Archive for Kasım, 2022

After their first America’s Cup challenge in 2021, the NYYC American Magic team made some changes in their pursuit of the trophy. Prominent in that change was bringing Scott Ferguson (Jamestown, RI) to lead the design team. Scuttlebutt editor Craig […]

Organizers for the 37th America’s Cup in 2024 have confirmed details for the competition in Barcelona, Spain. Among the decisions was the placement of the racing area for both the Challenger Selection Series and the America’s Cup Match which will […]

The Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on November 30, bringing to a close the six-month period when the vast majority of tropical activity occurs in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. Prior to the season, forecasters generally […]

There is irony in how the America’s Cup defender, eager to deliver high performance racing for the 37th Match, has us watching grass grow. Okay, it’s not watching grass grow, its watching water dry … pretty much the same thing. […]

Efforts by the global community to reduce emissions likes to point its spotlight on transport ships, which deflects attention with dreamy visions of billowing sails propelling goods across oceans. It feels so far-fetched, yet now the proposals include smooth hull […]

Kai Lenny mixing things up with a little mini Backdoor Pipeline session Kai Lenny (Goya Windsurfing) is the allround waterman – winning multiple world titles in SUP, whilst he remains one of the best wave windsurfers in the world – […]

One wonders if the pursuit by the uber-rich to have the biggest yacht is more about claiming it than having it, but there is one such yacht that somebody does need to have. While the images remain conceptual, this creation […]

What are the smallest boats sailors consider for crossing and ocean? For ‘microyacht’ voyagers, there’s no limit. Yachting World’s Elaine Bunting finds out why they put to sea in tiny vessels: Often the smallest boats to cross oceans look much […]

Bill Schanen relives horrid memories in his column for Sailing magazine: Call me Ishmael. I can relate to Moby-Dick’s narrator because I too have tales to tell of creatures tormenting sailors at sea. I’ve never been threatened by a whale […]

Chris Caswell dislikes the current iteration of America’s Cup racing, and he pounds that drum in his Sailing magazine column: Disclosure: I love sports cars. I’ve loved them since I didn’t have a driver’s license and, since then, I’ve owned […]

An old sailing saying goes, “Below 40 degrees latitude, there is no law; below 50, there is no God.” Cape Horn, the southerly headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, is at 56 degrees south – has an earned reputation […]

It is always a privilege when Sir Robin Knox-Johnston checks in with Scuttlebutt HQ. As the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, and then later to set the fastest time to earn the Jules Verne […]

The problem with the mantra “Foiling is the Future” is it forgets about how foiling has certain requirements like expertise, sufficient wind, and relatively flat water. And if you are kitefoiling when these variables become your enemy, a rescue can […]

Papeete, Tahiti (November 26, 2022) – Today at 15:00 hours local time (01:00 UTC, November 27), the GLOBE40 crews set sail on leg 5 in Matavai Bay to the north of the island of Tahiti, bound for the Argentinean stopover […]

Along the Canadian border, the state of Montana is not near major USA sailing regions, so you’d be excused to never having heard of Flathead Lake. Best known for its significant size and clarity, the Thistle Class will be road […]

(November 25, 2022; Day 17) – After French skipper Roland Jourdain (We Explore) was deemed the winner of the Rhum Multihull class in the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, he dropped to second after being been given a statutory time […]

Sail Canada, the national governing body for the sport of sailing in Canada, and Canada SailGP Team have formed an official partnership between the two organizations to further promote and develop the sport nationwide, including developing foiling talent across the […]

Unique to the 37th America’s Cup has been the AC40 boat, essentially a scaled down version of the AC75 boats to be used in the 2024 event. The boat is freshly designed by the Kiwi defender, intended as a cost-saving […]

Tied to a coconut tree on the beach in the fishing village of Lambeau, on Tobago’s windward coast, is a million-dollar Bavarian yacht that will likely never sail again. The boat, named the Vagant, has been there for five years, […]

(November 23, 2022; Day 15) – At 1920hrs today, the race management of the 12th edition of La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe received a message from CROSS Antilles to tell them that Gilles Buekenhout (JESS) had triggered his […]

Some of Ricardo Campello’s standout waves from this year in Maui Ricardo Campello (Naish / Naish Sails) has been spending plenty of time at Ho’okipa, Maui, over the last few years and the 37-year-old has been digging through his hard […]

Rich du Moulin is not only renowned for his competitive sailing accomplishments but also his many contributions to the sport of sailing and the maritime shipping industry. Buttons Padin provides this profile in WindCheck magazine: Rich grew up in the […]

