Under sunny skies, an 18 knot northwesterly and 10 foot swells it was the IRC and Multihull fleets turn to start the 811 nautical mile Pineapple Cup – Montego Bay Race. At 2:05 ET the Volvo70 Wizard skippered by Peter & David Askew with Charlie Enr…
IRC & Multihull Fleets Start tomorrow at 2pm ET 6 teams started the Pineapple Cup – Montego Bay Race at 11:05 ET today under cloudy skies in 20 knot southerly with 5-7 foot swells. The Class40 Dragon was first across followed closely by Senara and…
The 3rd RS Aero World Championships is set to enjoy the Australian summer as a climatic end to the 2019 season, set over New Year at Black Rock YC, Melbourne. The two previous World Championships started out with 100 RS Aeros at Carnac, France, in 2017…
FLIR Systems, Inc. has announced the Raymarine DockSense™ assisted docking system, the marine industry’s first intelligent object recognition and motion sensing assisted docking solution for recreational boating. DockSense system uses FLIR machine visi…
The seven boats collected new scientific data during the nine-month fully-crewed, round the world yacht race. This helped increase scientific understanding of the impacts plastic pollution and other human activity are having on ocean health. The award…
Digital Yacht will introduce a new range of Class B+ AIS transponders at Boot 2019 now approved for use on German flagged vessels. Class B+, a new AIS standard, utilises SOTDMA format transmissions which offer a 5W power output (2.5x more powerful than…
MARX, one of Germany’s leading propulsion specialists and Cox Powertrain’s exclusive distributor for Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, will be presenting the benefits of Cox’s ground-breaking diesel outboard, the CXO300, from…
Dutch manufacturer presents award-winning bow thrusters alongside F-LINE engines, V-Docker joystick docking system, durable water strainers and new V-Quipment Frontier RIB VETUS/V-Quipment, boot Düsseldorf, 19-27 January, Hall 10 Stands E59 – G59 The i…
Multi-agency task force set to review small craft fishing gear entanglements Following previous work by the RYA coupled with the campaign and petition pursued by the Cruising Association, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has convened the first meetin…
A new code came into force on 1 January 2019 allowing pleasure craft to be in temporary commercial use at sea for a number of defined purposes. The Intended Pleasure Vessels (IPV) Code, which permits the temporary use of craft at sea for businesses pur…
