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Zhik’s latest ‘street style’ inshore jacket
Zhik’s new spring 2021 ranges are all now being delivered from their three global warehouses out to worldwide dealers and via Zhik.com. Hitting the shelves shortly, Zhik’s INS100 jacket is a technical cross-over lightweight jacket for life afloat and onshore….
Vendee Globe – all quiet on the Western front?
The relative silence from among the Vendée Globe leaders speaks volumes. Increasingly background activities are pared back to only what is necessary as the solo skippers devote all their energies to weather strategy, keeping fast and managing their energy reserves…
Maersk Boxship loses 750 containers overboard in North Pacific
Heavy weather in the North Pacific is being blamed for the loss of containers aboard one of Maersk’s containerships. This is the third container loss incident recently reported in the Pacific. Maersk is saying that approximately 750 containers were lost…
Bring out your expired flares for safe, easy disposal in NSW
Boaters across NSW will have one more opportunity to dispose of their expired flares safely and easily this boating season. The NSW Maritime collection program will be operational from 1 to 18 April at mobile collection points up and down the…
SailGP’s Season 2 to feature eight global events from April 2021 to March 2022
LONDON – January 20, 2021 – SailGP has announced a full race schedule for its second season, which will feature eight national teams made up of the sport’s best athletes squaring off in eight events across three continents. The schedule…
World Match Race Tour cardholders announced
London, UK (20 January, 2021) – The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) today announced the six skippers awarded WMRT Tour Cards for the 2021 championship season. Defending match racing world champion Taylor Canfield (USA) leads the line-up alongside six-time world…
Seven days until the finish of the Vendee Globe
The race at the front of the Vendée Globe is electrifying. None of the eight previous editions has ever witnessed a race finish as open and intense. Right now the leading skippers are trying to get their heads around a…
The full story behind solo sailor's ordeal after being pitched overboard
A solo sailor who was rescued eight hours after being pitched overboard in rough seas off Australia’s Northern Territory coastline has revealed details of his ordeal. Southampton-born expat Nigel Fox, who has been praised by rescue services for the quick…
Only 260nm separates the top nine sailors in the Vendee Globe
The Vendée Globe remains wide open. A leading group of nine skippers form the vanguard with a slight advantage for two skippers, Charlie Dalin and Louis Burton. The skipper of Bureau Vallée 2 continues his more westerly route and all…
Green Dragon and Palanad 3 scorch into Antigua
ANTIGUA, W.I. January 19, 2021 – Johannes Schwarz’s Volvo 70 Green Dragon crossed the finish line of the 7th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race at 04:53 UTC in an elapsed time of 9 days, 18 hours, 53 mins and…
Schedule for remaining Round Robins of Prada Cup released
Following New York Yacht Club American Magic informing the Regatta Director that they will not be racing in Round Robins 3 and 4 of the PRADA Cup this weekend, the racing schedule has been revised as follows: Saturday 23rd of…
Rayon Vert takes multihull Line Honours in RORC Transatlantic Race
ANTIGUA, W.I. January 18, 2021 – Oren Nataf’s Multi50 Trimaran Rayon Vert, skippered by Alex Pella crossed the finish line of the 7th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race at 13:33 UTC in an elapsed time of 9 days, 3…
Fast Burton and consistent Dalin battle northwards in the Trade Winds
With less than two weeks – perhaps even just ten days – until the finish of what is set to be the closest ever edition of the Vendée Globe it is still impossible to predict which three skippers will finish…
Vendee Globe – Burton and Dalin lead the North Atlantic climb
The Doldrums did not give up the Vendée Globe leaders as easily as was initially predicted but first placed Charlie Dalin (Apivia) appears to have skirted round the worst of a dynamic cloud system and emerged this afternoon with his…
Tech 2 wins 18 Footer NSW Championship
The tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake became the 2020-2021 NSW 18ft Skiff champion following an impressive all-the-way victory in today's re-sail of Race 2 of the championship on Sydney Harbour. Going into today's final…
US Coast Guard recovers stolen tiki hut from “intoxicated” operator
BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE 01-14-2021 10:03:00 A small boat team with U.S. Coast Guard Sector Key West took on a special mission on Wednesday: tracking down and recovering a stolen floating tiki hut. For the full story, go to The…
Coppercoat on an aluminium hull – all good after 12 months
In February 2020 I applied Coppercoat, a copper-based antifouling system, to the hull of my 37ft Van de Stadt cruising yacht. The boat is moored in the Krummel Channel, between Russell and Karragarra Islands in Moreton Bay, which is known…
British remain unbeaten after two days of the Prada Cup
It was a tricky and yet revealing day for the Challengers competing in the PRADA Cup Round Robins owing the to the tricky light wind conditions that frequently forced the AC75’s off their foils. It was a positive day for…
Spectacular capsize as NYYC goes 0-4 in the Prada Cup
It was a day of drama on the Hauraki Gulf on Sunday January 17. The first race between INEOS TEAM UK and Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli was abanodoned after a 90 degree wind shift. When the race was re-sailed, there…
Vendee Globe – Dalin and Burton match up
Today passing Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, there are no options in terms of strategy and choices on the northwards climb up the Atlantic for the tightly matched Vendée Globe leaders. But the conditions are difficult and tiring. The E’ly tradewinds…
America's Cup Challenger Series begins in Auckland
INEOS TEAM UK's challenge for the 36th America's Cup in Auckland, New Zealand, begins in earnest today (Friday January 15) with the PRADA Cup, the Challenger Selection Series. The first two Round Robins in the PRADA Cup will be the…
Sir Ben bounces back – two wins to INEOS Team UK on first day of Prada Cup
Auckland. 15th January 2021: Today all the build up and discussion ended and the points started to count in Auckland as the first two races of the PRADA Cup officially kicked off. INEOS TEAM UK went from zero to hero…
2021 RORC Caribbean 600 is cancelled
LONDON, 13 January 2021: After much discussion internally and after consultation with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, it was decided that the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) had no option but to cancel the RORC Caribbean 600 due to…
Vendee Globe – a drag race to Recife and beyond
With nothing more than a handful of small miles separating them, the leaders of the Vendée Globe are engaged on a straight head-to-head speed test which may yet prove decisive, and which may finally show the ultimate value of a…
The coolest teacher on Earth?
