Yachting News
Costa Rica's government has issued an emergency alert after a ship carrying 200 tons of ammonium nitrate capsized off the coast of Puntarenas.
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In the biggest drug bust ever in the UK, cocaine worth more than £500m was seized by HMS Somserset and Border Force cutter Valiant on 23rd April.
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The loss of four UK sailors in the Atlantic was "a tragic accident", the head of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said, and the vessel may have been weakened by previous groundings and subsequent repairs.
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Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA), fully recovered from the trauma of breaking their mast on the last leg, narrowly led the chase to Newport, Rhode Island, USA, on Monday.
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In an effort to deal with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, European leaders have agreed to triple funding for sea-and-rescue operations and several leaders have promised more ships and resources.
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As Italy presses the EU to help stem the deadly tide of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, European leaders will meet to discuss the possibility of military operations against migrant traffickers.
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The United Nations has confirmed that 800 people died when their boat sank off the coast of Libya. Italian officials have declared that the Captain of the boat, is being charged with reckless multiple homicide.
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Saturday's single race for each of the 10 classes sailing at Les Voiles de St. Barth determined overall winners and marked the fourth and final day of the regatta.
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Mystery still surrounds the trawler 'Karen' which was seemingly dragged backwards by a submarine off County Down in Northern Ireland.
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Survivors told the aid group Save the Children that this latest tragedy happened after the boat, carrying about 550 migrants in total, overturned a day after leaving Libya.
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Feadship has launched the 44.20-metre (145’0”) Moon Sand at De Vries Scheepsbouw in Makkum.
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Team Headnorth has made it to the North Pole after six long days of trekking in -358C. The team reached the Geographic North Pole after fighting their way through ice fields and battling with whiteouts and wind storms.
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In an attempt to alleviate Russian resistance to protecting the Southern Ocean, Lewis Pugh of the United Kingdom completed five epic swims off the coast of Antarctica.
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UK Oil and Gas Investments has said oil reserves discovered near Gatwick Airport could be significant and possibly the biggest onshore oil discovery in England since the 1980's.
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Patrizio Bertelli is pulling Italy and the Luna Rossa sailing team out of the 2017 America's Cup following a decision by participants on Tuesday to change the rules once again.
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Records clearly indicate there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of ‘Reported’ piracy attacks in the Southern Red Sea, Bab-El-Mandeb, Gulf of Yemen and the Horn of Africa. In fact as recently reported the highjacking of t...
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Marina Bay at Ocean Village has a month-long wait while Gibraltar’s Development & Planning Commission makes a decision on its proposed superyacht berths and short-stay & rental apartments.
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Louis Jordan 37, a South Carolina sailor missing for 66 days was rescued on Thursday in the Atlantic Ocean, having apparently survived on raw fish and rain water.
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At least 54 people have died and 15 are missing after a Russian freezer trawler carrying an international crew of 132 sank in far-eastern Russia. The fate of the remaining 15 from the Dalny Vostok trawler is currently unknown.
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Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) announced late on Tuesday that they plan to retire from Leg 5 after breaking their mast in the Southern Ocean.
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In Andrew Cuomo's recent budget for New York State, a new agreement will offer high end yacht buyers an important tax break. The first $230,000 of all vessel sales will still be fully taxed, but no sales tax will be collected on a...
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Volvo Ocean Race can confirm that Dongfeng Race Team broke its mast early on Monday (GMT, March 30) but fortunately nobody has been injured and there is no immediate danger to the crew.
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Alone in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean in a 24ft-rowing boat, hundreds of miles from land, with the threat of icebergs, commercial vessels, whales, storm force winds and huge waves, the reassurance of possessing a reliabl...
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Navetta 37 is the new flagship for the Ferretti Custom Line semi-displacement brand. The 37-meter's innovative external and internal design has been designed by the studio Zuccon International Project.
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Four of the six Volvo Ocean Race boats suffered big hits as the Southern Ocean gave the fleet its roughest ride of the race in 12 dramatic hours.
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A group of 28 men and women were arrested on board a yacht after throwing sex and alcohol parties on the 10th October last year. The court was told that the group included police officers and army personnel.
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In response to the devastation caused by cyclone Pam in Vanuatu on March 13 2015, a group of superyacht crew in Auckland have banded together to help the impacted communities of the islands.
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A massive one kilometre-wide iceberg has forced the Volvo Ocean Race to change the positioning of their ice gates to keep the fleet clear of trouble in the Southern Ocean on Leg 5.
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With huge devastation across the islands of Vanuatu after category five Tropical Cyclone Pam made landfall on the island chain, YachtAid Global has worked to implement a relief plan drawing aid from across the Pacific.
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Following his emphatic victory in the opening grand prix in Sydney on Sunday, Lewis Hamilton visited the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House with his hands firmly on the wheel.
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