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I awake at four in the morning after eight hours of blissful sleep, the longest period of uninterrupted slumber I have had for a week. Sailing Vessel Zefr has just completed the passage from Thursday Island, Australia to Debut in…
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Boaters and swimmers took to the water this Father's Day weekend, and as the summer boating season ramps up, Coast Guard units and command center personnel responded to a high number of emergencies from New Jersey to…
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is responding to an incident involving the loss of about three shipping containers from the Liberian-flagged container ship, Navios Unite. The ship reported losing the containers overboard in rough weather about 33km south west of…
An extensive air and water search for a 54-year-old man who fell from a sailing boat in waters off Bustard Head which began on Friday has been scaled back. The boat is believed to have been en route from Gladstone…
A man will reappear in court today after he was allegedly found hiding in the air-conditioning vent of a bulk carrier while attempting to leave the country. About 10.30am on Saturday (20 June 2020), a large vessel, headed for Newcastle,…
Originally we had planned to run the Clean Up Flotilla in Phuket, however current travel restrictions means we have moved this years Flotilla to the Whitsundays, where it all started for Ocean Crusaders. As a skipper in the Whistundays working…
In less time than it takes to fly from Melbourne to Airlie Beach you can fly to New Caledonia and practice your school day French, experience French cuisine and Pacific Island culture. The dictionary defines a rally as a call…
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard successfully rescued four mariners aboard the overdue sailing vessel SS Chuckahui Kai, approximately 74-miles south of Oahu, Tuesday. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Berry (WPC 1124) evacuated the four mariners and a…
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard is searching for the overdue private sailing vessel SS Chuckahui Kai between Oahu and Maui, Monday. Crews aboard an Air Station Barbers Point HC-130 Hercules plane, the Cutter Oliver Berry (WPC 1124), Cutter Kittiwake (WPB…
Mastercard tell us certain things are priceless and some things may well be. Uplifting experiences from the benefits of privilege seems to be the thrust of that campaign, but we are talking about boats and there is nothing priceless about…
The Panama canal could be described as the world’s biggest shortcut, or the world’s shortest big cut. For circumnavigators on the popular tradewind route from east to west, fondly described as the ‘barefoot route’ or ‘coconut milk run’, it provides…
KODIAK, Alaska – Coast Guard Seventeenth District command center personnel coordinated efforts with motor vessel President Eisenhower to rescue a 67-year-old man from his disabled and adrift 38-foot sailing vessel Miss Lilly, located roughly 500 nautical miles south-southwest of Dutch…
The US Coast Guard in California had a busy few days! SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The Coast Guard and partner agencies responded to a report of an explosion aboard a vessel near Avalon Saturday. At approximately 10:55 a.m., Coast Guard…
By Dana Goward 06-03-2020 05:21:45 www.maritime-executive.com The locations of twelve ships as reported by their Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) were thousands of miles in error. Most were displayed as circling an area northwest of San Francisco according to the environmental…
Department of Transport and Main Roads Department of Maritime Safety Queensland NOTICE TO MARINERS 191 of 2020 Issued by Brisbane Issued by Brisbane Maritime Region on 1 June 2020 Area: Brisbane pilotage area Locality: Mooloolah River Bar Activity: Aid to…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has installed six marine-cleaning SeaBin devices around the club premises in Rushcutters Bay, reaffirming the club’s commitment to the environment. The project – part of the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment’s, Waste…
Charges have been laid against the master of the APL England, which lost about 50 containers overboard off Sydney on Sunday. This is the result of work between AMSA, the Queensland Police and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecution. The…
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The US Coast Guard rescued a 56-year-old man after his sailboat became disabled and aground near Sapelo Sound, Sunday. A Coast Guard Air Station Savannah MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew arrived on scene, hoisted the man and transported him to…
By The Maritime Executive 05-26-2020 01:32:11 Australian authorities boarded the container ship APL England in the Port of Brisbane anchorage following an incident in heavy seas where the Singapore-flagged vessel briefly lost propulsion and rolled violently causing approximately 40 containers…
By The Maritime Executive 05-25-2020 08:23:41 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting a busy Atlantic hurricane season in 2020 in its just released forecasts. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service is forecasting…
