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Posts published during 2025.

Used boats can win

Used boats can win

You don’t need a big budget, a shiny new boat, or a crew stacked with pros to be competitive offshore these days. That’s not some clever marketing line—it’s reality.

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Featured Photographer: Daniel Forster

Featured Photographer: Daniel Forster

“There are no bleachers offshore.” With this simple phrase, Swiss photographer Daniel Forster sums up the ethos behind a career spanning over five decades spent chasing light, wind, and waves in some of the most challenging—and beautiful—conditions on earth.

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Palma Delivers as Olympic Season Shifts into Gear

Palma Delivers as Olympic Season Shifts into Gear

Sunshine, steady breeze, and the unmistakable hum of Olympic ambition—Day 1 of the 2025 Trofeo Princesa Sofía offered the kind of conditions that make the Bay of Palma one of the Olympic classes' favourite spring playgrounds.

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No America's Cup Homecoming As New Zealand Government Rules Out Auckland

No America's Cup Homecoming As New Zealand Government Rules Out Auckland

For the second consecutive America’s Cup cycle, the holders will not defend the trophy on home waters. Despite months of behind-the-scenes negotiations and public hope for a return to Auckland, Emirates Team New Zealand confirmed today that it will not stage the 2027 regatta in the City of Sails.

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Ragtime Returns: A Legend Reborn for Transpac 2025

Ragtime Returns: A Legend Reborn for Transpac 2025

If you’ve spent any time on the docks at a major West Coast offshore regatta, chances are you’ve heard the whispers. “That’s the Ragtime.” It’s never just Ragtime. There’s always a pause, a little reverence in the voice.

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Editor's Notebook

Editor's Notebook

Yacht Racing Life Editor Justin Chisholm shares what's caught his attention in the sailing world this week

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Structured Luffs for All

Structured Luffs for All

At Europe’s major superyacht crossroads of Palma de Mallorca, the three key experts at the Doyle Sails loft are each involved in projects widely diverse in nature but all sharing a commitment to extract maximum benefit from the company’s groundbreaking Structured Luff technology.

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SailGP San Francisco Analysis

SailGP San Francisco Analysis

A Yacht Racing Life Podcast Episode | Yacht Racing Life editor Justin Chisholm is joined from the UK by Magnus Wheatley as the pair give their independent analysis and commentary on the fifth event of the Rolex SailGP Championship 2025 season which took place in San Francisco, CA this weekend.

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