The National Family Island Regatta is the largest and oldest of the 22 yearly Bahamian wooden racing sloop regattas. This year’s NFIR regatta, the first since sailing became the national sport ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/29/big-time-for-bahamian-sloops/
From the age of four, Eastern Michigan University professor Derrick Fries has been captivated by sailing, a sport that has brought him immense joy. His passion has led him to participate in saili...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/29/derrick-fries-where-are-they-now/
The SailGP sports league moves to Bermuda for the next event on May 4-5, and while the US SailGP Team has slid down the Season 4 ranking since the new ownership group has taken control, they are ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/29/lindsey-vonn-supports-us-sailgp-team/
Fourteen skippers from five countries have been invited to the 57th Governor’s Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship hosted by the Balboa Yacht Club on July 22-27 in Newport Beach, ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/29/fourteen-teams-for-2024-governors-cup/
Stanford University won the 2024 College Sailing Women’s Team Race National Championship hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University on April 28-29 in Boston, MA....
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/29/stanford-wins-womens-team-racing-nationals/
Olympian, America’s Cup winner and New Zealand Champion in multiple classes, Jon Bilger, explains how to use tides and tidal currents: We all know the tide ebbs and flows. It’s as predictable...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/29/using-tides-and-tidal-currents/
For the 2024 edition of the J/70 North American Championship on May 1-4, the Vallarta Yacht Club in Nuevo Nayarit has attracted 26 teams from the USA, Mexico, Canada, and Argentina. Situated just...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/29/preview-2024-j-70-north-americans/
While most high school students will be preparing for their final exams and wrapping up their school year this June, Orcas Island teens Dagney Kruger and Else Ranker will be sailing in the Race t...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/29/skipping-school-for-race-to-alaska/
Long Beach, CA (April 28, 2024) - As the opening event for the 2024 World Match Racing Tour, the 59th Congressional Cup reached its peak today as USA’s Chris Poole and his Riptide Racing team w...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/28/poole-repeats-at-2024-congressional-cup/
The 2024 Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race which started April 26 in Newport Beach, CA had excellent sailing conditions for the 125 nm course to Ensenada, Mexico and the 88 nm course t...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/28/76th-newport-to-ensenada-race/
In the 5 Minute Warning video series, the sharp end of the sailing world gets reviewed by PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan and Sailjuice’s Andy Rice. Here is the episode description: Oh dear, Matt...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/28/video-series-the-5-minute-warning/
Brittany turned on its best Spring sailing weather – sunshine, puffy cumulus clouds and a decent 10-15 knots of Westerly wind – to send the 2024 Transat CIC fleet on its way from Lorient towa...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/28/solo-stampede-coming-to-america/
There may be no sailing community in the USA that is as well connected to a College Sailing Team as Charleston, SC. This was on display at the 28th edition of Charleston Race Week in which some ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/27/sticking-with-the-sport-beyond-college/
After three days of racing (April 25-27) on the Charles River, the Roger Williams University Hawks took first place in the College Sailing Open Team Race National Championship hosted by the Massa...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/27/roger-williams-wins-open-team-racing-nationals/
Long Beach, CA (April 27, 2024) – The eight teams that advanced to the knock-out rounds of the Congressional Cup began with the top four from the double round robin series – Ian Williams (GBR...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/27/cream-rising-at-congressional-cup/
Ford McCann had won the USA Trials in his event, Men’s One Person Dinghy (ILCA 7), but still needed to be among the top three nations at the final qualifier for the Paris 2024 Olympics. That d...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/26/lessons-for-los-angeles-2028/
With the new contract for Project 411, Dutch custom superyacht builder Royal Huisman enters record territory with Noir, a 264-foot sailing yacht. Noir has been conceived by an owner and his team ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/26/how-to-win-the-mine-is-biggest-award/
While it would seem like pure fantasy that video sailing games will attract participants to the sport, they do bolster commercial interest, and that's a goal for the America's Cup when it launche...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/26/attracting-geeks-to-the-sailing-world/
NOAA electronic navigational charts (NOAA ENC®) are vector data sets that support all types of marine navigation. Originally designed for large commercial vessels, ENCs are used in computer navi...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/26/noaa-increasing-chart-update-frequency/
As the national governing body for sailing in the United States, US Sailing is seeking nominations to fill five open seats on the US Sailing Board of Directors. Application must be submitted no l...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/26/us-sailing-board-of-directors-election/
