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There are many reasons you should know all you can about your yacht's insurance cover. Chief amongst them is the value your cover provides: most agreements are set at market price, or a like-replacement vessel. But only one has an…
Since the launch of Nautilus Marine's app 'The Helm', which gives boaters quick and wasy acces to the full spectrum of marine services via their smart phone or tablet devies, healthy numbers of Nautilus Marine Insurance members and other boaters…
After days of speculation and carefully monitoring the looming wind hole off the coast of Mexico, it seems the Clipper Race fleet was let off lightly by the wind gods, with many teams experiencing a shorter time than first predicted…
The Australian Sailing Team’s Matt Wearn has captured his second major title of the season, closing out the 2018 European Championship at La Rochelle in France in emphatic style overnight (AEST). Wearn battled through a tense week-long tussle with New…
Excitement is certainly building for the biggest one design foiling event ever seen, as preparations for the 2019 International WASZP Games move into overdrive. WASZP in conjunction with the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club are planning a stunning seven day…
Hobart sailor Felicity Allison celebrated Mother’s Day today with a win in the SB20 sports boat division of the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Autumn Short-Handed Series, with her husband Will as crew, helming the rather appropriately named boat, Cook Your Own…
Anyone has the right to start a petition. However, when it’s as misleading as the one about the equipment for the 2024 Sailing Olympic Games, it deserves a response. Some of the impressions that you might have from the petition…
It all came down to the final top mark rounding of the final race at the RC44 Portorož Cup: Team CEEREF of local host Igor Lah picked up a penalty and completing a mandatory turn dropped her to last place….
The Clipper Race fleet has spent much of the 12th day of Race 10: The Garmin American Challenge either desperately holding onto leaderboard positions or making gains on race leaders as the giant wind hole slows progress, compressing the fleet…
Two new teams have added their names to the list of race winners today at the RC44 Portoroz Cup in Slovenia; from the eight races put to bed, six teams have scored bullets. Having been briefly held ashore, the RC44…
The American modified Volvo 70, Warrior, sailed by Stephen Murray Jnr., has taken line honours in the 2018 Antigua Bermuda Race, crossing the finish line at 7:57:48 local time local time on Saturday 12 May 2018. Warrior has set a…
It is the penultimate day of races here at La Rochelle, France and nice wind allowed all sailors competing at the 2018 Laser Senior European Championships to complete the two scheduled races, with 10 now put to bed. 2018 Laser…
The Frers 57, designed by Mani Frers, who follows in the footsteps of his famous father, German, flew to Australia from his home in Italy to attend the launch. Also on hand were noted builder John McConaghy and Jono Morris,…
Hamilton, Bermuda: Taylor Canfield and the USone Sailing Team have captured the 68th Argo Group Gold Cup with a 3-1 victory over Johnie Berntsson’s Swedish crew. Canfield won the venerable King Edward VII Gold Cup for the second time, following…
The appointment of the Arbitration Panel for the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada has been announced today by the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand and Challenger of Record, Luna Rossa Challenge in accordance with the requirements of the Protocol…
The looming wind hole off the coast of Mexico has so far been relatively kind to the Clipper Race fleet during Day 11 of Race 10; The Garmin American Challenge from Seattle to Panama, with teams opting for the inshore…
Slovenia continued to deliver on day two of the RC44 Portoroz Cup and with another light forecast; competitors and the race committee were relieved to arrive in Marina Portoroz this morning to find a solid north-easterly. Anticipating that this welcome…
The turbo-charged Volvo 70 Warrior, sailed by Stephen Murray Jr., has set a blistering pace in the 2018 Antigua to Bermuda Race, covering 770 miles in 45 hours of high speed racing in the Atlantic Ocean, and is due to…
aylor Canfield (USA), Johnie Berntsson (SWE), Torvar Mirsky (AUS) and Lucy Macgregor (GBR) have won their quarterfinal matches at the Argo Group Gold Cup. Hamilton Harbour produced a south/south-westerly breeze between 8 and 13-14 knots; slightly more stable in direction…
he Final series of the Laser Europeans started today in La Rochelle, France, and 9-15 knots allowed sailors to complete two new scheduled races, being 8 now in total. Weather is being fantastic and the 300 plus sailors are enjoying…
