Yachting News
Works have officially begun this January on Porto Montenegro’s highly anticipated marina extension, which will take berth capacity from the current mix of 250 to 400 by October 2014.
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A £200 million super-yacht is due to move out from Devonport dockyard this afternoon. The yacht, named the Alamshar, belongs to His Highness The Aga Khan.
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A 74-year-old grandmother who was the first female violinist in the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra is completing the last leg of the world's longest ocean race.
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Jeremy Warren and Phil Kirk encountered whirlpools, bombers and seals during 33-day voyage in 5-metre-long boat
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Ben Ainslie's quest to claim a maiden America's Cup triumph for Britain received a financial boost on Tuesday.
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A 62m long section of a 93m tall super yacht mast made an 11-hour journey from Auckland to Tauranga via the Kaimai Range on Friday.
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Emperor penguins could face extinction if temperatures continue to rise as melting sea ice will have a ripple effect on the birds' food chain, new research has warned.
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The cruising sailor’s worst nightmare: there’s nobody on the bridge, the officer ‘on watch’ is in a call centre ashore.
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McMurdo Smartfind Plus G5 EPIRB Helps To Save Three Sailors
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Team New Zealand has released a statement this afternoon confirming it will challenge for the 35th America's Cup.
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This is the terrifying moment, fisherman Steve Clark spotted a great white shark almost half the size of his boat making a lunge for his 35-foot vessel
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A dry-docked multimillion-dollar yacht burned for hours Thursday at a San Diego boatyard as firefighters poured thousands of gallons of water on the blaze.
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The Bay of Palma set a typical challenge for the Superyacht fleet making their first coastal course of the Superyacht Cup, with changes in pressure and wind direction.
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French fishermen are among a dozen people accused of smuggling more than 200 illegal immigrants across the Channel to the south coast of England.
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Dozens of Indonesian migrant workers are still missing after a boat capsized off Malaysia. According to rescue officials, so far at least 55 people have been rescued and two bodies have been recovered.
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Inmarsat has told the BBC that the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet has yet to go to the area it thinks is the plane's most likely crash site.
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Turkish exports of ships and yachts increased by 46.4 percent to $131.9 million in May, compared to $90.1 million at the same time last year.
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An oil tanker missing for a week off the coast of West Africa was attacked by pirates who stole its cargo.
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A yacht crew are to compete in this year’s Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race in tribute to the four crew lost from the Cheeki Rafiki.
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Olympic gold medallist Sir Ben Ainslie was joined by the Duchess of Cambridge as he launched Britain's bid to win the 35th America's Cup.
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The body of a woman thought to have been involved in a collision at sea has been recovered from waters off the Suffolk coast.
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Olympic Games 2016: Sailing venue with floating corpses, dead dogs and toxic waste 'won't be cleaned in time', warn Rio bosses.
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Developed by teen entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the ‘passive clean-up concept’ uses the natural currents to let the oceans clean themselves.
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Major changes have been made to the 35th America’s Cup series, with smaller yachts and crews, a three-year racing programme and the introduction of a nationality rule.
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An increase of 114,000 berths (five percent) is expected over the coming decade, with Russia, China and South Korea leading the way in the construction of new marinas.
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British and American veterans are set to leave Portsmouth and travel to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
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Yacht brokers faced ruin after new regulation -aimed at combating money laundering - prevented them opening client accounts, threatening a £3 billion a year industry.
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The curse of the Black Pearl: Pirates of the Caribbean pirate ship The Brig Unicorn sank in freak accident off the coast of St Vincent and the Grenadines on Saturday.
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Experts are warning that the new Arctic shipping routes that have opened up as ice-ways continue to melt create new opportunities for invasive marine and insect life to spread further north.
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The Russian government plans to invest up to $2bn in the development of yacht tourism in the recently annexed Crimean peninsula, to lure back yachtsmen who voted with their keels.
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