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Buying And Selling

Jeanneau 55: Top 10 Best Best Nominee

Jeanneau brings a catamaran design brief to the monohull market with the new Jeanneau Yachts 55. The cockpit layout is unconventional, with twin helms moved

Dufour 41: Top 10 Best Best Nominee

You can take the sailor out of racing, but you can’t take racing out of the sailor. So, when Nicolas Berenger, product and commercial director

Best Boat Nominees 2023

The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same. Some of it is timing. Some of it is just the way of

New Boats: J/9

Although they don’t generally make it into print, there’s often a backstory to the boat tests we do at SAIL: case in point my sail

Multihull Review: Kinetic 54

Luxury high-end cruising cats with high-performance DNA have occupied an established if somewhat rarified niche in the sailboat market ever since Peter Johnstone launched the

Boat Review: Amel 50

It is possible to cross an ocean in almost anything that will float, just as you could cross the United States on anything with wheels.

Trailerable Cruisers

There’s a lot to be said for a trailer sailer. Say goodbye to expensive boatyard haulout and storage fees. Forget about the laborious annual bottom

Comparing Design Ratios

When buying a boat, consider how its ratios compare with those of similar boats in its category.

This 2026 Top 10 winner is a functional and fashionable update to the 410.

Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 415

Developed in record time and on a shoestring budget, a new design hits the bullseye of the cruising market. 

Boat under shrinkwrap

Selecting a Marine Pro

Note: This story is excerpted from SAIL Contributing Editor Christopher Birch’s upcoming book The Four Seasons of Boat Maintenance—a compendium of lessons learned during his

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