Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2024 i Yachting Monthly

South African Kirsten Neuschäfer has been awarded the Cruising Club of America (CCA) 2023 Blue Water Medal in recognition of her tremendous effort, determination and skill in winning the single-handed circumnavigation Golden Globe Race. Neuschäfer, who won Rolex Sailor of the Year 2023, joins the ranks of past medallists Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, Sir Francis Chichester and Bernard Moitessier. The prestigious CCA annual award for adventurous sailing feats dates back to 1923. Out of 17 starters in the Golden Globe Race, she was first among only five finishers in the single-handed circumnavigation race, with competitors using only sailing boats and technology that were available when the first race was held in 1968. During the 235-day race aboard her Cape George 36 Minnehaha, Neuschäfer successfully rescued fellow skipper…

Maritime Minister Lord Davies has announced the winners of £33 million of government funding to develop green technologies for ports and ships as part of the decarbonisation of the sector. The £33 million has been awarded to 33 projects across the UK to deliver demonstrations, trials and feasibility studies. The funding comes from the fourth round of the Government’s Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC4), which focuses on developing clean maritime technologies, such as: electric vessels, charging ports, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, wind power and more. Some of the 33 projects awarded the funding include: Net Zero Ports of the Future: Demonstrating the Integration of green hydrogen shore power with water reuse. This project, led by Waterwhelm Ltd, will deliver an innovative demonstrator system for green hydrogen production and utilisation, supplying shore…

Salvage tug captain Nick Sloane can claim a library of feats of derring do. He even salvaged the Costa Concordia, which was a wonder of engineering. If you haven’t done so, check out the YouTube footage of this astonishing accomplishment. I had the great pleasure of sitting next to him at a dinner in London recently. Capt Sloane introduced me to The Wave by Susan Casey; a fascinating book about bigwave surfers in which Nick is featured. It dives into the psychology of this obsessive crowd and their relationship with the sea, ranging from the spiritual respect of Laird Hamilton to a younger, perhaps shallower hunger for fame and fortune. It digs into the complex science of wave formation and the researchers who are wrestling with this growing area of…

Over the years, Swallow Yachts have carved out a particular niche for themselves. Built in ply or GRP and coupled with powerful sail plans and carbon masts, their hard-chined hulls are instantly recognisable. Combining a traditional sheerline with some touches of modernity, particularly the Bay Cruiser 26, and the their new 32-footer, the plans of which are still waiting for a customer, though more often, they are superficially fairly conservative. It’s under the surface, as well as aloft, that you find the innovation in these clever little trailer sailers. The Bay Cruiser 21 is no different. Effectively a beefed-up version of the yard’s most popular model, the 20-foot Bay Raider Expedition, this boat is only one foot longer, but has significantly more waterline length as well as higher freeboard and…

Testing the latest generation of high-volume cruising boats, I’ve been surprised to find just how satisfying they are to sail, and how well they handle chop. Wide hulls and chines make for a more powerful hull while keeping the waterline narrow and a decent ‘V’ in the forefoot, and bringing this beam into the bow balances the boat, and helps keep the rudder gripping the water. The Dufour 44, in replacing the 430, takes this concept further again, with some of the strongest bow chines on show. Umberto Felci has maintained performance by sticking with a decent deep single rudder, tucked forwards to avoid aeration, and a deep keel prioritising keeping the boat upright rather than anchoring close in to the beach. In fact, this boat is happiest sailing at…

Indulge me. I know £1.5million is a lot of money, but this boat is unlike any other cruising boat on sale at the moment. The DS48 spares no expense, ensuring that this is the most comfortable home from home you can have, save buying an actual house. Joining the family alongside the DS41, DS45 and DS54, the DS48 shares the Bill Dixon-designed DNA and one-level living, save for one or two steps between deck and cockpit, and saloon and cabins. Like on a cat, the saloon really is up at deck level with 360º views through tempered glass windows. On deck, the cockpit is sheltered beneath a targa-top, with two steps up to the twin helms, where you’ll find buttons to control every winch and system, whichever wheel you’re at.…

