Feature

Care and feeding of a Class identity

Published on September 24th, 2026

The VX One Class is going to have a busy six months. This 19-foot speedy sport boat has its North American Championship, inaugural U.S. National Championship, four Miami Winter Series events, and the Bacardi Invitational Regatta. ... Read More →

Feature

Hospitality always wins

Published on September 24th, 2026

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News A flight from San Diego, a three-hour drive from Chicago, and we arrive at Lake Wawasee – the setting of the 2026 Championship of Champions. Twenty teams, all reveling from ... Read More →

News

Bring on the college fall season

Published on September 24th, 2026

The start of university education in the USA varies between the semester system (mid-August/early September) and quarter system (late September). With winter around the corner, the 2026-27 college season is fully on with Clear Air providing ... Read More →

Feature

The rule that disappears at the dock

Published on September 24th, 2026

by Rory Maher, Clear Air Gender parity in sailing hit a new high-water mark on September 2, when six IMOCA 60s began The Ocean Race Atlantic after departing Brooklyn the previous day — crews of exactly ... Read More →

Curmudgeon's Observation

Curmudgeon’s Observation

Published on September 23rd, 2026

If a telemarketer calls, give the telephone to a child and say the caller is Santa. Providing “insight” since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of ... Read More →

Feature

How would you decide this?

Published on September 23rd, 2026

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

Mine is bigger than yours

Published on September 23rd, 2026

If size matters, Dutch builder Royal Huisman is in the final stage of completion for the 279-foot Project 410 – the world’s largest sloop-rigged sailing yacht – at the shipyard’s facility in Vollenhove, the Netherlands. Unveiled ... Read More →

Feature

Has America’s Cup lost its way?

Published on September 23rd, 2026

When the America’s Cup shifted from monohulls to catamarans in for the 2013 event, it was not for better racing. It was for better ratings. The pursuit of commercial sustainability has sought entertainment at every turn. ... Read More →

Feature

Storms are getting stranger

Published on September 23rd, 2026

Robert Hoffer is a technologist, doing stuff above our paygrade, but he’s also a lifelong sailor and shares how his two worlds are merging: It was 1979 when the sea killed fifteen sailors because the forecast ... Read More →

Feature

State of the Marine Industry

Published on September 23rd, 2026

Bump Wilcox, based in Massachusetts, is with New Wave Yachts – the #1 dealer for Dehler, Hanse, and Sabre Yachts. He offered this assessment of the marine industry following the 2026 Newport International Boat Show on ... Read More →