Mighty Merloe On The Rocks In Channel ISland

TowBoatUS Ventura & Channel Islands is at Anacapa Island.



Wednesday night, a distress call was made from a 60’ long by 58’ wide high-performance racing trimaran. The vessel was hard aground, wedged into a rocky cove and against a cliff with the mast hitting the cliff. Along with the U.S. Coast Guard, Captains Paul & Carson responded to the distress. A large kelp bed and shallow waters prevented resources from getting too close....

The U.S. Navy prevented a support ship from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) from capturing an unmanned surface vessel operated by the U.S. 5th Fleet in the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 29-30.




U.S. Navy press release

While transiting international waters around 11 p.m. (local time), Aug. 29, U.S. 5th Fleet observed IRGCN support ship Shahid Baziar towing a Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel (USV) in an attempt to detain it. U.S. Navy...

34 J/24s vied in two races in winds of 6-10 knots to open to 2022 J/24 European Championship, hosted by Howth Yacht Club in Ireland. Six nations are represented: Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and the United States. American Kurt Dammeier, with newly crowned J/24 World Champion Mike Marshall on the crew, took Amuse Bouche to the early advantage with a pair of thirds for 6 points. James Torr’s MaJic from Great Britain kept consistent on the day with a 4,5 for 9...

Just released video of the monster storm that rolled through Corsica and Northern Italy on August 18th



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Nova Scotia kicks up hard for the Olympic skiffs

31.08.2022 by Ben Remocker



Hubbards, Nova Scotia, Canada –

All the pent-up pre-regatta tension was set free on a wild and wavy race track on day one of the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Nova Scotia, Canada.

HIGHLIGHTS

Multiple nosedives and capsizes in conditions that kicked up to 27 knots with waves of 1.5 metres
First-time race wins at a...

PIROUELLE PUSHING LEADER LAPERCHE HARD, DOLAN PROFITS FROM FAST, PRODUCTIVE NIGHT IN THE CHANNEL
Published on 30/08/2022

After two of the toughest, fastest and most demanding spinnaker reaching legs of recent editions of La Solitaire du Figaro - totaling nearly 220 relentless nautical miles - accomplished in winds gusting to over 30kts, only one minute separated the top two leading skippers, Tom Laperche and Guillaume Pirouelle, as they passed the Cardinale Chauss?e de Sein buoy...

Washed up on peninsula, a picked over shark


Thousands of dead fish are piling up across the Bay Area.

KQED Reports: https://www.kqed.org/news/11923920/d...al-bloom-grows

From the concrete outer edges of Oakland's Lake Merritt to the sandy beaches of San Francisco's Fort Funston, and the pebbled banks of Oyster Point in San Mateo County, the carcasses of fish likely poisoned by a harmful algal bloom — more commonly known as a red tide —...

We are tired, torn, at a loss. Those who were eliminated today have lost most of their gear in horrendous crashes. The four of us remaining in the final can’t fathom our fortune. I find myself replaying the narrow misses on huge barreling sections, the brushes with reef and disaster. Making the final feels less an act of competitive prowess as much as a revelation: this is what windsurfing can feel like. Powerful, perfect and real.

The morning is still in...

The 36th edition of Hamilton Island Race Week concluded on Saturday with a mixture of courses around Lindeman Island, the traditional landmark of the closing passage race which sorted the finish order in multiple divisions of the Hamilton Island and the Australian Yachting Championship point scores.

The strong south-east trade winds trumped the showers and there were smiles all around as more than 200 crews packed up wet boats before glamming-up for the traditional...

2022 International 110 National Championship Regatta

words by Skip Shapiro



Inverness YC hosted the 82nd International 110 National Championship regatta on Tomales Bay August 8-12. With the largest 110 fleet in the US, IYC hosts the regatta every three years.

Twenty boats competed in this year’s regatta, including two father-son teams from the recently formed fleet on Bainbridge Island, WA; two more family teams from Hull YC outside of Boston,...