A thin line of clear blue sky ahead promised relief from the grey clouds overhead as I approached the Pacific Ocean beyond the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca which separates Canada’s Vancouver Island from Washington State in the USA. It felt great to be heading out to sea once more. The forecast was for an enjoyable sail to San Francisco over the next few days. I was looking forward to getting back into some sailing once more, having spent all spring and summer of 2022 in British Columbia, working solidly on what became a virtual refit of Nereida. The work stemmed from damage sustained during my last non-stop circumnavigation, a lot of use in rough conditions (three complete trips around the world plus many other voyages) and…

Q Paul and Emma own a 10m yacht and are day sailing with Paul’s parents on a fine day in early May. The weather is fair so they are all wearing fleeces and lifejackets but no wet weather gear is needed. The wind is about 10 to 15 knots coming off the land. Paul’s father, Jack, was an enthusiastic sailor in his youth and is keen to get involved. He notices that the mainsail leech line is fouling the upper mainsheet block on the boom. Before Paul can do anything, Jack is standing on the cockpit combing, trying to free it. He loses his grip and falls in. Fortunately his lifejacket inflates automatically. He shouts for help while Paul on the helm heaves to and Emma rolls up the jib.…

A jobs list is rarely, if ever, complete. As you tick off jobs at the top of the list, more appear at the bottom with alarming speed and regularity. So, view maintenance as an ongoing process rather than something to complete and forget. Build maintenance into your daily routine by tackling at least one job per day, even if it’s just cleaning the solar panels or ordering spare parts. Get things out of your head and into a notebook as you notice them, then prioritise tasks based on urgency and importance. Once a job is done, diligently record dates and engine hours, making a note of part numbers, serial numbers, specifications, and the contact details of parts suppliers. I would even suggest acquiring a mounting clamp for your phone to…

We all have a favourite tool. I surveyed some boaty mates to find out what theirs were, with both useful and interesting results. Most responses were adjustable spanners, with fixed spanners for important engine jobs. In addition, a must was a multi-tool, such as a Leatherman, a Gerber (who apparently repair any damaged multitools for free), or Knipex Cobra 150mm pliers, which were apparently used to change an outboard propeller. There were some odd ones in there too: ■ A scraper, from friends sailing the globe, as scraping their bottom is a priority, at every anchorage. ■ A dremel, mentioned for the multiple heads and thereby uses for sanding, cleaning, cutting and so on. ■ Head torches came up a couple of times, with one friend citing, ‘Good for deck…

VESSEL Rule 1 (a) is quite clear: the Colregs apply to all vessels. But what is a vessel? Rule 3 (a) says that a vessel is, ‘every description of watercraft capable of being used as a means of transportation on water’. That seems abundantly clear to me, but some years ago a court rather bizarrely ruled that personal watercraft (PWCs) were not ‘vessels’. I’m glad to say that the law has now been amended to make any powered craft subject to the Colregs. This does not mean that sailing yachts are now exempt! But the status of some ‘vessels’ remains debatable. Paddleboards, windsurfers and lilos are all capable of being used for transportation on water, but understandably their ‘skippers’ may not even be aware that the Colregs exist, let alone…

As yachties we are unlikely ever to follow a TSS, but those of us who sail in the English Channel and southern North Sea will be only too well aware of them. They are invaluable for keeping large ships safely apart, but they can be a frustrating obstacle for yachts. Happily, Rule 10 does give us some discretion which, if used wisely, can save a few passage miles. There are three requirements for yachts, but only one is non-negotiable: a vessel of less than 20m in length or a sailing vessel ‘shall not impede the safe passage of a power-driven vessel following a traffic lane.’ ‘Not impede’ should be taken to mean ‘give way’. Rule 10 (h) tells us to avoid a TSS by ‘as wide a margin as is…

It is difficult to describe ‘correct’ sail shape, but the three most important things to consider are: sail draft (the fullness of the sail), draft position, and twist (controlled by the kicker / vang and leech tension). SAIL DRAFT Sail draft (chord depth) is an imaginary line from luff to leech called the chord. Chord depth can then be expressed as the ratio percentage between the maximum draft (d) and chord length (c). Draft stripes or seams in the sail can be used to estimate the depth. It is quite difficult to measure, so cruising sailors will use their eyes and experience to estimate draft. DRAFT POSITION The distance from the luff to where you find the maximum draft in the sail is called the draft position. Draft forward gives…

