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Happy birthday, Jeanne Socrates! The circumnavigator and record holder turns 80 – and is already preparing her next cruise.
The Indian Navy officer’s yacht wrecked in the 2018 Golden Globe Race. Now he gets back through the Southern Ocean – and India is looking at him.
Australian adventurer Don McIntyre is organising the Golden Globe Race for the second time – after all, the retro race is unique.
🇬🇧 Jean-Jacques Savin, the French Diogenes on the sea, is no longer alive. He died at 75 while trying to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat.
🇬🇧 float was launched exactly five years ago. Here is how the magazine has started and grown. And who is in the float crew today.
🇬🇧 The young french Hynova shipyard plans to build a first series of fuel cell boats. We met the founder Chloé Zaied.
🇬🇧 The world’s largest boat show will take place, we hear from Düsseldorf. The have just published the rules for boot 2022.
🇬🇧 At the Best of Boats Award, the best new motorboats of 2021 were honored – for the first time live on stage again.
🇬🇧 The Far East S\V 14 is a sailing boat for disabled and elderly people. But our test on the Alster shows: Everyone can have fun with this nippy keelboat!
🇬🇧 The book about Sebastian Kummer’s captivity on sea climbed to No. 1 in sailing books sales. Now, the English version is on the market.
🇬🇧 At the Free Spirit Sailing school on the Croatian island Murter life and sailing go along – somewhat different as usual.
🇬🇧 Mixed offshore sailing will not be an Olympic event in 2024. Dee Caffari was excited about the new sailing discipline – as many others are.
🇬🇧 Rising sailor Annika Möslein is the first German to participate in the Magenta Project mentoring programme. In The Ocean Race Europe, she sails for Austria.
🇬🇧 The Magenta Project’s mentoring program nurtures female sailors worldwide.
🇬🇧 Offshore Team Germany’s new navigator is Vendee Globe finisher Benjamin Dutreux. First start will be the Ocean Race Europe.
🇬🇧 Six time circumnavigator Dee Caffari talks with the anchor of the international Vendée Globe show, Andi Robertson, about 116 days of live reporting.
🇬🇧 The Vendée Globe 2020 ends with Ari Huusela. His relaxed finish is typically Finnish – like Tapio Lehtinen was in the Golden Globe Race.
🇬🇧 Clarisse Cremer talks about her race and her ambitions as the fastest woman to sail solo around the world.
🇬🇧 After 87 days, Clarisse Cremer finishes 12th and makes history as the fastest woman to sail around the world.
🇬🇧 The Vendée Globe 2020/21 has broken with many certainties of previous regattas. We recap 80 days in a state of emergency.
🇬🇧 The Vendée Globe is on the verge of a sensation. Will Boris Herrmann be the first non french sailor to reach the podium?
🇬🇧 Six sailors compete to win the Vendee Globe. Who is best prepared and will get the best wind?
🇬🇧 Nine boats are in a tight race in the South Atlantic at the Vendée Globe. While Charlie Dalin is leading, Beyou and Tripon are catching up.
🇬🇧 With her 20-year-old Medallia, Briton Pip Hare is making an exciting race at the Vendée Globe. After reparing her rudder she is now on her way to Kap Horn.
🇬🇧 For the leading sailors of the Vendée Globe, it’s now a new year, a new ocean – off Cape Horn, the last and wildest landmark to pass.
🇬🇧 How do you spend Christmas as a solo circumnavigator? Dee Caffari knows, she has experienced it four times.
🇬🇧 For three weeks, Charlie Dalin led the regatta field. It is the first Vendée Globe of the top young sailor.
🇬🇧 Miranda Merron is competing for the first time at the Vendée Globe. The Briton has worked her entire sailing career towards this race.
🇬🇧 The Australian sailing couple Jennifer and Corrie Schutte gets into distress off Malta – and has to abandon its boat. Scenes of a dramatic rescue, part 2
🇬🇧 The Australian sailing couple Jennifer and Corrie Schutte gets into distress off Malta – and has to abandon its boat. Scenes of a dramatic rescue.
🇬🇧 It’s up and down for Alex Thomson at the Vendée Globe: First the Brit led, then he had to pause. Now he is catching up.
🇬🇧 Sam Davies is a fighter who plays at the top of the Vendée Globe. Dee Caffari has already sailed the Volvo Ocean Race with her.
🇬🇧 Circumnavigator Dee Caffari knows how the 33 Vendée Globe sailors feel directly before the start.
🇬🇧 Circumnavigator Dee Caffari comments the Vendée Globe for float. Here is her first assessment.
🇬🇧 What started as a routine sailboat transfer trip, turned out to be the discovery of slowness – as Corona fear locked down Madeira.
🇬🇧 The Oceanis series is one of the most successful yachts in the world. Our test of the Oceanis 46.1 on the Baltic Sea proves why.
🇬🇧 The autumnal ARC follows the Trade winds. But those who expect guaranteed bikini sailing can be wrong, the ten-year statistics show.
🇬🇧 Longer range, higher speed and a silk smooth ride. This is how the Swedish foiling Candela Seven is changing electric boating.
🇬🇧 In Helsinki boats can be shared. From 2020 the web platform Skipperi wants to expand internationally – with more than 100 own boats.
🇬🇧 There are many forums for boaters. The website noforeignland.con goes one step further as a social network for liveaboards.
🇬🇧 With the new Silver Tiger the Finnish shipyard launches the smallest Z series model – with the new innovative hull design from Petestep.
🇬🇧 Tutima is the first German women’s sailing crew to successfully cross the finish line in the Fastnet Race.
🇬🇧 The six-time circumnavigator Dee Caffari has, exclusively on float, a personal message for Greta Thunberg.
🇬🇧 10 sailors, five continents, one port in Turkey – Jens Brambusch tells the stories of sailing dropouts.
🇬🇧 Diogenes in interview with float. We spoke personally to Jean-Jacques Savin today.
🇬🇧 Jean-Jacques Savin, who crosses the Atlantic in a wooden barrel, barely escaped a collision.
🇬🇧 Jaimie Monahan is an extreme swimmer in icy waters – from Siberia to Antarctica.
🇬🇧 Eight years ago, the 16-year-old circumnavigator Abby Sunderland got into distress in the Indian Ocean. Now her boat has been found off Australia.
