The Boston Yacht Club and Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron have published the official notice of race for the biennial Marblehead-to-Halifax Ocean Race, set to start July 10, 2011.The 363-mile classic takes place every other year (alternating with the Newport-Bermuda Race) and regularly fields more than 125 boats in five classes, attracting everything from family cruising boats to some of
Disappointing winds and a strong westerly current have wrecked havoc on the entrants of this years Barcelona World Race, as the 14 boats struggled to get out of the Straits of Gibraltar and into the North Atlantic. Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron managed to win the 540-mile first leg with a time of 3 days, 7 hours and 55 minutes on the evening of January 3rd, while other contenders
Belgian sailor Christophe Bullens has withdrawn from the 28th VELUX 5 OCEANS after a broken mast track thwarted his latest attempt to set sail from Cape Town, South Africa.The setback was the latest in a long list of technical difficulties for the 49-year-old solo sailor. His troubles began before the races start, when his first Eco 60, Five Oceans of Smiles, was dismasted en
Back in the early 1960s, Americas Cup veteran and long-time one-design proponent Cornelius Corny Shields decided that the cadets at the various maritime academies in this country needed quality sail training if they were to become truly competent seamen.He hired Sparkman & Stephens to design the 30-foot Shields, one of the most striking one-design racers ever, with its long overhangs,
Australian skipper Geoff Boettcher, owner of the Reichel/Pugh 51 Secret Mens Business 3.5, has won the 2010 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, taking the Tattersalls Cup, which goes to the fastest boat in the fleet on corrected time.The 2010 race, one of the roughest in recent memory, was Boettchers 22nd Sydney Hobart. Nineteen out of the 87 boats that started had to withdraw due to
Twenty hours after the 100-footer Wild Oats XI was first to cross the finish line in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, she has been declared the official line-honors winner after being cleared of a protest lodged by the race committee.Wild Oats XI completed the 628-course from Sydney Harbor to Hobart, Tasmania, in 2 days 7 hours and 37 minutes, in the process surviving one of
After several years of mostly tactical racing in comparatively benign conditions, the 2010 Rolex Sydney Hobart is set to return to its more traditional ways, with meteorologists telling competitors they are in for some very tough, boat and spirit-breaking sailing for at least the first 300 nautical miles of the race.The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted that early in the race the fleet
I feel like you have to start somewhere, says Ryan Breymaier. For the 35 year-old Annapolis native, that somewhere is Barcelona, Spain, followed by 25,000 nautical miles around the globe through some of the planets most treacherous waters, with just one other soul aboard.On December 31, 2010 Breymaier began the second edition of the Barcelona World Race (BWR), sailing with Boris
The second running of the Barcelona World Race is set to begin on New Years Eve in front of the ultra-chic W Hotel on the Barcelona waterfront. The event features two-person crews sailing supercharged IMOCA Open 60 racers nonstop around the planet via the three great capes: the Cape of Good Hope, New Zealands Cape Leeuwin and, of course, Cape Horn. Some other numbers to consider:25,000:
Dateline MiamiWhat you wont get, if youre not part of it, is this. Larry Ellisons team is going to be just as disappointed as I am if the 34th Americas Cup match is not sailed on San Francisco Bay. Ive heard them out. Ive looked into their eyes. I wish I could convey the sense of disappointment ifThe amphitheatre, the reliable breeze, the stuff youve heard before,
For years now, maxi-trimarans, both solo-sailed and fully crewed, have been racing the clock on their own around the world in an effort to set
The museum’s Juneteenth celebration, now in its third year, is a true cultural immersion[/caption] Discovering Amistad and Mystic Seaport Museum have partnered to organize their
Lagoon 51 In keeping with many of the more recently launched models created by French multihull builder Lagoon, the Lagoon 51 is all about comfort,
The biannual Newport Bermuda Race starts on Friday with the first warning signal at 1 pm. Whether you’re tracking a loved one’s progress or just
After being skunked or nearly skunked at multiple Olympiads, could the US Sailing Team (USST) now under the direction of Olympic veteran Paul Cayard, be
120 children enrolled in Brooklyn Boatworks’ STEM and life skills-focused program launched their hand-built optimist prams on June 14 from Pier 2 in Brooklyn Bridge
So, you like to charter in the Caribbean with its warm waters, swaying palm trees, steady trade winds and strong rum drinks. What’s not to
Earlier this week, 11th Hour Racing Team’s new IMOCA 60 Mālama finally arrived at an American dock for the first time, signifying the start of
Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay is a sailor’s paradise, not only because of its vast expanse of sheltered water, coves and seaside towns, but because of
My first job ever on a boat was picking weevils out of bags of sugar in preparation for a 1,200-mile delivery from the South Pacific
