Skippers and crew attending tonight’s Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race briefing will be advised the windiest part of the entire 384 nautical mile race could be on Sydney Harbour this Saturday when a 10-15 knot south westerly breeze is likely to produce a colourful spinnaker start. ‘The fleet can ex
An exhausted yachtsman was rescued four miles out at sea as he made his way home from a sailing event. Crews from Sunderland RNLI helped tow the yacht to safety at 11pm yesterday while its skipper rested with a cup of coffee. The 49-year-old sailor, from Fulwell, had been returning from an event at
It was a media report about an expensive yacht that was stolen from the Mornington Peninsula that got David Mott thinking. The yacht’s desperate owner hired a spotter plane to try and find his vessel, which was later found abandoned on Tasmania’s East Coast. Mott had been an electronics engineer and
Russell Coutts, the most successful helmsman in the recent history of the America’s Cup, confirmed Tuesday that he was returning to the Cup and joining BMW Oracle Racing as skipper and chief executive officer. What sort of Cup that will be is unclear now that Coutts’s new employer, the billionaire L
BMW Oracle have signed three-times America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts to lead their next challenge. The US syndicate’s challenge has not yet been accepted by defender Alinghi while a legal wrangle hangs in the air. Coutts skippered New Zealand’s successful challenge for sailing’s most prestigious p
The Australian Marine Complex (AMC), Australia’s premiere shipbuilding precinct, has been a hive of activity this week with the opening of a new wharf, the world’s biggest dredge in operation and a meeting held to discuss the growth of the local super-yacht industry. Industry and Enterprise Minister
A body representing the super yacht industry says Gold Coast businesses are losing money because the Broadwater is too shallow. The chief executive officer of Superyacht Base Australia, Lance Cushion, says the waterway needs dredging so large luxury boats can access maintenance facilities at Coomera
A $64m floating dry dock that could lift vessels of up to 12,000 tonnes would be built in WA, the State Government said yesterday. Vessels lifted by the floating dry dock also could be towed on to land, Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan said. Strategic Marine would build the do
On July 28, The Orphalese, the world’s largest luxury residential ocean liner of her class, will make its Hamptons debut during Russell Simmons’ annual Art for Life East Hampton Benefit. The Orphalese and its exclusive sales representative, Prudential Douglas Elliman, the largest residential real es
Letter from Podgorica: It is easy to understand why one foreign property owner in Montenegro calls it Moscow-on-Sea. At tiny Tivat airport, crammed between sheer peaks and the Adriatic shore, jets roar in daily from Moscow and St Petersburg, their passengers breeze through immigration without the ne
A Russian naval expedition on its way to explore the ocean floor below the North Pole has come to a sudden halt. The Akademik Fyodorov research ship suffered engine failure a day after setting off from Murmansk port and is reportedly drifting in the Barents Sea.
The first tall ships will be arriving in Bristol on Thursday ahead of the city’s weekend Harbour Festival. But there are fears that the recent floods will prevent many smaller vessels from making the trip to the city festival.
Unknown gunmen on motorcycles have shot and wounded a US-based British professor and a security guard in Nigeria’s oil city, Port Harcourt. Professor Michael Watts was in Port Harcourt to attend an awards ceremony at a local newspaper office. In another oil city, Yenagoa, the mother of a local state
The shuttle tanker Navion Gothenburg was delivered yesterday, after upgrading and modification1, from the shipyard Dubai Drydocks. The basic model of the vessel was built at the shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea and is owned on a 50-50 basis and on the same terms by Stena Bulk and the
