(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

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• 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,

• New CCTV solution for the largest northern British port

    The UK’s largest port serving the North Sea oil and gas industry has upgraded its CCTV recording capability with a new IndigoVision system. Read at New CCTV solution for UK’s largest North Sea port

• 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

• 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

• Louis Vuitton launches new circuit

     (AP)  A new world circuit of America’s Cup-class yacht racing will start in November, making stops in New Zealand and Italy and featuring 10 teams.  Eight entries, including Emirates Team New Zealand and American syndicate BMW Oracle, have already been confirmed. Organizers said Tuesday the two others will be announced in days.  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

• Come Sail Away in Marion

     (wickedlocal) The Beverly Yacht Club will sponsor a visit Feb. 20 from Dean Brenner, Olympic Program Chairman, and Anna Tunnicliffe, 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist, along with other members of the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics, who will share their Olympic sailing experiences, during a talk at Marion Music Hall. The hall

• To advise ABPM Skandia Team GBR

     ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer), a leading marine environmental consultancy, has been commissioned to provide specialist advice to Skandia Team GBR, the British Sailing Team in the Olympic and Paralympic Classes. Skandia Team GBR consists of three squads; the Performance Squad and Development and Transitional squads, which jointly total around

• The port of Dover on the market

    The UK’s port of Dover is to sell itself off in order to fund its expansion projects. Read at The Port of Dover on the market

• 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

• 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

• Britain will not pay ransom for yacht couple

     (UPI) The British government says it won’t pay a $7 million ransom demanded by the Somali hijackers of a couple’s yacht.  Source

• U.S. Sailing Team AlphaGraphics members honored

     (sail-world) US Sailing has chosen eight US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG) members as the sport’s 2009 SportsWoman, SportsMan and Team of the Year, in both Olympic and Paralympic classes, for outstanding on-the-water performance, achievement and sportsmanship.  Source

• Team Lines plans to buy slots at the Nord-Ostsee-APL Express Service

     Team Lines plans to purchase slots on APL’s Northern Baltic Express (NBX) service which was previously leased by Unifeeder. The move comes as Team Lines is withdrawing two of its small container vessels which previously called at the Port of St Petersburg, with a cargo capacity of 868 TEU. One of the

• Glue fixed the hole and keep from sinking yacht

     (mirror.co.uk)  A sailor saved his £50,000 yacht from sinking after fixing a hole with a £7 tube of super glue.  Source