Archive for Ocak, 2023

Antoine Martin being as radical as ever at Ho’okipa Beach Park Antoine Martin (Starboard / North Sails) remains one of the most radical wave sailors in the world with his scare-free attitude seeing him continually try and deny physics with […]

There was once a time when the Annapolis-to-Newport Race was solely the domain of hardened offshore skippers with boats designed specifically for the purpose. That has changed over the last four iterations as organizers with host Annapolis Yacht Club made […]

In November 2019, the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC), organizers of the infamous Rolex Fastnet Race, announced how the finish location for the 2021 and 2023 editions would be leaving its historic home of Plymouth, UK. While the premise of […]

(January 17, 2023; Day 3) – The first leg of The Ocean Race had the fleet searching for calmer waters as they sought to exit the Mediterranean Sea, heading towards the Spanish coastline to avoid the worst of the brutal […]

St George’s, Grenada (January 17, 2023) – The Polish National Foundation’s Volvo 70 I Love Poland (POL), skippered by Grzegorz Baranowski, crossed the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race finish line today to take Monohull Line Honors in 08:23:37:07. Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati […]

Mackinac Island is famous for being car-free, horse and carriage rides, bikes, fudge, caramel corn, and saltwater taffy. Located in Lake Huron, between Michigan’s Upper and Lower peninsulas, it is where people go to get away, relax, and have some […]

Highlights of the California offshore circuit include two races to Mexico: San Diego to Puerto Vallarta in even years and the Newport Beach to Cabo San Lucas in odd years, with the later having staggered starts on March 10 and […]

Kicking off Southern California’s offshore racing season in 2023 is the 142 nm Islands Race, co-hosted by San Diego Yacht Club and Newport Harbor Yacht Club. Starting February 24, the course starts from Long Beach Harbor and extends around Santa […]

The IRC rating Race Management Guidelines offer advice to event organizers for racing under IRC Rules. They include guidance and suggestions that a race organizer may wish to consider and give suitable wording that may be used in a Notice […]

(January 16, 2023; Day 2) – The opening 24 hours of The Ocean Race has been challenging, but not unexpected. After running into a quiet spell overnight, during which both fleets compressed, the forecast has played out its threat with […]

Fly along with these high performance ice yachts as they race January 13 on Lake Kegonsa in Madison, Wisconsin. Logan Lein provides this footage from the 2023 International Skeeter Association and Renegade Championships. Music: The Therapist by Foreign Air. Video […]

Sail Canada is looking to receive nominations from the Canadian Sailing community to recognize outstanding sailors, athletes, coaches, instructors, officials, volunteers, and events through one of Sail Canada’s 12 Annual Award categories, based on activities and performances that occurred from […]

Thomas Traversa in his element taking on a monster swell… Thomas Traversa (Tabou / GA Sails) is well known for his monster swell chasing exploits and if there is a massive swell on a forecast you will more than likely […]

11th Hour Racing Team Media Crew Member, Amory Ross, is embarking on his fourth time as media crew on The Ocean Race. It’s a unique role which Amo shares in this interview: What is it about these boats and the […]

Alicante, Spain (January 15, 2023) – The 14th edition of The Ocean Race, the fully-crewed, around the world yacht race, got underway today for the 32,000 nm course that will take six months to finish in Genova, Italy. Five IMOCA […]

St George’s, Grenada (January 15, 2023) – At 0800 UTC on the eighth day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, 17 boats are still racing in the Atlantic, with the first finishers in the monohull fleet expected on the 17th and […]

In a gutsy and impressive performance New Zealand defied the odds to win the Singapore Sail Grand Prix. The win cements Peter Burling’s position as the main threat to Tom Slingsby’s charge for a third straight season title, with New […]

As the 14th edition of The Ocean Race gets underway, race organizers have revealed a schedule of events stretching into the next decade. In a briefing to race stakeholders, Richard Brisius, the Race Chairman of The Ocean Race, confirmed the […]

St George’s, Grenada (January 13, 2023) – Today at 19:46:26 UTC, Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi70 took Multihull Line Honors in the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race. Maserati’s elapsed time sets a new Multihull Race Record for the RORC Transatlantic Race of […]

The Ocean Race (formerly Volvo Ocean Race and Whitbread Round the World Race) was initially to be raced in two classes of boats: the high-performance, foiling, IMOCA 60 class and the one-design VO65 class which has been used for the […]

With five IMOCAs racing round the world in the 14th edition of The Ocean Race, the oldest boat on the 7-leg course will have been launched in 2015… a lifetime ago in this fast moving development class. But Robert Stanjek’s […]

