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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 to check your depth sensor

Published on October 16th, 2025

Mark Chisnell recalls for Yachting World how a tiny calibration error with a boat’s new instrument system turned a tactical move into an awkward grounding: It’s the second day of a race weekend, an early season ... Read More


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Remembering Don Trask in San Diego

Published on October 16th, 2025

The International Masters Regatta has been officially renamed the Don Trask International Masters Regatta when it commences in 2025 on October 17-19 in San Diego, CA. Trask, who passed away on September 29, 2025, founded the ... Read More


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Catalina Yachts stops production

Published on October 16th, 2025

On April 30, Daedalus Yachts founder Michael Reardon announced that he and his company had acquired Catalina Yachts, but issues behind the scenes have now become public. After disgruntled employees of Catalina Yachts began sharing news ... Read More


Curmudgeon's Observation

Curmudgeon’s Observation

Published on October 15th, 2025

“The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” – T.S. Elliot Providing “insight” since 1997, the ... Read More


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Elite level of the sport cuts both ways

Published on October 15th, 2025

Dear Curmudgeon: As much as I appreciate the long history for sailing in the Olympic Games, and I respect and admire the commitment needed to participate, I am starting to wonder about it all. The Olympics ... Read More


Feature

Opening up new youth opportunities

Published on October 15th, 2025

The New Bedford Community Boating Center (CBC) in Massachusetts has organized a youth offshore sailing team for the 2026 Newport Bermuda Race. With a crew of eight youth sailors and four adult coaches, the team on ... Read More


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Growing opportunities for women

Published on October 15th, 2025

The Women’s World Match Racing Tour has formed a new strategic partnership with The Magenta Project, the award-winning global charity founded in 2015 to promote and build greater equity and inclusion for women in the sport ... Read More


News

New era for the America’s Cup

Published on October 15th, 2025

The ability for the America’s Cup to maximize its commercial potential had long been hindered by the Deed of Gift. While this document had guided the competition through global wars to become the most prominent trophy ... Read More


Curmudgeon's Observation

Curmudgeon’s Observation

Published on October 14th, 2025

Don’t judge folks by their relatives. Providing “insight” since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of major sailing news, commentary, opinions, features and dock talk…with a ... Read More



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