Longtime Canadian coach Mark Lammens takes us down memory lane on how the Olympic Sailing Program has evolved: When I was first attracted to Olympic sailing, all the boats were designed for big men. The top sailors were larger than […]

The biennial Transpac Race extends on a 2225 nm course from Point Fermin in Los Angeles to the finish line off Diamond Head in Honolulu, Hawaii. It cuts across a big ocean, and when things go wrong, the distance from […]

Down-the-line heaven with Leon Jamaer in Mauritius Leon Jamaer (Flikka / NeilPryde) has recently been spending some time out in Mauritius where he scored some memorable conditions – the highlights of which you can see @ https://youtu.be/0U4Q0zsLHaI. You can also […]

After a three-year COVID-19 hiatus, the fourth edition of the 935nm Antigua Bermuda Race is on the schedule to start from Antigua on May 9, 2023. “The first few days of the race are basically a guaranteed sleigh ride with […]

The inaugural Global Solo Challenge 2023-24 seeks to be a budget-friendly solo, non-stop race around the world. For boats from 32 to 55 feet with an IRC rating below 1.370, a pursuit start over 11 weeks begins in A Coruña, […]

The 2022 J/105 North American Championship were held September 29-October 2 in San Francisco, CA. The 28-boat fleet had enough breeze for excitement but not so much that gear failure decided the outcome. With eleven races and no throw outs, […]

The eagerness of the New Zealanders to technically advance the America’s Cup has gotten derailed again. For the 2021 event, the development of the AC75 parts forced teams to delay their launches, and now the requirement of the AC40 training […]

When 2022-23 Golden Globe Race front-runner Tapio Lehtinen was woken by a loud noise, he had five minutes to escape his sinking boat. Translated from Finnish publication Ilta-Sanomat, he shares some details from a cargo ship en route to China: […]

World Sailing has partnered with the Global Wingsports Association (GWA) and the International Wing Sports Association (IWSA) to support the development of the fast growing sailing discipline wingfoiling. Riders in this genre have a foiling board and a handheld wingsail. […]

(November 21, 2022; Day 13) – Thomas Ruyant, solo skipper of LinkedOut, was unofficially crowned ‘King of the Transats’ when he won the 38-boat IMOCA class on the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. Hollow eyed, wobbly legged and exhausted this […]

5 straight days of wind ranging from 10 to 35 knots delivered the ideal platform for the Youth and Junior athletes of the 2022 Alacati Wind Fest PWA Youth & Junior Slalom World Cup to put on an incredible display […]

Yachting World has been asking top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times, and when they turned the question to one of the world’s most accomplished navigators, Stan Honey nominated the […]

The Santa Maria Cup, a premier match racing event for women for over 20 years but stopped in 2012, is making a comeback in 2023. The regatta will be May 1-4 in J/22s on the Severn River in Annapolis, MD. […]

Nine teams competed in the 2022 J/70 US Youth National Championship, hosted by St. Petersburg Yacht Club on November 18-20 in St. Petersburg, FL. Thirteen races were completed in fresh breeze on Friday and Saturday, but Sunday’s cold front brought […]

It is a rarity for Sailing to get much space in the news correspondence from the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, which has a bit to do with the under-performance of the US Sailing Team and likely a bit more […]

Australian Ethan Prieto-Low took top honors at the 2022 Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship, held November 17-20 in Pittwater, Australia. Too much wind on the final day kept the ten teams ashore, with final placing based on the team’s […]

(November 20, 2022; Day 12) – A record sized fleet of 38 IMOCAs at the start line in Saint Malo on November 9 looks set to produce the closest and most exciting finish for the class in the 44-year history […]

Puerto Rico swept the top two positions at the 2022 Optimist North American Championship, held November 15-19 for 155 competitors in Nassau, Bahamas. Isabella Calzadilla-Allora claimed both overall and top woman awards, beating Diego Jose Marrero-Cuevas by five points while […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News It is tradition when referring to a specific Olympic Games, you reference the City first, such as the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. When the International Olympic Committee began requiring exorbitant fees for hosting rights, […]

Joan Rinken, 85, died November 8 in hospice in St. Petersburg, FL. Rinken will never be in the Sailing Hall of Fame, her years at Chicago Yacht Club campaigning the Tartan-10 Go for It! rarely ended with a visit to […]

(November 18, 2022; Day 10) – Legendary French skipper Francis Joyon sailed to fourth place in the Ultim 32/23 Class when he crossed the finish line for the 12th edition of the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe this morning […]