Three people and a dog have been rescued from a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean about 900 miles northeast of Bermuda after their yacht sank […]
Crew of Sunken Yacht Rescued in the Atlantic
Sail On Hobie Alter
Hobart “Hobie” Alter, who started out shaping surfboards, and ended up shaping a culture, passed away peacefully at his Palm Desert home on March 29 surrounded […]
Dutch Sailor Missing in the Atlantic
Dutch sailor Sietse Hagen left the port of Tenerife heading for the Caribbean on January 15th, 2014. Since his departure, now over 60 days ago, he […]
Unmanned Sailboat Makes it from South Carolina to Europe
An English fisherman got an unexpected greeting from a Morristown, New Jersey school last week, when a five-foot unmanned sailboat — at sea for a year […]
NOAA Announces End of Traditional Paper Nautical Charts
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 […]
Super Sunday: ORACLE TEAM USA Mounting a Comeback
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. […]
Coast Guard Investigates Penobscot Bay, Maine Yacht Crash
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 […]
Passing of a Legend
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 […]
MOD70 Spindrift Capsizes
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 […]
Francis Joyon Shatters North Atlantic Record
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 […]