Yacht designer Raymond Wall passed away in November at the age of 91 after a long and illustrious career. After serving his apprenticeship with Robert Clark, Ray set up his own design business in the late 1950s, first in London and then in Fambridge. His first design was the 26ft sloop Tomahawk which was built in 1960 by Colne Marine in Wivenhoe, as were many of his early designs. ‘It became his home from home,’ said his wife Pauline. In 1967, Ray went to work for Camper & Nicholsons as head designer, where he was responsible for a number of successful production yachts and one-off racing boats. The famous racing yachts included La Meloria, C&N’s first design with the rudder separated from the keel and winner of the Two Ton…

We recently covered the plans for this little sister of the all-new Sunbeam 32.1, which I tested a few months ago (a full review to follow), but this is the first time I had seen the 29.1 in person. While Sunbeam Yachts has been a family-run business for generations, former iterations of these pretty Austrian boats were conservative and relied on their sailing prowess to attract customers. They also catered for cruising sailors with boats up to 46ft. The latest of the Schöchl family to run the business is Andreas, who believes that most boats are too unremarkable and boring to stand out, and there was a market for customers who want something striking, without being an out-and-out racing boat. While the mint-blue hull is optional, the design is defined…

Jeanneau’s long-running Sun Odyssey range has now gradually been updated into this, its eighth generation. The Sun Odyssey 349 sold 2,500 hulls but after 12 years of service it was due for replacement. The 350 follows her older siblings with a wide hull (15cm beamier – widest in her class), more volume, an aft-raked stem and sharp hull chines, all the way to the bow. Step-free access to the deck is via a ramp aft of the wheels up onto the side deck which, amazingly, doesn’t steal any useable space from the aft cabins. Keel options remain the same, making this boat unique in offering winged shoal-draught and lifting keels as well as standard options. A 29hp engine is now standard – and the only option – where this was…

Go big or go home? Well Magnus Rassy has decreed that Hallberg-Rassy needed a new flagship, and this is it – the largest yacht that the Swedish has ever built. It’s a direction that many other yards are also taking. Just look at the Arcona 50, the Saffier SL 46 and the Jeanneau and Beneteau Yacht ranges (55-65ft) as cases in point. So just what has Hallberg-Rassy managed to squeeze into 69ft? Well, they’ve stuck their guns about what they believe makes a good boat, and the queues at the boat show suggest the punters think so too. Designed, as has been the case for many years, by German Frers, the 69 follows the overhaul of the range begun in 2017 with the 44 – fine bows, wide stern, twin…

Come with us to get the real Sailing Holiday experience in the company of kindred spirits. You may find yourself making lifelong friends, and coming back for more next year. Children and young people love the fun of getting to know youngsters on the same ‘voyage’ as them, gaining confidence and having the time of their lives. You’ll be supported as much as you need by your flotilla skipper, while the engineer and hosts keep the engines running and the drinks flowing. All you have to do is enjoy sailing in the sunshine and cooling off in the crystal clear water. Sailing Holidays also has a bareboat sailing division, which offers a skippered charter throughout the Mediterranean. WHERE WE SAIL Flotillas operate throughout the season in the Northern Ionian, the…

With 10 flotillas operating in four countries, Seafarer has the options to take you to areas other flotillas don’t go. Twenty-eight years of operating experience hasn’t got in the way of this independent business’s focus on the personal touch, with market-leading customer service, whether you want to join a flotilla, skipper a bareboat, or chill out at a beach club. WHERE TO SAIL Seafarer offer the widest range of flotilla destinations of any company, and as an independent family company, it takes customer service personally. It also offers RYA training in Greece, Croatia or the UK, plus worldwide bareboat and cabin charter. Flotillas are spread throughout the Ionian and Aegean, as well as two in Croatia, two in Turkey and another in Thailand. Wherever you decide to go, this variety…

