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American team arrives to the Grand Finale as the winners of The Ocean Race.

The excitement is mounting with just a couple of days to go until the annual Round the Island Race welcomes over 6,000 competitors and 1,100 boats to race around the Isle of Wight on Saturday 1st July. The first start is scheduled for 08:00 and th...

From honeycomb worms to solar powered sea slugs, this summer’s National Marine Week from The Wildlife Trusts will shine a light on some of the lesser-known creatures and plants found in UK seas.

Isle of Wight Distillery, producers of Mermaid Gin, Mermaid Salt Vodka and Mermaid Spiced Rum sponsored the very first Sail to Reward Regatta, which took place in the Solent, launching from Ocean Village on 19 June.

Friendships were forged as the first Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust ‘first time’ trip of 2023 took to the waters of the Solent earlier this month (12-15 June). It was also the first trip which benefited from the support of The Ancasta Gr...

Team Malizia found a way to grab a last-minute win in leg 7 of The Ocean Race, saving the best for last.

Introduced in 1963, the inshore lifeboat continues to be an invaluable asset in the RNLI fleet as new figures show the charity’s Inshore lifeboats have saved 30,778* lives across 60 years.

A team from maritime charity The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society is set to climb 24 peaks in 24 hours to raise vital funds for a leading seafaring charity.

With Emirates Team New Zealand’s latest AC40 testing, development and race training block in Auckland now wrapped up, the team are heading north to quickly settle into their Barcelona base and roll Te Rehutai out to get a first taste of sail...

WindWhisper Racing Team won the final leg of The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint into Genova, beating the rest of the fleet by a massive margin.

UKSA has shared the success of its Further Education students as the academic year draws to a close with 100 per cent of its year two students going straight into employment or further education.

The New York Yacht Club American Magic sailing squad was confirmed as the team launched their second AC40 in Barcelona following their relocation from Pensacola, FL.

It’s not every day you catch a glimpse of a Feadship, and even rarer to spot a classic one. But between 16 – 18 June those lucky enough to be quayside in Haarlem or Amsterdam, The Netherlands, found themselves glimpsing an entire fleet...

A host of famous circumnavigators are in the frame to have their names added to the International Association of Cape Horners (IACH) Cape Horn Hall of Fame honours board at a ceremony slated for September 21 to coincide with the start of the Mini-...

Dame Ellen MacArthur is calling on Round the Island Race sailors to help transform the lives of young cancer survivors by raising money for the 20thanniversary of her Isle of Wight-based charity in this Saturdays’s race (1 July).

Sun, sea and fast boats …. what’s not to like? Team Endeavour Racing is open to Wounded, Injured and Sick (WIS) serving military personnel and veterans. It provides a foundation as a transition service supporting and empowering team m...

The winners and runner up entries to the “Wind Ship – the Future” youth poster design contest have been chosen by a panel of top environmental, political and industry trailblazers, through a public vote and among International Wi...

National maritime charity, the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, is once again on the lookout for photographers to submit their favourite images of the sea, for its eleventh annual competition honouring the UK and Ireland’s proud maritime...

The Golden Globe Race sits high in the mind of all sailors and one man, Sir Robin Knox Johnston, winner of the first edition in 1968 has inspired tens of millions ever since. He was the first ever to complete a solo, non stop, unassisted circumnav...