Yachting World

125 YEARS OF AMAZING SAILING

Yachting World is celebrating its 125 birthday and our place as the world’s oldest yachting magazine. That world was a profoundly different one. When we were first published in 1894, Queen Victoria was on the throne and Gladstone was prime minister.

The steam turbine was not yet developed and the first radio message by Marconi still four years away. You could buy Coca-Cola in bottles and the Olympics was being established on a four-yearly cycle, but women still

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