain flight. It’s therefore ideal for the less fit and able to get into these sports. Once foiling…

ATLANTIC TESTS Tempus’s Norwegian crew – Anders, Heidi, Tiril (10) and Frida (9) Johnsrud – have been sailing full time since summer 2022. In November 2023 the family crossed the Atlantic with the ARC aboard their 53ft catamaran, and collected data for SeaLabs, a citizen science project that works with the sailing community. During their ARC crossing they collected seawater samples and used an electronic sensor (provided by the project) to measure key parameters that provide clues about the quality of the seawater. “As we crossed the Atlantic Ocean we had a unique opportunity to collect water samples in remote areas rarely accessed by researchers. It was a fun and educational thing to do with our girls, aged 7 and 8 at the time,” says Frida. “By gathering data on…

What can you really buy for up to £100,000 in today’s yacht market? Perhaps a lot more than you think… Between £50,000 and £100,000 might mark the point at which boat buying gets ‘serious’. And while nobody is claiming that £100,000 is not a lot of money, in today’s yacht market it’s probably not going to buy you a new bluewater yacht. So is the adage of legendary cruisers Lin and Larry Pardey ‘go small, go cheap, go now’ still feasible? Albeit with ‘cheap’ now being a little less cheap, and fewer adventurous sailors today likely to build their own yacht. The £100,000 figure, and sticking to it, can be a useful benchmark in itself, forcing a buyer to focus the mind on what they really need for an adventure…

‘Reaching along at 25 knots – this was another level’ VASCO VASCOTTO NOMINATES WALLYGATOR II “This was the boat that represented the style of Wally and was the first large yacht really able to sail fast,” recalls Vascotto. “I remember having an iconic picture in my house of it sailing from Monaco to Porto Cervo, reaching along at 25 knots… and this was at an IOR time when the maximum speed was around 10 knots, so this was another level! “Then add the colour [green] and the double mast – it was indeed something that was 20 years ahead!” Wallygator II, (now Nariida), was the first all-carbon big yacht, including a full lightweight honeycomb interior fitout and hydraulics package. It was designed by Luca Brenta and Luca Bassani and built…