One crewmember has died and another was swept overboard when the Auckland-registered yacht Platino suffered serious rigging damage around 550km north of New Zealand on June 14. Platino, a…
Helen Fretter
Editor
Cowes Week title sponsor returns for a final swansong
The investment management group’s support officially came to an end after the 2015 event, but with just three months to go until this year’s regatta, it was announced that they…
Seb Josse forced out of The Transat bakerly by mainsail damage
Going into the second day of racing, in the early hours of the morning on 4 May, Josse reported that he broached during a gybe, causing irreparable damage to a…
Canadian yachtsman is murdered following kidnapping in Philippines
John Ridsdel, 68, was taken hostage from the Ocean View Marina on Samal Island, Davao in 2015, along with another Canadian sailor, Robert Hall, Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad and a Philippine…
Land Rover BAR launches its third America’s Cup test boat, ‘T3’
Land Rover BAR is the first of the America’s Cup Challengers to launch a third test boat, ‘T3’. With just over a year until the America’s Cup qualifying races begin…