For cruising sailors the annual Sailors’ Spash and Banderas Bay Blast are great fun without the pressure of serious racing.
Merlin finishing the 1977 Transpac, captured by an unknown photographer.
© Wizard Yachts, Ltd.
The first week of the 12th Transat Jacques Vabre was full of doom and gloom; two autumn gales led the way to a flipped maxi-tri, several broken boats, a half-sunk Hugo Boss, and several sailors enduring dramatic helicopter rescues at sea.
