(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

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• Alinghi yacht airlifts over the Alps to the sea

     (AFP)  America’s Cup defender Alinghi began a spectacular airlift of its giant yacht from landlocked Switzerland over the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, dangling beneath the world’s biggest helicopter.  After some two weeks of sailing on Lake Geneva, where it was built, the new 90 foot high tech catamaran is

• 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

• IMO bravery award

    The 2009 IMO Awards for Exceptional Bravery at Sea have been presented to a professional rescue swimmer who, in Arctic conditions, single-handedly rescued eight crew members of a foundered vessel in the Bering Sea, and to two amateur sailors who rescued three people from a sunken yacht in very heavy

• 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

• Somali pirates fire on U.S. helicopters, the Navy says

     (CNN) Pirates holding a Taiwanese-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia fired on a U.S. Navy helicopter Wednesday as the aircraft monitored the ship, the Navy said.  The helicopter was not struck and all crew members were safe after the incident, the Navy said in a news release.  Source

• Wilhelmsen Ships Service dispatches helicopters cell from Shanghai to Baltimore

    The Maritime Logistics department at Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s office in Shanghai has just completed the dispatch of a helicopter frame from Shanghai port to Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The 2000 kg helicopter frame was shipped on a RO-RO vessel on 22 February 2010. Wilhelmsen Ships Service undertook of all the procedures

• Wilhelmsen Ships Service dispatches helicopters cell from Shanghai to Baltimore

    The Maritime Logistics department at Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s office in Shanghai has just completed the dispatch of a helicopter frame from Shanghai port to Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The 2000 kg helicopter frame was shipped on a RO-RO vessel on 22 February 2010.

• 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

• Intervene Warships Pirate attack

    AN EU NAVFOR ship and helicopter, in cooperation with a South Korean navy helicopter from CTF 151 have responded to an emergency call from a vessels identified only as the “ Southern Cross”. An EU NAVFOR statement says the attack was successfully thwarted by the Southern Cross herself. The EU NAVFOR

• Pirates held after the attack on French fishing boat: EU

    European Union warships have captured seven suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia after two fast boats attacked a French fishing vessel, the EU’s naval force said Wednesday. Soldiers aboard the fishing vessel fired on the pirates after they attacked it some 350 nautical miles east of Mogadishu Tuesday, said

• UK Diving Center emphasizes the importance of marine distress signals

    A UK diving centre has stressed the importance of marine distress signals after they played a vital part in a coastal rescue. A group of ten divers and two crew was rescued when the Aquanaut, a 40ft. Nelson boat, sank off the coast of Salcombe, Devon, in July. All were

• 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

• Antwerp Port sees more business opportunities in India

    There is more emphasis on India than China for the Port of Antwerp with India’s strong and sustained economic growth. Belgium-based logistics companies are trying to invest more in India’s logistics business, according to Mr Marc Van Peel, President, Antwerp Port Authority (APA). “A lot of action is happening in

• Yacht rescue after engine fire Guernsey

     (BBC) Four people were rescued after abandoning their yacht when the engine caught fire a short distance outside St Peter Port harbour entrance.  Source