Category: News

  • Marine Conservation Society’s Ocean Manifesto

    Marine Conservation Society’s Ocean Manifesto

    With a general election on 12 December all of the UK’s political parties and MP candidates will be setting out the legislation and policies that they would like to introduce. The Marine Conservation Society has… […]

  • Antigua 2020 fleet preview

    Antigua 2020 fleet preview

    Notive from the Regatta Committee: Changing the dates of the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta from the usual second half of April to the very beginning (1-7 April 2020) has enabled various past participants to come… […]

  • Children sail to raise money for YMCA

    Children sail to raise money for YMCA

     Thousands raised as local children sail the seas to tackle social issues A relay-style sailing adventure around the UK coastline has raised more than £18,000 so far in aid of the Newark in Nottinghamshire YMCA,… […]

  • Olaf Harken dies aged 80

    Olaf Harken dies aged 80

    • Co-founder of the blocks and rigging multinational dies in Pewaukee Wisconsin. • He is survived by Ruth, his wife of 47 years, three daughters, four granddaughters and a grandson. • Preliminary plans include a… […]

  • World’s first 3-D printed boat

    A 25ft power patrol boat has been ‘printed’ by the University of Maine at its Advanced Structures and Composites Center in Orono, Maine. The event also unveiled the world’s largest polymer 3-D printer which is… […]

  • British wooden dinghy shortlisted for award

    British wooden dinghy shortlisted for award

    Peter Newbery-Thornton of Devon Wooden Boats is a finalist for the Dinghy of the Year Award for his new Dash dinghy, built in wood as a high performance single handed sailer at his yard in… […]

  • Brexit and going foreign

    Brexit and going foreign

    The RYA and British Marine, the two largest leisure marine sector member organisations in the UK, have been working closely together to seek and obtain greater clarification as regards the free movement of pleasure craft… […]

  • Build your own sea chest

    Build your own sea chest

    Who wouldn’t want to own a classic sailor’s sea chest – especially if you’d built it yourself. A course is being run which allows participants to do just that – at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime… […]

  • Some news in brief

    Some news in brief

    • UK America’s Cup challenge Britannia launches • British Olympic sailing team for Tokyo 2020 announced • More wind farms • Moving a 1700s house… by barge   October 4, Portsmouth UK: Sir Ben Ainslie’s… […]