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Borrow A Boat has launched a £750k crowdfunding round with crowdfunding platform Seedrs.

Currently, 97% of sails end up in a landfill or are incinerated at the end of their life.1 

A clean-up operation has begun after a large motor yacht caught fire (watch video of yacht fire below) and sank in a Torquay Marina, with about nine tonnes of diesel on board.

B&G says it is delighted to be sponsoring this year’s Round the Island Race. Taking place in June around the Isle of Wight, the race is arguably, the most famous in the UK’s sailing calendar, having been running since 1931.

The UK is celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a four-day bank holiday weekend (2-5 June) and there are plenty of ways to celebrate. Marine Industry News has put together this list of places and events where boating enthusiasts can...

Captain Sergio Davi has arrived at Los Angeles Harbor, following a 10,000-mile journey aboard his Suzuki powered 38ft Nuova Jolly RIB, Aretusa Explorer.

Columbus Yachts, a brand of Palumbo Superyachts, says that the construction of the steel hull for the first 40-metre Crossover unit has started at its Savona shipyard.

The US has won a victory in the latest round of a legal battle over the fate of the sanctioned superyacht Amadea, which is currently docked at the Fijian port of Lautoka and is restrained from leaving Fijian waters.

Wally, a Ferretti Group brand based in Monaco, unveiled its new wallypower58 at the Venice Boat Show.

Marine Specialised Technology (MST) has contracted with Norco to build the hull and superstructure for 18 HPB-1500 boat MOD police patrol craft.

The overall winner for the North Sea Race under IRC was the Dutch JPK 1180 Il Corvo, owned by Astrid de Vin and skippered by Roeland Franssens.

A fire has broken out in the funnel of the Carnival Freedom cruise ship, which was docked at Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Two long-serving RNLI volunteers who have dedicated more than 100 years between them to saving lives at sea will receive their Platinum Jubilee Medal to complete the full set awarded by Her Majesty The Queen.

Ocean Marine Systems (OMS) has been awarded the contract for three further Southern Wind yachts in build following the completion of S/Y Taniwha in 2021 and S/Y Sorvind in 2022.

More than half of all identifiable litter in the UK can be traced back to just 10 brands, according to a new nationwide survey by environmental non-profit Planet Patrol.

British multinational speciality chemicals and sustainable technologies company Johnson Matthey has entered into an agreement for the sale of part of its battery materials business to Australian group EV Metals, a global battery chemicals and tec...

Spinlock has expanded its production facility in Cowes, Isle of Wight, to help facilitate global sales growth and new markets.

The Merchant Navy Welfare Board (MNWB), which supports and promotes co-operation between organisations that provide welfare services to seafarers, fishermen and their dependents, has launched a new multimillion-pound grant scheme to help the mari...

British clean tech company CCell Renewables has invented an artificial reef, powered by renewable energy, to protect the Irish Sea’s deep-water marina.

Cattewater Harbour Commissioners have recently commissioned two new visitor pontoons to improve access into the city for vessels when visiting Plymouth.