Leading British luxury motor yacht manufacturer, Fairline announces Douglas Culverwell as its new Sales and Marketing Director. Douglas will be responsible for Fairline’s global sales and marketing operations, leading Fairline’s international sales tea…
Battling for line honours in the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rolex Fastnet Race continued all the way to the Plymouth finish line last night in both the maxi-multihull and monohull divisions. Among the multihulls, Yann Guichard and Dona Bertarelli’s 40m…
It’s been a whirlwind month in the world of RS Sailing. The RS Feva Class set the bar high as the PA Consulting Allen RS Feva World Championships was officially opened in Travemunde, Germany on 19th July. Tagged on to the infamous Travemunde Woche, com…
Two toll houses at the world’s first boat lift, Anderton Boat Lift in Northwich, have been refurbished, allowing visitors to step back in time and experience what it was like to book a boat passage a hundred years ago. The £90,000 restoration project h…
A weak, dying front across southern Ireland and the Celtic Sea combined with an absence of isobars anywhere in the UK made it a most frustrating night for the 350+ crews still competing in the Rolex Fastnet Race. The GRIB…
Progress overnight in the Rolex Fastnet Race has been better than expected with the majority of the fleet having been lured out into the middle of the Channel following the temptation of stronger winds. At 0800 this morning the leading multihulls had p…
Giant crowds packed the Cowes and Western Solent shoreline this afternoon as a record-sized fleet of 356 set off on the 90th anniversary Rolex Fastnet Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. With a complete lack of wind in the central Solent, t…
At this year’s Southampton Boat Show (11-20 September), throughout the week there will be a whole host of activities taking place in the RYA Members’ Lounge. Situated in the Holiday Inn Hotel at the heart of the show, as well as being able to sign up o…
Sailors and boaters who want to update or supplement their paper logbook can buy WaveTrax at a special low price until the end of September. The world’s most fully-featured sailing and boating logbook app for iPad and iPhone is available now and throug…
The penultimate day of Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week delivered more interesting and challenging racing, with most of the action taking place in a light north westerly wind. Today’s races for Black Group yachts were the last in their series for t…
