Anna Blackwell, 24, and Kate Culverwell, 19, both from Oxford, will be setting out on a record breaking, and world first, tandem kayak expedition from England to the Black Sea. The 4000 Kilometre adventure will start in April 2018 and is expected to ta…
While SHK/Scallywag has made good on its westerly route to grab an impressive lead over the past 24 hours, the fleet is compressing, and as of Sunday afternoon, it’s the chasing pack enjoying stronger winds. The Scallywags have to be pleased with last…
The organizers of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta have teamed up with 70’s BAG, an American-Dutch company which focusses on designing fashionable and foldable shopping bags to encourage people to stop using single-use plastic bags, and to shop respons…
French team Beijaflore were today crowned the new champions of EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour ending a four-year winning streak for rivals EFG Bank Monaco as the regatta came to a climax in Muscat, Oman. Valentin Bellet’s polished outfit took the spoils…
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today their most advanced solid-state marine radar, the Quantum® 2 with doppler target identification technology. Designed for integrating with Raymarine’s award winning Axiom® multifunction displays, Quantum…
A week after leaving Hong Kong, China on the sixth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race bound for Auckland, New Zealand team AkzoNobel is leading the six-boat fleet on the approach to the equator. The opening seven days of the 11,000 kilometer passage has seen…
Recent months have seen remarkable progress for the RS Venture Connect. It began with adoption by World Sailing into its para sailing pogramme; continued by winning two top international marine industry awards and has been rounded off by one of the mos…
On Leg 4, racing into their home port of Hong Kong, SHK/Scallywag made a radical choice exiting the doldrums, cutting the corner and taking the inside track towards the finish line. As a result, they sailed less miles and passed the entire fleet en rou…
Navico, parent company to the Lowrance®, Simrad® and B&G® brands and Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), announced today that they have ended a three-year-long legal dispute relating to sonar and auto guidance patents.…
For a lot of people, an ideal winters weekend is to be sat by an open fire, beverage of choice in hand, looking out the window at the crisp cold weather, with a feeling of smugness. Thankfully however, there are also a group of people who, although I’m…
