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Panerai ends sponsorship, except Cowes
Nine regattas lose sponsorship Flagship Eilean will continue Organisers working hard to find a new sponsor Organisers of classic sailing regattas are busy trying to find new sponsors after the Italian watch specialist Panerai announced it would cease sponsoring the classic yacht circuit in 2019. Panerai was the major sponsor for nine regattas in America […]
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News crews on a booze cruise
Channel 5’s Britain by Boat has so far not really lived up to expectations. It features the veteran BBC newsreader Michael Buerk and John Sergeant, the Beeb’s long term (1992 to 2000) chief political correspondent taking off around the coast in the Ashley Butler Mayflower 50 design Bonaventure. Both newsmen have previously done “some yachting”. […]
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Susie Goodall Rescued After Yacht Pitchpoles
Susie Goodall has been rescued and is now safely aboard the Hong Kong-flagged 190m Tian Fu having abandoned her yacht DHL Starlight. The ship arrived in the dark and waited until daylight to commence the rescue procedure which involved using one of the deck cranes to pick her up rather than lower a boat (with […]
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Slats closes the gap
The Race is On! Mark Slats (see main photo) rounded Cape Horn just before 06:00 UTC on Saturday 2nd December, 8 days behind race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, having narrowed the lead by 351 miles over the past 7 days. The 2nd placed Dutchman is now within 1022 miles and needs to average 0.75knots […]
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UK to have its own GPS system
PM Theresa 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 […]
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Jean-Luc rounds Cape Horn
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 […]
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Falls of Clyde returning to Scotland
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 […]
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Mooring line made of recycled plastic bottles
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. […]
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RIP Jeremy Lines – C&N’s archivist
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 […]
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Antigua promises more challenging racing
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 […]
