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With the 2024 event having been cancelled due to storms then rescheduled and cancelled once again due to lack of wind, the 2025 event was keenly awaited.

Race starts were from a committee vessel with Philip Clarabut as RO. Philip provided courses that gave great variety, testing every owner and crew member. Courses took the fleets down river towards Queenborough.

Enterprise Northern Series unveils 2026 calendar to celebrate 70 Years of iconic dinghy racing. The legendary ‘Cock of the North’ Enterprise series returns in 2026 with a six-event calendar to mark the 70th anniversary of the Enterprise dinghy class.

Thanks to a substantial grant from the Dumfries and Galloway Coastal Benefit Fund, serious building alterations are now well under way to create a fully accessible changing, showering and toilet facility within the main Clubhouse at Solway YC.

The 37th edition of Metstrade, which runs from 18-20 November 2025, opened this morning at RAI Amsterdam with the traditional Breakfast Briefing and the presentation of the DAME Design Awards. The first speaker, National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) CEO Frank Hugelmeyer, highlighted that the marine industry is undergoing a transformational moment. Addressing a large audience,…

Andrea Frabetti, chief executive of Sunseeker International, has confirmed he is to leave the company. A search is now underway to find a replacement. Frabetti has not yet formally left his role at the UK-based boatbuilder, and is currently on leave. In the meantime, the firm is being managed by the senior leadership team. A…

The final day of any boat class Worlds can often an odd one. Sailors battle each other all week. Throughout that time, as in real battles, small skirmishes, pockets of unseen individual personal heroism and little victories happen all over the field.

Climate change isn’t just rewriting weather patterns — it’s rewriting the rules of yacht insurance. At Metstrade’s Marine Impact Lab, long-time yacht and superyacht insurance broker Richard Power warns that the cost of climate inaction is already hitting the marine market. With reinsurance losses soaring, insurers retreating from volatile regions and the threat of named…

SailGP has announced the introduction of its first Athlete Transfer framework, set to take effect ahead of the global racing championship’s 2026 Season.

ICOMIA’s Technical Director, Patrick Hemp, presented the globally recognised DAME Design Awards 2025 to LXNAV’s E360 chartplotter at the Metstrade Official Opening this morning.