by Natalie | Feb 16, 2023 | Daily News
The Golden Globe Race is a human adventure of months alone struggling to get back to finish in Les Sables d’Olonne, France where it all began, and day 164 was a big one. While Kirsten Neuschäfer (RSA) was flying around Cape Horn, just 300 miles north Abhilash Tomy...
by Natalie | Feb 16, 2023 | Daily News
Following their successful defense at the 36th America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand has opened the cabinets to entice challengers to dethrone them. The Swiss team entered once the Kiwis sold them their first AC75 and the French team entered after they secured a...
by Natalie | Feb 14, 2023 | Daily News
There isn’t much about the 37th America’s Cup that relates to the sport of sailing, so it is no surprise that this sponsor announcement is better suited for Popular Science or Scientific American than Scuttlebutt Sailing News, but here we are anyway… Altair (Nasdaq:...
by Natalie | Feb 9, 2023 | Daily News
The winners of the 2023 BOAT International Design & Innovation Awards have been revealed on February 8 in a dazzling ceremony attended by the best designers, naval architects, and shipbuilders in the business. Held in the northern Italy ski resort of Cortina...
by Natalie | Feb 8, 2023 | Daily News
Day 14 – It’s been a long, exhausting but also thrilling second leg of The Ocean Race and the pattern is not going to change in the final stages, with the five IMOCA crews bracing themselves for one last push to Cape Town. But the routing is far from straightforward,...
by Natalie | Feb 6, 2023 | Daily News
Day 12 – It was near midnight UTC last night when boats in The Ocean Race fleet started to make their first significant move to the east towards Cape Town. Within an hour, all five teams had gybed to the east and pointed their bows towards Africa. It’s a very close...
