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

Finally. The September 2025 issue of the Sailing Newspaper (issue #556, from 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 you can find in the new September issue of the Sailing Newspaper!

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

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The Hit Parade of Boats 2026!

From 2.30 m to 38.98 m, rank the 50 most viewed boats on our channels. Here are your favorite newly launched, upcoming, bestselling boats to watch at boat shows.

How young people fly according to Rebecca

This is the path to becoming a young flying sailor today according to the recipe of a 19-year-old namely:

1. LEARN TO SAIL all-around, from a young age: in Optimist drift boats, on any boat
2. LEARN TO FLY ON WATER in boats such as Waszp, Moth, iQFOiL, Switch or in disciplines such as kite foil and wing foil and join nascent “foiling academies”
3. ARRIVING TO THE MAXIMUM EXPRESSION OF SAILING OF THE MOMENT i.e. the SailGP and the America’s Cup

Nowcasting aka the forecast that saves you

Sail safe by knowing how to forecast the weather at sea in real time, reading everything around your boat, using the technology at your disposal. Welcome to the era of “nowcasting,” which is becoming increasingly strategic in managing safety on board especially in summer when sailing for extended periods of time.

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Sardinia as you’ve never seen it

Even at the height of summer when nautical “traffic” is at its peak, just spending a night at anchor is enough to enjoy the otherworldly beauty of the Mediterranean’s oldest and most fascinating island.

The Invasion of the Ultrawide

The evolution of chartplotters has transformed planks, with increasingly larger multifunction screens, similar to the XXL displays in modern cars. Goodbye buttons: the future points to intuitive interfaces inspired by tablets and smartphones, with increasingly full integration of home automation and onboard systems as well.

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Dufour 48 – The true taste of sailing

Lots of comfort, a state-of-the-art hybrid propulsion and also the pleasure of sailing, really, under sail. The new Dufour 48 by Umberto Felci is an intriguing and modern pure cruising machine.

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.

In practice – The mystery (revealed) of the four sails

Why are there so many sails on racing boats today? It is explained to you – in simple wordsby “prof.” Elio Somaschini, starting with the biplanes of World War I.

Giovanni Pomati – My passion. My work

At 17 he went to Newport to watch the America’s Cup for pure enthusiast’s pleasure. At 40, he finally gets his first boat.
But he never thought he would make his passion a job. Giovanni Pomati, CEO of Nautor Swan tells his story: from his beginnings as a sailor, from the years spent looking for the right Swan, to the challenge he faced when, after a 30-year career at Pirelli, he decided to put himself on the line by relaunching a ‘sailing icon. And of future strategies after Nautor joined the Sanlorenzo Group.

Boating protected from the sun

How to best protect your skin, face, and eyes from UV rays when you’re boating. Our sunburn guide to prevent the danger of sunstroke, eye injury, and photoaging: what are the right hats, goggles, sunscreens, and after-sun products to enjoy the sun without risk. From head to toe.

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

• The case of the summer – VHF: Easy to use, impossible to be in compliance
• “The best 3,000 miles of our lives from Sweden to the Mediterranean.”
• All boats are beautiful, new or refurbished
• Hello Silvano, visionary in an ordinary world
• Tuscany “to taste”
• Barcolana 57: the regatta that embraces the entire region
• Electric: now or never!
• In Corsica and Sardinia, berths are booked with a click
• Naples, “war” at home (and on the web) over the America’s Cup
• VELA Cup Procida and Capo d’Orlando: all the details
• The regattas of the month

And much, much more!

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