Best Boats 2008

There was a lot to see in this year’s Best Boats fleet. Multihull designer and guru Chris White, monohull designer Jeremy Wurmfeld, and I combed the docks at the Newport and Annapolis sailboat shows in search of boats worthy of SAIL’s Editors’ Choice awards for innovation and overall excellence More

Class of 2008

During years of keeping my finger on the pulse of the new-boat market, I’ve seen boats get bigger and more complicated. I’ve seen construction materials and techniques More

New Boats 2007

If last year was the year of smaller boats, this is the year of bigger boats—almost 50 percent of the fleet launched this year is above 40 feet. But this year’s fleet has more than just big boats More

Best Boats 2007

SAIL’s Best Boats program is designed to seek out and acknowledge true innovation and forward thinking; the awards are based on firsthand knowledge of the new boats we see at the shows. SAIL editors Peter Nielsen, Bill Springer and Kimball Livingston, and editor-at large Charlie Doane combed the docks More

Best Boats 2006

I needn’t point out that sailboats don’t evolve as quickly as electronics, but incremental changes over the years have gone a long way toward making boats safer, easier to sail, and more comfortable to live on More

Best Boats 2005

SAIL Magazine combed the boat shows for the best, most innovative features this year's new boats had to offer. More

Best Boats 2004

The fall boat shows in Newport, Rhode Island, Jersey City, New Jersey, and Annapolis, Maryland, gave us plenty to think about as we got our Best Boats program under way More

SAIL's Top 10 for 2003

We announced the winners of this years Top 10 at the Atlantic Sail Expo in Atlantic City followed by a feature in the February issue of SAIL. Here they are. More

Top 10 2003 -- The best of the rest

Each of these boats deserves to be recognized for a specific feature, design, or construction technique that was particularly innovative and/or well executed More