Archive for Ağustos, 2020

With Marino Gil The last of our ‘Would You Rather’s’ is with 18-year-old – Marino Gil (Goya Windsurfing), who finished just outside the world’s top 16 last year – 17th – while he also won the U20s Youth PWA Wave […]

Go Extreme Tandem Windsurfing Maui may have gone relatively flat at the moment, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop as Ricardo Campello (Naish / Naish Sails) and Kai Lenny (Quatro / Goya Windsurfing) show as they go […]

Graham Ezzy Delves Deep Into His Inspiration For The ‘Art of Waves’ Instead of competing on the windsurfing world tour full time when I turned 18, which is what most of the windsurfing world expected of me, I went to […]

Marcilio Browne May Not Have Put Many Words To Go With His Latest Clip, But He Doesn’t Need To With Sailing Like This… Just Watch & Admire! Spring in Maui, Hawaii, looked pretty epic with consistent swells and trade winds […]

New York Yacht Club, originally planning for the 166th edition of the Annual Regatta on June 12 to 14, and then shifting it to August 28 to 30 due an uptick of COVID-19 cases in Rhode Island, is moving the […]

Annapolis, MD (August 20, 2020) – After the Annapolis Boat Shows worked hard creating safety protocols and meeting with health officials for its October 2020 shows at City Dock Annapolis, SpinSheet reports how the city announced today the shows would […]

by Peter Wilson It has been 50 years since Intrepid was victorious over Gretel II in the 1970 America’s Cup, and B. Devereux Barker, who was Chairman of the New York Yacht Club Race Committee that year, has written an […]

There are those moments in sport, when the final outcome is on the line, which separate good from great. This was the purpose of the Medal Race in the Olympics, to narrow the focus to one instance for a person’s […]

Ten times more plastic pollution has been dumped in the Atlantic Ocean than previously believed, according to a study published on August 18. The paper is the first of its kind to measure “invisible” microplastics floating beneath the surface across […]

Four years ago, Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck was in Brazil to report on the Rio 2016 Olympics. With the Tokyo 2020 Games postponed until 2021, we keep that Olympic Flame alive through Leweck’s observations from the Carioca nation… here was […]

The U.S. National Sailing Hall of Fame selected nine people in 2020 to join the 81 previously-recognized individuals who have been enshrined since the first class in 2011. Among the Class of 2020 to be inducted on September 12 is […]

In a summer of social distancing, the Conanicut Yacht Club (Jamestown, RI) Around-the-Island Race on September 6 remains on the schedule for the 93rd edition. Held annually on the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, it may look a little different […]

The World Sailing Racing Rules Question and Answer Service is to support Race Officials, Member National Authorities and World Sailing Class Associations whereby they may submit questions through World Sailing concerning the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS). This inquiry addresses […]

Success at the Olympics is the convergence of all the variables. While ability and speed are the foundation, going fast in the wrong direction doesn’t do much good, so understanding the winds and current in Sagami Bay is a massive […]

Four years ago, Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck was in Brazil to report on the Rio 2016 Olympics. With the Tokyo 2020 Games postponed until 2021, we keep that Olympic Flame alive through Leweck’s observations from the Carioca nation… here was […]

Oakcliff Sailing, a high-performance training center in Oyster Bay, New York, will be partnering with US Performance Academy (USPA) to allow Oakcliff Saplings to take accredited high school classes while training full time on the Oakcliff campus. College students looking […]

America’s Cup challenger INEOS Team UK have moved their newest AC75 hull into the Portsmouth HQ to prepare for shipping to New Zealand. SailWeb reports their second boat will be fitted out at the Portsmouth HQ and prepared to be […]

The Harken Blockheads shares the story of the Columbia Sailing School and its program for a group of Chicago-area high school sailors to learn the skills needed for taking increased responsibility for their equipment. At first, the program was mandatory; […]

US Sailing and the Bristol Yacht Club (Bristol, RI) have cancelled the 2020 U.S. Team Racing Championship, planned for September 11-13, due to ongoing circumstances caused by the COVID-19 disease. Looking forward, Bristol Yacht Club will host the 2021 U.S. […]

Sarah Newberry-Moore (USA Sailing) and Pam Relph (GBR Para Rowing) are two female athletes from different sports and countries, one a mom and the other an aspiring mom, coming together to talk about professional sport and motherhood on their podcast, […]

The International Finn Association has decided to cancel the 2020 Finn Gold Cup, due to be held October 2-10, after it was postponed from its original dates of May 8-16 in Mallorca, Spain. The class policy had been to wait […]

Wind and clouds could not stop the 25 boats from competing in the 31st New England 100 held August 15-16 in Newport, RI. While the plan to complete one distance race per day for a total of 100 miles for […]

