MAST – Merseyside Adventure Sailing Trust receives UK’s top voluntary services award The Merseyside Adventure Sailing Trust (MAST) was honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services during its sixth Irish Sea Tall Ship regatta. This is the UK’s top award for national voluntary services and it will be officially presented by the Lord Lieutenant [...]
Wanna get togged up and raise some money to help injured Forces veterans through a sailing charity? ' Course you do! Turn to Starboard is inviting friends, supporters and well-wishers to join them for its fourth annual Dining in Night on Saturday, 23 November. The charity (which does brilliant work) will host the black-tie event at [...]
This year’s Rolex Fastnet race held several surprises, not least how Poole-based round-the-world sailor Pip Hare pulled ahead of the rest of the IMOCA 60 fleet in the early stages of the race. On paper, her 20-year-old boat should have been towards the back of her class, but instead she led the westbound charge from [...]
• Scholarship fund already having an impact. In August 2018 Trinity House and the RYA teamed up to launch the Trinity House RYA Yachtmaster Scholarship, an exciting new initiative for those working, or aspiring to work in the small commercial vessel sector. One year on, the scholarship has seen grants awarded to eight deserving individuals, [...]
The Robbe & Berking Yachting Heritage Centre, in Flensburg, N Germany, is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the American schooner America and the birth of the America´s Cup. Opening on August 22nd - the date America won her later-to-be eponymous cup, the exhibition has been put together with some of the heavyweights of classic yachting [...]
James Walker from Lancaster and co-owner Phil Smith were delighted when their boat, which had been missing at sea for nearly two years, was found and returned to them by the RNLI. Fleetwood RNLI launched to a call from a merchant vessel steaming out of Heysham, that a small rowing boat was seen adrift in [...]
Falmouth Week wakes up to a call for Climate Change as 200 Pink Flags are placed on boats overnight Pirate Rebels brave Friday night’s wild weather warnings to board boats under cover of darkness and install 200 flags across Falmouth Harbour in Cornwall. Falmouth town awakens on Saturday to a harbour covered in pink flags [...]
Daring Dauntless takes the title at Cowes Classics Week 29 July - 02 August 2019 Cowes, UK. August 2019 - Dauntless, sailed by Richard Acland and his crew, was almost untouchable in the 14-strong Daring Class which finished competing at Cowes Classics Week today. Five first places and a throwaway third ensured victory at the [...]
Organisers of the 2022 Golden Globe Race have confirmed that the Breton City of Les Sables d'Olonne and its 3-town Agglomeration have voted unanimously to host the next round the world race. At a meeting on July 5, the City’s leaders also took out options to repeat the event in 2026 and 2030. The next start [...]
