News Archive

Climate Change misconceptions and realities - an Ocean Watch Essay By Ocean Watch/Sail-World Cruising, 10:24 AM Wed 14 Mar 2012
The issue of climate change has received so much attention in recent years that it has become difficult for interested policymakers to separate facts from fiction, let alone the cruising sailor. But the natural world and its health is vital to the world of the cruising sailor, so we reprint this Ocean Watch Essay ...[more]

Gulf of Aden crossing and a pirate rendezvous - PlanetSolar By Raphaël Domjan, 9:23 AM Tue 6 Mar 2012
The crew of Turanor PlanetSolar, the largest solar-powered yacht on the planet and aiming to be the first to complete a circumnavigation, now break their radio silence to give the story of their trepidatious journey through the Gulf of Aden. Here, Raphaël Domjan, co-founder and expedition leader, tells the story: ...[more]

New theory: Neanderthals were great sailors By Sail-World Cruising/phys.org, , 7:50 AM Fri 2 Mar 2012
Last week Sail-World published a story about a 4,500-year-old Egyptian felucca being restored from a burial site. But that story pales considerably if the findings of an archaeologist, George Ferentinos of the University of Patras in Greece, are found to be true. He says that Neanderthals sailed the Mediterranean possibly hundreds of thousands of years ago, long before humans. ...[more]

America pauses on E15 - study bill passes By Boating Industry Association/Sail-World, , 9:59 AM Sat 11 Feb 2012
The lobbying has worked. A United States House Committee voted this week to approve a fund for a 'comprehensive assessment of the scientific and technical research on the implications of the use of mid-level ethanol blends, and for other purposes.' ...[more]

Whales, whales and more whales in Southern California By The Log/Sail-World Cruising, , 11:44 AM Fri 3 Feb 2012
Sailors in Southern California are being treated to the magnificent sight of hundreds of whales off the coastline this year,quoted as the best sightings in 10 years. Gray whales are migrating south in record numbers and killer whales -- or orcas -- are also making sporadic showings. ...[more]

Solar ship PlanetSolar takes security forces for Gulf of Aden crossing By PlanetSolar/Sail-World Cruising, , 7:57 AM Tue 17 Jan 2012
Turanor PlanetSolar, huge solar-powered yacht nearing the end of its global circumnavigation, is about to embark on the most dangerous section of its voyage, the pirate zone of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Without mentioning the word 'arms' PlanetSolar have announced that they have taken on high security specialists led by no less than a former chief of the Swiss armed forces. ...[more]

Adventure sailing and marine protection - OceansWatch's winning combo By Nancy Knudsen, , 12:22 PM Sun 15 Jan 2012
With a focus on island communities and the ocean environment, OceanWatch International is an organisation of sailors making the world a better place, as well as offering willing volunteers some fabulous sailing experiences. The formula is working and Ocean Watch members are increasing in both enthusiasm and numbers by the day. Here are two case studies: ...[more]

Whale Wars - Australian protesters transferred from Japanese whaler By Sea Shepherd, 5:30 PM Sat 14 Jan 2012
The three Australian protestors on the Japanese vessel Shonan Maru No. 2 were successfully transferred to the ACV Ocean Protector this afternoon and will be brought back to Australia. ...[more]

Marina sets example with solar farm By Sail-World Cruising, , 12:37 PM Mon 9 Jan 2012
Ocean Village Marina in Southampton in the UK is leading the way into a Green future with its new 220 panel solar farm. MDL Marinas, Europe’s largest marina operator and operator of Ocean Village, is showing how it is forging ahead with its green agenda by installing the solar farm. ...[more]

Plastic pollution: Have you caught a 'bagfish' lately? By Sailors for the Sea/Sail-World Cruising, , 1:14 PM Sat 7 Jan 2012
Sailors for the Sea is an organisation started by sailors for sailors, whose mission it is to educate and engage the boating community in the worldwide protection of the oceans. This first article about 'Sailing and the Environment' talks of the ubiquitous 'bag fish' that abound in many enclosed waterways and often in the ocean, and is courtesy of Sailors for the Sea: ...[more]

