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The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) has received confirmation that its International Certificates of Competence (ICC) and several of its course completion certificates and other Certificates of Competence remain valid for skippering Spanish flagg...

Britain’s new flagship aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is leading six Royal Navy ships, a Royal Navy submarine, a US Navy destroyer and a frigate from the Netherlands in the largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the...

A Seabin, funded by dredging specialist Boskalis Westminster, has been installed at MDL’s Hythe Marina Village as part of the marina’s ‘binfrastructure’.

Poole Harbour Commissioners have announced that they have renewed their partnership with British Vendée Globe Sailor Pip Hare.

International ocean racing teams from around the world are assembling in Lorient, France this week ahead of the start of the inaugural edition of The Ocean Race Europe on 29 May.

The RNLI will be one of the first two charity beneficiaries of a new scheme, Project Giving Back, established to enable charities and not-for-profit organisations to create a garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Sail Training organisations around the UK are highlighting how taking part in a Sail Training voyage can boost young people’s mental health.

Twenty years after the master shipwrights of Mylor Yacht Harbour built a trio of classic wooden Falmouth Sunbeam yachts, they are now embarking on a new generation challenge: an immaculate Sunbeam finished to the specification of the 1920s origina...

Devised in 2017, the IMOCA Globe Series Championship, which combines the world’s superlative offshore races, enjoyed its first great success with its inaugural cycle from June 2018 to March 2021.

Now in its 22nd year, the annual J Boats celebration, the Landsail Tyres J-Cup, is an absolute must-do event for J Boats owners. Hosted by the Royal Southern Yacht Club, located on the banks of the Hamble River, the regatta provides three days of ...

The Ocean Race will host a high-level Summit on 16 June to help drive new and improved policies to tackle some of the most urgent issues facing our blue planet.

Olympic Gold medallist and three-time Moth World Champion Paul Goodison is joining tthe Great Britain SailGP team for the Italian and Great Britain SailGP events.

Stoneways Marine steps up for return of YJA Yachtsman of the Year and Young Sailor of the Year Awards.

A total of 1,300 native oysters have been returned to waters in the Firth of Clyde, as part of a restoration project to bring back these ‘ocean superheroes’ from the brink of extinction.  

The Ultimate Boat Company has launched a new range of high-speed powerboats designed by internationally renowned naval architect, John Moxham.  

British sailing team Alex Thomson Racing will begin their 2021 competitive season with the Fastnet Race on 8 August.

In a letter published in The Times newspaper, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Patron of the Cruising Association, highlighted the devastating effect of HMRC’s demands for VAT on boats returning to the UK.

Dame Ellen MacArthur is calling on Round the Island Race sailors to inspire young people to believe in a brighter future living through and beyond cancer while celebrating the race’s 90th anniversary by racing to raise ‘90 in 90’...

Boat owners can now safely dispose of all their out-of-date flares at one of Ocean Safety’s four branches around the UK, no matter the brand or where the flares were originally purchased.   

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston has entered Cowes Classics Week with his famous ketch Suhaili, in which he was the first to sail singlehanded non-stop around the world in the Golden Globe Race in 1968-69.