The hull of the new super high performance sloop was successfully de-moulded at WallyEurope facility. This breakthrough design is developed by Wally with the lines by Javier Soto Acebal, and the interiors by Foster and Partners. The advanced technologies applied to the Wally 130 include the water ba
The House overwhelmingly approved legislation Thursday to try and stop nuclear weapons from being smuggled into the country by screening nearly all cargo for radiological materials at seaports. Yet the technology will not be available, the Bush administration said. The bill “will improve the safety
ST. PETERSBURG, May 5 (RIA Novosti) – The St. Petersburg-based Severnaya Verf shipyard will launch a new surface ship for the Russian navy on May 16, an official said. The Steregushchy corvette is the first in the Project 20380 series designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau being built at
Marine archaeologists have discovered the remains of a sunken French ship in the Bay of Bengal in Orissa that they believe may be older than the early 20th century Titanic. The ship has been found near the Hukitola Island, about 50 km from the district headquarters of Kendrapada. It is believed to b
With four gleaming levels, six cabins, twin 1,800 horsepower diesels, a top speed of 17 knots and a range of 4,300 nautical miles, you could take the 157-foot-long Barchetta anywhere: Greece, the Virgin Islands, Costa Rica. That would be no sweat for your crew of nine. The problem on Thursday was th
Among the programs still in the Senate version are $4 billion in farm aid, $2.3 billion to prepare for a bird flu pandemic, $1.9 billion for border security, $1.1 billion in aid to the Gulf Coast seafood industry, $700 million to relocate a rail line along the Gulf Coast, $648 million for port secur
The Moonen Shipyards, now celebrating 25 years of building fine
The gas and condensate production platform for the Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan has now been installed. Statoil has a 25.5% interest in the field, which is operated by BP. The platform has a key role in the gas and condensate development in the Caspian off Azerbaijan, according
Alexander Marine, the manufacturer of the Ocean Alexander yachts, has signed a new contract with Yanmar Marine to provide 60 new engines for 2006. These engines are of the LYA/CX Series with the horsepower range from 380 to 480. The current model line for Ocean Alexander has six different boats betw
Petro-Canada has been fined a record $290,000 for spilling 1,000 barrels of oil off Newfoundland’s east coast almost 18 months ago. Glum senior company officials stood in provincial court this week as a judge accepted their guilty plea and admission of responsibility for the Nov. 20, 2004, spill at
Full-scale dredging at the Ann Abramson Pier in Frederiksted has finally begun after months of permitting and contracting delays. The company contracted by the V.I. Port Authority to complete the work – V.I. Cement –
There has been support for a plan to use fleets of privately-owned vessels as “mother ships” to process illegal fishermen. The Federal Treasurer is expected to announce $300 million in next week’s Budget for a major crackdown on foreign fishermen caught in Australian waters. It has been reported tha
There are so many extremities to the life of an offshore sailor, one day the winches could be turned in the freezing cold and the next in sweltering heat, but not many of those transitions can compare to that made yesterday. Annapolis, where the fleet arrived from Baltimore yesterday evening, is the
At 400 miles Leg 6 is the shortest of all the legs in this race. In fact, with a rhumb line course that keeps the boats nearly in sight of shore, this leg is likely to be sailed much more like the In Port races. On Sunday, the fleet can look forward to a partly […]
