(stuff.co.nz)  Two veterans of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race were killed and 16 crew
members had to be rescued yesterday after a multimillion-dollar maxi
yacht ran aground off the NSW South Coast.  Source

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• Lifeboats rescue as yacht sinks Duo

     (Clacton)  LIFEBOAT crews saved two people from a yacht which run aground eight miles off Clacton.  Vessels from Clacton and Walton, as well as a rescue helicopter from Belgium, helped recover the yachtsmen from their yacht, Rhubarb.  Source

• Dead maxi yacht skipper Andrew Short was not wearing a lifejacket

     (theaustralian) THE captain of the maxi-yacht Shockwave was not wearing a lifejacket when he was swept overboard as his vessel crashed on to rocks in an accident possibly caused by human error or faulty navigation equipment.  Source

• Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup – One, two, three, to play a role, such as wind

     (sail-world) 2009 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and there was a twinkle in the eye of Poseidon this morning. The current crop of sailing gods may have gathered in Porto Cervo but the lord of the sea was about to prove mastery of the waves does not come easily even to the gifted. This was

• Owner of the destroyed boat captain said there was joy riding

     (nctimes) The owner of a luxury yacht that had to be demolished after running aground at Oceanside Harbor over the weekend said Wednesday the man piloting the boat had no permission to operate it and should face criminal charges.  Source

• New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup (NYYC)

     (sail-world)  In a year that marks its 165th anniversary, the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) is organizing the Invitational Cup, a highly anticipated fleet racing regatta to take place in Newport, R.I. from September 15-19, 2009. ‘This event is, in fact, the world championship for the main yacht clubs of the world,’ said Bruno Troublé,

• Iranian Navy retains five Britons on the yacht in the Gulf

     (BBC) Five Britons have been detained by the Iranian navy while sailing a yacht from Bahrain to Dubai for a race, the Foreign Office (FCO) has said.  Their Volvo 60 yacht backed by the UK’s Team Pindar was stopped on 25 November.  Source

• Maersk container ship due to

    The United Kingdom-registered container ship, Maersk Kendal, ran aground at the Sebarok Beacon, about 0.7 km south of Sebarok Island, in the early hours of Wednesday morning. At about 0715hrs, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore received a report, that a United Kingdom-registered container ship had ran aground at the Sebarok

• Boat lifted based on the rocks

     (BBC)  A fishing boat which ran aground on rocks in Cornwall has been refloated.  Source

• Boat lifted based on the rocks

     (BBC)  A fishing boat which ran aground on rocks in Cornwall has been refloated.  Source

• Classic Yachts Ride the wind and waves in Return to Newport

     (nytimes)  Something familiar caught Harry Anderson’s eye as he walked the docks of Newport recently. Anderson, the former commodore of the Seawanhaka Corinthian and the New York Yacht Clubs, saw the 80 wooden sailboats that had been gathered for the Museum of Yachting’s annual Classic Yacht Regatta, but there was one, its sharp

• Skipper fined for drunken Sailing

     (BBC) A drunk skipper who had to be rescued when his boat ran aground on a beach has been fined £1,000.  Source

• Coast Guard responds to boat stranded in Sesuit Harbor

     (Cape Cod Times) The Coast Guard responded to a 40-foot vessel that ran aground on a jetty in Sesuit Harbor in Cape Cod Bay near Dennis, Sunday Feb. 28, 2010 Source

• T T Bisso Refloats Grounded Ship

     (marinelink) T&T Bisso successfully refloated a bulk carrier that ran aground near Gwadar Port in Pakistan.  Source

• Singapore firm inks massive Myanmar gas

    A Singaporean marine engineering company has signed a multimillion dollar contract with a Myanmar firm, and will lay gas pipelines off the shores of the military-ruled nation next year. Singapore-based firm Swiber Holdings will construct 150 kilometres of gas pipelines after signing a 77 million US dollar contract with “a

• Coast Guard assists in multiple-agency rescue near Wantagh, N.Y.

     (coastguardnews) The Coast Guard is assisting in a multiple-agency rescue of injured boaters after their 40-foot boat ran aground near Wantagh, N.Y., at approximately 7:30 p.m. today.  Source