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Hong Kong to Hainan Race Starts... and SHK Scallywag Fuku Retires
October 18, 2018

The Hong Kong to Hainan Race got away this morning, in an easterly breeze of around 12kts. With a rather long start line, the fleet stuck to the committee boat end and played it safe as the gun sounded ensuring no boat was over the line.

First through the Lei Yue Mun Gap was Karl Kwok’s MOD Beau Geste 70 followed ...

ARTEMIS TECHNOLOGIES OPENS NEW FACILITY IN BELFAST




Artemis Technologies, a spin-off from America’s Cup team Artemis Racing, is to establish a new facility in Belfast Harbour, initially creating 35 jobs, in a bid to return commercial shipbuilding to the city.

The company led by double Olympic gold medalist, Iain Percy OBE, will use its expertise garnished at the highest echelons of world yacht racing to develop new green maritime technologies and build an ‘Autonomous Sailing Vessel’ (ASV).

The ASV will be a zero-emissions 45 metre catamaran, that will require no fossil fuels, offer unlimited range, and has the potential to travel at 50 knots, with a cruising ...

Great racing at the first ever College Sailing Women's Showcase Final at Brown! The event was sailed out of the Ted Turner Sailing Pavilion at the Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston, RI. Saturday brought some rain and cool temps for the first half of the day and then the sun came out for a bit in the mid afternoon. Temps were in the 50's and it was a ...

UPDATE! IGOR has BROKEN HIS FORESTAY at the mast head and is now using halyards to take the load while he works out the best way to repair the damage. Conditions at the moment are 25/30kt Northerly with a 3/4mtr sea. He is 2000 Miles from CAPE TOWN and 2600 Miles from Australia. His plan at this time is to wait ...

A Glorious Saturday for PSSC, and Tragedy Averted

Story by Kurt Hoehne www.sailish.com

October 16, 2018 Puget Sound Sailing Championship



all pics ©Jan's Marine Pics









The Saturday of CYC-Seattle’s PSSC regatta this past weekend was one for the ages – 18-22 knot winds, big waves, bright sun, grins galore, and at least one tragedy averted.

When Tantivy‘s skipper Stuart Burnell ...

The Etchells Pre Worlds are hosting 73 competitors at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron in the Moreton Bay
race area over the next couple days. If Sunday's conditions are any indicator of what sailors are in for, it will be a
rough and tumble affair for this and the Etchells Worlds which will follow suit October 18 through October ...

Just when you thought the most recent super typhoon, Mangkhut levied major damage on all the recreation yachts in the Hong Kong area, comes proof otherwise, that yachting is very much alive and well on the south east coast of Asia, with the reports coming in from the RHKYC's China Coast Regatta, part of the RYKYC's China Coast Race Week:



All pix � Guy Nowell/RHKYC


China Coast Regatta Day 1
October 12, 2018

There were perfect conditions across the race track for Day 1 of the China Coast Regatta with blue skies and a 10 to 15kts north easterly ...

2,689 Boats Participated in the 50th Annual Barcolana with Spirit of Portopiccolo winning after completing the race in only 57.04 minutes. Second: Ottica Inn – Tempus Fugit, third: Way of Life.

Viriella, the largest sailboat to ever compete in a Barcolana regatta, ranks fourth, followed by: Woodpecker Cube, Pendragon, Anemos, Ancilla Domini, ...

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Definitely, Mark Slats is really struggling with Tasmania! He can no longer have those north-East winds that mishandle his boat by forcing ...