The Contest Winner, 42CS

The new 42CS from Contest Yachts clearly stands out from the crowd. 

When CW’s Boat of the Year judges sat down last fall and summed up their thoughts about the contest 42CS they’d just taken for a spin following the U.S. sailboat show in Annapolis, Maryland, they grasped at superlatives to describe its build quality, hardware and, most important, sailing  performance. Though they each used their own terms to extoll the boat’s virtues — and it has many — in the end they settled on two very simple phrases: Best Midsize cruiser, 41-45 feet, and Import Boat of the Year.