News and Notes

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 […]

Dear Blue Water Sailing and Cruising Compass readers, In the interest of making Cruising Compass better and more in tune with your sailing interests, we invite […]

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 […]

An electrical fire on a boat is a scary thing and in a marina it can result in multiple boat losses. So it’s no wonder 10-year-old […]

Strictly Sail Chicago is the biggest sailboat-only show of the winter. It runs from January 24-27 and is held in the Festival Halls at Chicago’s Navy […]

At 23.45hrs UTC, while sailing in the third position of the Vendée Globe, about 500 miles northwest of the Cape Verde islands, Jean-Pierre Dick called his […]

A French sailor who had spent three days adrift in a life raft in the Southern Ocean off the coast of Tasmania in Australia has been […]

Alain Delord, French solo sailor attempting a circumnavigation in his A35 yacht Tchouk Tchouk Nougat, has been dismasted some 400 nm south of Tasmania in the […]