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Follow the Vendée Globe 2024-25

Published on November 13th, 2024

The Vendée Globe, raced in the 60-foot IMOCA, is the elite race round the world, solo, non-stop, and without assistance. On November 10, 40 skippers started the 2024-25 edition which begins and ends in Les Sables ... Read More


Curmudgeon's Observation

Curmudgeon’s Observation

Published on February 12th, 2025

Be careful about reading the fine print; there’s no way you’re going to like it. Providing wisdom since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of major ... Read More


Feature

Giving female athletes freedom to fail

Published on February 12th, 2025

The SailGP league requires each team to have at least one female on the crew, and for 11 of the 12 teams, the women fit into the strategist role behind the helm. But for the USA ... Read More


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Immense gratitude for the opportunity

Published on February 12th, 2025

Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea started their Olympic campaign in 2017 for the Women’s Skiff event, and endured the difficult baptism new teams face when learning how to sail the 49erFX boat. But that was then, ... Read More


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A well-earned post Vendée Globe refit

Published on February 12th, 2025

What happens after the solo skippers in the 2024-25 Vendée Globe cross the finish line in Les Sables d’Olonne, France? For Boris Herrmann (GER), his IMOCA yacht Malizia – Seaexplorer is back into the shed for ... Read More


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Extraordinary Boats: Globe 5.80

Published on February 12th, 2025

In their Extraordinary Boats series, Yachting World profiles the Globe 5.80, a 19-footer designed specifically for the Mini Globe Race. “Go small, go cheap, go now,” famously said Lin and Larry Pardy, who sailed for decades ... Read More


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Crazy, dangerous, should never happen?

Published on February 12th, 2025

All 12 solo skippers completed the 2025 McIntyre Globe 580 Transat on their home-built 19-foot plywood Globe 5.80 Mini Class boats. Leaving the Canary Islands on January 11, Renaud Stitelmann (SUI) on Capucinette won the third ... Read More


Video

VIDEO: Teaching kids to love sailing?

Published on February 12th, 2025

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats” – from The Wind in the Willows... Read More


Curmudgeon's Observation

Curmudgeon’s Observation

Published on February 11th, 2025

What do you call a super articulate dinosaur? A Thesaurus. 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, features ... Read More


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Eight Bells: Bob Evelyn

Published on February 11th, 2025

Sailboat and racing yacht designer and builder Edward Robert “Bob” Evelyn, 87, died January 27, 2025, after a short illness in Prospect Harbor, Maine. Well known in Southeastern New England regatta circuit, early in his career, ... Read More


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J/24 Class gets reboot in Canada

Published on February 11th, 2025

After a five-year hiatus, the J/24 Canadian Class Association has appointed a new council and has scheduled the 2025 J/24 Canadian National Championship on June 20-22 in Ottawa, Ont. The Nationals will be hosted by Nepean ... Read More



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