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Jimmy Spithill to join United States SailGP Team
NEW YORK – December 8, 2020 – SailGP today announced champion sailor Jimmy Spithill has signed on to become CEO and helm of the United States SailGP Team. Spithill will lead the U.S. team as it fights to claim the…
Vendee Globe – one month, many lifetimes
For the leaders of the Vendée Globe, the very difficult conditions in an Indian Ocean depression are the most challenging of the race so far. Fatigue accumulated over one month of racing is less noticeable when motorway conditions roll out…
The Ninth Edition of the Vendée Globe returns excellent viewing numbers
One month ago today, Sunday November 8th, 33 solo racers, 27 men and 6 women, took the start of the ninth Vendée Globe amidst an unprecedented health crisis. Today December 8th presents the ideal opportunity to take stock. After 30…
InfoTrack beats Black Jack again in near perfect performance
InfoTrack owner Christian Beck and his crew continue to firm as the ones to beat for line honours in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race after they produced a near-perfect performance to win the 2020 Grinders Coffee SOLAS Big Boat…
Images of the worlds largest iceberg floating in the Southern Ocean
Britain’s Royal Air Force released dramatic images of what is believed to be the world’s largest iceberg as it drifts from the Antarctic shelf towards South Georgia island. Using enhanced technologies fitted aboard an RAF Airbus 400M, the crew, which…
Lessons learned from accidental triggering of Search and Rescue Transponder
Saturday morning 5 December, just before 0400, the night shift Watch Officer at Marine Rescue Port Stephens was alerted through some of our specialised equipment that a SART had been activated east of Port Stephens. A SART is a Search…
#34 | Off Watch – A Conversation with Simon Fisher
Simon ‘SiFi’ Fisher is one of The Ocean Race’s most accomplished navigators with five laps around the planet and plenty of stories to tell over a distinguished career. SiFi explains how he communicates with a crew, how to come back…
Vendee Globe – the Big South bares its teeth
Britain’s Pip Hare should cross the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope early tomorrow, her first of the Vendée Globe’s three Great Capes. Lying in 20th place, she is chasing Spanish rival Didac Costa hard, just 12 miles behind…
New marina for Burnett Heads gains approval
Bundaberg Regional Council has unanimously approved a major stage of The Gateway project, an integrated marina and resort development. It is claimed the development will transform the coastal town of Burnett Heads, four hours north of Brisbane and at the…
All I want for Christmas is a heritage-listed ferry wharf
Sydney, December 2020 Does the above sound like your letter to Santa this year? Here is your unique opportunity to bring your wish to fruition. Woolwich Ferry Wharf Pontoon, known to be located on the Lane Cove River, is being…
Jean Le Cam – alone again, naturally
After being rescued from his liferaft six days ago by fellow competitor Jean Le Cam, PRB skipper Kevin Escoffier was plucked from the Indian Ocean by the French Marine Nationale after jumping clear of his rescuer’s IMOCA 60 in a…
Three Vendee Globe skippers in Cape Town, their race over
British skipper Sam Davies confirmed her retirement from the Vendée Globe today as she arrived in Cape Town, South Africa. But while the race is over for her, and she joins compatriot Alex Thomson who abandoned on arrival yesterday, Davies…
Sensational racing in NSW 18 Footers Championship Race 3
In contrast to the 40-knot winds that battered Sydney Harbour last Sunday and forced the Australian 18 Footers League to abandon Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship, today's 20-knot westerly wind produced one of the most spectacular 18ft Skiff…
America's Cup book by John Bertrand returned to Townsville library 33 years overdue
ABC North Qld. By Nathalie Fernbach A book by America's Cup winning skipper John Bertrand borrowed from a Townsville library in 1987 has been returned after sailing around the world for 33 years. The book, Born to Win, was…
Another sailboat frozen in St. Croix River
While Australia swelters in heatwave conditions, in northern states of the USA things are very different, as The Bemidji Pioneer reports: STILLWATER, Minn. — Mike Olson wants everyone to know that that sailboat frozen in the St. Croix River this…
Tokyo 2020 estimate puts cost of Games postponement at $1.9 billion
Inside the Games. By Nancy Gillen. Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics reportedly estimate the postponement of the Games is set to cost an additional $1.9 billion (£1.4 billion/€1.6 billion). Tokyo 2020, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japanese Government…
Prada claims ETNZ tried to ban journos who write bad things about them
Another row has erupted between America's Cup defender, Emirates Team New Zealand, and Challenger-of-Record Prada. According to Duncan Johnstone, writing on the Kiwi website Stuff, Prada said Team New Zealand had wanted to exclude specific journalists from the media centre…
Coast Guard coordinates rescue of two people from sailboat disabled in rough weather
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of two people from a sailboat disabled by weather approximately 345 miles east of Hatteras Inlet, N.C., Saturday afternoon. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard’s Fifth District Command Center received notification from…
InfoTrack bags treble in Cabbage Tree Island Race
Christian Beck’s super maxi InfoTrack revealed impressive form in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Pointscore Cabbage Tree Island Race on the weekend, bagging the ‘treble’ by claiming line, IRC and PHS honours. Even more impressive though, the…
Francesca Clapcich | An Insight: Double Handed Offshore
Two-time Olympian Francesca Clapcich is looking to combine her Olympic Games background with her offshore sailing experience, as she joins forces with Jesse Fielding to form State Street Marathon Sailing Team, aiming for the Mixed Two Person Offshore Keelboat Event…
