Nanny State Goes Boating
Law plays four primary roles in society, which are to protect people from harm, ensure a common good, settle arguments and disputes regarding finite resources and persuade people to do the right...
View Articlepure genius
The once incredibly well attended Newport to Ensenada Race is on the way to reaching its nadir. With just 7 weeks until entry deadline, they have a whopping 102 boats entered. That is a historically...
View ArticleOlympic champions announce pools for Red Bull Youth America’s Cup
Two-time Olympic Gold Medalists Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher have announced the lineups for the two pools of top national youth teams that will compete in the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup in...
View ArticleGathering Sportboats for Better Racing
For 30 years, the NOOD regattas have been offering a national tour of one design racing, but an effort is now underway to support the one-designs that don’t have critical mass to form a fleet, yet...
View ArticleCollege: Spring Sailing Season Update
The functional opener for the 2017 college sailing season was quite the success. Many teams made the annual pilgrimage south to compete in the palm-tree filled, warm weather that February can present...
View ArticleSailing to Cuba 101
Here’s everything you need to know about sailing to Cuba. Well, not really sailing, more checking-in to Cuba via sailboat. It’s overwhelming at first, and information was sketchy – so here’s my...
View ArticleSt Petersburg to Habana Race gets underway after 58 year hiatus
The St. Petersburg Yacht Club has made history again as the St. Petersburg-Habana Race got underway on Tuesday, after after a 58-year hiatus. The 107- year-old Yacht Club last staged the race in 1959....
View ArticleJJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship – Fisher continues excellent form
Michael Coxon, Dave O’Connor and Trent Barnabas produced a faultless exhibition in the light East to ESE wind to bring Thurlow Fisher Lawyers home a 2m2s winner… For the rest of the story from...
View ArticleVendee Globe – Heerema – ‘Like the Southern Ocean’
Pieter Heerema has got moving again. This afternoon, he told us about some “incredible waves”. He now only has 500 miles left to sail in these tough conditions to complete his Vendée Globe, which he is...
View ArticleCountdown to the St Barths Bucket Regatta
The magic in St Barths takes place both on and off the water, when the owners and crews fill the yacht haven before and after racing, with the special Yacht Hop taking place on the Saturday evening…...
View ArticleFlying 15 Worlds – All change on day 4
All change at the Flying 15 World Championships as Australia’s Nick & Janet Jerwood took their first win of the week… For the rest of the story from Sail Web CLICK HERE!
View ArticleBlack flag comes out on Day 2 of GC32 Championship
With the wind dropping from nine knots to five, general recalls became the norm, as crews jockeyed to get the best starts. This forced Principle Race Officer John Craig to start races under a ‘black...
View ArticleNOAA seeking public comment
NOAA invites public comment on the recently released National Charting Plan. Comments are due by midnight, June 1, 2017. The National Charting Plan is a strategy to improve NOAA nautical chart...
View Articlecoersion
A fellow sailor said that the Dago Nood was going to have an ORC-based Sport Boat class and was I going to sail? I would, but of course the Noods demand that skippers be members of US Sailing in order...
View ArticleMerlin Recommissioning Sunday at Santa Cruz Harbor
Over the weekend, 200 plus friends and family, SC locals and sailing types, young and old descended upon Santa Cruz Small Boat Harbor to celebrate the recommissioning of Bill Lee’s Merlin… For the...
View ArticleFirst sail for Artemis team America’s Cup Class yacht
On Monday the Artemis Racing team sailed its new America’s Cup Class yacht, Magic Blue, for the first time – For the rest of the story from Sail Web CLICK HERE!
View ArticleEFG Bank Monaco wins fourth consecutive EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour
French sailing star Thierry Douillard today led his EFG Bank Monaco (MON) team to their fourth consecutive title as the Arabian classic came to a thrilling climax… For the rest of the story from...
View ArticleMan v. Machine: Are the Supermaxis fair?
In the March 2017 issue of Afloat Magazine, David Salter makes the case for a review of the offshore race rules. We hear the same complaint from rank-and-file offshore skippers after the Sydney-Hobart...
View ArticlePac52 ‘Invisible Hand’ Hits the Bay
With the mid-February deliver of Frank Slootman’s all-carbon rocket ship Invisible Hand to San Francisco Bay, the dream of building a West Coast Pac52 fleet has taken giant step closer to becoming a...
View ArticleGovernment Gone Wild
Now that a generation of helicopter parents are becoming government officials, boating is getting caught in the cross hairs. We don’t know if Maryland Senator James N. Mathias, Jr. had challenging...
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