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Jazz Turner is named YJA Yachtsman of the Year 2025
Jazz Turner, who is the first disabled person to complete a solo, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the UK and Ireland is named Yachtsman of the Year 2025
Find out how you can win £6,000 for your club with Funding the Future
Sunsail's Funding the Future is open to all RYA-affiliated sailing, yacht clubs, charities and university teams in the UK
Boatworld announces national expansion
Boatworld has unveiled three new partner locations in the UK as part of its national expansion programme
Spend World Radio Day with Radio Caroline, the last “pirate” radio station still broadcasting offshore
Some miles off the Essex coast, inside the bright red skeleton of an old Icelandic fishing trawler, lives a radio. Radio Caroline is the last of its kind. For 62…
Finalists for the YJA 2025 Yachtsman of the Year & Young Sailor of the Year announced
The winners will be decided by members of the Yachting Journalists' Association
Last leg of the Mini Globe Race: Harris breaks records, Stitelmann still keeps the lead
With less than 6,000 miles to the finish, the Mini Globe Race fleet of homebuilt 19ft plywood yachts is drawing closer to Antigua, and to end of this world-first adventure.…
Skipper dies after being wound round his boat’s faulty electric winch
The skipper of the Mollie died after becoming entangled around the electric winch drum, an MAIB investigation has concluded
YJA Young Journalist of the Year 2025 named
The Yachting Journalists' Association (YJA) has announced the winner of the 2025 Young Journalist of the Year Award and has unveiled its new mentoring scheme
Nominate your 2025 Yachtsman of the Year and Young Sailor of the Year
Public nominations for the Yachting Journalists' Association (YJA) Yachtsman of the Year and Young Sailor of the Year Awards are now open.
How the Mini Globe Race 2025 fleet is facing the fierce Agulhas Currents in Leg 3
The Mini Globe Race 2025 is drawing closer to the end of Leg 3, with solo skippers rapidly approaching Durban on their homebuilt, 19ft plywood ALMA Globe 5.80 micro-yachts. Here…
Safety alert for some Mercury Marine four-stroke outboards
The UK Government has issued a safety alert for certain models of Mercury Marine four-stroke outboards which do not meet the requirements of the Recreational Craft Regulations 2017
‘I thought it was all over’: man overboard drama hits Mini Globe Race 2025
Overnight (17 October), Eric Marsh of Sunbear took a chilling tumble. It was the first man overboard in the Mini Globe Race 2025, the adventurous solo circumnavigation on the homebuilt…
Yann Quenet: From France to Canada in a 4m boat
French micro voyager Yann Quenet is currently transporting his home-built 4m boat across Canada ahead of a Pacific crossing in the spring
Princess Anne visits Boat Building Academy to support endangered marine skills
On 6 October, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited the Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis to learn about the academy’s work and promote marine heritage crafts. In addition…
Report lobster pot and fishing gear entanglement, urges CA and RYA
Sailors and boaters are being asked to report lobster pot and fishing gear entanglement and sightings of poorly marked static gear around the UK coast, as part of efforts to…
Ella Hibbert: first British woman to sail the Northwest Passage solo
28-year-old Ella Hibbert is the first British woman to sail solo through the Northwest Passage during her Arctic circumnavigation
Sailors urged to help protect the Mediterranean monk seal in Greece
Sailors visiting Greece can help protect one of the world's rarest seals by reporting sightings or checking and avoiding restricted breeding areas while cruising the Ionian or Aegean
Jazz Turner becomes first wheelchair user to circumnavigate Britain solo
At around 13:45 on Monday, 30th June, Jazz Turner, a GB para-athlete and engineer from Seaford, East Sussex, has become the first wheelchair user to sail solo, unassisted, and non-stop…
Open weekends announced for Portland Marina
Next month, Portland Marina will be hosting two boat buying open weekends