(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 bow and white topsides
glistening in the sun, that he had not seen since the late 1940s.  Source

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• 30. Annual Classic Yacht Regatta in Newport on Labor Day Weekend

     (bymsailing) The Museum of Yachting will host the 30th Annual Classic Yacht Regatta sponsored by Panerai and presented by Land Rover North America from September 4-6. To mark the 30th running of this classic Newport event, regatta organizers and sponsors have included events so Rhode Islanders, Newport visitors, and other classic-boat enthusiasts can enjoy the regatta’s

• Yachting: Coutts Information Stop America s Cup

     (nzherald) Sailing legend Sir Russell Coutts has hinted at retirement from America’s Cup racing.  The four-time winner of yachting’s top trophy yesterday said he was taking time in the next two months to decide his future.  Source

• 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

• Boat disaster a mystery

     (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

• 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,

• IYRS to hold annual career day

     (soundings) The International Yacht Restoration School’s fifth annual Marine Industry Career Day is set for March 6 in Newport, R.I.  Source

• 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

• Fla. Museum of pirates lifeboat rescue

     (AP)  A Florida museum dedicated to Navy SEAL history will receive the lifeboat where a sea captain captured by Somali pirates was held and eventually rescued.  Source

• Bring USS John F. Kennedy to Boston

     (boston) A Boston city councilor says he would like the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy to be brought to Massachusetts and made into a museum.  Source

• Providence Russian sub dismantled from stem to stern

     (projo)  Imagine a 3,500-ton hot dog resting within an equally gigantic bun and you have a picture of how demolition crews working from two barges will slowly pick away at the former K-77 Soviet submarine starting this week, reducing what was once a waterfront museum into manageable portions of scrap metal. Source

• Moore Stephens says there is uncertainty about the price of a regulation continues to bite

    Accountant and insurance consultant Moore Stephens says there is still significant uncertainty as to whether insurance rates will harden in 2010, despite the claims environment showing classic signs of worsening in some areas and against a background of sustained demand… Read at Moore Stephens says uncertainty persists over rates as regulation

• Luxury on Lake Yacht

     (theaustralian) LUXURY on the sea is set to get even better with a new yacht designed to resemble a floating island. Source

• Trade Month: yachts to beat the recession by overseas

     (telegraph)  The company is part of the Ipswich-headquartered Oyster Marine group that has just appointed Asia Yacht Services as its representative in Hong Kong and South China.  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

• Yacht couple rescued by lifeboats

     (BBC) A couple in their 60s had to be rescued by lifeboats from Sheerness and Whitstable in Kent after the man fell overboard from their yacht.  Source