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British shipbroker Braemar has confirmed it will not meet a deadline to publish its full-year results, due to an ongoing investigation into its accounts. The firm has asked for trading in its shares to be suspended from Monday (3 July 2023.) The c...

Fergal Butler is a man with a plan. After giving up work — as a daffodil picker — he needed a hobby which he could manage in his back garden while also caring full time for his family. He wanted to build a motor cruiser with room for t...

Introducing Intelligent Control, or IC fluid technology developed by Whale is fitted to a wide range of its products and makes automated pump control both possible and reliable. This automatic operation takes away the need for users to manually in...

British diesel outboard manufacturer Cox Marine has signed an OEM agreement with Finnish boatbuilder XO Boats to supply its CXO300 engine on XO’s EXPLR series of boats, through Cox’s Scandinavian distributor, Diesel Power. The CXO300 i...

WindWhisper Racing Team won the final leg of The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint into Genova, beating the rest of the fleet by a massive margin.

UKSA has shared the success of its Further Education students as the academic year draws to a close with 100 per cent of its year two students going straight into employment or further education.

The New York Yacht Club American Magic sailing squad was confirmed as the team launched their second AC40 in Barcelona following their relocation from Pensacola, FL.

It’s not every day you catch a glimpse of a Feadship, and even rarer to spot a classic one. But between 16 – 18 June those lucky enough to be quayside in Haarlem or Amsterdam, The Netherlands, found themselves glimpsing an entire fleet...

A host of famous circumnavigators are in the frame to have their names added to the International Association of Cape Horners (IACH) Cape Horn Hall of Fame honours board at a ceremony slated for September 21 to coincide with the start of the Mini-...

Dame Ellen MacArthur is calling on Round the Island Race sailors to help transform the lives of young cancer survivors by raising money for the 20thanniversary of her Isle of Wight-based charity in this Saturdays’s race (1 July).

Sun, sea and fast boats …. what’s not to like? Team Endeavour Racing is open to Wounded, Injured and Sick (WIS) serving military personnel and veterans. It provides a foundation as a transition service supporting and empowering team m...

The winners and runner up entries to the “Wind Ship – the Future” youth poster design contest have been chosen by a panel of top environmental, political and industry trailblazers, through a public vote and among International Wi...

National maritime charity, the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, is once again on the lookout for photographers to submit their favourite images of the sea, for its eleventh annual competition honouring the UK and Ireland’s proud maritime...

Brunswick Corporation says it has made significant progress restoring the functionality of its systems and restarting operations at facilities where production or distribution was paused. This follows an IT security incident which impacted the glo...

The Ocean Race has released an amazing video of yet another orca attacking a yacht. It was taken by competitor Team Jajo, off Gibraltar, last week (22 June 2023). Two of the VO65 boats racing in The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint had direct encounters wit...

In an environment of increased awareness and consumers enthusiasm to tackle pollution, Wave International’s Paul Gullett is calling for legislation for the unregulated marine leisure sector about overboard discharge, especially with grey wat...

The US Coast Guard is leading an international group of marine safety agencies to investigate the implosion of the Titan submersible, which claimed the lives of five people during an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic. The crew of the Pol...

America’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has highlighted the fire hazards of improperly stored oily rags on vessels, following an investigation into a fire aboard a yacht on 15 July, 2022​, in Washington. The 2012 Fairline...

Rolls-Royce has opened a new €30m assembly plant for its mtu Series 2000 yacht engines in Kluftern near Friedrichshafen, Germany. The mtu 2000 series is a high-performance yacht engine regularly used on luxury yachts and superyachts. In 2022,...

The Trafalgar Group has announced it has completed the installation of a large scale solar power system at Trafalgar Wharf, Portsmouth, UK. Situated on top of the Trafalgar Drystack building, the new installation has a capacity of 640kW and has be...