Published on June 3rd, 2024
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 →
Published on July 19th, 2024
Diego Botin’s Spain stunned SailGP heavyweights Australia and New Zealand in the three-boat showdown to take the championship title and $2 million prize in a thrilling end to Season 4. Los Gallos ended Australia’s 3-championship winning ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2024
by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News In the 1970s, there was a Los Angeles community near my harbor with homes along narrow canals, and once a year a competition had entrants race down one of the ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2024
New York Yacht Club American Magic has confirmed the youth team that will represent the United States at the 2024 Youth America’s Cup. This lineup will compete against 11 other nations on September 17-26 in Barcelona, ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2024
George Day provides this update on Beryl’s wrath in this report for the Cruising Compass: On July 1, hurricane Beryl made landfall on the Caribbean islands of Carriacou, Union, Grenada and Petit Martinique as a category ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2024
by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News Through the four seasons of SailGP, the league has continued to improve their F50s, with a continuing emphasis on increasing speed. But how fast is too fast? High speed racing ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2024
A South African man is hoping to break records by sailing the smallest boat around the world. Greg Were, 33, said he planned to begin the voyage in Falmouth, UK before sailing around Africa, across the ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2024
by Madeline Gill Baldridge, Sailing World As a sailor who floats among many different classes, I tend to seek out transferable performance patterns. More valuable to me than the ability to memorize a tuning matrix is ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2024
As new sail production increasingly occurs offshore in Sri Lanka, North America may soon – if not already – struggle to have a skilled sailmaking workforce. Not great news, but hopefully that island country in South ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2024
On the penultimate day of the 2024 Youth Sailing World Championships, Danai Giannouli and Iakovina Kerkezou of Greece won the Female Two Person Dinghy event (I420). The 2023 European champions posted four bullets in eight races ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2024
A record 332 boats are registered to participate in the 2024 Bayview Mackinac Race, with the start on July 20 to mark the 100th consecutive running of this freshwater offshore classic. To add a unique historic ... Read More →