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A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay

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America — Photo: Oswald W. Brierly, published by Ackermann & Co. · Wikimedia Commons · public domain

Champions · America's Cup

America

America was a 19th-century racing yacht and first winner of the America's Cup international sailing trophy.

Builder’s plate

Class: Gaff schooner
Length: 101 ft overall, 89 ft at the waterline
Beam: 22 ft
Builder: William H. Brown
Launched: 3 May 1851

What she won

1851Royal Yacht Squadron regatta around the Isle of Wight53 miles, won by 18 minutes on 22 August; the trophy became the America's Cup
1870America's Cup, New York HarborEntered by the US Navy; finished fourth

Figures from Wikipedia, “America (yacht)”, read 2026-10-02. Something wrong? Write to the editor and it will be checked and corrected.

More champions

Australia II

1983Australia IIFirst challenger to win the America's Cup, ending a 132-year tenure12-metre · 19.21 m overall · Ben LexcenPhoto: CTBOLT · CC BY-SA 3.0

NZL 32

1995NZL 32 Black MagicWon the America's Cup 5–0 off San DiegoInternational America's Cup Class · 24.24 m overallPhoto: Kiwimedia · CC0

Comanche

2015–2019ComancheMonohull 24-hour and transatlantic records; Fastnet, Hobart and Transpac line honoursSupermaxi · 30.5 m · VPLP & Guillaume VerdierPhoto: Billy Black, photographer for Sail · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wild Oats XI

2005–Wild Oats XINine times line honours winner of the Sydney to HobartCanting-keel IRC supermaxi · 30.48 m · Reichel/PughPhoto: JJ Harrison · CC BY-SA 3.0

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