There’s lot to think about when heading off on charter, particularly if you haven’t done it before. The ideas here might help you pick the kind of holiday you want, and get you ready for stepping aboard. If you’re not sure, go with a well-known company who can give you all the support you need. You’ll grow in confidence quickly, and will soon be chartering pros. If you’ve gone for a relaxing holiday with the family, be prepared to take it easy. Unless of course, you’ve opted for an offshore voyage, in which case, embrace the challenge! CHARTER & CHILDREN SMALL CHILDREN TOYS: Bring lots of things for children to do. You don’t want them bored and grouchy or glued to a screen. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Having several cabins means each…

The cruising lifestyle is not a magical solution for family strife, so don’t expect it to resolve or transform any existing family conflicts or issues you have with your petulant teenager or terrible toddler. Relationships intensify in the tight confines of a boat, and the pressures of land life will merely be supplanted by the new challenges of cruising life once the thrill of escaping the rat race subsides. Work on family issues and relationships before departure, and even if they can’t be resolved (which family doesn’t argue at times?), learn to open up better lines of communication, respect differences, and make sure everyone is granted enough space to maintain their privacy. Of course, it is vital as a parent to maintain boundaries, but it is also vital to give…

We all have a continuous duty to prevent collisions at sea. Sometimes we will be the ‘stand-on’ vessel, at other times we will be obliged to ‘give way’, but you never have a ‘right of way’. How long should you ‘stand-on’ and when should you ‘give way’ even if you are not required to? Rule 17 gives some clues to these knotty questions, but puts the onus firmly on you to decide. At first the rule says that the stand-on vessel ‘should’ keep her course and speed, but then says that the same vessel ‘may’ take action (ie, alter her course and/or speed) if it becomes apparent that the give-way vessel is not taking appropriate action herself. As the stand-on vessel it is very difficult to decide when an action…

When I was age 12, we went on a family holiday on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides off Scotland’s west coast. I was pottering around the jetty at Eoligarry on the north end of Barra when local men, boys and dogs suddenly appeared. They asked me if I wanted to help with the sheep shearing on a nearby uninhabited island. I ran to the holiday house where we were staying to get my parents’ permission. It was a strange flat-bottomed craft which chugged its way across the Sound of Barra on a glorious day towards an island I later discovered was Gighay. As we approached the island I became alarmed that the boat speed was not being reduced for landing, but who was I as a 12-year-old…

www.yachtingmonthly.com/books Friday 1 June:16th day of filming We woke up very late but I did remember to say ‘rabbits’. We arrived and changed into our costumes. The first scene we did was day-night filming in the harbour. We had the ‘leading lights’. After lunch we filmed with the Amazons when we gave them back their boat. Day-night filming was done again. I did my big scene when I captured the Amazon. The Secret Harbour looks south over Coniston Water to the hills of North Lancashire. It has to be one of my favourite places on earth. Bringing a small dinghy in there gives you a special feeling either of exploration or of coming home. You need to go there when no-one else is about. Our secret of Secret Harbour was…

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Translated 9, the leading IRC yacht in the Ocean Globe Race was forced to divert to the Falkland Islands after discovering two cracks on the hull, one of which was big enough to sink the boat in heavy weather. Translated 9 had been sailing offshore up the east coast of Argentina, only hours behind the leaders, the French crew aboard Pen Duick VI, when the Swan 65 suffered a knockdown on Leg 3 from Auckland to Punte del Este in Uruguay. Two cracks in the stern sections were discovered a day later, one close to the rudder keg. ‘We have a problem,’ co-skipper Marco Trombetti, Translated’s CEO and founder, told OGR race control early on 8 February. ‘The amount of water that is coming in is absolutely manageable, but we…

After an extensive deep sea search, US marine robotics company Deep Sea Vision (DSV) has unveiled a sonar image that it says may be the wreckage of American aviator Amelia Earhart’s missing plane. Earhart, along with her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared on 2 July, 1937 during her attempt to be the first woman to fly around the world. No trace of the aviators, or the Lockheed 10-E Electra they were flying, was ever found. Their fate has become a source of widespread speculation as accident investigators were unable to locate her body or any wreckage. A new sonar image captured 5,000 metres under the sea, around 100 miles from Howland Island – halfway between Australia and Hawaii in the Pacific – reveals contours that mirror the dual tails and scale…

