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We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times. This month Tracy Edwards nominates The Swan 65

Yachting Monthly 0shares 50-knot squalls, lightning and wind holes meant crossing the Atlantic with climate activist Greta Thunberg was far from plain sailing for Nikki Henderson Svante and Greta Thunberg on deck with Nikki at the helm, Riley, Elayna and baby Lenny of Sailing La Vagabonde YouTube fame. Credit: Sailing La Vagabonde Atlantic challenges with Greta Thunberg ‘There is a feeling on board that we are ab out to achieve something special. We have made the impossible possible,’ I blogged, when we were two days out of Lisbon. Delivering Greta Thunberg ac...

ALL AT SEA – Advertisement – As the movie Maiden sailed through the world of ceremonies, sweeping up awards and accolades, the film’s subject was on a globe-trotting tour garnering a different kind of attention on the water. Designed by Bruce Farr, built in 1979 for the Swiss Ocean Racing Club, the 58’ sloop circled the world during two grueling races before landing in the imagination and possession of Tracy Edwards. The movie begins at that juncture.  Spoiler alert…Edwards defied all odds by grueling through a multi year fundraising and refit, renamed the vessel Maiden, and ulti...