At 9.30am, on the second day of last year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, about 60 miles off the New South Wales town of Narooma, Queenslander Mike Freebairn’s world began to come apart at the seams. Koomooloo, the beautiful timber ocean racing veteran that he and his father had so painstakingly r
The crew of HUGO BOSS II, the British Volvo 60 racing yacht competing in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, are this weekend making final preparations ahead of the start of the iconic yacht race on Boxing Day.
race favourite would be a cinch. Look at the likely weather conditions, see which boat is fastest in these and put your money down. But it isn’t a first past the post sprint, it is a handicap race and there are 66 boats ranging from 34 to 100 feet that are eligible to be the […]
Somewhere in the crew of Graeme Wood’s Sydney 47 Wot’s Next lies the future of Australian ocean racing. Wood, who created the highly successful Wotif.com web site, has two boats entered in the Rolex Sydney Hobart 2007, Wot’s Next and Wot Yot, a Nelson Marek TP52. He will be sailing the latter, a lig
Once the 82 boat Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet leaves Sydney Harbour at 1pm on Boxing Day, apart from the odd glimpse from the coastline or on television news programs they are mostly out of sight, but thanks to the highly awarded race website, the public, media and even the competitors can follow the r
Underwater search teams have found a second body inside a tug boat which capsized in the River Clyde. Strathclyde Police confirmed that Eric Blackley, 57, from Gourock, was located in the Flying Phantom during a recovery operation on Saturday morning.
The navigator of a cruise ship that ran aground off Alaska in May was only 22, had no real knowledge of the area and no training on the boat, a report says. Marino Cattiotti was put in charge for four hours because another navigator was ill, the National Transportation Safety Board report said.
Over the last couple of years, Europe’s offshore sailors have discovered a new, inexpensive route to thrilling, high speed sailing. They have discovered Class 40 racing.
A French fisherman injured 40 miles off the Isles of Scilly has been airlifted to hospital in Cornwall. Coastguards in Falmouth coordinated the rescue on Thursday evening after being alerted by colleagues in France.
Royal Boskalis Westminster nv wishes to announce that it has acquired a major contract for deepening the entrance channel to the port of Melbourne in Australia. The project will be executed in an alliance with the Port of Melbourne Corporation. The work will take about two years and the contract val
The tanker VLCC New Vision was caught in the recent severe North Atlantic storm offshore Ireland. Built in South Korea and delivered in April 1994, the New Vision is a double-hulled VLCC flying the French flag. Operated by V.Ships France, it is time chartered by Total from Norwegian shipowner Viken.
Three-year contract covers managed network services across more than 50 locations worldwide BT today announced the signature of a global network services agreement with Van Oord, one of the world’s largest dredging and marine contractors. Van Oord, working on dredging and marine projects around the
Rolls-Royce has won £72 million of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract, taking the total order value to £155 million. In June 2007, the company announced an £83 million contract to deliver designs and equipment for six new Rolls-Royce offshore service vessels to Nordcapital
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited is pleased to announce that it has agreed to sell its 1995-built double hull VLCC tanker Chelsea for the net sale proceeds of approximately $99 million. Delivery to buyers is expected to take place in January 2008.