FROM BOOT 2024 Also at the show was a great range of interesting small yachts, not all of which I managed to get around, as much as I’d have loved to. As last year, Pointer was there with its 30 (tested in the last issue of YM), 25 and 22. Bente was again showing its cool 28 and 24. Saffier had six models on show, from their SC 6.5 all the way up to the SE 37 Lounge, and new plans for the their first proper cruising boat, the SL 46. New to the show, however, was the very cool SE 24 Lite – a sporty little boat with loads of performance potential, with very scant accommodation below and a European Yacht of the Year win to its name. From…

Much like Jeanneau, Beneteau’s Oceanis range has been a stalwart for decades and we’re now onto the seventh generation of these boats. The 37.1 takes the place of the 38.1 but continues to focus on fun, easy sailing and comfortable living, especially life on deck in the sunshine, where the Jeanneaus focus a little more on sailing performance. Twin rudders ensure there’s decent grip on the water. You can also opt for a performance pack, which gives you a square top main thanks to the backstayless rig. The beam remains the same width as the old boat, but this is carried further down to the waterline thanks to the ubiquitous hull chine, making the topside more or less vertical, which allows the accommodation to be pushed out wider. Down below,…

COMPARISON Two particular yachts making their debut at the show looked more like a Scandinavian derby than any others at the show. Rivals X-Yachts and Arcona were going head to head with two similarly sized boats both aiming at the 45-50ft blue-water cruising market. Both the Xc47 and Arcona 50s aim at the performance end of the offshore cruising sector, and are built to similarly high levels of construction, quality, comfort and finish. I’ve covered the Arcona 50 in these pages for you before, and hope to test her in due course, but it’s worth taking a second look, given that she’s just won the coveted 2024 European Yacht of the Year Luxury Cruiser category. For X-Yachts this is the first all-new boat since the retirement of X-yachts founder Nils…

When the Hanse 460 was launched two years ago, she represented a significant development for Hanse Yachts. The changes weren’t radical, but Hanse wanted to make sure she looked different and did everything just that little bit better than her predecessor. The 460 was the first model from the Berret-Racoupeau design team as opposed to Judel/Vrolijk, with whom Hanse had been working for decades. She took her place in the range alongside Judel/Vrolijk’s 458 until the older model was discontinued. And what an extraordinary success the 460 has been – over 300 have been built to date. When I tested her in the summer of 2022, it was easy to see that she would have wide appeal. She was big, fast, comfortable, roomy and easy to handle; still unmistakably a…

1 CARIBBEAN Where: Windward Islands – St Lucia, Grenada, Martinique; Leeward Islands – Barbados, Dominica, Antigua, St Kitts & Nevis, BVI, US VI; Jamaica, Cuba, Bahamas When: November – March Cost: ££ Experience level: Beginner 2 CENTRAL AMERICA Where: Brazil, Colombia, Belize, Mexico When: April – November Cost: £££ Experience level: Intermediate 3 ATLANTIC ISLANDS Where: Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands (all year) When: April – August Cost: ££ Experience level: Intermediate 4 WESTERN MED Where: France, Spain, Sardinia, Corsica, Balearics When: April – October Cost: ££ Experience level: Beginner 5 EASTERN MED Where: Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Montenegro, Italy, Cyprus, Crete When: April – October Cost: £ Experience level: Beginner 6 UK Where: Kent, Solent, Plymouth, Falmouth, Pembrokeshire, North Wales and Anglesey; Ireland – Cork & Waterford, Galway,…

On day three of our first Atlantic crossing we discovered that our bobstay chainplate had become detached from the bow. To our dismay this caused the bowsprit to flex and bend alarmingly as we powered along in 25-knot winds and a 5m swell. After hastily furling in the genoa we raced below to check if the chainplate fittings had pulled through the hull and left a hole. Thankfully it hadn’t but our next terrifying thought was that this was the mainstay that provided forward tension on the mast. The remaining stay sail was cutter-rigged and did provide some support to the mast. We tied the spare genoa halyard off to the samson post to create a little more forward tension. However, in big seas and wind we realised that without the…

