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Investigators have confirmed that no boat was involved in the death of two children who drowned at a popular British beach. Joe Abbess, 17, from Southampton, and 12-year-old Sunnah Khan, from Buckinghamshire, were both pulled from the sea at Bourn...

Introduced in 1963, the inshore lifeboat continues to be an invaluable asset in the RNLI fleet as new figures show the charity’s Inshore lifeboats have saved 30,778* lives across 60 years.

Austrian start-up Seasy, which launched a marina booking platform in 2020, has experienced ‘record growth’ since its inception. The firm says the number of active users on the platform is now at over 2,000 daily users in the high seaso...

Dutch tender manufacturer Younique Yachts has joined forces with Nauticsale, a specialist in maintenance, renewal, repair and advice in onboard systems, to form a new joint venture called Younique Yacht Systems. The two firms say they will execute...

Megayacht owners are “thoroughly disappointed” that they won’t be able to dock in Naples this summer after the southern Italian city restricted entry to vessels over 75 metres in length. The harbourmaster at Naples’s Mergel...

Ferretti Group made its debut on Euronext Milan, the Milan-based stock exchange operated by Borsa Italiana, this morning (27 June 2023). The debut on Euronext Milan follows the listing a year ago on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which means that F...

According to Gianni Zucco, co-founder of HP Watermakers, the introduction of the company’s software — the part-net interface — which allows end users to tap on a multi-function display (MFD) to produce fresh water from the sea, h...

A team from maritime charity The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society is set to climb 24 peaks in 24 hours to raise vital funds for a leading seafaring charity.

With Emirates Team New Zealand’s latest AC40 testing, development and race training block in Auckland now wrapped up, the team are heading north to quickly settle into their Barcelona base and roll Te Rehutai out to get a first taste of sail...

Superyacht concierge and maritime agency services specialist BWA Yachting is establishing an office at the new Saudi Arabian luxury island development Sindalah — part of the Neom smart city megaproject. Neom is a $500bn planned city in north...

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-...