Cruising News

In his quest to beat the North Atlantic record, Francis Joyon on board IDEC, has smashed Thomas Coville’s 2008 record by 16 hours, 34 minutes and […]

One person is dead and five others were rescued after their boat drifted into the surf and broke apart near San Clemente Island during a sailboat […]

Four people missing after reporting their sailboat was sinking south of San Francisco are a husband, wife, their 4-year-old son and his cousin, also a child. […]

A group of Irish nationals were rescued from Bermuda’s waters this weekend after their yacht lost power. Last night the four crew members of the 48ft […]

A boat discovered washed ashore Tuesday morning in the dunes off of Salishan appears to have all the markings of tsunami debris from Japan, scientists say. […]

It’s been a long time in coming, but ORACLE TEAM USA hit the water on Monday in its ‘better than new’ AC72, named 17. After conducting load […]

Suspected Nigerian pirates have hijacked a French-owned Luxembourg-flagged tanker along with its 17-member crew off Ivory Coast, Ivorian officials and the International Maritime Bureau said on Monday. The Gulf of Guinea […]

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Yesterday, January 27, 2013, Francois Gabart (MACIF) completed the Vendee Globe Race as the winner, setting a new race record of 78 days, eclipsing the previous […]

The Ocean Cruising Club (OCC), the world’s truly global ocean cruising association, has announced the recipients of the OCC Annual Awards. Each year the OCC recognizes […]