Yachting News
Team Alvimedica’s skipper Charlie Enright won the final offshore battle of the Volvo Ocean Race here today, but the overall trophy belonged firmly with his rival from Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Ian Walker.
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On June 28, the legendary ocean racing yacht Dorade will attempt to repeat her first and most significant victory when she embarks on the 2015 Transatlantic Race from Newport, R.I. to Plymouth, U.K.
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100% Pure New Zealand is the 2015 ‘Destination Partner’ for the Superyacht Cup Palma for the first time. With the long-running regatta’s reputation for attracting superyachts with a keen competitive edge and desire to push the bou...
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EU interior ministers will meet to discuss a quota plan to deal with the thousands of migrants endeavoring to enter Europe by crossing the Mediterranean.
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Britain’s Ben Ainslie, the most successful Olympic sailor in history, has won another prestigious prize to add to a trophy cabinet already groaning with top honours: The Magnus Olsson Award in memory of the much-missed Volvo Ocean...
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Global warming has forced dolphins for go north in the spring where they are being killed and eaten by polar bears. This marks the first time that bears have been seen killing and eating dolphins.
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Skipper Sam Davies (GBR) and her Team SCA crew struck a resounding blow for women’s offshore sailing in the early hours of Thursday morning when they gloriously clinched Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race.
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After a third round of debating by Gibraltar’s Development & Planning Commission, outline planning permission was awarded for the new superyacht berths and short-stay and rental apartments in Marina Bay at Ocean Village.
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Overall Volvo Ocean Race leaders, Ian Walker and his seven Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing crewmates, left Lisbon for Leg 8 to Lorient, France, on Sunday with their eyes glued on the weather forecast - and the progress of their two closest...
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Alan Bond, the man who famously funded Australia’s historic victory at the 1983 America’s Cup, has died in Perth at the age of 77 following heart surgery earlier this week.
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Blue skies, warm sun, and the sparkling emerald waters of the Costa Smeralda greeted the fleet of sailing superyachts on the first day of the 2015 Loro Piana Caribbean Superyacht Regatta.
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Hundreds of people are feared dead after a Chinese ferry carrying over 450 passengers sank on the Yangtze River on Monday night after getting stuck in a cyclone.
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According to the Hawaii Police Department, Randy Llanes, 47, was killed on Friday while trying to catch the swordfish with a spear gun. The fish was about 6 feet long, half of which was its bill, and weighed about 40 pounds.
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During an inquest into the death of Michael Hanton, his family claimed that the 22 year old had been 'overworked' in the days leading up to the tragedy in Port Vauban in Antibes.
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Team Brunel completed a triumphant Leg 7 early on Wednesday to bolster their hopes of finishing with a podium place in the Volvo Ocean Race and also keep alive their hopes of overall victory.
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A powerful 24-hour surge by Team SCA piled the pressure on overall race leaders Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing in Leg 7 on Monday, as the battle to finish first in Lisbon gathered pace.
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Following on from OnboardOnline's recent articles regarding the increased risk to superyachts of encountering a migrant boat, Captain Rod Hatch, Captain Adrian Croft and Allmode Security have produced a set of guidelines for yacht...
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After 40 years, divers in Florida will finally begin work at the bottom of the sea to remove 700,000 used car tyres that authorities dumped there in 1972.
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There are always jobs going in this industry. It’s true that there are more positions open around the seasonal ‘shoulders’ i.e., April/May and October/November, but in reality there are still jobs coming up the rest of the year as...
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has declared that his country will conduct search and rescue missions for Rohingya migrant boats in the Andaman Sea.
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Alix Tichelman, the prostitute charged with killing a Google executive in a heroin-laced bender on a yacht, was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison by a Santa Cruz County judge.
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The Daily Telegraph has reported that a British sailor pulled unconscious from the water off Puerto Portals in Mallorca, is in a coma after falling from Motoryacht Kibo. It is reported that the harness and seat he was cleaning fr...
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Maritime tensions rise in the Persian Gulf as five Iranian boats fire shots at a Singapore flagged cargo vessel in international waters yesterday.
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Michael Duffy, a yachtsman in San Diego woke up to find a baby sea lion sleeping on a bunk on his yacht Elixir. He said he was on his 12.5m (41ft) boat Elixir at the San Diego Yacht Club when he awoke at 2.30am on Sunday to sneezi...
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Thousands of lives will be lost in the Mediterranean unless EU Governments take urgent action, say shipowner groups and seafarer unions.
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The victorious winners of the World Superyacht Awards 2015 were announced yesterday at the 10th edition of the event in Amsterdam.
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On 9 May 2015, vessels in United Kingdom ports and harbours are encouraged to sound a
signal at a designated time of 1100 Hrs (1000 Hrs UTC) to commemorate and celebrate 70th anniversary of the VE Day. Read More
signal at a designated time of 1100 Hrs (1000 Hrs UTC) to commemorate and celebrate 70th anniversary of the VE Day. Read More
“An Inspector Calls” was a popular morality play written by the English playwright J.B. Priestley at the end of WW II. As Priestley himself remarked about the characters in his play, “They are losing all pride and interest in the ...
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New Zealand-based superyacht agent, Asia Pacific Superyachts New Zealand (APSNZ), is proud to announce that effective immediately it has been registered as an official New Zealand Inbound Tour Operator (ITO) with the Tourist Expor...
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Gary Vanhoeck, 44, was shot twice on board his boat at the Stuart Cove dive centre in front of his wife when two men armed with shotguns 'accosted him and demanded cash' according to a police report.
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