The Andoo team of Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta and Sam Newton are the 2021-22 100th Australian 18 Footer Champions…
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18 Footer Championship – Andoo are 100th 18ft Skiff Australian Champions
Sunday
Feb 13
2022
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Feb 13
2022
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44CUP Lanzarote – Ceeref take lead after 3 races
Saturday
Feb 12
2022
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Feb 12
2022
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Leading at the half way stage of the 44Cup Calero Marinas in Lanzarote is Igor Lah’s Ceeref, a mere point ahead of Team Aqua…
Use It Again! – Round World Attempt goes aground after rounding Cape Horn
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
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Feb 10
2022
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Romain Pilliard and Alex Pella on the Trimaran ‘Use It Again!’ are reported safe in Puerto Williams, Chile, after being recovered from the rocks in Cook Bay…
sledding…
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
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Feb 10
2022
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This is what it looks like beginning to sled down a North Atlantic big wave. A Swan 38 does boogie down a big wave. The Swan 38 rises, being pushed by the wave, it bangs along the surface of the wave at high speed. People have told me that this is cool. OK.
Some said it’s like sliding down the snow on a sled. The cool thing here is the rudder. I slowed down to be on the giant face of the wave. Yahoo! Sledding. The big waves fall behind, erupting in the wave behind.
The Swan 38, a beautiful S&S design, was built in the 70s. What a sexy battle wagon she is. The hull is massively thick, a lot of resin…. What amazed me was how the leeward shrouds barely slacked off when it was blowing stink. As we arrived in Horta, everyone whistled when they spotted her. It was like Brigitte Bardot caught their eye. I do love her lines.
I built and raced a Tornado and loved to go wave hunting under the Golden Gate Bridge. I‘m sure I…
Point of SAIL: Solo-sailor Capt. Donald Lawson
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
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2022
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In this episode of Point of SAIL, sponsored by East Coast Yacht Sales, Principal Editor Adam Cort talks with veteran professional sailor Capt. Donald Lawson about his plans to break a number of offshore sailing records over the next few years and also become the first African American to sail solo-nonstop around the world. To learn more about Capt. Lawson’s efforts, you can also visit.
To listen to more SAIL magazine “Point of SAIL” podcasts, click here.
February 2022
and they considered this fun…
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
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Feb 10
2022
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MARTELA OF, Custom Baltic 81 Frers Maxi, Southern Ocean, November 1989, speed 28.3 knots. Click here for more. Not so sure about that speed claim…
37th America’s Cup video update
Wednesday
Feb 09
2022
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Feb 09
2022
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Matt Sheahan provides a video update and his views on the 37th America’s Cup along with a quick peek at the new AC40 in build…
Billionaires new clothes . . . time to pay the piper?
Tuesday
Feb 08
2022
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Feb 08
2022
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The super-rich have been on a spending spree throughout the covid pandemic that has taken the superyacht business to new heights…
Offshore Passage: Schooled
Monday
Feb 07
2022
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Feb 07
2022
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Pre-cook your meals for the first two days. Reef early. Don’t drink too much the night before departure. Don’t expect to poop until the third day at sea. Don’t sail to a schedule. Some lessons are ubiquitous and obvious (including the pooping one, though it might not be as readily apparent at first). Here are a few more I’ve learned in 15 years of ocean sailing.
The 3-day rule:
Any passage shorter than five days is too short. Even during the best of passages, it takes three days for my body and mind to adapt to life at sea. Prior to that third day, I don’t have my sea legs yet, I’m not getting deep sleep, and if the passage is any sort of uncomfortable—upwind, wet, cold, you name it—I question my career choices and wish I was on the couch watching a movie. This never fails.
And yet, by the beginning of day three, I remember why I do this. I’m well-rested. Well-fed. I’ve gotten my sea legs, and I feel inspired again to do “optional” things on deck, like get out the sextant, or make hurricane eggs in the galley. I find myself waking up before my watch starts because I’ve gotten enough sleep.
I read more off-watch, instead of just sleep. I get more creative. In fact, as I write this column, I’m about halfway between the Canary Islands and the Azores, and guess what—it’s day three.
“The more you know, the less you need”
If I could distill my philosophy on seamanship into one bite-sized quote, it would be the one above from famed mountaineer and businessman Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia. He was talking about climbing, but it doesn’t take much imagination to apply it to sailing…
100th Australian 18 Footers Championship – Day 3
Monday
Feb 07
2022
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2022
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Andoo of Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta and Sam Newton extend their lead to six points after races 4 and 5 of the Australian 18 footer Championship on Sydney Harbour…
Gilbert and McGrane Tame the Tiger
Sunday
Feb 06
2022
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Feb 06
2022
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Overnight leaders Roger Gilbert and Ben McGrane sailing a 505 took overall victory at the John Merricks Tiger Trophy with four points from a 2, 1, 1 score line…
Olympics for UK in 2040?
