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The 23rd edition of Europe’s longest-running superyacht regatta got started Thursday with the bay off Mallorca’s capital again delivering sparkling racing conditions for The Superyacht Cup Palma. Nilaya got proceedings underway, the 34m dark hulled black sail carbon sloop powering…
The Maritime Executive Dive Bahrain is preparing to sink a 70-meter (230-foot) Boeing 747 to provide a diving attraction for an underwater theme park in the Persian Gulf. The plane, built in 1981, will be the largest aircraft ever to…
Nearly one hundred OK Dinghies from ten countries are descending on Kiel for the 2019 OK Dinghy European Championship, which is being sailed as part of the 125th Kieler Woche. It will one of the biggest fleets in Kiel and…
Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) BERMUDA, June 20, 2019: What’s it like racing offshore with Roy and Gail Greenwald on Cordelia, the overall winner of the 2019 Marion Bermuda Race? In a champagne cork-popping get-together in the cockpit of the 42 foot…
NEW YORK – June 20, 2019 – Today SailGP unveiled a striking trophy by world-renowned trophy maker Thomas Lyte that will be presented to the overall winning national team at the end of Season 1. Regarded as the world’s leading…
NEW YORK – June 20, 2019: The Australia SailGP Team has touched down in the city of New York for the next edition of the exciting new global sailing series, SailGP, taking place June 21-22 (June 22-23 AEST) on the Hudson…
Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) BERMUDA, June 19, 2019: Roy and Gail Greenwald’s Valiant 42 Cordelia has finished first in fleet on corrected time in the 2019 Marion Bermuda Race. She will win the Goslings Founders Trophy. The Greenwalds sail out of…
Porto Cervo, June 19th, 2019. Today was the third day of racing at the Star Class World Championship organized by the YCCS in collaboration with the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association (ISCYRA) and the support of Main Partner Audi…
NEWPORT, RI (June 19, 2019) – Manuka Sports Event Management announced today the seventh edition of the Atlantic Cup. The longest offshore race in the Western Atlantic dedicated to the Class40 will start from Charleston, South Carolina on June 10, 2020 and culminate…
A final surge from Anthony Marchand early this morning has seen the skipper of Groupe Royer-Populaire Secours claim victory in Stage 3 of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro after taking the lead with just 47 miles to go on the…
Danish skipper Nicolai Sehested, Ocean Race sailor and World Match Racing Tour competitor, will be entering the Midsummer Match Cup next week with a strong team of Olympic Gold medallists. The line-up for the inaugural edition of Midsummer Match…
NEW YORK – June 19, 2019 – New Yorkers got a sneak preview of what to expect when SailGP makes its debut on the lower Hudson River this weekend, as all six SailGP teams today hit the racecourse together. Sailing…
Alexis Loison, (Region Normandie), continues to assert his dominance on the shortened 400-nautical mile third stage of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro, having led the fleet for much of the last 48 hours. Along with Gildas Mahe, (Breizh Cola-Equi-Thé), and…
The Maritime Executive The horse latitudes are regions located at about 30 degrees north and south of the equator. These latitudes are characterized by calm winds and little precipitation. It is common in this region of the subtropics for winds…
Porto Cervo, June 18th, 2019. Uncertain conditions at the beginning of the second day at the Star Class World Championship gave way to typical Sardinian breezes later on and the day's racing got underway about an hour late. There are…
Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) BERMUDA, June 18, 2019: Kiwi Spirit was the line honors leader from start to finish in the 2019 Marion Bermuda Race. The Farr 63 finished off St. David’s Lighthouse at 2:27:59 Tuesday. Francis Seldorff’s Kinship, a Baltic 52,…
The Youth Sailing Champions League (YSCL) is set to take place over three days of intense competition from 22 to 24 June. Twenty-one clubs from nine nations, including Australia celebrating its first Sailing Champions League appearance, will be coming to…
It started nearly four years ago pre-SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), and it's quickly becoming an institution with competitors, whose first questions to Townsville Yacht Club (TYC) organisers include, “Is Cape Upstart on again?” Blame it all on a…
A total of 11 events including superyacht regattas, J Class regattas, superyacht fishing competitions and island cruises will entertain superyacht visitors to New Zealand during America’s Cup racing over 2020 and 2021, it was announced today. The events have been…
The Maritime Executive The Panama Canal published a proposal to modify its current tolls structure on Friday. There will now be a 30-day formal consultation period for industry feedback, which will close on July 15, 2019. For the dry bulk…
Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) BERMUDA, June 17, 2019: At 0730 ADT Monday morning Kiwi Spirit, the Line Honours leader of the Marion Bermuda fleet, was 125 nautical miles out from the finish. That’s a little more than 143 statute (land)…
Porto Cervo, June 17th, 2019. The Star Class World Championship is off to a good start with today's race run as scheduled despite light breeze. The Championship, which has returned to Porto Cervo after thirty years, is organized by the…
Less than 24 hours after the start of the 450-nautical mile third stage of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro, Alex Loison, (Region Normandie), is currently leading a breakaway trio which has earned a cushion of 18 miles since they escaped…
The West Australian. By Kate Ryan. Stepping onto his yacht with the ease of a seasoned sailor, you’d never know sailing legend Jon Sanders is turning 80 this year. He knows where everything ison his second home, penned at Royal…
Abell Point Marina is continuing on its path towards ‘cleaner’ living with the most recent development being the signing of a pledge with the Marina Industries Association to fully eliminate single-use plastics from within the marina. The marina has already…
Whatever direction the wind is blowing on Tuesday, August 13, Northerlies will be the flavour of the month for sailors competing in Airlie Beach Race Week. Renowned locally as one of the Whitsundays’ premier venues for food, beverages, service and…
Tasmanian champion SB20 crew, Elliott Noye, Paul McCartney and Edward Snowball, have made an instant impact on the British fleet of SB20 sportsboats, sailing on The Solent off Portsmouth. Sailing McCartney’s Europe-based Porco Rosso, they have won six of the…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 16 June 2019. At the conclusion of a week of inspections and registrations, racing in the 97th edition of the Star World Championship will begin tomorrow, Monday 17 June. The event was last held in Porto Cervo…
Marion MA, June 16, 2019: The 2019 Marion Bermuda Race is shaping up to be a close line honors and handicap race for overall prizes. But with 300 or more miles to go and the Happy Valley/Parking Lot between the fleet and…
French 2012 Olympian Pierre Leboucher, who lies second overall, stole the limelight from local heroes Armel Le Cléach and Jérémie Beyou as the third stage of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro started on their home waters, the Bay of Morlaix…
The Maritime Executive AIS has made it far easier for navigators to identify vessel movements for collision avoidance, and it has made shipping far more transparent by enabling worldwide vessel tracking services. The industry has grown since AIS rolled out…
The Maritime Executive Following the efforts of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, coverage of the world’s ocean floor has now increased from six percent to 15 percent. This is equivalent to around 32 million square kilometers of new bathymetric…
NZ Herald. By: Chelsea Boyle. Dramatic video shows the moment a rescue helicopter crewman is winched into the ocean to save four stricken sailors drifting in a bright red life raft. After hitting the water, the rescuer swims to the life…
The Warren Jones International Youth Regatta will be turning 18 and returning to Perth Waters for the fourth time in 2020. Hosted by the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, 2020's Warren Jones Regatta will be sailed from Monday, 27th through…
A ‘men overboard’ situation has cost the Tasmanian crew of Porco Rosso a potential victory in the SB20 class UK championship on The Solent, off the south coast of England. Both helmsman Elliott Noye and mainsheet hand and boat owner…
The final day of the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019 in Medemblik was a frustrating one as the wind refused to stabilise sufficiently to complete a race, and despite there being wind in the race area, it simply wouldn't stop…
The fleet of 39 Marion Bermuda yachts is on its way to Bermuda and the first start between the classics,Tabor Boy and Spirit of Bermuda, set the pace with an aggressive move by Spirit running down the starting line, crossing…
With Roscoff in full fête mode, the Bay of Morlaix residents and visitors are fully embracing having the 50th La Solitaire Urgo Le Figaro and local heroes such as Armel Le Cléac’h and Jérémie Beyou in town for 10 days….
A third place on the water yesterday for Alex Schaerer’s Maxi 72 Caol Ila R was enough for the Swiss team to clinch the offshore race of the Rolex Giraglia under IRC corrected time by more than an hour from…
Vladimir Krutskikh, from Russia, has won his third Finn World Masters title after the final day of racing at Skovshoved, Denmark, with two more races in great conditions. Mike Maier, from Czech Republic, finishes second with Laurent Hay, from France,…
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