Long Beach, CA (April 25, 2024) – The first stage of the 59th edition of the Congressional Cup concluded with the double round robin series and the top four teams – Ian Williams (GBR), Jeppe ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/top-four-advance-at-congressional-cup-3/
Alongside the 2024 French Olympic Week on April 20-27 in Hyères was the final opportunity for nations to gain entry to the Paris 2024 Olympics. While the USA has selected representatives for al...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/usa-falls-short-for-paris-2024/
America One Racing , as the largest private financial supporter of US sailing athletes campaigning for the Olympic Games, provides this First Quarter Report for 2024: Q1 2024 was always destine...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/america-one-racing-performance-report/
by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News Youth sailing has followed the same path as other sports with increased coaching and intensity, which has led to attrition as kids either quit because o...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/grooming-the-next-generation-of-sailors/
The intent of a bilge pump is to remove water that enters the bilge, but at what rate? A bilge pump is most needed at the worst of times, and often that is when their inadequacy is discovered. Ge...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/what-capacity-pumps-are-large-enough/
First held in 1968, Antigua Sailing Week 2024 is back with 13 racing classes for teams representing 20 different nations. On April 27, the start gun will fire for the stand-alone Peters & May...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/caribbean-circuit-shifts-to-antigua-2/
The Race to Alaska will hold its 8th edition in 2024, continuing with its 750-mile course from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, AK. And now there is a podcast series prior to the June 9 start. In ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/race-to-alaska-podcast-13/
Matt Sheahan and his PlanetSail team share the latest episode in a regular series of features about the road to the America’s Cup that will take us from the first official event in Vilanova to ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/ep8-road-to-the-37th-americas-cup/
Barcelona, Spain (April 25, 2024) - New York Yacht Club American Magic, Challenger for the 37th America's Cup, today slid its AC75 race boat, “B3,” outside of the shed as commissioning contin...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/debut-sort-of-for-american-magic-ac75/
It was in 2008 when Anna (Tunnicliffe) Tobias won the last Sailing Gold Medal for the USA, and she has been trying to change that for the past 16 years. She felt good about the chances for Paris ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/25/broker-peace-for-us-olympic-program/
You know times are tough when a picture is now only worth 500 words. Providing wisdom since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/24/curmudgeons-observation-135/
Seahorse magazine hosts a monthly poll to recognize recent achievement, and in May 2024 they matched the offshore talents of Cole Brauer (USA) against Chris Sherlock (GBR). As this is little more...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/24/cole-brauer-sailor-of-the-month/
Sailing Hall of Famer Buddy Melges is famous for saying how “instruments are great, but you have to look at the water and present the boat to Mother Nature." While it is computers that have cre...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/24/americas-cup-what-mother-nature-sees/
After a new ownership group for United States SailGP Team made significant personnel changes when they took over in December 2023 during Season 4, more changes are coming following the team's pe...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/24/coaching-change-for-us-sailgp-team/
Each of the six America's Cup teams have mapped out their training schedule, and for NYYC American Magic this was the final day of their two-boat race training program. Their AC40s will now move ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/24/american-magic-checking-the-boxes/
The 76th Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race will commence on April 26, 2024. The 125 nm course from Newport Beach, CA to Ensenada, Mexico has long been a rite of passage for Southern Ca...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/24/a-rite-of-passage-for-socal-sailors/
My apathy is at an all-time whatever. Providing wisdom since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of major sailing news, ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/23/curmudgeons-observation-134/
The first major sailing event of 2024 in Marblehead Harbor, the Boston Yacht Club’s annual Jackson Cup, will be held April 27-28, celebrating its 25th anniversary. The New York Yacht Club will ...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/23/jackson-cup-celebrates-25th-anniversary/
While sailing may be green, building boats has gotten pretty dirty, particularly for the 60-foot IMOCAs. As the leading offshore class in the sport, the International Monohull Open Class Associat...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/23/limiting-harmful-boat-building-emissions/
Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam has claimed its fourth win on the 2023-24 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, topping the fleet of eleven 70-foot yachts on the longest and toughest race on the circuit. The...
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/23/clipper-race-winning-the-china-usa-leg/