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On Monday 27 July, Border Restrictions Direction (No 9) came into effect. All people entering Queensland must complete a Queensland Border Declaration Pass to cross the border, including returning Queenslanders. This will include agreeing to get tested for COVID-19 if you develop any symptoms…
29 July 2020 – World renowned Australian yachtsman Jon Sanders AO OBE has passed the halfway point of his 11th solo circumnavigation of the world, overcoming myriad problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The 80-year-old sailing legend is sailing due south of Panama…
Maui News. By Melissa Tanji. If you bought oysters at a really good price on the island recently, you may want to be cautious about eating them because they may have been raised to treat ocean pollution and stolen from…
Euro Weekly News. By Cathy Elelman. The Guardia Civil spoiled the on-board party for a bunch of revellers caught out boozing and ignoring Covid-19 safety precautions on a sailboat in Pontevedra in Galicia. A Guardia Maritime Service patrol came across…
BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE 07-27-2020 10:13:00 Ports and waterways along the southwestern stretch of Texas' coastline continue to be affected by the aftermath of Tropical Storm Hanna, which swept ashore Saturday with drenching rains and moderate 30-knot winds. Corpus Christi was spared…
Marine notice 06/2020 Purpose To remind vessel owners, operators, masters, skippers, watchkeepers, and other personnel involved in the navigation of vessels, of the importance of adhering to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 (known as the Collision…
BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE 07-26-2020 10:55:20 Residents of Oahu and Kaui braced Sunday for the arrival of Hurricane Douglas, which passed north of the Big Island and Maui on a westerly track. The Category 1 storm's track shows potential for making landfall,…
The Daily Record. An adventurer who has helped salvage treasures found in shipwrecks across the world is backing a campaign to clear the name of a privateer wrongly hung for being a pirate. Marine archaeologist and TV treasure hunter Neil…
Have you ever wondered how new ideas find their way into yacht design? I recall advice given to me in the late 1960s by an old marine engineer who owned a long-keeled cruiser/racing yacht. It was on the hardstand next to…
‘In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take’ – a saying that is all too familiar. Yet, the truth is, we do not often have dreams so crazy they scare us. I had never had a big…
BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE 07-22-2020 09:29:13 According to the Philippine Coast Guard, the ro/pax ferry St. Ignatius of Loyola had an unusual near miss last weekend at the port of Batangas, 60 miles due south of Manila. On Saturday night, as the St. Ignatius departed from the…
The search for an Australian couple on a five-year sailing voyage across the world's oceans has been called off with no recovery being made. Del and Craig McEwan sent out a distress call on Monday from their Australian-registered catamaran, Ohana-Uli,…
Coral Sea Marina Resort announced this week a renewed platinum sponsorship for Volunteer Marine Rescue Whitsundays, committing to another three-year sponsorship. Coral Sea Marina Resort is now entering its second term as Platinum sponsor, after securing the naming rights on…
The Maritime Executive BY ALEX LEMAIRE 07-20-2020 12:07:00 On this same day, 35 years ago, the legendary deep-sea explorer Mel Fisher discovered the shipwreck of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The galleon was sailing from the new world to Spain. It was hit by…
CBC British Columbia. By Cathy Kearney. Bert terHart set sail from Victoria, B.C., on a solo journey around the world nine months ago with just a pen, paper, charts and a sextant navigation instrument to chart his course. The non-stop circumnavigation via…
“Dad! Daaaaaaaad! The toilet is stuck!” That dreaded call every boat owner dad fears. Or, at eleven o’clock at night and you have guests, you have just gone to bed, book open at the page; then comes the soft, somehow…
While on routine patrol, Gosport Lifeboat (based at GAFIRS Lifeboat Station in Stokes Bay) overheard a MAYDAY RELAY broadcast reporting a two-boat collision close to its location, just inside the entrance to Langstone Harbour. GAFIRS proceeded on the request of…
BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE 07-10-2020 07:29:52 Despite several high profile incidents recently, a new survey of the container shipping industry by the World Shipping Council (WSC) reports that the incidents of containers lost overboard has been on the decline and is a small…
A man has apparently drowned in Loch Ness after falling into the water while reportedly taking a pee from a boat. The Scottish Sun newspaper reports that the man, believed to be aged 34, is one of a group of…
Internationally renowned yachtsman and businessman, Ray Roberts, says sports and businesses around the world are still feeling the pinch due to the ongoing effects of CoronaVirus. Roberts, the founder of Workforce International and owner of EastSail, speaks from experience, having…
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard and crew of the merchant vessel Mahi Mahi rescued three mariners from the disabled 50-foot trimaran Third Try 825 miles northeast of Oahu, Wednesday. The crew of the Mahi Mahi brought the mariners back to…
Yarmouth RNLI responded to a Mayday call from a yacht in distress during the early hours of Thursday July 9. Volunteer lifeboat crew members were tasked by Solent Coastguard at 03:21 following a Mayday call from a 24ft sailing vessel…
For the third day running Poole Lifeboat was requested to launch by the UK coastguard just after 2pm on Sunday (July 5) to a report of five people in or on, an inflatable clinging to a buoy in Studland Bay….
Nowadays most people’s perceptions of using an open boat to sail or cruise offshore, they would assume you are totally mad. Guess I grew up in a different era. In our teens we were undoubtedly inspired by Frank Dye and…
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…
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