Feature

Yacht Club House Drinks 2025

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


Feature

How would you decide this?

Published on July 11th, 2025

Dave Perry’s 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes highlights specific aspects of the racing rules in a fun format designed to help you become more familiar with The Racing Rules of Sailing. Here is one of the ... Read More


Feature

Visualize the shape of your jib

Published on July 11th, 2025

Dave Dellenbaugh, member of the 2025 Class of the National Sailing Hall of Fame, talks about sail shape in WindCheck magazine: Before we talk about how you can use sail controls to change the shape of ... Read More


Feature

Tales from the Golden Globe Race

Published on July 11th, 2025

Solo round the world skipper Tapio Lehtinen has a narrow-miss when sleep deprived on the Golden Globe Race. Tom Cunliffe introduces this extract from The Last Voyage of Asteria: Ten years or so ago I was ... Read More


Dock Talk

Sailing Grand Slam in the USA

Published on July 10th, 2025

The 2025 Long Beach Olympic Classes Regatta is set to provide world-class racing for ten Olympic classes representing 42 countries in the fourth stop of the five series Sailing Grand Slam circuit. This is the 65th ... Read More


Feature

Honestly, I’m not sure what to do?

Published on July 10th, 2025

Highlighting how Scuttlebutt staff gets derailed during work hours, this Reddit post seeks our relationship advice: My boyfriend (41M) has an expensive hobby so we have to live very frugally and it’s starting to bother me ... Read More


Dock Talk

Updated 2025 hurricane activity forecast

Published on July 10th, 2025

Leading storm forecasters at Colorado State University have decreased their 2025 outlook slightly and now call for a slightly above-normal 2025 Atlantic basin hurricane season. The primary reason for the slight decrease is both observed and ... Read More


Feature

Italy changes club for 38th America’s Cup

Published on July 10th, 2025

The historic “Italia,” the oldest sailing club in Naples and one of the longest-standing in the Mediterranean, will launch the challenge to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron for the 38th America’s Cup, representing Luna Rossa. ... Read More


Video

Uncharted, Episode 1

Published on July 10th, 2025

The new docuseries Uncharted is the latest effort by SailGP to increase interest in the global sports league. Three, 30-minute episodes will highlight how Jimmy Spithill, the Italian team’s CEO and former USA driver, built a ... Read More


Gallery

PHOTOS: Starting the Transpac Race 2025

Published on July 10th, 2025

The 53-boat fleet began the 2025 Transpac Race with staggered starts on July 1, July 3 and July 5 for the 53rd edition of the biennial 2225 nm crossing from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Photos by ... Read More


Curmudgeon's Observation

Curmudgeon’s Observation

Published on July 9th, 2025

Unattended children will be given a latte and a free kitten. Providing wisdom since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of major sailing news, commentary, opinions, ... Read More



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