What you can find in the November 2025 issue of the Journal of Sailing

Finally. The November 2025 issue of the Sailing Newspaper (issue 558, from way back in 1975!) is on newsstands and digitally by downloading our free app(here if you have iOS, here for Android). We tell you about it in advance!

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We tell you below about the top 10 contents found in the new November issue of the Sailing Newspaper!

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Top accessories – Your boat deserves the best!

We scoured the accessories market among trade shows, ship-chandlers and docks, hunting for the best new products to upgrade your boat. We have selected for you 83 “top” products from Italian and foreign companies. We present them to you in 20 pages divided category by category. And we explain why they are worth having on board.

Hello Wally – Interview with Luca Bassani

Luca Bassani who reinvented sailing boats after 30 years is no longer “Mr. Wally.” But he doesn’t stop inventing the future: between mooring islands instead of harbors, China, houses, foils, regrets, celebrities, sailors vs. motorists, catamarans, places of the heart, digital vs. analog sailors. And do you know how the name Wally came about?

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What you can find in the October 2025 issue of the Journal of Sailing

Boats of the month

• ClubSwan 28
• Lagoon 38
• CNB62
• ICE 64 Explorer
• Swan 73
• YYachts Y7
• Bluewater 56
• DolceVela
• Leopard 52
• Hallberg-Rassy 370
• Hooded Ark 100
• Grand Soleil 80 LC
• Italy Yachts 16.98

The 11-meter boat segment is making a comeback with the all-Italian pairing consisting of the historic Cantiere Zuanelli and archistar studio Felci Yacht Design. We reveal how the new Z36, which will soon be in the water, is being born.

Blue party on the French Riviera

Italian boats were the absolute stars at Les Voiles de Saint Tropez, the big sailing festival where everyone wants to be. Here are their stories among maxis, “modern” boats and vintage boats.

DIY – Infallible weather in 10 moves

In ten points, we explain with the help of Meteomed meteorologist Riccardo Ravagnan the key concepts you need to follow to transform yourself into knowledgeable, responsible and competent observers who can predict what the weather will do around your boat.

VELA Cup Procida / Chronicle of an end-of-summer party

The charge of (nearly) 100 VELA Cup entrants overwhelmed the island of Procida with enthusiasm. On an autumn weekend with summer temperatures, so many boats took to the water to compete. Here’s the story.

VELA Cup Capo d’Orlando / Seawolves at Capo d’Orlando

Wind, clear skies and warm temperatures were the three ingredients that turned the VELA Cup in Capo d’Orlando into an explosive cocktail. The circuit, this year, could not have ended in a better way.

Many Thanks – The great excellences of the sailing world tell their stories and reveal their projects

Continued in this issue is the tribute to the companies and people who have made Il Giornale della Vela great over the past 50 years allowing it to be born, grow, and become great up to this historic half-century anniversary. In these pages you will find an important contribution to the knowledge of the multifaceted world of sailing that allows us all to go to sea, in all forms and contexts.

The regattas of the month

All the latest news and results from Italian and international race courses.

VELA Cup Rating – On a level playing field

We finally reveal what’s behind the system that allows for compensated time rankings, without certificates, at all the regattas of the just-concluded VELA Cup circuit. Telling you how it works is Roberto Puccetti, national coordinator ACSI Sailing sector, who developed it.

What else you can find in the November 2025 issue of the Sailing Journal

• The French love boating. Italians less so
• 1,000,000 times thank you! – The total audience of the GdV
• Responsible for your passion
• “Float!” The beautiful story of the Barbamasu
• The Value of Classic Boats
• Marina and charter: a strategic alliance for the future of Italian boating
• In Lazio, seven new ports and 4,000 berths. But when?
• Captaincies, make the skippers work!
• “I who do not sail but love sailing.”
• Old boat makes good board
• If the great photographer is a great sailor

And much, much more!

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