(Reuters) A
quality that has made the America’s Cup one of the world’s most
enduring contests has been its ability to reinvent itself, and that
will be on show again when two space-age yachts race off Spain next
week.  Source

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• America s Cup finally by the courts and in the water

     (Reuters)  A quality that has made the America’s Cup one of the world’s most enduring contests has been its ability to reinvent itself, and that will be on show again when two space-age yachts race off Spain next week.  Source

• Skype co-founder of the Ran 2 wins 2009 Rolex Fastnet Race

     (sail-world)  2009 Rolex Fastnet Race. This afternoon the Royal Ocean Racing Club, organisers of the biennial British 608-mile classic offshore race, confirmed that Niklas Zennström’s Ran 2 is the overall handicap winner of the race.   Zennström’s Judel-Vrolijk designed 72-footer finished the race in an elapsed time of 63 hours, 1 minute and 33

• The five most important reasons why boaters need a tow – and the rise of the battery

     (powerboat-world) BoatU.S., the Boat Owners’ Associatioin of the United States, keep a great count of what they do. The result is statistics which tell a story that probably applies to the rest of the boating world

• RI could be back in the America s Cup races will be

     (projo) The spectacle of America’s Cup yachts flying anew across Rhode Island Sound became more than a shot in the dark after software billionaire Larry Ellison — who apparently bought Astors’ Beechwood Mansion on Bellevue Avenue recently — won the 33rd America’s Cup challenge on Sunday in Valencia, Spain. 

• Rolex Fastnet Race 2009 – streaming over the finish line

     (sail-world)  2009 Rolex Fastnet Race. This morning, the tally of arrivals on the Rolex Fastnet Race is up to 43 after a busy night with the leading boats in the Class 40 and Zero fleets arriving.  Source

• Fastnet Race victim remembered

     (BBC)  A memorial service has taken place to commemorate the Fastnet yacht race disaster 30 years ago that claimed the lives of 15 people.  The service at Holy Trinity Church in Cowes on the Isle of Wight remembered the 605-mile race in 1979 that was hit by freak storms. READ MORE

• Debt Trips Up Hinckley, ladies Yacht Maker

     (nytimes)  David Rockefeller Sr. ordered a new boat last year, a $3 million 55-foot powerboat.  Mr. Rockefeller, now 94 years old, may not have needed a new boat. It was, after all, the sixth he has bought from Hinckley Yachts in Southwest Harbor. But Hinckley Yachts and its workers certainly

• F1 Powerboat back to Malaysia in 2010

    Malaysia is set to host the F1 Powerboat Championship in August next year after a five-year hiatus. The race will be held at the Maritime Centre, Precinct 6, Putrajaya, said H2O Sports Sdn Bhd (H2O) managing director Datuk Yahya A.Jalil. He said it might be held consecutively with the world junior

• OOCL window limits for export bookings

    OOCL is limiting the acceptance of online booking requests, the company informed its U.S.

• Americas Cup opener postponed again

     (soundings) America’s Cup racing was cancelled for the second time, as the race committee today decided waves were too high for the huge multihulls.  Source

• Americas Cup Race Cannot Be Held in the UAE, Judge Says

       (Bloomberg)  The America’s Cup sailing race to be held in February can’t be staged in the United Arab Emirates because the competition’s rules dictate that it take place that month in the southern hemisphere, a New York judge said.  Source

• Braunschweig points out people in Florida

     (soundings) Previously laid-off employees at Brunswick’s Palm Coast, Fla., production facility were recalled recently as the company prepares to ramp up production of Meridian Yachts.  Source

• Shipyard suffers major fire

       (rrecord) Tiffany Yachts, a boatyard near Wicomico Church that has been in operation for over 80 years, suffered a major fire Tuesday, February 2.  Source

• Americas Cup squabbles go to the wire

     (soundings) The battle for the 33rd America’s Cup is playing out in court again instead of on the race course, where the contest between BMW Oracle Racing’s 90-foot trimaran and Alinghi’s 90-foot catamaran surely would be a lot more exciting.  Source

• The improvement in the rescue – such as satellites make the seas safer

    While you wouldn’t want to go to sea envisaging having to be rescued, satellite AIS data is becoming more and more crucial in the safety of yachts at sea, as the new satellite technology is more and more used to source additional potential rescuers. In a recent report to the