(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, who will skipper the Yacht Club de
France’s entry. ‘Most people do not realize how close the racing will
be. Many of the teams will be very strong; although it is too early to
say which team will win.’Source

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• New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup: u0026quot leads as NYYC

     (sailworld)  With brisk breezes to propel them, the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup fleet of 19 teams from 14 nations competing at the inaugural event worked it hard in four shifty, somewhat unpredictable races on Narragansett Bay today.   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

• Iceland Hamilton Yacht Club opens its doors to members and the public

     (sail-world) After being ceremonially opened by Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, during Audi Hamilton Race Week in August, the magnificent Hamilton Island Yacht Club has now officially opened its doors to visitors and members.  Source

• Dockwise detailed record number of boats

     (soundings) The 556-foot Super Servant 4, one of Dockwise Yacht Transport’s four semisubmersible ships, will leave Newport, R.I., Tuesday packed with a record 50 cruising and racing boats valued at $41 million.  Source

• Iran is 5 British sailors detained at sea

     (AP)Iran freed five British sailors detained last week when their racing yacht drifted accidentally into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf.

• Adapt faces against Goetz-of-contract

     (soundings)  Goetz Custom Technologies is being sued for breach of contract by Great Britain-based Aegir Racing Limited for allegedly failing to deliver on plans to build a $6 million, 82-foot Rogers-design sailing yacht.  Source

• Detained UK crew yacht

     (BBC) The manager of the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club, Keith Mutch, has said he thinks the yacht which a UK crew were sailing on when they were detained did not have a propeller.  Source and WATCH THE VIDEO

• Sunken ship may not be restored

     (UKPA) An Irish racing yacht that sank in Indonesian waters prompting a dramatic rescue of 16 crew members cannot be recovered from the depths, race organisers have said.The Cork Clipper, which was taking part in the Clipper round the world contest, went down earlier this week when it was

• USA wins the America s Cup

     (tradeonlytoday.com)  The America’s Cup is headed home.

• 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

• Abby Sunderland make their own sails pitch

     (latimes) Reporting from Aboard Wild Eyes – Abby Sunderland is bundled in foul-weather gear at the tiller of the 40-foot racing yacht Wild Eyes as it grudgingly navigates chaotic swells on a northward trudge against a bone-chilling head wind along the Baja California coast.  Source

• Meet Greet with Gary Jobson: The Future of Sailing

     (Port Washington News) US SAILING President Gary Jobson met with Long Island Sound commodores, fleet captains and race officials to talk about the future of sailing this past month.

• Entries in the growing Asian American Club

    P&I insurer the American Club reports that its entries from Asia continue to show ‘energetic growth’, particularly those from China where the club’s managers opened a liaison office, in Shanghai, in November 2007. Asian entries now amount to nearly 20% of the club’s tonnage and there are ‘encouraging prospects for

• Andrew Short recalled

     (yachte.com.au)  Following the tragic loss of Andrew Short and Sally Gordon in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Flinders Island Race on Saturday October 10, Andrew will be laid to rest today. Sailing writer Lisa Ratcliff discovers all ‘Shorty’ accomplished in sailing and for sailing as we say our goodbyes.   Source

• 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