Published on Nov 8, 2015 In this week’s Wow we follow the start of Leg 2 of the 6.5m Mini Transat from Lanzarote, MACIF is first in to Brazil in the Big Transat Jacques Vabre, the Australian Sailing Team’s wrap of the Sailing World Cup in Abu Dhabi, PWA Aloha Classic Day 4, Start of …
With under four months until the start of the 8th race, the 2016 RORC Caribbean 600 has already attracted an astounding collection of the world’s finest offshore racing yachts. The strength of the fleet suggests that there will be intense competition for overall honours as well as record attempts for both monohull and multihull race …
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The Naval Academy Sailing Center commissioned the donated schooner Summer Wind in a ceremony Oct. 28 at the Robert Crown Sailing Center. The Schooner Summer Wind was launched as the Queen Tyi in 1929 from the yard of C.A. Morse (now Lyman-Morse) of Thomaston, Maine. Designed by the John G. Alden Company of Boston, Massachusetts …
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (October 30, 2015) – Governor Gina M. Raimondo, in partnership with Speaker Nicholas Mattiello and Senate President Paiva Weed, joined Volvo Ocean Race and Sail Newport today to announce the return of the Volvo Ocean Race to Newport in 2018. Rhode Island will again be the only North American stopover port for the …
Published on Nov 1, 2015 Brand new, multi-million Euro IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss dis-masted and the hull leaking flounders in the Atlantic just off Spain. The crew are heli lifted from the boat. We list Alex Thomson’s sailing travails, the Clipper boats arrive in Cape Town, the fast windsurfers in Namibia, the 5 retirements on …