If the US-led IMOCA 11th Hour Racing Team is to win the 14th edition of The Ocean Race, a big contributor will be its British navigator, Simon Fisher. He teamed up with skipper Charlie Enright in the previous race, but […]

On January 15, five Imocas will be on the start line of the 14th edition of The Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread and Volvo Ocean Race), with the first of seven stages racing between Alicante and Cape Verde. At the […]

Over 230 competitors from 22 countries will descend on South Florida for the Miami and Fort Lauderdale US Open Sailing Series on January 14-16. The ILCA 4, 6, 7, and Nacra 15 will compete out of Lauderdale Yacht Club, while […]

Marc Paré heads North in the hope of finding some Norwegian nuggets on a forecast Marc Paré (Fanatic / Duotone) spends plenty of time in Cold Hawaii, Denmark, but for a while he has had his sights on a trip […]

DN iceboat sailors from around the world are making preparations as the DN iceboat class celebrates 50 years of international competition at the 2023 DN World Championship. Fifty years ago, in 1973, the DN Class held its first international competition […]

The 14th edition of The Ocean Race was originally planned for 2021-22 but was postponed one year due to the pandemic, with the first leg starting on January 15, 2023. With five IMOCAs racing round the world on the 7-leg […]

(January 12, 2023) – At 0800 UTC on the fifth day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, three 70ft trimarans are under 1,000 miles from the finish in Grenada. Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi70 (ITA) is 782nm from the finish, leading the […]

After a two month break, the SailGP league hosts its eighth stage of the 11-event schedule for Season 3 in Singapore on January 13-14, 2023. Light-to-moderate winds and smooth water are forecast for the nine boat fleet which will need […]

US Sailing annually recognizes individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to the sport of sailing, with two clubs from San Diego, CA stepping up to the podium when the ceremony is held February 3 as part of the […]

Cruising around the Cape with Florian Jung Florian Jung (Starboard / GUNSAILS) is no stranger to Cape Town, South Africa, with the German often venturning down south during the winter months to chase the Cape Doctor and its accompanying waves. […]

The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) has released its 2023 Rules and the Velocity Prediction Program (VPP), with the handicapping system distributing the ORC Manager software that runs the VPP to generate certificates, ORC Speed Guides, and other ORC products to […]

Yachting World has been asking top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times, and Johan Salen nominated Gitana 17. Here’s the report: “The Ultimes to me are the most technologically advanced and […]

January 11, 2023) – Simon Curwen (GBR) leads the way, halfway across the Southern Pacific just four weeks from Cape Horn, bound for Les Sables d’Olonne having left 129 days ago. Only Ian Herbert Jones and Guy Waites are yet […]

Ahead of the start of the first offshore leg of The Ocean Race 2023 on January 15, the dockside at Alicante is busy with IMOCA technical teams making last minute adjustments and improvements to what are highly complex machines. This […]

The Ocean Race (formerly Volvo Ocean Race and Whitbread Round the World Race) will have the high-performance, foiling, IMOCA 60 class when the 14th edition begins January 15, 2023. Matt Sheahan tours a newly launched boat, noting how the fully […]

When the SailGP global sports league got launched, it was a fully funded concept to create spectator-friendly racing in identical wing-powered, foiling F50 catamarans. But the support from billionaire Larry Ellison, and management from Russell Coutts, had conditions. The prominent […]

American Joe Harris along with Roger Junet are competing in the Globe40, a multi-leg doublehanded round the world race in Class40s. Seven teams were at the beginning on June 26, with five teams having started the sixth leg on January […]

Not really, but with the proliferation of security cameras by government and home owners, it’s getting hard to hide on land. Maybe the headline should be, All scoundrels are boaters… or should be. Here’s a scoundrel story: On January 6, […]

The PWA (Professional Windsurfing Association) and IWT (International Windsurfing Tour) unite in a groundbreaking move that will create the greatest wave sailing tour in the 50 year history of the sport. The PWA and IWT are proud to announce that […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News The selection committee of the U.S. National Sailing Hall of Fame too often struggles to recognize the early contributors of the sport, preferring to recognize more familiar individuals. Sir Isaac Newton, the famous English […]

Nico Prien puts Freeride, Freerace and Slalom boards through their paces Are you currently trying to decide which board should be your next purchase or just simply wondered the main differences between Freeride, Freerace and Slalon boards? Well, either way […]

The start for the 2023 Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race (MHOR) isn’t until July 9, but the 352 nm international course already has a record total of 60 boats signed up. First started in 1905, the MHOR is one of […]

