Best Boat Nominees 2025

SAIL magazine presents ten nominees for its 2025 Best Boats Awards:

The class of 2025 is shaping up to be an intriguing mix, and while the push continues toward greater interior volume, maximum comfort, and easy sailhandling, there’s encouraging emphasis on performance characteristics making it easier for sailors to do more sailing and less motoring, especially in lighter air.

This year’s nominees also reveal a steady trend offering electric propulsion options, although most stick with traditional diesel as the standard for now. We also appreciate how, even in what can at first glance seem like a somewhat homogenous set of choices when walking the docks, there’s always much more than meets the eye if you care to expand your view.

Whether a design is an energizing combination of traditional lines and leading-edge composite build, is pushing the performance and energy autonomy envelope, or is using a clever new thought process to get more people on the water, there is plenty of diversity to go around. – Full report