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Queensland’s Chief Health Officer advised that from Saturday, 02 May 2020 boaties could engage in water-based recreational activities within 50km of their home. The response was immediate with a number of boats anchored at popular spots around Moreton Bay and…
Sailing Steel Sapphire Blog A Nightmare Scenario Death or severe illness. Economic meltdown. Loss of personal income. Future instability. Massive disruption to daily life. For so, so many different reasons, Covid-19 is having a drastic impact on just about everyone…
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Coast Guard personnel coordinated the rescue of two British mariners 598 miles off the coast of Bermuda using the Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System, Friday morning. Watchstanders at the Fifth Coast Guard District command center received the…
By The Conversation 04-29-2020 09:42:38 [By Hannah Verkamp] If you have a toddler, or if you encountered one in the last year, you’ve almost certainly experienced the “Baby Shark” song. Somehow, every kid seems to know this song, but scientists actually…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Coast Guard is searching for a missing boater 80 miles east of Cape Canaveral, Thursday. A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater HC-130 Hercules aircraft crew arrived on scene with the sailing vessel ROMANICHEL, and the sailing vessel crew…
Forecasting company, Tropical Storm Risk (TSR), has released its prediction for the upcoming Atlantic storm season. The company predicts Atlantic hurricane activity in 2020 will be 25% above the long-term norm. However, this outlook has large uncertainties. Based on current and projected…
HONOLULU — The United States Coast Guard and the Australian Department of Home Affairs signed a memorandum of agreement for a system of mutual officer exchange from their offices in Hawaii and Canberra, Monday. Rear Adm. Kevin Lunday, commander, Coast…
By The Maritime Executive 04-27-2020 07:55:18 The Canadian Coast Guard is asking boaters in British Columbia to stay off the water this season in order to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19. In an open letter to Canada's maritime community,…
CarolinaCoastOnline. By JJ Smith. BEAUFORT — Sailors are fond of saying “plans are written in sand at low tide,” meaning they can quickly be washed away. Those words have never been truer than in the time of a global pandemic….
The Maritime Executive Pirates have demonstrated their ability to revise their modes of operation in response to maritime industry behavior and the responses of coastal states. When looking the Gulf of Guinea, confirmed as the main world maritime piracy hotspot…
As part of the War on Wrecks program Maritime Safety Queensland and partner agencies have continued the important work of ensuring safe waterways and maintaining jobs during COVID-19 by continuing to remove abandoned, illegally dumped and derelict vessels and pontoons,…
Smyrna, now Izmir, used to be the cosmopolitan melting pot of the Levantine Coast of Turkey; all religions, all languages and with theatres, fabulous residences, restaurants and bars lining a seaside version of the Champs Elysees. All were tolerated by…
Bob Dunn of the SV Venom has created a new, free quiz that sailors can take from the security of their armchairs. Along the same lines as Bob's earlier quizzes on subjects such as Marine Radio Operation (mostly VHF); Racing Rules…
It might sound like there are worse places in the world to be under lockdown than the Maldives but for one Kiwi family on a cruising adventure Covid-19 is just as scary and uncertain as it is for the rest…
Dramatic video of the Ferro Hartley design Concerto in Sea going up in flames last Friday. Listen to the video and you can hear the live-aboard discussing how it started and stoically moving on from what was a long term home…
This article appeared in The Maritime Executive's daily newsletter. While it is aimed at commercial shipping rather than recreational boating, we thought it was worth running, as anyone who goes bluewater sailing needs to know what those massive great tankers…
Sunday, 19 April 2020 12:17:31 PM Two men have been charged after a yacht suspected to be carrying hundreds of kilograms of methylamphetamine was intercepted off the NSW coast near Lake Macquarie. The arrests follow a multi-agency investigation known as…
A new service has been launched that offers massive benefit for all boat owners and private berth and mooring owners around Australia. Rent My Boat Berth provides a simple web-based system for people cruising the coast to book a berth…
Thursday 9 April 2020 The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is advising the public that they should not take part in any water based activity on or in the sea, to reduce the risk to the lifesaving charity’s volunteer crews…
