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The Maritime Executive. By Noel Tarrazona Coast Guard officers from over 30 countries agreed to establish inter-regional collaborations to address the rising threats of piracy and marine pollution during the Coast Guard Global Summit held in Tokyo last week. The…
As several teams have re-emerged from Stealth Mode, the leader board is looking a little clearer and Sanya Serenity Coast remains in the lead. More than half the teams in the fleet have now employed their ‘invisibility cloaks’ during Race…
Arica, Chile: on a lonely stretch of desert beach in the extreme north of Chile, a reed-raft is taking shape. It has no rudder, uses eucalyptus and bamboo for the masts and cabins, rope made from native agave plants, and…
(Split, Croatia) – Fears of wind coming from all directions on the second day of ‘Finals’ at the Laser Standard Men’s World Championships were unfounded when a westerly breeze developed just after noon. All three fleets were sent afloat to…
Sweden’s Martin Strömberg, a three-time race veteran and winner from the 2011-12 edition, is joining skipper Dee Caffari’s Turn the Tide on Plastic team for the Volvo Ocean Race. Strömberg, who will be a watch captain, helmsman and trimmer, adds…
Tasmanian sailors took to southern coastal river waters over the weekend, braving westerly winds gusting to 30 knots, chilling rain squalls and overnight night temperature down into single figures to the traditional Pipe Opener Series. The Pipe Opener, the traditional…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, farewelled one of Pittwater and Sydney’s all-time great sailors and much loved club Life Member, Jack Gale, on Thursday 14th September 2017. With close to 400 people in attendance, including America’s Cup Skipper, James…
(Split, Croatia) – The weather changed again for the first day of Final Series racing in the Laser Standard Men's World Championship in Split, Croatia. The start of racing was delayed to wait for an impressive electric storm with golf…
Fareast Yachts Australia is organising its first 28R championship. Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club is hosting the event on 4-5 November. Like to give the 28R a try? there will be crew opportunities and Fareast has a brand new 28R…
New Zealand yacht Rikki is confirmed for the Pittwater to Paradise Race and the bright red Reichel-Pugh 42 is due to arrive in Pittwater mid-December, well in time for the single line start on January 2, 2018. Owner Ray Haslar…
Newport, Rhode Island: The morning dawned with dense fog and little breeze on Narragansett Bay, but by mid-afternoon the sky had cleared and the same could be said of any ambiguity regarding which was the best team at the 2017…
The final day of qualifiers in Split, Croatia delivered the promised 20-knot south-easterly wind, gusting up to 27 knots, lending itself to great surfing conditions downwind with a tough workout upwind. If there were any doubts that Laser sailing is…
Outstanding conditions delivered a record-breaking run to win the treble for Andy Kearnan/Peter Wrigley’s Koa in the Flinders Islet Race 2 of the CYCA’s Blue Water Pointscore this weekend. Taking 18 minutes off the 63ft Loki’s record from 2010, Koa,…
Winds ranging from 5 knots to 27 knots provided a thorough test for competitors at this year's Coutts Quarter Ton Cup, with few teams able to maintain a consistent performance across such a wide range of conditions, so for most,…
Split, Croatia: Following a delayed start, a single race was held on the second day of the 2017 Laser Standard Men’s World Championship – and it was worth waiting for. The race committee expected light wind today, so last night…
Newport, Rhode Island: Day 4 of the 2017 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup was the sort of day when things can and did go wrong, but the top two from the USA and Australia held strong. The racing…
(Split, Croatia) – At the opening press conference, in Split, Croatia, the 2016 Olympic Gold and Silver medal winners predicted a tough championship with any one of 30 sailors capable of scoring a top five place in the 147 strong…
Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club in Western Australia hosted a great day out for the Etchells Class. Thirty young sailors from the RFBYC Sailing Institute were invited to participate in a regatta with the Swan River Etchells Fleet last weekend….
After thousands of nautical miles sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, Visit Seattle, Sanya Serenity Coast, and Unicef again hold first, second, and third position on the leader board. For some, the finish is almost in sight, and for others, the…
14 September 2017 – Cowes, UK – The second day of the Coutts Quarter Ton Cup delivered spectacular, though challenging, racing on a glorious day that saw three different race winners and six boats scoring at least one podium result….