Just around midnight on Friday 22 May, the UK coastguard at Holyhead received a 999 mobile phone call from a yacht with two people on board, stating they had electrical failure and required assistance. The phone call ended without an…
By The Maritime Executive 05-20-2020 08:51:59 In the ongoing battles over the RMS Titanic and its wreck site, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has issued an order providing RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST) the…
PORTLAND, Ore. – The suspect apprehended in a historic Coast Guard drug seizure off the Oregon coast in 2019 was sentenced to prison today. John Philip Stirling, 66, a Canadian citizen, was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison and…
Two-time America’s Cup winner, Peter Isler and veteran sailing meteorologist, Chris Bedford are proud to announce the opening of their new online educational venture, “Marine Weather University” (MWU). Designed to help sailors and boaters take their weather education to the…
SAN FRANCISCO — The Coast Guard rescued three people from a disabled sailboat in Pillar Point Harbor, Wednesday morning. The owner of the 30-foot sailboat, Freedom, contacted Coast Guard Sector San Francisco command center at approximately 11 p.m., Tuesday via…
The OCC has continued to liaise with various governments, diplomats, marine trade associations, rally organisers and OCC port officers in the hope of facilitating at a minimum transit under quarantine and/or ports of refuge for the forthcoming South Pacific cyclone…
By Trevor Joyce The Corona virus pandemic derailed our inaugural Mediterranean Escapade but the event is now set to proceed in 2021. Timed for the same late spring dates and with the same unique combination – the Greek Islands of…
Majorca Daily Bulletin Two people and a dog had to be rescued from an 8-metre sailboat that was sinking fast, 30 miles south of Cap Blanc, in Llucmajor. The 112 Emergency Services were called at dawn and Salvamento Marítimo launched…
ABC News A body was found after an empty yacht ran aground at Mooloolaba Beach. Mike Middleton from Mooloolaba Coastguard said residents reported seeing someone fall from the boat near Maroochydore. “Some people from a resort are believed to have seen…
Sausalito, CA – Ocean Voyages Institute, a nonprofit organization, announced today that it has successfully removed more than 40 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the area known as the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, or more commonly…
While we all appreciate that health department bureaucrats are trying to make good decisions in a difficult and ever-changing environment, there are times when those decisions defy logic. One such situation regards bareboat charters. In the Whitsundays, charter companies were…
The NSW State Government says it has plans to revitalise Blackwattle Bay, deliver new open spaces and return inaccessible parts of Sydney Harbour to the public for the first time in decades. The government has released three precinct plan scenarios…
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) led operation to recover containers lost from the YM Efficiency off the NSW coast is complete. On Friday afternoon (8 May) the vessel MV Pride returned to Port of Newcastle for the final time…
SAN FRANCISCO — The Coast Guard cited the operator of a 25-foot sailboat in the San Francisco Bay Area Thursday for negligent operations. The sailboat crossed in front of the bow of a 550-foot tank ship on April 18 while transiting…
Stuff.co.nz A much-loved postwar ketch that was restored and brought to New Zealand has sunk to the bottom of Wellington’s Clyde Quay marina. Just the pole masts of the 37 foot (11.2m) ketch are visible above the water, as the…
Devon, UK, 5 May 2020 – The cruising community at large is an extraordinarily supportive community at the best of times, and the Ocean Cruising Club (OCC) represents some of the most experienced and helpful members of that cruising community….
Marine Notice 03/2020 – Shutdown of AMSA’s differential global positioning system (DGPS) service This marine notice informs vessel owners, operators and masters of the shutdown of AMSA’s radiobeacon differential global positioning system (DGPS) service from 1 July 2020. AMSA established…
JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Coast Guard received multiple reports of false distress communications in various parts of Southeast Alaska recently, putting mariner's lives at risk. Coast Guard Investigative Service is working with the Juneau Police Department to investigate these…
Police continued searching this morning for a man believed to be missing in Port Douglas. The 59-year-old man was reported missing by a family member on Friday, May 1. The man lives on a yacht in the Dickson Inlet and…
By Trevor Joyce The mid-point on our journey along the west coast of Turkey, modern day Kusadasi, is unfortunately dominated by modern day tourism and is not really very pretty. The harbour can handle four or five cruise ships at…
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