News and Notes

NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, which creates and maintains the nation’s suite of over a thousand nautical charts of U.S. coastal waters, announced Tuesday that major changes […]

ORACLE TEAM USA has scrapped its way back into contention at the 34th America’s Cup with a pair of victories Sunday over Emirates Team New Zealand. […]

The 70-foot sailing yacht Archangel, a charter boat with a homeport of Newport, R.I., hit East Goose Rock in the early afternoon, Aug. 7, went aground, dismasted and […]

Frederick Emmart “Ted” Hood, 86, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, an internationally heralded yachtsman, sail maker, yacht designer and builder, died Friday, June 28 surrounded by his […]

At 13:34 UTC, the MOD70 Spindrift capsized on the first leg of the Route des Princes inshore races off Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. All crew are safe and […]

In his quest to beat the North Atlantic record, Francis Joyon on board IDEC, has smashed Thomas Coville’s 2008 record by 16 hours, 34 minutes and […]

One person is dead and five others were rescued after their boat drifted into the surf and broke apart near San Clemente Island during a sailboat […]

Four people missing after reporting their sailboat was sinking south of San Francisco are a husband, wife, their 4-year-old son and his cousin, also a child. […]

A group of Irish nationals were rescued from Bermuda’s waters this weekend after their yacht lost power. Last night the four crew members of the 48ft […]

A boat discovered washed ashore Tuesday morning in the dunes off of Salishan appears to have all the markings of tsunami debris from Japan, scientists say. […]