Sebastien Simon and Sam Davies both hit submerged obstacles, heading to Africa
After both hitting floating objects within hours of each other yesterday at the gateway to the Indian Ocean and sustaining damage to their IMOCAs, the emotion in the voices of both Sébastien Simon and Sam Davies was a stark reminder…
Icebergs detected on the skippers' route: Antarctic Exclusion Zone raised by 5 degrees to improve safety
Since 2008, CLS, Official Supplier of ice data for the Vendée Globe, has been using technologies and satellites designed and deployed by CNES (French National Center for Space Studies) and ESA (European Space Agency) to detect icebergs threatening the skippers'…
Edmond de Rothschild in repair, getting ready for another Jules Verne attempt
Lorient, Thursday, December 3rd, 2020 – Last Friday, after three days at sea on their first round the world record attempt, the crew of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild opted to turn back after damage resulting from impact with a…
Banzaï takes Line Honours in ARC 2020
Rodney Bay Saint Lucia, Thursday 3 December 2020 As daylight dawned in Saint Lucia on Thursday 3rd December, the first arrival of ARC 2020 sailed gracefully round Pigeon Island for the final mile of the Atlantic Crossing that began…
1,900 containers lost or damaged on ONE boxship
The container collapse on the boxship ONE Apus is poised to become one of the largest recent incidents. The owners and managers of the ship are now reporting that the extent of the lost and damaged containers could exceed 1,900 boxes…
Cabbage Tree Island Race to showcase Rolex Sydney Hobart talent
This Friday 4 December marks Race 4 of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) Blue Water Pointscore, the Cabbage Tree Island Race. When the 51 crews line up on the Sydney Harbour start line, almost all of them will…
Vendee Globe – the Indian Ocean strikes
Given that the Vendée Globe fleet started on Sunday 8th November in Les Sables d’Olonne with a record sized fleet of 33 IMOCAs and there are still, technically, 31 tracked on the race course, it is not entirely unexpected to…
12 Metre Worlds to Return to Newport, R.I. in 2022
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, USA (December 2, 2020) – Following the resounding success of the 2019 12mR World Championship held in Newport, R.I., the International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA) has again selected America’s City by the Sea as the venue for…
Containers lost overboard in North Pacific
BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE 12-01-2020 02:12:03 The container ship ONE Apus “suffered collapsed containers” due to rolling in severe weather conditions in the Pacific, according to commercial operator Ocean Network Express (ONE). At the time of the casualty, the Apus was under way from…
Barney Walker and Jade Cole’s bid to win the Rudder Cup
The Victorian border is open and lockdown over, so a wide variety of boats and crews have come out of hibernation to quench their thirst for sailing – and what better way to celebrate a return to racing than with…
Relieved Escoffier talks about his rescue by Jean Le Cam
After being rescued from his liferaft by fellow Vendée Globe competitor Jean Le Cam in big seas and strong winds in the early hours of this morning, some 840 nautical miles South West of Cape Town, South Africa, Kevin Escoffier…
TasPorts Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race 2020
The 2020 TasPorts Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race (L2H) has attracted the biggest fleet since 2016, with 33 contenders including one Victorian and 32 Tasmanian teams including four teams from the north of the state. Derwent Sailing Squadron Race Director…
#33 | Watch – A Conversation with psychologist Anje-Marijcke van Boxtel
This week we get a special insight into coaching and psychology in elite sport. Anje-Marijcke van Boxtel is a leading business and sports psychologist and has worked behind the scenes with Bouwe Bekking and Team Brunel for two editions of…
Teams to tangle early with official practice confirmed ahead of December regatta
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone Defenders Team New Zealand and the three challengers have been granted five days of official practice, including some racing, ahead of the world series regatta in Auckland in December. The world series regatta, featuring 12 round-robin…
Kevin Escoffier (PRB) activates EPIRB, Jean Le Cam alters course to assist
Kevin Escoffier, 40, who is racing in third place in the Vendée Globe solo non-stop around the world race, positioned some 550 nautical miles SW of Cape Town, has triggered his distress beacon. He was racing in a strong SW’ly…
Kevin Escoffier rescued by fellow competitor Jean Le Cam
At 0118hrs UTC the PRB Team was informed that their Vendée Globe race skipper Kevin Escoffier (PRB) has been rescued by fellow Vendée Globe competitor Jean Le Cam (Yes We Cam!). Escoffier had to abandon his IMOCA 60 PRB following…
Black Jack returns from a spell in Europe for the Rolex Sydney Hobart
Ever wonder how much work goes into preparing a yacht for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – never mind a big boat that has just returned from Europe amid the COVID-19 pandemic? Peter Harburg had not…
Lazy Dog looms over Act 6 and MC38 season pointscore
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Lazy Dog team closed out the 2020 MC38 calendar with a third series triumph, giving Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart’s crew the overall season trophy from six acts. Act 6 pointscore results Tilly Lock video of…
Get out on the harbour on Boxing Day for the big race
The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is on for 2020 and Sydney Harbour will be a great place to be on Boxing Day. Mariner Boating has secured the exclusive charter of the catamaran Constellation and we will have pre-assigned seating for…