Saturday
Feb 05
2022
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Feb 05
2022
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According to the newly published Levelling Up White Paper, Britain could launch another bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games…
100th Australian 18 Footers Championship – Day 1
Saturday
Feb 05
2022
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Feb 05
2022
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The 100th Australian 18 Footers Championship kicked off on Sydney Harbour on Saturday 5 February…
Tallships: New Age of Sail
Friday
Feb 04
2022
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Feb 04
2022
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big boat energy
Friday
Feb 04
2022
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Feb 04
2022
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Energy Observer is a multi-partner project that gathers companies involved in all sectors of the eco-energy transition. Among the Odyssey’s new supporters: Qair, an independent producer of renewable energy, and GUYOT Environnement, a regional leader in waste recovery in Brittany.
That is the strength of this technological, innovative, and human project: cooperating with players who act on all the vectors of the ecological and energy transition, with a wide range of skills, which include hydrogen, green financing, climate risk insurance, hospitality, training for the professions of tomorrow, sustainable mobility, software intelligence, the circular economy, renewable energies, etc…
Giles Scott explains the 37th America’s Cup Protocol changes
Friday
Feb 04
2022
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Feb 04
2022
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The 37th America’s Cup Protocol revealed that the AC75 will continue for a second generation with an emphasis on evolution rather than revolution. Here Giles Scott highlights the major changes . . .
puttin’ on the ritz
Wednesday
Feb 02
2022
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Feb 02
2022
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A maritime investment company that is helping to launch a Ritz-Carlton brand cruise operation announced plans to expand through the purchase of niche cruise operator Sea Cloud Cruises. Douglas Prothero’s The Yacht Portfolio has entered into a letter of intent to acquire Sea Cloud Cruises of Hamburg, Germany suggesting that it could use the brand to expand its relationship with hotel and lodging giant Marriott International.
Sea Cloud is a unique niche operation in the cruise industry running one of the world’s most famous sailing vessels as well as two newer sail cruise ships. Started in 1979, the company markets cruises and charters of the 64-passenger sailing yacht the Sea Cloud. Launched in 1931 as the Hussar V, the three-masted barque was built in Kiel, Germany for U.S. heiress and businesswoman Marjorie Merriweather Post and her then-husband Wall Street tycoon E.H. Hutton…
setting the record straight
Tuesday
Feb 01
2022
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Feb 01
2022
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It has taken a while – in fact a whole month – for the Chairman of the Sydney-Hobart Race Committee to finally respond to the controversy following his protest against Celestial and the Committee’s grant of redress to Ichi Ban. Perhaps retired Rear Admiral Lee Goddard was hoping that the heat of this incident would cool with time.
Goddard today issued a statement to all offshore competitors via the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia titled “Monitoring VHF and Assistance”. The bulk of his release emphasizes the requirement for continuous monitoring of VHF16 and the specific rules and maritime safety regulations that apply…
All-star British team take podium place at J/70 Bacardi Winter Series
Monday
Jan 31
2022
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Jan 31
2022
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An incredible passage of play from Charles Thompson’s all-star British team on Brutus III (GBR 1123) who came together as a crew for the first time for their debut appearance in Miami…
new one design
Monday
Jan 31
2022
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Jan 31
2022
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Tired of paying grouchy a-holes $1,200 a day to yell at you on your J/70? Here’s your solution; an unmanned surface vessel! Sure they prolly cost around a million bucks each, and you’ll likely need a full-time engineer, but at least you don’t have to buy all those lunches…
jellyfish bot?
Monday
Jan 31
2022
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Jan 31
2022
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Okay maybe the whole robot thing has gone a step too far…
born this way
Saturday
Jan 29
2022
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Jan 29
2022
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This resonated with us, we hope it does with you.
Five young people go on a sailing trip together — nothing unusual in that. What makes this adventure special is that all the participants have autism. It’s a shared experienced aimed at boosting self-esteem in everyday life.
This is a challenging step for all five. Everything is different here, no day like the last. The ship is cramped. Social contact is unavoidable. Luckily, co-skipper Corinna is an experienced support worker. It’s not long before the sparks begin to fly — but when all’s said and done, this is the high point of the year for them all…
iQFOiL International Games – Top 10 decided for Medal Series
Friday
Jan 28
2022
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Jan 28
2022
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Day four of the iQFOiL International Games in Lanzarota saw six British competitors make it into Saturday’s iQFOiL medal series…
maxi taxis
Friday
Jan 28
2022
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Jan 28
2022
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We are now at the end of the Maxi season so time for a bit of a round-up… Overall this year has been remarkably successful for the International Maxi Association. Especially given the global picture at the start of 2021. That said, inevitably with the continuing pandemic, the events in the early part of the year had to take place under considerable restriction with travel between European countries and even regions within those countries remaining extremely limited.
However, in a brave move by Yacht Club Italiano, they pressed on with the planned launch of their new opening regatta for Maxis; the Regate di Primavera in Portofino had already been ‘resting’ for a few years and so it was a bit of a gamble to relaunch it in 2021. Even at the last moment, it had to be postponed for a week due to Covid, which then presented a knock-on problem as the event became overlapped with Rolex Capri Week. That the final entry was almost entirely local and Italian was hardly surprising…
iQFOiL International Games – Men Only on Day 3
Thursday
Jan 27
2022
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Jan 27
2022
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Day three of the IQFOiL International Games only managed to complete two races . . . both for the Men’s event…
eternal wood
Wednesday
Jan 26
2022
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Jan 26
2022
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Refloating and moving the Maud, Roald Amundsen’s ship
The ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen has finally returned to Norway, his home country, a hundred years after setting sail for the North Pole, the director of the repatriation project announced.
