News Archive

Product of the Week: Deckvest LITE, a winner By Nancy Knudsen, 10:17 AM Tue 29 Nov 2011
It's great flexibility was no doubt one of the reasons that Spinlock's new Deckvest LITE became a winner in this year's DAME Design Awards recently announced in Amsterdam. This is not a life jacket for crossing oceans. But it is the only expert-quality lifejacket especially made for RIBs, inshore and inland sailing, as well as motor boating and other water activities. ...[more]

Lifesling, life jacket, light, whistle -all praised in medal award By Jake Fish, US Sailing/Sail-World Cruising, 3:15 PM Fri 11 Nov 2011
'A life jacket, a whistle and a light. My God, how simple it can be? But that’s what it was,' the words of Robert Arzbaecher, receiving the Hanson Rescue Medal in Chicago this week. During the awards ceremony Arzbaecher marveled at how effective basic mandatory equipment was, including the simple Lifesling that many yachts have onboard hoping they will never have to use it. ...[more]

Five Fall safety tips for day-sailing By Boat US/Sail-World Cruising, , 4:23 PM Mon 7 Nov 2011
As the days slide farther into fall in the northern hemisphere, recreational day-sailors and especially those who sail for longer, face a unique set of safety issues. Warm days collide with deceptively cold waters, greatly increasing the risk of hypothermia even on a 'T-shirt' day. ...[more]

Sailing Club's 17-year-old RIB drivers 'inexperienced' after collision By Peter Barker, Maritime Journal/Sail-World, , 9:51 AM Fri 21 Oct 2011
When investigations are carried out after sailing incidents it can be a 'heads-up' for all, whether they are in the involved sailing club or not, or even in the same country. In this case the incident concerned the collision of two RIBs after a sailing club event. ...[more]

Safety of the world's 700 tall-ships in doubt By Sail-World Cruising round-up, 10:39 AM Sat 1 Oct 2011
The safety of the approximately 700 sail-training vessels in the world’s oceans has been called into question by a probe into the sinking of the Canadian tall-ship Concordia off Brazil. ...[more]

Sailor survives seven hours in amazing MOB tale By Sail-World Cruising round-up, 9:40 AM Wed 7 Sep 2011
It would be too repetitious to report on all overboard (MOB) sailing incidents that occur on the planet. Every week a coast guard from one or another of the sailing nations around the world reports at least one incident. Most, sadly, drown or disappear without trace. The following story is different only as an amazing survival story. Can you pick at least three mistakes that were made? ...[more]

Cruising sailors take note: Volvo Ocean Race will avoid pirate zone By Des Ryan, , 11:26 AM Mon 22 Aug 2011
Gung-ho cruising sailors embarked on trans-ocean or circumnavigations should take note of the decision of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 to redraw the second and third leg of the round-world race to avoid waters frequented by Somali pirates. ...[more]

Dinghy danger again: Two fourteen-year-olds swept out to sea By Eleri Davies, RNLI/Sail-World Cruising, 6:46 AM Fri 19 Aug 2011
The latest evidence of the extreme potential danger of dinghies has been underlined again this week with the rescue of two fourteen-year-olds being swept to sea in an inflatable dinghy in Wales. ...[more]

Another rescue authority plea: Report your missing equipment By Joanne Groenenberg, , 10:05 AM Fri 29 Jul 2011
Rescuers are again pleading to help them help you. If you lose any piece of marine equipment - a life jacket, a kayak, a dinghy, a lifeboard or your Dan Buoy, please let the authorities know to avoid unnecessary searching. When abandoned equipment, whether floating or washed up on the shore, is found rescuers must assume the worst and begin a search. ...[more]

Simple tip to assist the rescuers: Mark your boat and gear By Gail Rice gnrice@yahoo.com/ Sail-World, , 12:54 PM Mon 25 Jul 2011
You may be safely at home tucked up in bed, but the often-volunteer rescuers are out at night searching for you because they have found your dinghy, or maybe your life jacket, or even your boat. So the message is: Mark your name and contact number on anything that floats. ...[more]