The Australian Sabre class continues to prove itself as one of the most accessible forms of sailing on offer, with the Victorian fleet recently bringing a land-loving Spaniard into its ranks and introducing him to the sport. It was a…
Cape May, N.J. — The Coast Guard rescued a man from a sailboat approximately 200 miles southeast of Cape May, New Jersey, Friday evening. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay’s command center were notified by a crewmember on the…
The Royal Navy minehunter HMS Grimsby has completed her spring stint with a NATO task force after a two-week search for wartime ammunition off the French coast. Eight unexploded bombs and mines from World War II were neutralised by the…
Thursday, 9 April 2020 05:32 A Tasmanian yachtsman was rescued by the police Air Wing after he crashed into rocks in waters off Portsea last night. The 67-year-old set off from Williamstown yesterday on the return voyage to his home…
Part of the remodelling of the chart table area on my 45 foot (13.7 metre) schooner Britannia involved making a new section of floorboarding; or to use its proper nautical term: the cabin sole. The floor beneath was just rough…
The most common question we get asked at Eco Boats is from boat owners who are trying to find out if it would make sense to replace the petrol or diesel motor in their boat with an electric motor. The…
With so many of us being “hove to” and waiting for the storm that is Covid 19 to pass it is the hope of the Down Under Rally that all those who are intending to resume cruising the SW Pacific…
Lymington’s Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat David Bradley, launched to assist a man in his 60s who was injured and had become trapped on his vessel. The weather conditions were good and there was a fresh NE breeze force 5. The…
Friday 27 March 2020 Littlehampton RNLI’s B Class lifeboat 'Renee Sherman' launched to rescue a 38 foot yacht with two persons on board which had lost it’s mast five miles south of the harbour. HM Coastguard tasked the RNLI to…
Monday 23 March 2020 This afternoon the volunteer crew of the Calshot D-Class Lifeboat were requested by HM Coastguard to assist a small sailing dinghy which had become stuck on deep mud near Ashlett Creek, with concerns for two elderly…
I would love to have an oven on my boat. However, my otherwise excellent galley lacked convenient storage for regularly used food items. This suggested that the space required for an oven would be more useful as shelving. On my…
Any boat venturing outside sheltered waters should be able to survive a knockdown undamaged, with the gear inside still in place rather than strewn all round the boat. Go round the cabin, imagining what it will look like with the…
Maritime Safety Queensland will continue working to rid Queensland of unsafe and unsightly wrecks after the Minister for Transport and Main Roads gave the green light to explore recommendations made in an interim report to the state government by the War…
The attrition rate in the last Golden Globe Race around the world has led to some lively debate about the safety of these old designs compared with modern ocean racers. Those decrying the use of traditional long-keel yachts point out…
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard and partners are responding to a report of a 35-foot, double-masted sailing vessel grounded off Waikiki, Saturday evening. Pollution responders are on the scene assessing the situation and surrounding area for impacts. At this time, there are no…
In these crazy times of self-exclusion, maybe it is time to do some of those projects you have had planned. Over the coming weeks we will post up some useful DIY projects that have appeared in Cruising Helmsman. If you…
In these crazy times of self-exclusion, maybe it is time to do some of those projects you have had planned. Over the coming weeks we will post up some useful DIY projects that have appeared in Cruising Helmsman. If you…
Washington, USA: Another vessel has sunk in the Hoquiam River, this one a 40-foot sailboat, just upriver from where salvage crews have been trying to get the Lady Grace up from the bottom at the east end of Karr Avenue….
“Nice boat!” is a comment we often hear and it makes us smile. “Of course!” we reply, because every boatowner thinks that his or her boat is the prettiest in the anchorage. “Fibreglass?” “What design?” are usually the next questions….
We are delighted to announce that there are no cases of Coronavirus in Antigua at this time. We are therefore continuing with our preparations for the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, starting on 1 April which is shaping up nicely great…
By The Maritime Executive 03-07-2020 07:55:52 IBM and marine research organization Promare have announced that a new artificial intelligence captain (AI Captain) will enable the Mayflower autonomous ship to self-navigate across the Atlantic later this year. With the three hulls…
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