Days and often years of preparation are over. The ARC 2023 saw 156 yachts cross the start line at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria in light 8-10 knot winds, hot sunshine…
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Yachtsmen warn of unexploded Second World War bomb in Pula harbour, Croatia
The Cruising Association has added a note to the overview page for Pula on the CA’s Captain’s Mate app, saying: ‘Unexploded WW2 ordnance was located at N 44 degrees 52.815…
Ocean Globe Race yachts head for the Southern Ocean
At 1400, November 5, South African Naval Vessel SAS King Sekhukhune 1 and French Navy Frigate Floréal signaled the start of Leg 2 of the Ocean Globe Race. The Cape…
Injured yachtsman safely airlifted to hospital in Ocean Globe Race
Stéphane Raguenes, a crew member of the French racing yacht Triana (66), was airlifted by helicopter from a life raft in 2.5-metre seas approximately 225 miles from the island of…
Spectacular start to the Ocean Globe Race
A flotilla of well-wishers, including Britain’s largest working steamship, Shieldhall, waved and clapped the Ocean Globe Race fleet to the starting line opposite the Royal Yacht Squadron on the Isle…
Caro wins Fastnet, yacht sinks and four dismasted in treacherous race
Caro, a Botin 52 owned and skippered by Max Klink, is the overall winner of the 50th Rolex Fastnet in a punishing race that saw one yacht sink and four…
Orca ‘rams yacht’ off Shetland as close encounters spread to North Sea
Dr Wim Rutten, a 72-year-old retired Dutch physicist was sailing alone from Lerwick to Bergen when an orca appeared and hit the back of the aluminium hulled, seven tonne boat,…
Juvenile orcas imitate White Gladis, attacking yachts off the Iberian peninsula
Juvenile orcas attacking sailing yachts could be imitating the behaviour of one individual adult orca named White Gladis, scientists believe. Orcas have now sunk three yachts off the Iberian coast…
EIA report points finger at US ‘blood teak’ importers breaking sanctions
Thousands of tonnes of ‘blood teak’ have been imported from Myanmar into the United States in the past two years in defiance of US sanctions, the watchdog Environmental Investigation Agency…
£1.6bn investment to clean up rivers and coastlines
More than £1.6bn is to be invested by water companies in improving the industry’s infrastructure in England in the next two years, the water industry regulator Ofwat announced recently, in…