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The moment is almost here! The 5.80 Mini Globe Race is set to depart from Lagos on December 28th, and the anticipation is palpable. These incredibly skilled and courageous sailors are putting the final touches on their preparations, ready to embar...

As we look forward to the 2025 sailing season, the new-look boatshed at Buckler’s Hard Yacht Harbour is taking shape. 

A total of 17 remarkable and unusual historic places have been granted protection in 2024 and across England, 256 historic places have been added to the National Heritage List for England.

A Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) volunteer is spending Christmas in the cold of Antarctica as she’s begun a five-month expedition on Goudier Island.

The Cruising Association (CA), alongside key partners, is calling on the UK’s recreational boaters to back its campaign to make Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) more accessible and affordable.

The anticipation is building! The intrepid sailors and their remarkable 5.80 mini sailboats have begun arriving in Lagos, Portugal, marking the start of a truly extraordinary adventure – the 5.80 Mini Globe Race. This epic challenge, which will ...

Innovation, research and a mammoth volunteering effort by people helped conservationists learn more about wildlife in UK seas, reveals The Wildlife Trusts’ 2024 marine review, published today.

UPDATE - Beach Walk before the Beers : See details below. all welcome.

The incredible three-sided battle, halfway across the frozen southern Pacific, midway between Tasmania and Cape Horn, continues at high speeds. Yoann Richomme (PAPREC ARKÉA) took the lead yesterday, Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil) ...

Lifeboat crew from Chiswick RNLI were called to help breakfast radio DJ Jordan North when he got into trouble in the River Thames after he rescued a dog struggling in the water.

Because of irreparable damage to the D2 shroud on his IMOCA, New Europe, Hungarian skipper Szabolcs Weöres has made the difficult decision to retire from Vendée Globe 2024-25.

Two days after snatching second from Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil) Yoann Richomme, skipper of PAPREC ARKÉA is hard on the heels of Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance). At just less than 18 miles behind Dalin, who...

British Marine is urging the Government to reconsider its plans to drastically cut Business Property Relief (BPR) and Agricultural Property Relief (APR) on Inheritance Tax (IHT). In partnership with Family Business UK and other organisations, Brit...

The RYA has welcomed today’s announcement from UK Sport outlining a record £330 million of Government and National Lottery investment in Olympic and Paralympic sport over the next four years. 

After being dismasted last night at around 2145hrs UTC some 800 miles south of Australia Pip Hare has secured Medallia and has already set a jury rig and, bitterly disappointed, is making slow but steady progress. She is uninjured but her indefati...

Vendée Globe leader Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) is in the Pacific and, mathematically, on his way home. He passed the midpoint of the course, after completing 50% of the theoretical distance of the 23 890 nautical m...

Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) led the Vendée Globe fleet into the Pacific Ocean last night (UTC) when he crossed out of the Indian Ocean across the line of longitude under Tasmania at 23:45:25hrs UTC.

Oyster Yachts has welcomed the arrival of the Oyster World Rally 2024-25 fleet into Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront, South Africa.

Tickets for SailGP’s long-awaited return to the UK and Emirates GBR’s home event are now on sale. The most exciting racing on water will take place at the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix in Portsmouth on 19-20 July 2025. &n...

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach met with World Sailing President Quanhai Li and World Sailing CEO David Graham at Olympic House in Lausanne to congratulate the federation on a very successful quadrennial and its excelle...