The Maritime Herald, posted by Svilen Petrov The “Great Passion” with two Germans, aged 63 and 67, grounded on rocks off Certraro in the evening of Sep 11, 2017, at 10.30 p.m. They had departed from the Marina di Camerota (Salerno)…
During a press conference this Wednesday at the Paris headquarters of the Macif Group, François Gabart and his sponsor talked about his next competitive target: to try to beat the single-handed round the world record on a multihull (currently held…
ZENDA, Wis. (Sept. 13, 2017) — Melges Performance Sailboats has announced the addition of a new class to the Melges line: The IC37, a 37-foot modern race boat. Exclusively for Group 1 sailors, the strict one-design class will be simple…
By Patrick Billings of The Mercury. A BATTERY has exploded inside the iconic Hobart tall ship the Windeward Bound. Emergency services were called to the scene early this afternoon to render assistance to the 33m vessel. A Tasmania Fire Service…
Doyle Sails has introduced the latest addition to their performance cruising and racing range, DELTA. Doyle says Delta's high-quality fibre options and layouts offer a modern alternative to the traditional panelled sail construction. Utilizing the same plant and technology as their premier product Stratis,…
SYDNEY. Saturday morning will see a fleet of 23 yachts line up on Sydney Harbour for the start of Race 2 of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Pointscore (BWPS), the Flinders Islet Race. The 92-nautical mile offshore…
It’s all hands on deck in Perth as preparations are put in place for the 2017 Club Marine Perth International Boat Show, which is on next weekend. The Show is being built in Elizabeth Quay, with works underway now to…
La Rochelle (FRA), 12 September 2017 – Simon Koster will take the start of the Mini Transat – La Boulangère on 1 October 2017, his third participation. The 29-year-old Swiss sailor has worked relentlessly for two years: in 2015, he came…
The two female skippers continue to dominate the leader board with the teams led by Nikki Henderson and Wendy Tuck in the top two positions as they begin the first Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint of the Clipper 2017-18 Race. Visit…
The Volvo Ocean Race is coming to Melbourne over the Christmas/New Year’s period this year and big crowds are expected at Docklands during this time. Race organisers will create a race village and dockside experience complete with bars, restaurants, entertainment,…
By Anthony Joseph in The Daily Mail. A boat owner, who borrowed a friend's Land Rover to launch his vessel, ended up sinking the car in the harbour. The man was using the £10,000 Land Rover Discovery to reverse a…
By Angela Daniels of The Herald Live. Left with nothing but a borrowed pair of shorts, a T-shirt and a phone, a Port Elizabeth woman and her husband are now trapped on a Caribbean island after narrowly escaping Hurricane Irma…
Today marks a third day at the top of the leader board for Visit Seattle, which is followed closely by Sanya Serenity Coast and Unicef in second and third place respectively as teams re-acclimatise to the angled upwind tropics sailing…
From the closest and most exciting finish to a world championship Medal Race in the Olympic history of the multihull class, Great Britain’s Ben Saxton and Katie Dabson pipped Spanish rivals Fernando Echavarri and Tara Pacheco, foiling at full speed…
Martin Hill and his crew of Andrew Palfrey, David Chapman and Sasha Ryan are spearheading an Australian assault on the 2017 Etchells World Championship to be held in San Francisco from 22 to 30 September and hosted by the San…
The New Zealand Mutlihull Yacht Club has teamed up with 36° Brokers and PIC Insurance Brokers to offer an alternative Coastal Classic for those wanting a more relaxed kind of journey north The all new Cruising Rally is aimed at…
Cool spring easterlies and a sparkling Sydney Harbour were the back-drop to the final day of the MC38 Winter Series act four, which went to the dominant Ginger team led by the class Godfather, Leslie Green. “We had a very…
Visit Seattle remains on top of the leader board for a second consecutive day, leading the Clipper Race fleet over the Equator and into the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. It’s a big moment for the teams, as the…
Max Salminen, from Sweden, has secured his first Finn world title as the 2017 Opel Finn Gold Cup closes at Balatonföldvár with an extremely close and intense medal race in light winds. Jonathan Lobert, from France took the silver while…
By Nikolay Torkin in The Maritime Bulletin. Russian yacht NADEZHDA was seized by North Korean Coast Guard boat in Japan sea at around 1100 Vladivostok time (Moscow time + 7 hrs) Sep 10, for reasons unknown. Another yacht is missing,…
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