Published on June 2nd, 2025
Sailing has its traditions, and for better or worse, the adult beverage is one of them. At some yacht clubs, this tradition goes so far as a designated house drink. In 2010, Scuttlebutt took on the ... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2025
SAIL magazine presents ten nominees for its 2026 Best Boats Awards: We’ll go ahead and say it: It’s going to be a tough competition this year. The class of 2026 is an innovative mix of design ... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2025
The cannibal didn’t eat the person without legs because he was lacktoes intolerant. Providing “insight” since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of major sailing news, ... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2025
by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News When I was a kid, we sailed our boats. We’d launch, and whatever the plan, we’d sail there. And we learned. There was no towing, but that was 50 years ... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2025
The evolution of boardsailing has progressed through equipment, with each step increasing cost and skill for greater performance. This trend rarely pivots, but did when handheld wings hit the water alongside the quivers of sails and ... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2025
Despite being a founding event of the Olympic Games, Sailing continues to worry. This concern comes as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reshapes the competition to insure its relevancy in the sports world. For Sailing, tinkering ... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2025
Twelve teams from seven nations will compete in the 2025 Women’s Match Racing World Championship on September 17-20 in Chicago, IL Using the 28-foot Tom28, a round-robin series will advance the top eight teams to the ... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2025
When the 2025 Fireball World Championship was held at Italy’s Lake Garda, it marked the largest participation ever recorded outside the Anglo-Saxon countries in the 60-year history of the class. People love this place, but what’s ... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2025
The report and video, Why sailboat racing is dying in America, prompted a lot of feedback. This report comes from Geoff Chambers M.B.A. of Fremantle, Western Australia: Sailing’s decline is occurring because ‘literally’ it simply doesn’t ... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2025
Paul Meilhat’s French-flagged IMOCA Biotherm has won the fifth and final stage of The Ocean Race Europe 2025 – the 1,600-nautical mile leg from Genova, Italy to Boka Bay in Montenegro – and in doing so ... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2025
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) will host the second edition of the Offshore Double Handed World Championship, with racing on September 23-October 1 from Cowes, Isle of Wight. After an application process, 22 teams from ... Read More →