A large wave broke over the 68′ yacht, Geraldton Western Australia, one of ten yachts racing in the Clipper Round the World Race, while in the Pacific approximately 400 miles off San Francisco. The wave swept the deck, shearing the … Continue reading
Rick Spilman
Update: The MS Carnival Triumph was allowed to sail as scheduled following last minute negotiations. The 2,758-passenger cruise ship MS Carnival Triumph was supposed to sail today for a five-day cruise to Yucatan and Cozumel. Instead, a Texas judge has ordered the ship … Continue reading
The fire on the MV Azamara Quest, is one of a recent series of disabling fires and power failures on diesel-electric powered cruise ships. Unlike the MV Azamara Quest, however, the ship’s crews aboard the Costa Allegra, the Carnival Splendor, and the MSC Opera were unable to effect … Continue reading
Update: A fire broke out late Friday in an engine room on the luxury cruise ship, MV Azamara Quest, while en route from Manila to Sandakan in Sabah, Malaysia. Five members of the crew were injured, suffering smoke inhallation. One crew member is reported … Continue reading
Through an agreement with Snag Films, TheSailingChannel is showing the documentary, Tall Ships: The Privateer Lynx, in HD, free of charge, for a limited time. Thanks to Tom Russell on the Linked-in Traditional Sail Professionals group for pointing out the … Continue reading
On April 14th, at the Mystic Seaport Museum there will be a celebration of the anniversary of the War of 1812 with the captain and crew of the Lynx, “America’s Privateer.” Historian and award winning author, William H. White, will be … Continue reading
The good folks on the brigantine Søren Larsen are offering a “South Pacific Challenge,” a Youtube video competition where you can explain in a short video why you need to change your life and what a South Pacific voyage on the … Continue reading
No one is exactly sure when Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his four of his fellow explorers died on their failed Antarctic expedition. Today is observed as the centenary of the deaths because March 19, 1912 was the last entry in Scott’s journal. … Continue reading
The Elgin platform in the North Sea, 150 miles (240km) off Aberdeen, suffered a serious natural gas on Sunday. It is expected at take several weeks, in the best case scenario, to shut off the leak. Some estimates suggest that it will take 6 months … Continue reading
As we have posted before, PortSide New York, based on the historic coastal tanker, Mary A.Whalen, is one of the absolutely best waterfront educational organizations in New York harbor. For the last six years, the Mary A. Whalen has never had a permanent home. Now … Continue reading
UPDATE: The Canadian government is now treating the casualty as an attempt at human smuggling. Toews links N.S. yacht accident to ‘human smuggling’ There are reports of a tragic and strange sailboat accident off Canada’s Nova Scotia coast. Nine men, reported to … Continue reading
On January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and USN Lieutenant Don Walsh spent twenty minutes at the bottom at Challenger Deep in the bathyscaphe Trieste. Unfortunately, their landing on the sea bed stirred up a cloud of silt which reduced visibility to zero, and they … Continue reading
The Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Hadlock, WA, is restoring a forgotten piece of sailing history – the Felicity Ann, a 23′ wooden boat, launched in 1949. In 1952-1953, Ann Davison, at 39, sailed the Felicity Ann single-handed across the Atlantic, … Continue reading
Last night, James Cameron became the first person ever to dive in a one man submarine to the very bottom of the ocean, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, 35,755 feet (5.8 nautical miles) below the surface. He is only … Continue reading
Last week we posted about James Cameron’s preparation for his attempt to dive to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. Reports are that he is now attempting the dive in his one man submarine, described as … Continue reading