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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…
Channel News Asia SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man was rescued by the Fijian navy after the ongoing coronavirus pandemic left him stranded at sea on a yacht, with his food supplies running low. The 59-year-old man set sail from Singapore three months…
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…
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