2025 Boat of the Year: The Runner Ups
This year’s Boat of the Year testing showcased innovation, versatility and performance across every corner of the sailing spectrum. Here’s 2025’s runner-ups.
This year’s Boat of the Year testing showcased innovation, versatility and performance across every corner of the sailing spectrum. Here’s 2025’s runner-ups.
For turning corners with the twilight fleet and turning heads on the harbor cruise, there’s the Saffier 24 Lite.
One up, two up, this foiler worked perfectly. Simple design, high quality build and no snorkel required.
This luxury do-it-all trimaran takes short-handed multihull sailing to a better place.
Melges adds a triple-hander to their lineup for the high-performance sailing family.
With its ClubSwan 28, Nautor Swan crams a bunch of grand-prix sophistication into a pint-sized sportboat.
The 15-foot VX Two by Mackay Boats delivers high-performance sailing and simple design for intermediate doublehanded crews.
The beauty of the new J/7 keelboat is the sophistication hidden behind its simplicity and versatility.
The founders of Storm Marine and the Storm 18 keelboat have delivered a package they say will meet the demands of many.
Information about entering the Sailing World’s Boat of the Year 2025 awards.
Looking back over previous editions of Boat of the Year, we’re comforted know the judges know how to pick ’em.
Xquisite Yachts’ Sportcat 30 is designed to train new big-catamaran owners, but as a one-design fleet, the lightweight and simple cat would be a blast. Here’s the details on this nominee for Sailing World’s 2024 Boat of the Year.
This year’s Boat of the Year testing showcased innovation, versatility and performance across every corner of the sailing spectrum. Here’s 2025’s runner-ups.
For turning corners with the twilight fleet and turning heads on the harbor cruise, there’s the Saffier 24 Lite.
One up, two up, this foiler worked perfectly. Simple design, high quality build and no snorkel required.
This luxury do-it-all trimaran takes short-handed multihull sailing to a better place.
Melges adds a triple-hander to their lineup for the high-performance sailing family.
With its ClubSwan 28, Nautor Swan crams a bunch of grand-prix sophistication into a pint-sized sportboat.
The 15-foot VX Two by Mackay Boats delivers high-performance sailing and simple design for intermediate doublehanded crews.
The beauty of the new J/7 keelboat is the sophistication hidden behind its simplicity and versatility.
The founders of Storm Marine and the Storm 18 keelboat have delivered a package they say will meet the demands of many.
Information about entering the Sailing World’s Boat of the Year 2025 awards.
Looking back over previous editions of Boat of the Year, we’re comforted know the judges know how to pick ’em.
Xquisite Yachts’ Sportcat 30 is designed to train new big-catamaran owners, but as a one-design fleet, the lightweight and simple cat would be a blast. Here’s the details on this nominee for Sailing World’s 2024 Boat of the Year.
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