OC Sport, the creator and organiser of the Extreme Sailing Series™, has announced today that it is cancelling the fifth Act of the 2018 season due to be held in St Petersburg, Russia from 9-12 August. The company said a…
With less than a week until the 2018 Finn World Masters opens in El Balís, Spain, there are an impressive 352 entries from 32 countries – falling a few boats short of the record set in Torbole in 2016 –…
Just in case you are a little confused or unsure what the Finn class is and what it stands for, here is a Finn 101 tutorial that will hopefully clear up any misunderstandings and misconceptions. We’ve tried to use the…
Light wind tactics remain the central theme on the tenth day of Race 10: The Garmin American Challenge as teams seek to maintain the best possible course ahead of an upcoming wind hole off the coast of Mexico. At what…
After the first night at sea for the international fleet in the Antigua Bermuda Race the pace is relentless. The leading teams Warrior and Varuna are now over 300 miles offshore, blast reaching through two metre swell in the Atlantic…
With the incentive of playing before their home crowd here in Slovenia and also being holder of the 2016 and 2017 RC44 season championship titles, Igor Lah's Team CEEREF tops the leaderboard by two points after the opening day of…
Stuff.co.nz Sir Ben Ainslie has had to rename his America's Cup syndicate for the second time in a fortnight after a branding row with the British Olympic Association. Ainslie's Land Rover BAR team were changed to Ineos Team GB when…
canoe&kayak.com An Oregon couple who sank their brand-new kayaks on the North Santiam River two years ago are now seeking nearly half a million dollars in damages from Dick’s Sporting Goods, the retailer that sold them the boats. Bryan Orrio…
Olympic gold medallist and multiple World Champion Tom Slingsby is dipping his toes back into Olympic class sailing and will join the Australian Finn squad at a training camp at Lake Garda in Italy tomorrow. The highly-respected Slingsby won the…
Day 9 dawned with the news that the first points of Race 10: The Garmin American Challenge had been awarded, though the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint advantage did come at a cost to some. Dare To Lead collected the maximum…
Designed by the experienced and successful Germán Frers, the 30-metre Swan 98 is intended to redefine cruising by delivering Nautor comfort, safety and reliability with ocean passage-making at speed. The Frers’ design is currently being made real in Nautor’s Swan’s…
Strong easterly trades are expected to provide fast reaching conditions for the first two days of the 935 nautical mile oceanic race. A high pressure east of Bermuda is expected to decrease the gradient wind, shifting south to create tactical…
The countdown is on for the 2018 Samui Regatta as boats from around Asia are heading to Thailand's second most popular island destination for the final event showdown of the 2017/18 AsianYachting Grand Prix from 26th May to 2nd June….
The International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA) and the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) announced the dates for the 2019 12 Metre World Championship have been changed to July 7- 13, 2019. The 12 Metre Worlds will be held in Newport,…
Canfield and crew Mike Buckley, Victor Diaz de Leon, Erik Shampain and George Peet won all six of their matches and are the only undefeated team remaining at the $100,000 match racing regatta. Close behind are Joachim Aschenbrenner’s Team TriFork…
The Dutch crew of Brunel, skippered by esteemed round the world yachtsman Bouwe Bekking, were speeding up after making it through a light wind patch lying 200 miles from the finish line ahead of their rivals. At 0700 UTC their…
Multihull Solutions is looking for record interest at the 2018 Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show on the Gold Coast this 24-27 May. The company will be showcasing two of Fountaine Pajot’s most successful catamarans at its marina stand on Marina Pier…
Italian news is reporting the diversion of the Italian navy frigate Alpino in the search area for two yachtsmen who have been missing since May 2 after their boat capsized between the Azores and Gibraltar on the way back from…
Although the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint divided teams, with some opting to sprint away from the best course in the hope of getting some bonus points and others focusing instead on leaderboard positions and the upcoming scoring gate, the main…
A shocking come-from-behind victory into Newport, Rhode Island; with just 300 miles to go, Mapfre was in fifth place. As Tuesday morning dawned and with the fleet ghosting towards the finish line in extremely light and shifty winds, Xabi Fernández’s team…
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