Yachting News
Following recent announcements of potential job cuts, luxury yacht builder Sunseeker International has confirmed the redundancy of 240 employees in an effort to restructure the company and increase efficiency . The company builds ...
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Nathan Francisty of M/Y Lady Sheridan tragically lost his life on Saturday whilst swimming in a tidal pool at the tip of Megan's Bay.
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An independent report into the grounding of Team Vestas Wind’s boat on a reef in the Indian Ocean has been set up by the Volvo Ocean Race.
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Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than many observers recognise.
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Two Olympic silver medallists were left fearing for their lives after being mugged at knifepoint in Rio de Janeiro.
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Cruise ships dumped more than a billion gallons of sewage into the ocean in 2014, much of it raw or poorly treated, an environmental group says.
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More than five trillion pieces of plastic, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes, are floating in the world’s oceans, causing damage throughout the food chain, new research has found.
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According to the recently launched St. Kitts and Nevis Yachting Policy, global yachting research agency Camper and Nicholsons reports that the Caribbean yachting market has remained steady attracting charters for large yachts with...
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Researchers at the University of Hawaii have discovered a miraculously preserved “ghost ship” on the seabed off Oahu, alongside the wrecks of several Japanese submarines.
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The nation will get their first look at Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze-Clark’s new super maxi Comanche in race mode tomorrow (Dec. 9), when the 21st SOLAS Big Challenge starts on Sydney on Sydney Harbour at 12.30pm, in a prelude to th...
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The defence of sailing’s America’s Cup, currently held by Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, will take place off Bermuda, the organisers have announced.
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Volvo Ocean Race’s ship-wrecked nine-man Team Vestas Wind crew finally made it back to civilisation on Wednesday, telling of their amazing escape from a collision with an Indian Ocean reef which grounded their boat.
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The captain accused of causing the Costa Concordia disaster says he sailed the cruise ship close to a nearby island to impress passengers.
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At least one person is dead and 52 are missing after a South Korean fishing ship sank in the Bering Sea.
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Team Vestas Wind crew were rescued in the small hours of Sunday morning after the Danish team's Volvo Ocean Race boat was grounded on a reef in the Indian Ocean, forcing them to abandon it.
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The EU is taking Ireland to court over the misuse of marked fuel in private yachts after the country's legislation has failed to be changed.
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Mounting its biggest and riskiest sea rescue in years, the Greek Navy towed a disabled freighter carrying hundreds of migrants toward the Aegean island of Crete on Wednesday, fighting strong winds and high seas, officials said.
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British sailing great Ben Ainslie has told sports fans to expect an "experience like you have never seen before" after it was announced on Tuesday (Nov 25) that Portsmouth would stage two of the preparation races for the 2017 Amer...
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Researchers in the US have released what they believe to be the first video footage showing a bizarre-looking Black Sea Devil anglerfish in the wild.
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Peru is investigating the deaths of some 500 sea lions found on a beach on its northern coastline.
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The 2015 London Boat Show agreed a title sponsorship deal with Forex trading company, CWM FX on Thursday. The 2015 Show will become known as the CWM FX London Boat Show.
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A tall ship used to train thousands of sea cadets is being decommissioned after 43 years of service.
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Carla Demaria, President of Monte Carlo Yachts, Board member of Italian Yachting Federation (UCINA) and the Board of Bénéteau Group and General Manager of Bénéteau Brand, has given a fascinating keynote speech at the opening cerem...
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Spanish navy boats protecting an oil drilling ship rammed Greenpeace boats during a protest, leaving one activist with a broken leg and another with minor cuts.
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The Centers for Disease Control said on Sunday that 172 people on a cruise ship arriving in California had fallen ill with the highly contagious norovirus during a nearly month-long trip.
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The philanthropic business magnate, Sir Richard Branson, is assisting YachtAid Global in delivering supplies to kids and families in St. Maarten for post Hurricane Gonzalo relief using his yacht Necker Belle.
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A "massive search" has been launched to find a passenger missing from a ferry in the English Channel, Dover Coastguard has said.
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Courts hears four Dutch men wanted to use a Seabob water scooter to move 108kg of the drug from a ship in Scotland
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The captain of the South Korean ferry that sank earlier this year, killing more than 300 people, has been jailed for 36 years.
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Vessel found in search for yachtsman believed to have gone sailing between Brighton and Newhaven in East Sussex
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