We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times. British offshore racer Brian Thompson nominates MOD70 Phaedo. I’d choose the MOD70 without too much doubt because the boat is so beautifully thought out. It is a great combination of speed, safety (even though four of them have capsized!) and reliability. Of the seven that were built, I have sailed four of them, for hundreds of thousands of miles. They were born from th

Chris Nicholson nominates the Volvo Open 70, Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand, as his Coolest Yacht. This is the yacht he skippered to 2nd place in the 2011/12 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, setting a new 24-hour monohull record of 565 miles along the way... “I’ve been fortunate to race on board and race against a great many boats I could nominate for my Coolest Yacht, but for me it would have to be the Volvo Open 70. And I if I had to narrow it down to one boat, it wo

The Cape 31 is a one-design yacht originally created for racing in South Africa, which has rapidly expanded with fleets around the world. Andy Rice chats to David Swete and Reports.

Since yachts first raced, getting a favorable rating for your race-boat has been an indulgence, verging on obsession, for many owners, designers, and crew. Using the Volvo Open 70 as an example, we talked with Philippe Oulhen of the Juan-K Design office. The VO 70 was used for three Volvo Round the World Races from 2005 to 2012. Juan Kouyoumdjian designed the three winners in a row, ABN Amro 1, skippered by Mike Sanderson, won the 2005-2006 edition, then Ericsson 4 in 2007-20

JPK 1180 Django Trucking from King Marine Racingyachts.com were involved from start to finish in the sale of the JPK 1180 'Django'. We listed her following her Admiral's Cup Campaign, found her a new owner, flew to Valencia with the prospective owner to 'check her out' and then organised trucking and logistics to bring her to her new home where we will be waiting for her arrival. We are more then 'just brokers' and will continue to support her new owner with our vast knowled

Success as racingyachts.com sold the 2012 Botin TP 52 Imagine within a week of listing her. Having met the sellers while racing against 'Imagine' during the 2025 Admiral's Cup, we had a buyer already lined up for this fantastic racing machine and she is now on a truck heading south from the North of Germany.

EARLYBIRD is the latest team to join the Cape 31 Family and she set sail for an epic maiden Cape Town send 🚀 . Check out the video to see a Cape 31 doing what she was designed to do.

Following the sale of 'Gallivanter', racingyachts.com organised a full winch package upgrade, graphics, painting of keel/prod and trucking of the by-now 'Gecko d'or' to Palma, where she hit the ground running with her new crew and finished 6th out of 25 boats in the Cape 31 Europeans.

Racingyachts.com logo Following the sale of nearly 100 new and used Cape 31's, The 31 North Group have launched the website racingyachts.com which will see them take all of their knowledge, expertise and values into the global racing yacht sales market. The Racing Yachts Team will be made up of experts in their fields and will offer intimate knowledge of the boats that they will list.