60ft trimaran meant for racing encounters '60 year storm' By Auckland Now/Sail-World Cruising, 11:09 AM Mon 25 Jul 2011
The difficulties that can be encountered when a yacht meant primarily for speed racing is faced with a significant storm was underlined in the reports of a racing trimaran caught in a storm in the Tasman Sea this week. The Auckland trimaran, headed for Sydney to participate in races and regattas along the eastern coastline, encountered fifty knot winds which they described as 'harrowing'. ...[more]

Fatal Kiwi 35's probably as stable upside down as right side up By Eric Sharp, Detroit Free Press, 5:29 PM Fri 22 Jul 2011
It happened during a race, and would not normally be covered by Sail-World Cruising. Two sailors died last week in the Chicago-to-Mackinac race, after the Kiwi 35 Wingnuts turned turtle without losing its keel. However, the safety issues involved in boat construction, are always a subject critical to the cruising sailor, and we therefore print an analytical article here ...[more]

Tragic death of 14-year-old trapped by harness By ., , 5:25 PM Sat 25 Jun 2011
All sailing parents will be watching for the outcome of investigations which are continuing about the tragic death of a 14-year-old sailing student who was wearing a life jacket but trapped underwater by her harness when sailing with another student this week in a 420 dinghy. ...[more]

Beware the outboard - man's foot sliced off By Sail-World Cruising round-up, , 10:10 AM Wed 15 Jun 2011
As a cruising sailor one gets very used to being around dinghies and their outboard motors - for playing or for travelling, for transporting gear or for use as a diving board. But as familiar as they are, danger is always lurking for the unwary. This week a man's foot was sliced off after he fell in and got caught in the boat's propeller in a horrific incident on a river in Eynesbury, UK. ...[more]

Hapless boaters located by their smartphone By BoatUS/Sail-World Cruising, , 6:32 AM Tue 14 Jun 2011
They had done everything wrong - they were power boaters and their engine had broken down. They had no VHF, radio or chart plotter, they were tired, it was foggy and they didn't know where they were. But the BoatUS Towing Service was able to help them because they had a smartphone on board, and downloaded an app which gave them their position ...[more]

Boaters ignore simple safety precautions By Petty Officer 3rd Class Tara Molle/Sail-World, , 6:46 AM Wed 1 Jun 2011
Feel for the frustration of the various rescue services around the world as their pleading for common precautions seems to go unheeded. In the USA National Safe Boating Week has just passed (May23-30) with much publicity in all forms of media about fundamental safety precautions. Yet on the west coast of Florida alone, there were 23 search and rescue missions during the week. ...[more]

Skipper overboard incident - three crew powerless to retrieve him By Mark Bell/Sail-World Cruising, , 5:37 PM Sat 28 May 2011
All the Man OverBoard (MOB) training in the world will not necessarily rescue a crew fallen overboard. An experienced crew were this week unable to pull their skipper back on board, even though he was tethered and was wearing a life-jacket which inflated as he hit the water. ...[more]

Rescue authorities criticise yacht owner who 'chased his yacht' By Sail-World Cruising round-up, , 2:27 PM Wed 25 May 2011
How far would you risk your safety to save your yacht? A desperate boat-owner has attracted criticism by rescue authorities for chasing his drifting yacht in a dinghy during a 'horrendous' 40 knot gale. The yacht had broken free of its moorings at the yacht club where it was berthed and was gradually drifting towards the shore where it would undoubtedly have been destroyed. ...[more]

Can anyone rescue the UK's Coastguard? By Emily Barr, Guardian/Sail-World Cruising, , 10:37 AM Mon 23 May 2011
Radical changes to the UK's Coastguard are planned by the British Government, and no-one is happy about it. Her Majesty's Coastguard is used by mariners the world over and has saved countless lives at sea. Here Emily Barr, writing for the Guardian, asks 'Why is the government intent on threatening its work?' ...[more]

Five Spring Boating Safety Tips that work all Summer long By BoatUS/Sail-World Cruising, 7:17 AM Fri 20 May 2011
With spring's arrival in all the sailing countries of the northern hemisphere sailors have time to reflect on and improve their own safety on the water. The BoatUS Foundation, the USA's leading boat owners organisation, has these five spring boat tips for boating safety - but they can easily help you stay safe all summer long, and no matter in which country you are sailing: ...[more]

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