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Auckland more than ready to Host Volvo Ocean Race

Alison Williams — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:05:08 +0000

The Volvo Ocean Race, which commenced at Alicante in Spain on 29th October, is now steaming towards Auckland, New Zealand a city that is often dubbed the “City of Sails.” It is has been long well known for its insatiable fascination with vessels both small and large that sail into its waters each year from [...] Related Posts

Narrow Gap Separates Yachts in the World’s Toughest Ocean Race The six competitors in the Volvo Ocean Race 2011 /...

Host Ports Announced for 2013 Four ports within the Baltic Sea, in Denmark, Finland, Latvia...

Sea Shepherd’s New Anti-Whaling Vessel Damaged in the Southern Ocean The Southern Hemisphere summer heralds the annual confrontations in the...

Maritime GPS Navigation at Risk from Jammers and Spoofers

Alison Williams — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:46:06 +0000

Marine navigation all over the world has increasingly become reliant on global positioning systems or GPS for short, and its Russian, European and Chinese equivalents. So much so, that it would be hard to imagine the vast number of commercial vessels, let alone smaller fishing and pleasure boats being able to go anywhere on the [...] Related Posts

Does Maritime Shipping disturb the Lives of Whales? Whales, back from the brink of extinction in the last...

Does Maritime Shipping disturb the Lives of Whales?

Alison Williams — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:52:55 +0000

Whales, back from the brink of extinction in the last two decades, seem to be facing another seaborne danger: this time from accidental noise pollution caused by the low humming of ships’ engines and the whirring of propellers. It has been thought for some time that large baleen whales in particular – the whales that [...] Related Posts

$ 1.2 Billion for Gas Liquids Shipping, paid by Oneok Oneok Partners LP is known as an operator of natural-...

Defying Empire. New book on Maritime History‏ Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York...

Piracy on the High Seas – the Increasing Cost to World Shipping “Coalition warship, coalition warship, this is the motor vessel *Bee...

Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee welcomes Tall Ship

Alison Williams — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:02:41 +0000

It has recently been announced that the tall ship “Tenacious”, will be taking part in the celebrations for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee on the 3rd June on the River Thames in London. The ship is quite unusual as it has been specially designed and constructed to be operated and sailed by a mixed gender crew [...] Related Posts

Armada Rouen 2008 Armada Rouen 2008 Sail Training International Endorsed Event5 – 14...

MAKE A DATE TO SEE A TALL SHIP OR TWO in 2009 Tall Ships can be seen in a number of ports...

Tall Ship Amerigo Vespucci Named after the historical Italian explorer of the fifteenth century,...

Oars Away Across the Atlantic

Alison Williams — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:11:17 +0000

Anybody flying from Europe to the Caribbean islands, with a sharp eye out on the vast blue ocean beneath, over the last few weeks might have seen something more than a little strange. For sure, the odd container ship or oil tanker would definitely have been over flown as well as the bright, white sails [...] No Related Posts

Dutch Teenager Breaks World Single Handed Sailing Record

Alison Williams — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:08:11 +0000

Dutch teen Laura Dekker has just become the youngest sailor ever to undertake and complete a single handed circumnavigation of the globe. The sixteen year old finished her single handed round-the-globe voyage when she finally sailed into the harbour of St Maarten in the Caribbean, which is jointly administered by the French and Dutch governments. [...] Related Posts

Announcing Fifth World Voyage 2010-2011 On or about the first of May, 2010 the sail...

The Reef Strewn Waters of Australia Conquered by Laura Barely a year ago teenager Laura Dekker departed from Gibraltar...

Go Sail Launches New Site: Sydney Sailing Charters Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, business center and...

SV Egret, Rudderless, arrives safely in St Lucia

Alison Williams — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:56:53 +0000

There are many ordinary people who go to sea and do brave and amazing things, which the world never gets to hear about. This is a story of two such quiet heroes that ended safely and happily only two weeks ago. The couple, on an adventure of a lifetime, had set off on what is [...] Related Posts

Feeling Rudderless?‏ STI Press Release 30 January 2009 FEELING ALL AT SEA?...

Sea Shepherd’s New Anti-Whaling Vessel Damaged in the Southern Ocean

Alison Williams — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:59:37 +0000

The Southern Hemisphere summer heralds the annual confrontations in the Antarctic of the Japanese whaling fleet and the anti whaling organisation Sea Shepherd, but last week disaster struck in bad weather. The recently launched state-of-the-art vessel the “Brigitte Bardot” was damaged by a rogue wave while pursuing a Japanese whaling vessel in 6 metre seas [...] Related Posts

Narrow Gap Separates Yachts in the World’s Toughest Ocean Race The six competitors in the Volvo Ocean Race 2011 /...

Osama Bin Laden Buried at Sea According to the American Forces Press Services, the body of...

North Sea Tall Ships Regatta 2010 A new race for sail training Tall Ships will be...

Traditional Boats Still Sail Bali’s Seas

Alison Williams — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:27:31 +0000

We left the Lombok anchorage in the dead of night – to sail to Bali we had to take advantage of the strong north west going current that flowed up through the Lombok Strait that was timed by the passage of the moon. Calculations showed us that it would flow in the right direction only [...] Related Posts

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Where Trade by Sail still Survives Watching the glorious tall ships, replicas of those used in...

Ancient Dahabeahs Still Sail the Nile in Style. Dahabeahs, spelt seemingly in a dozen different ways, but named...

Filipino Mariners Caught Up in Piracy

Alison Williams — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:56:09 +0000

Recent news reports have revealed that there are many Filipinos caught up in ship piracy in the Indian Ocean. A Captain of a ship registered in Liberia and crewed entirely by Filipinos was kept in captivity by Somali pirates for four months this year while his wife and newly born child waited in earnest back [...] Related Posts

Piracy on the High Seas – the Increasing Cost to World Shipping “Coalition warship, coalition warship, this is the motor vessel *Bee...