In 2021, TP52 Celestial missed winning the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on IRC corrected time due to a penalty for an infringement of the racing rules. But the team returned in 2022 got the job done to claim the […]

Yacht designer and past Seahorse magazine editor Julian Everitt reflects on a clever chapter for the sport. American yacht designer and yacht builder extraordinaire Charlie Morgan has been credited with ‘inventing’ the blooper back in the summer of 1963 on […]

Alicante, Spain (January 8, 2023) – The battle for The Ocean Race began today as the IMOCA and VO65 teams competed in the first In-Port Race. Starting first, the VO65 fleet had barely a breath of wind as WindWhisper Racing […]

The 2022-23 Globe40 is an eight-leg doublehanded round the world race in Class40s. Seven teams were at the beginning on June 26, with five teams having started the sixth leg on January 8 from Ushuaia, Argentina to Recife, Brazil. Having […]

Lanzarote, Canary Islands (January 9, 2023) – The start of the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race had ideal conditions to allow the fleet to get away for a clean downwind start. After passing under the volcanic mountains of the Los Ajaches […]

(January 7, 2023) – Alexandre Kowalski (AlexK – RS) of France swept to victory in the 2022 eSailing World Championship Final in front of a live crowd at the Ocean Live Park in Alicante, Spain. Held at the location of […]

The renewed aspiration of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for maintaining “universality” with ideological integration at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games – embracing drug-free athletes from Russia and Belarus uninvolved in Ukraine atrocities – could be spectacularly counter-productive. Evidence is […]

Past World Sailing President Kim Andersen may have received redemption when it was found that members of the World Sailing Ethics Committee had conspired against him, will this finding be all bark and no bite. Here’s an update from inside the games: International […]

SAIL magazine revealed its annual Best Boat Nominees in September 2022 and now has selected the 2023 winners: Every year, sailboat manufacturers around the world launch their latest models, and every year, SAIL magazine’s experienced boat reviewers spend days and weeks learning […]

The third event of the 2022-23 SORC Islands in the Stream had 21 boats for the 2023 Ft. Lauderdale to Key West Race which took the fleet on the 160 nm course from Fort Lauderdale to Key West along southern […]

Takuma Sugi at a cranking Omaezaki – Japan Takuma Sugi (Tabou / GA Sails / Black Project Fins) has quickly established himself as one of the best all-round windsurfers in the world. Out of the 3 events this year, the […]

Noroton Yacht Club (Darien, CT) will host the inaugural Susan Widmann Sinclair Women’s Championship, an umpired fleet race regatta to include a dozen of the country’s top women sailors. Sailed in the Club’s fleet of Sonars, the 2023 event will […]

When the 14th edition of The Ocean Race starts on January 15, there are many unknowns, even for a two-race veteran like Annie Lush. The British sailor is preparing to step on board GUYOT environnement, the IMOCA skippered by French […]

In this report by Jonathan Russo on Worth.com, they share how you can now acquire a spot (or several) on a fully manned, state of the art racing vessel for the grand prix racing experience: Once in a while, a […]

The Coast Guard Fiscal Year is from October 1 to September 30, and for the current 2023 year the Coast Guard crews interdicted 4,153 Cubans as of January 4, 2023. Here are stats from previous years: • 6,182 Cuban Migrants […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News It is hard to tell if people are more reckless today than in the past. The immense availability of news now exposes any misstep, while the vast tools for rescue may encourage that step, […]

Radical raw footage of local Cabezo ripper Julian Salmonn Julian Salmonn (Bruch Boards / GUNSAILS) finished the 2022 season ranked 19th overall in the Men’s Wave division – which included one top ten result in Gran Canaria where he finished […]

It was March 2019 when Scuttlebutt first reported on how the FBI and federal prosecutors had uncovered a massive bribery scheme to get students admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes and help them cheat on college entrance exams to gain admission. […]

The 14th edition of The Ocean Race starts January 15, with five IMOCAs competing in the seven leg course round the world. In this profile of Simon Fisher, who will be the navigator for the 11th Hour Racing Team, he […]

by Matthew Sheahan, Yachting World It’s been a long wait for the next fully crewed lap of the planet since the last one finished in 2018, but finally The Ocean Race will start from Alicante on January 15. The total […]

Challenger for the 1987 America’s Cup, the French Kiss 12 Metre bashing upwind in big breeze. Source: scuttlebutt – https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2023/01/04/photo-good-ole-days-of-americas-cup/

Most people can sail throughout their life without caring about the international authority of the sport – World Sailing. Aside from maintaining the racing rules, the organization is mostly focused on elite competition, and seemingly struggles with much else. When […]