Jean-Marc Perreault is not your average middle and high school science and technology teacher. For the past 27 years, the Canadian educator has consistently demonstrated that he will go to any length to make his courses more interesting and interactive…
Rolex Fastnet Race entry numbers smash all records
Like tickets to Glastonbury, registration opened on the dot of 1000 UTC today for this summer’s Rolex Fastnet Race and speedily sold out. Within an hour an unprecedented 400 boats had entered the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s flagship event, which…
Vendee Globe – the road from Rio
After 65 days racing and over 23,000 nautical miles sailed on the course, the Vendée Globe in effect restarted off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil today with the five top boats regrouping within 26 miles of each other in terms of…
Stranded sailor rescued after drifting alone in Channel for three days without power
A sailor has been plucked from the English Channel after he drifted “hopelessly” for three days with no power. Police in Kent said they stumbled upon the floating yacht during a routine patrol of the Port of Dover at 11am…
All bets are off – open season for the Vendee Globe podium
All bets are off. Normally by the 64th day of recent editions of the Vendée Globe, the solo, non-stop race around the world has been distilled down to a choice of two or at the outside three potential winners. But…
WHAT WENT WRONG? – TOP TIPS ON HOW TO AVOID A FOILING CAPSIZE
RYA Foiling Coach Assessor Shaun Priestley takes a look at a Skeeta Capsize with Sam Whaley at the helm. Watch the clip for tips on how to avoid capsizes and crashes.
Vendée Globe’s final 5,000 miles are set to be a cliffhanger
“Any one of four or five skippers can still win this race,” warned Jean Pierre Dick on the French Vendée Globe Live show this afternoon. With less than 5000 miles to sail now to the finish line, the leaders are…
Winning Group wins Race 5 of NSW 18 Footers Championship
Racing resumed today, after the annual break over the Christmas-New Year period, when the Australian 18 Footers League conducted race 5 of the 2020-2021 NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour. Defending champion Winning Group team of John Winning…
Jules Verne Trophy – second try for Gitana Team
Lorient, Sunday, January 10, 2021 – With clockwork precision, it was at 01 hours 33 minutes and 46 seconds UTC that the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild set sail this Sunday 10 January on a fresh attempt at the Jules Verne…
Hare fixes rudder, Joschke out with canting keel damage
Joschke's Canting Keel – Jan 9 The Franco-German skipper Isabelle Joschke has been forced to abandon her Vendée Globe on the 62nd day of racing after a further failure of the keel canting system on board her IMOCA MACSF. Joschke…
Sail Port Stephens welcoming entries for April regatta
With safety plans in place and fingers firmly crossed, Sail Port Stephens is accepting entries for its 2021 regatta in April and once again aiming to provide an unforgettable sailing holiday for crews aboard everything from small dinghies to family…
Pip Hare has port rudder crack, needs to fit spare
Britain’s Pip Hare is looking for a benevolent small weather window in the depths of the South Pacific Ocean to allow her to replace the port rudder of her IMOCA Medallia after she discovered a crack in its stock (the…
Wet and wild Sail Paradise finale
Bartercard Sail Paradise came to an end yesterday with a bang. A strong south-easterly wind swept across the course during the morning and made for spectacular sailing. Wind gusts to 30 knots and rising seas led to one yacht being…
J-Bird III restoration blog part 6 – a new design
In parts 1 – 5 we have explored the purchase, haul out and delivery from Sydney to Brisbane of the World’s First TP52. We then stripped the interior of everything and cut the deck off due to severe balsa core…
Free webinar : Expert weather preview – Prada Cup and America’s Cup 2021
Marine Weather University was launched just six months ago when veteran sailing meteorologist, Chris Bedford and two-times America's Cup winning navigator Peter Isler teamed up to provide the best marine weather education on the planet. Today MWU’s university-level curriculum features…
