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Our club supports a wealth of different sailing activities, but it is all too rare that we all join together as a club. The Regatta on Saturday 16th August was a delightful exception, where over 30 boats sailed together.

An IMOCA initiative designed to increase female participation in the marine and ocean racing industries is expanding this year and setting ambitious goals for the cycle up to the next Vendée Globe in 2028.

Following on from the club’s Junior Disco on Wednesday 20 August, nineteen juniors took part in Overy Staithe SC’s Wilson Stephens Trophy on Thursday 21 August. The trophy is for those under 17 and it was great to see such a large fleet out on the water.

The front-runners are comfortably out of reach in several divisions while in others, Saturday’s final island passage race will decide the victors and the spoils at the 40th anniversary of Hamilton Island Race Week, presented by AMEX.

“It will buff out,” says one online commentator of an incident involving what’s widely regarded as the second hull of the Wallyrocket51 – down on its side in a boatyard, the mast turned to ‘spaghetti’. The accident happened at Cantiere Rossini in Pesaro. Though some commentators are questioning the viability of the image (shared online…

After leaving Mondello, just north of Palermo, at midday on Tuesday, competition in the Maxi class, part of the 41 boat fleet in the annual Palermo-Montecarlo, was decided on Thursday.

In the thrilling world of Race 6, the tricky north-easterly winds had everyone strategising like chess grandmasters. The first gate start was cancelled after a large shift after about 30 seconds.

From 28-31 August, the 12-strong fleet of high-performance one-design owner-driver RC44s will compete for their 2025 World Championship title in the heart of Dutch sailing: Scheveningen, The Hague.

“Safety on commercial RIB operations is a persistent issue that the industry can do more to address,” says Andrew Moll, chief inspector of marine accidents for MAIB (Marine Accident Investigation Branch). His words come as a passenger’s serious injury – permanent paralysis – and the accident in Ilfracombe Harbour is detailed in MAIB’s latest report.…

MJM Yachts has announced it is offering Seakeeper exclusively as the gyrostabilization option for its full 2026 model lineup. “MJM has always been a forward-thinking partner, and we’re proud to have been alongside them as one of the first builders to make Seakeeper standard equipment,” says Seakeeper president & CEO Andrew Semprevivo. MJM Yachts was…