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ePropulsion is now offering a five year warranty for all new purchases of the ePropulsion Spirit series outboards – until the end of December 2023.

Marine lighting solutions provider DuraBrite Lights has been announced as a sponsor of the Sport Fishing Championship (SFC), the new sports league which aims to bring together the best sport fishermen from around the world to compete in a series ...

Over 450 adventurers, from 48 nations, filled the Portsmouth Guildhall for their Race Crew Allocation, one of the biggest and most highly anticipated events in the Clipper Race calendar. 

May’s World Sailing Show focuses on Tom Slingsby’s Team Australia in San Francisco as SailGP season three honours are decided. It was a close fought fight on the water between Australia, New Zealand and Team Emirates GBR, wit...

Those wishing to benefit from a discount when they enter for Cowes Classics Week 2023 may still do so, but time is running out.  The discount ends at midnight on Wednesday 31st May.

New entries have boosted the Superyacht Cup Palma fleet with just a month to go to the 27th edition of the annual celebration of sail.

The 112-year-old tall ship, Bark Europa, fell on its side at the at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town on Saturday morning. One sailor has been injured.

According to Wayne Peters, a passionate ocean advocate (who runs Sail Electric, the engineering division of the North Devon Marine Project): “Policy standards and training will be critical elements to accelerating the transition [to electri...

Targeted for 2025, Volvo Penta has released details about its Inboard Performance System (IPS) professional platform aimed at superyachts and professional craft.

Floating event venue provider, Oceandiva, has received Green Award’s prestigious Gold Certificate with a Platinum Label for its new vessel Oceandiva London, making it the world’s first carbon-neutral floating event venue to achieve th...

Mercury Marine has entered into an agreement with JJE, an electric propulsion leader in components, assemblies and systems for global automotive applications.

Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) is purchasing a renewed fleet of ten Elliott 7 yachts for the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) Mastercard Youth Training Programme (YTP) and Performance programme.

Martin Hall, leading practitioner in marine casualty, has joined global commercial law firm Hill Dickinson after a career spanning more than 40 years at Clyde & Co.

Sixty-nine boats started the North Sea Race outside the Royal Harwich YC for the 180nm race bound for the Scheveningen Yacht Club, Netherlands. The overall winner after IRC time correction was the J/122 Ajeto! raced Two-Handed by Robin Verhoef &am...

Decked out and dressed overall in union jack bunting and signal flags, 30 Dunkirk Little Ships assembled in the centre basin of historic St Katharine Docks. This unique May event, showcasing these incredible and meticulously preserved war heroes, ...

The 2nd edition of the Plymouth Fastnet 500 takes place on 13 August. Starting on and finishing from Plymouth Sound, this is a great option to see the Fastnet rock in all its splendour without the logistical headaches before or after the race.&nbs...

The crew of cruise ship Carnival Dream helped to rescue 17 people stranded in the Belize Channel on Wednesday (17 May 2023), after the group’s boat capsized.

The RNLI has announced that in 2022, its lifeguards saw a staggering 155 per cent rise in paddleboarding incidents (compared with 2021) while volunteer lifeboat crews saw an increase of 20 per cent.

Renowned sailor and author, Tom Cunliffe has introduced a new interactive app using raster charts derived from UKHO data.

During the recent American Boating Congress (ABC), 8-10 May in Washington, D.C., Yamaha and other industry leaders conducted meetings on Capitol Hill to educate legislators about the benefits of sustainable marine fuel, the need to mitigate aquat...