Portofino Rolex Trophy – Tuiga Wins 15m IR

Tuiga (1909), the Yacht Club de Monaco’s 15M IR yacht helmed by Pierre Casiraghi has just won the Portofino Rolex Trophy (17th-19th September 2015), organised by the Yacht Club Italiano. Portofino 19th September 2015 – Portofino gave participants another day with perfect weather, sunny skies and a sirocco wind that blew all day in 15 …

Gunboat International Sues Chinese boatyard

Written by Reagan Haynes Trade Only Today September 18th, 2015 – Gunboat International, a North Carolina builder of luxury carbon fiber sailing catamarans, is suing a yard in China that it had contracted to build its largest models, saying some work was never done and that the yard refused to pay warranty claims on other …

Halsey Herreshoff – 120 years of yachts

Published on Feb 10, 2013 Halsey Herreshoff, the grand son of Nat Herreshoff and the current owner of the Herreshoff boatyard, discusses Herreshoff boat designs over the years, his own sailing and makes some comments on recent developments. The speech was held at the HSS Classic Symposium at the Helsinki Internation Boat Show, Feb 9, …