This year, I spent my holidays working in the French Figaro class. My role was to be a préparateur – the French name for someone whose job it is to prepare and fix boats before and after races. Often, the Figaro results are separated by just minutes, meaning that any competitive edge makes a huge difference, and it’s vital the boat is prepared. Some of the préparateurs in the fleet are legends of the sport in their own right, having prepared boats which have gone on to break record after record and win race after race. For me, ‘learning on the job’, one of the most valuable things was walking up and down the pontoon and seeing how the pros were improving the boats. In solo racing, the general ethos…

My wife, Kate, and I were sailing back from the Isles of Scilly on a clear bright day with a good southerly breeze. We had left St Mary’s in a bit of a hurry as the early forecast was for strengthening winds, and the tide served for a passage to Newlyn. Consequently, and very unusually for us, we saved some time by leaving the sprayhood up as we slipped the buoy. When we were a couple of miles north of Wolf Rock and having a mid-morning cup of coffee in the cockpit, Kate exclaimed, ‘**** me!’ as she spotted a large car carrier about quarter of a mile on our starboard quarter. The ship had clearly altered course, quite correctly, to pass astern of us and was then shaping up for…

The Small Boat Channel (SBC) on the western side of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour is only 50m wide and all vessels under 20m LOA are obliged to use it. We were entering the harbour on a very busy summer’s afternoon with the usual swarm of yachts returning after a weekend away, and a few other vessels making a dash out of the harbour to catch the first of the west-going tide in the Solent. One of these was a bright yellow 9m fishing vessel. As soon as she was past the watchful eyes of the Harbour Patrol, she started making small alterations of course to port in order, it seemed, to cut across the main channel to the east – well before No4 Bar buoy which marks the southern…

The Kiel Canal provides a convenient shortcut between the North Sea and the Baltic, or as the Germans call it, the Nordsee and the Ostsee. We Europeans call it the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, or NOK for short, while you Brits just call it the Kiel Canal. Going from west to east you enter the Kiel Canal via the Elbe River where you enter the locks at Brunsbüttel and you leave the Kiel Canal at Holtenau locks where you proceed into the Kieler Förde. Due to the shortcut of approximately 240 miles, 27,000 commercial vessels and 12,000 yachts transit the Kiel Canal every year. Yachts are only allowed to use the canal during daylight hours, which provides the opportunity (during summer) to make the passage in one day. The canal is 53 miles…

Finalists for RYA Club of the Year 2024 The finalists in each category of the 2024 RYA Club of the Year Awards have been announced. The awards, supported by insurance broker Gallagher, celebrate the achievements and dedication of RYA affiliated clubs across Britain over the past 12-24 months. For this year’s award, the categories and finalists are as follows: Active Club of the Year: Clyde Cruising Club, Colne Yacht Club, County Antrim Yacht Club, Derwent Reservoir Sailing Club. Community Club of the Year: Gresford Sailing Club, Margate Yacht Club, Royal Northumberland Yacht Club, Royal Lymington Yacht Club Green Club of the Year: Etherow Country Park Sailing Club, Royal Tay Yacht Club, West Wiltshire Youth Sailing Association. Young Person’s Club of the Year: Draycote Water Sailing Club, Island Barn Reservoir Sailing…

Britannia, my 45ft twin-masted schooner, almost sank, not from storm damage or from hitting rocks, but from within. A water pipe broke in her pressurised shore water supply system while she was safely moored up in a marina in Cape Canaveral, Florida. I had forgotten to switch the shore tap off when I left her for the afternoon. It was the start of a harrowing few days. Pressurised water supply systems are commonplace in many marinas around the world, especially US territories. The system involves a hosepipe that connects the pontoon water tap to a pressure-reducing inlet valve on the boat that reduces the power of the onshore mains water supply by around half while entirely pressurising the boat’s water system. The benefit is having constant pressure in your boat’s…