Christmas Day Clash: Sea Shepherd Drones find Japanese Whaling Fleet By Sail-World Cruising, 11:57 AM Tue 27 Dec 2011
While the we of the lucky sailing world were either lounging in cockpits on pre-prepared Christmas snacks or at home with the family on Christmas Day, there's not much Christmas aboard in the Southern Ocean where there is a David and Goliath clash going on between Sea Shepherd and the Japanese Whaling Fleet - with one big difference. Sea Shepherd is using drones (See footnote) ...[more]

World's largest solar yacht skirts pirate waters, arrives Qatar By Nancy Knudsen, , 6:24 AM Sat 24 Dec 2011
The world’s largest solar-powered boat has arrived in Doha, in the tiny rich state of Qatar. Turanor PlanetSolar, attempting to demonstrate a future world where we won't need polluting fossil-fuel to travel the oceans, has skirted the Arabian Sea pirate zone after its departure from Mumbai in India. ...[more]

'Yacht to be Green' offers free energy audit: By Lee Mylchreest, 5:43 PM Fri 9 Dec 2011
Everywhere there are new initiatives beginning to help yacht owners to be green. In the USA the Yacht to be Green Consortium is set to offer yachts a free energy audit. The MISEA Group, in conjunction with other companies in a Yacht to be Green™ consortium, will launch a new initiative in the coming months that enables a boat owner to implement the safest, most efficient energy plan afloat ...[more]

North West Passage Alarm - totally ice free by 2015 By Thomas Nilsen, Barents Observer/Sail-World, , 10:14 PM Sat 19 Nov 2011
It might be appealing to think of sailing through the dreaded North West Passage above Canada, but most cruising sailors would gladly give it a miss if it meant we could reduce the apparently irreversible (if you go by the feeble reactions of many nations) effects of the global warming which is producing it. ...[more]

Call to ocean-loving sailors - event in Mooloolaba By Nancy Knudsen, , 3:50 PM Mon 14 Nov 2011
If you are a sailor interested in your ocean environment and its health, would like to help its future and are anywhere within reach of Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast just north of Brisbane, here is an event that could be rewarding both to you and your ocean. ...[more]

Solar-powered catamaran skirts the Somali pirate zone By Raphaël Domjan/Sail-World Cruising, 3:01 AM Thu 10 Nov 2011
Turanor Planet Solar, the extraordinary solar-powered yacht circumnavigating the world, is just about to cross the deadly Pirate Zone - now swelled to include most of the West Indian Ocean - hoping to reach the Red Sea. The craft had been a year at sea when it arrived in Singapore for maintenance, which has now been carried out, and Raphaël Domjan, Founder & Expedition leader, continues the story ...[more]

SOS Ocean Racing setting up another Round Australia record attempt By Brendan Maxwell, Townsville , 2:20 PM Sun 6 Nov 2011
Never one to sit still, SOS Ocean Racing’s founder is at it again. Ian Thomson is keen to put together another Around Australia World Record attempt. ...[more]

Britain set to introduce sailing ships to counter emissions By Nancy Knudsen, , 3:30 PM Fri 4 Nov 2011
It's official. The days of sail may be just about to recommence. The UK's Committee on Climate Change has come out with a report that recommends 'installing supplementary power systems to make use of solar or wind power' on British ships. ...[more]

Rainbow Warrior sails - in search of new dreams By Brian Fitzgerald, Greenpeace/Sail-World, , 11:26 PM Sat 29 Oct 2011
Rainbow Warrior III, just launched in Bremen, Germany, has already set sail for Greenpeace with a group of inspired volunteers on board, heading for far-off ports and more challenges in their efforts to save the planet from the worst ravages of Western civilisation. Brian Fitzgerald here talks of battles won, heroes celebrated and dreams yet to be realised: ...[more]

Hazard warning for yachts in the Pacific - debris from Japan's tsunami By Our Amazing Planet/Sail-World, , 12:37 PM Wed 19 Oct 2011
Cruising sailors crossing the Pacific Ocean, particularly the north Pacific, should be aware that floating debris from the devastating tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 is a hazard. The good news is that predictions of the drift are proving accurate. Debris from the devastating tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 has turned up exactly where scientists predicted it would ...[more]

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