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Fastnet moves to France
LONDON, 26 NOVEMBER 2019 – In a shameful move for British sailing the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC), organisers of the Fastnet Race, announced at a press conference today that the City of Cherbourg will host the finish of the Rolex Fastnet Race for the 2021 and 2023 editions of the biennial race instead of […]
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Unmanned vessels – new code of practice
Development of uncrewed or so called Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) has continued apace since they were first announced a few years ago. The fast pace of change has seen the need for new guidance on their design and manufacture as well as the duties of their owners, operators and service providers as well as […]
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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 prepared its own Ocean Manifesto identifying the key policy changes which would help protect our marine environment. The MCS will […]
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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 and join us again, notably the magnificent 137’ Herreshoff gaff schooner Elena of London (above), the beautiful 86’ 1939 Henry […]
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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, to fund its new Community and Activity Village. 80, mostly school age, sailing novices from the inland district were involved […]
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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 visitation and service Saturday morning, October 26 at Galilee Lutheran Church in Pewaukee, followed by a celebration at Harken HQ. […]
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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 an astonishing six times larger than any 3-D printer before it. The two-and-a-half ton boat, called 3Dirigo took just 72 […]
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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 Totnes. The 12.2′ (3.7m) dinghy weighs just 60 kg sans rig and offers several different sizes of rig to suit […]
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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 in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit. Whilst by no means comprehensive or necessarily definitive, HMRC and the European Commission […]
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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 Museum, in St Michaels, Maryland. From 10am–4pm Thursday, Nov. 7–Sunday, Nov. 10, guests are invited to enrol at the CBMM […]
