by Natalie | Sep 25, 2020 | Daily News, Features
Forgive our sense of humor, but we can’t not be amused at how the outside media portrays the boating community. They so badly want to maintain the elusive and high-class aura, perhaps to attract internet traffic for a look over the ivy-clad walls. Here’s the take from...
by Natalie | Sep 24, 2020 | Daily News, Features
According to Boat Trader, America’s largest online boating marketplace, there has been a tidal wave of women shopping for boats from coast-to-coast this summer. Reports of banner-year boat sales have been making national headlines and Boat Trader’s latest data...
by Natalie | Sep 24, 2020 | Daily News, Features
In the first of a series of preview articles in the lead-up to the solo, non-stop Vendée Globe start on November 8, Ed Gorman looks at the issue of comfort – and discomfort – on board the 60-foot IMOCA. The IMOCA fleet has a deserved reputation for exceptional...
by Natalie | Sep 24, 2020 | Daily News, Features
Training for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, to be held in 2021, is not much different than pretty much everything else in life right now. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and the only thing more difficult than staging next year’s Games in a pandemic might be...
by Natalie | Sep 24, 2020 | Daily News, Features
When the World Health Organization declared the Novel Coronavirus Disease, COVID-19, a pandemic on March 11, sailors in the Northern Hemisphere soon saw their competition calendar crumble out of caution. However, the turn of seasons in the Southern Hemisphere were a...
by Natalie | Sep 24, 2020 | Daily News, Features, Industry Insider 1
French marine industries federation FIN (la Fédération des Industries Nautiques) today announced that it has been forced to cancel the 2020 edition of the Paris Boat Show (Nautic Paris) following the latest announcement from the French Health Minister....