Mrs May has said that Britain would develop and build its own Global Navigation Satellite System, at a projected cost of £3-5bn. The announcement came on Friday November 30, as a reaction to the European Commission's position that its own long-vaunted Galileo system, due for launch in 2020, and developed with British engineers and scientists, [...]
Jean-Luc Van den Heede, the 73-years young French sailor leading the Golden Globe Race in his Rustler 36 yacht Matmut, rounded Cape Horn last night and is heading north east into the Atlantic at 7.5 knots. Matmut suffered damage to her rigging when the yacht was pitchpoled 3-weeks ago and organisers have been concerned [...]
The world's last iron four masted ship, Falls of Clyde, built in 1878, has a date for returning to Scotland for restoration, but desperately needs a funding campaign to take off in order for that to happen. Save Falls of Clyde, a Glasgow-based non-profit group have a date of February 3 2019 for Sevenstar's lift [...]
Marlow Ropes is launching a mooring rope made using 100% recycled plastic. Blue Ocean Dockline, is the first ‘technically better’ premium dockline rope manufactured using yarns wholly made from plastic bottles. "The development and production of recycled polyester (rPET) yarn combined with Marlow’s engineering expertise has resulted in this latest rope innovation," the company says. [...]
Jeremy Lines, the prominent yachting archivist for Camper and Nicholson, where he was the chief designer for many years has died in Gosport aged 88. Jeremy was a well respected member of the Association of Yachting Historians (AYH) and had recently been involved with the late Theo Rye, and also the GL Watson expert Martin [...]
Introducing windward starts and new courses to make sure that the racing is both safer and more challenging are the aims of the new steering committee for the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, annoucned this week. The committee, listed below is chaired by the long-standing organiser Carlo Falcone who runs the 1938 79ft William Fife design [...]
Tracy Edwards' restored maxi yacht Maiden set off on her 54,000 mile round-the-world voyage promoting education for girls last week, but has put into Plymouth for repairs. Maiden had seen her voyage delayed by several weeks as issues to do with coding the vessel and other matters were sorted out. She left the Hamble bound for [...]
First Sea Lord honours creativity and journalism at the 2018 Maritime Media Awards Sir David Attenborough, the well-known broadcaster and naturalist has won the prestigious Maritime Fellowship Award for raising public awareness of how life on earth depends on the oceans, at the 23rd annual Maritime Media Awards held at Drapers’ Hall in the City [...]
Captain Oates’ former yacht Saunterer is joining other century old classic yachts in Dartmouth on Sunday, 11 November 2018 for a short parade on the River Dart to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. 100 years to the day after the end of the First World War in 1918, three [...]