The World Sailing Racing Rules Question and Answer Service is to support Race Officials, Member National Authorities and World Sailing Class Associations whereby they may submit questions through World Sailing concerning the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS). This inquiry concerns […]

Four years ago, Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck was in Brazil to report on the Rio 2016 Olympics. With the Tokyo 2020 Games postponed until 2021, we keep that Olympic Flame alive through Leweck’s observations from the Carioca nation… here was […]

The U.S. National Sailing Hall of Fame selected nine people in 2020 to join the 81 previously-recognized individuals who have been enshrined since the first class in 2011. Among the Class of 2020 to be inducted on September 12 is […]

Newport, RI (August 16, 2020) – A total of 65 boats started the 2020 Ida Lewis Distance Race presented by Jeanneau America on August 15 in a building northeasterly that dished out 20-22 knots of breeze throughout most of the […]

Jane Tracy, the aunt of Sandra Tartaglino who died in a 2019 boating accident, reflects on the incident which occurred during the New England 100 Regatta on Narragansett Bay: A year later it is still hard to understand how it […]

What is it really like to sail an AC75 every day? INEOS Team UK grinder David Carr reveals for Yachting World what life is like in Ben Ainslie’s America’s Cup crew: “When you push off the dock, your life is […]

Few anticipated the impact of COVID-19, and now the availability of a vaccine and the beginning of the America’s Cup are timelines sitting precariously close to each other. While the competing teams have been given approval to train amid heightened […]

The coronavirus pandemic has cancelled two of the iconic fall events in San Diego, CA. The International Masters Regatta, which bring together the best master sailors from around the world by invitation, and the Lipton Cup, a club challenge event, […]

In the past years, the watersports world has witnessed the birth of a new sport: wing-foiling, also known as wing-surfing or wing-boarding. Wing-foiling has attracted a huge number of fans and practitioners in a short period of time because of […]

Following the story, Earning a start the old fashioned way, we got the idea to ask for ‘Nice Start’ stories. Much like the fish we catch, these get better with age… here’s a sampling: During one America’s Cup 12-meter summer […]

Four years ago, Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck was in Brazil to report on the Rio 2016 Olympics. With the Tokyo 2020 Games postponed until 2021, we keep that Olympic Flame alive through Leweck’s observations from the Carioca nation… here was […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News I get sent a lot of books which get sorted into three piles: give-aways, keepers that’ll likely go unread, and prospects. The prospect pile is ready for vacations, and I’m glad I had Doug […]

When the 2020 New England 100 Regatta is held August 15 and 16, over two dozen teams will race their beach catamarans in one distance race per day with a goal of completing 100 miles for the weekend. With over […]

Dear Curmudgeon: The AC 75s throw up a huge quantity of spray which has been likened to a fire hose. Is this simply the nature of the beast or a result of less than optimal design? Does it represent wasted […]

Calling The World’s Best Youth Wave Sailors – Join The Youth PWA World Cup In Cold Hawaii, Denmark, This September Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the senior PWA World Tour stop scheduled for the 13th-19th September will now be replaced […]

Oda Brødholt & Maaike Huvermann Finally Reunite In Naxos For Some Serious Freestyle Training After being on lockdown for several months due to COVID-19 some countries have started to open their borders again – including Greece – which is where […]

Highlights Of A Great Week In El Médano Where Iballa Moreno Mentored Several Of The Sports Most Promising Young Girls With the Tenerife PWA World Cup not being able to take place this year due to COVID-19, the organisers didn’t […]

Old School Meets New School With Sarah-Quita Offringa In Naxos Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins) decided to leave Aruba after several months at home for a new adventure in Naxos, Greece, where she met up with […]

The Grand Slam Series of Grade 2 match races, the highest ranked series of match races in the United States which attracts top talent from around the globe, has been awarded nine times and was on course in 2020 for […]

Suddenly and with only the briefest warning, the much-loved Elsa Green (1945-2020) slipped her mooring lines and slid gently away from her berth for the last time, departing July 21 in Lymington, England. Known and respected from California to Cornwall, […]

by Bill Goggins, CEO, Harken It’s my favorite time of the year in Pewaukee. Many of our local kids, including my own, are in sailing class. They will have some regattas in the coming days. Although the COVID-19 virus is […]

It has been 23 years since the first Harbor 20s were commissioned, and during that span its builder claims the class has had more racing than any other keelboat. Tall tale? W.D. Schock, building boats for more than 70 years, […]

Four years ago, Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck was in Brazil to report on the Rio 2016 Olympics. With the Tokyo 2020 Games postponed until 2021, we keep that Olympic Flame alive through Leweck’s observations from the Carioca nation… here was […]

Lifelong sailor Rick Arneson, M.B.A., author of Plotting the Course: Life Lessons from the Sport of Sailing, shares a message for the sailor in us: The coronavirus pandemic has been a challenge for everyone the world over, and we have […]