The Maud, a robust three-masted sailing ship, a valuable relic of the Norwegian polar expeditions, was refloated in 2016 after spending 85 years under the waters of northern Canada, where it sank in 1930.
After leaving Greenland, the wreck was towed across the North Atlantic on a barge and arrived at the port of Bergen in western Norway.
“The trip was long but it was good,” the director of the operation”, Jan Wanggaard, told AFP. Thanks to the financing of three brothers and Norwegian businessmen, the Maud will be exhibited in the municipality of Asker (southeast), near Oslo, where it was launched in 1917. “Roald Amundsen is an important historical figure in Norway,” explained Wanggaard. “We want to tell the story of this expedition to the Norwegian people,” he added…
2024
Tuesday
Jan 25
2022
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Jan 25
2022
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How many minutes of sailing have you seen covered on your TV in the past few Olympics? We, the sailing public, would of course like to see more. In an effort to make it more exciting we changed to faster, more exciting boats and even foiling but there has been little change in the amount of mainstream coverage sailing has received anywhere in the world. Why is this important? Especially as we’d like to see our sport grow and greater mainstream media coverage is one way to help that…
INEOS Britannia – Chief Designer claims plenty of room for improvement
Monday
Jan 24
2022
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Jan 24
2022
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Martin Fischer’s role with INEOS Britannia is that of Chief Designer fo the next America’s Cup . . . and he pulls no punches in his comments on the previous INEOS AC75 design…
RORC Transatlantic Race – Close for Scarlet Oyster
Monday
Jan 24
2022
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Jan 24
2022
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Ross Applebey’s Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster (GBR) failed to overall RORC Transatlantic Race leader Comanche…
24 Hour Dinghy Race succumbs to Covid Pandemic
Friday
Jan 21
2022
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Jan 21
2022
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The West Lancashire YC Executive Committee has reluctantly taken the decision to cancel the ‘Southport 24 Hour Race’ due to take place on 10 and 11 September 2022.
night flight
Thursday
Jan 20
2022
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Jan 20
2022
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RORC Transatlantic Race – Wednesday – Day 12
Wednesday
Jan 19
2022
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Jan 19
2022
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SiSi the Austrian Ocean Race Project’s VO65 of Gerwin Jansen finished the RORC Transatlantic Race Wednesday at 15:53hrs an elapsed time of 11d 4h 43m…
RORC Transatlantic Race – Day 11 – Comanche looking safe in the clubhouse
Tuesday
Jan 18
2022
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Jan 18
2022
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With RORC Transatlantic Race Line honours decided, the race takes a breather with just the Volvo 70 I Love Poland due to finish today…
Fast Finishes for the RORC Leaders
Tuesday
Jan 18
2022
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2022
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Over the weekend, the first finishers of the 2022 RORC Transat made landfall in Grenada, led by Giovanni Soldini’s Multi70 Maserati, which was awarded line honors with a corrected time of six days, 18 hours and 51 minutes. Maserati finished ahead of Peter Cunningham’s MOD70 PowerPlay and Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo by less than 20 miles.
“That was really fantastic,” said Soldini after the finish. “To do a transatlantic race like that with three boat 20 miles from each other is just amazing. We had a big problem the first night as straight away we broke the port rudder (hitting a UFO). However, in the second part of the race, luckily the angle was such that the starboard rudder was in the water.”
The next day, the famed 100ft VPLP Design/Verdier Maxi Comanche was awarded line honors for monohulls and secured the IMA Trophy. Comanche has set a new race record of seven days, 22 hours and one minute, beating the previous monohull record by over two days. Their speed run is not a huge surprise given that Comanche is in the habit of squashing records, and it already holds the title for the Monohull West-East Transatlantic record, as well as race records and line honors for the Rolex Fastnet Race, the RORC Caribbean 600, the Rolex Sydney Hobart, the Transpac and the Rolex Middle Sea Race. It’s still possible, however, that another monohull in the fleet could take the overall victory with a corrected IRC time.
“Comanche is an absolute weapon in the open ocean,” said skipper Mitch Booth. “The team are just so privileged to have the opportunity to race this boat with the full support and trust from the owners. It’s just a real thrill to be on board” The crew is a mix of offshore sailors, grand prix inshore sailors and a few newcomers. “We are not in set roles,” Booth says. “Everyone is trimming and on the helm. We are mixing it up, having a great time. It’s been really fun sailing together. Setting Atlantic records is iconic and very special.”
RORC Transatlantic Race – Comanche sets new race record
Sunday
Jan 16
2022
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2022
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Comanche the 100ft VPLP Design/Verdier Maxi, skippered by Mitch Booth, has taken Monohull Line Honours in the 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race…
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