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First Ever World Naked Sailing Day Tastes Success

September 16, 2017 Yacht Lifestyle

The first of its kind World Naked Sailing Day was held in Buffalo in New York on August 1, 20917.


The organizers were quite anxious about putting up such an event and were worried about the number of people that would be taking part in the one-day sailing event. But, to everyone’s surprise, there were many sailors from various countries that took part in this inaugural naked sailing day event. If the kind of appreciation and the enthusiasm among the sailors is to be believed, then this event was a huge success and the organizers of this event can take a bow.

The World Naked Sailing Day (WNSD) event was held in Buffalo following the grand success of the World Naked Gardening Day and the annual World Naked Bike Ride events. The organizers of the naked sailing event want to make it an annual event like the bike event.

The event was organized by online magazine Buffalo Rising. The founder of this new magazine Newell Nussbaumer is very happy to have organized such an event.

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Coastal Sailing Introduced By Dublin Bay Sailing Club

May 16, 2017 Yacht Lifestyle

The largest yacht racing organization in Ireland, the Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC), is gearing up for its summer season that is going to take place in a little over 2 months time.


From this year, there will be no DBSC Cruiser Challenge. Instead of this, there will be three coastal races added to the summer season racing fixtures.

These are the few changes to the Sherry-Fitzgerald sponsored program of the DBSC summer series and everyone is looking forward to the new season. The DBSC dinghies also will see a change and they will now be taking place in the harbor on Saturdays and not on Sundays like the previous seasons.

The summer races will kick start in April and the first race is held on 25th April followed by races on 27th April and 29th April. Chris Moore, The DSBC Commodore feels that the cruiser event has completed its course, as there are not a lot of larger boats now taking part in the race.

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Stewart Sister In Aon Youth Sailing

March 11, 2017 Yacht Lifestyle

Kate (18) and Greta (16) daughter of Ian one of the member of team Emirate New Zealand in America Cup last year are participating in Youth Sailing World Championship that is going to take place in Auckland in December.


They will join father Ian and will be part of the Oracle team for 2017’s America’s Cup. Both sisters are high on performances and their chance of winning medals in the event is more than anyone else.

The sister will be the part of 13-strong New Zealand team and will compete in the championship that is going to take place in Torbay. This is the not the first time these girls have participated in the championship, the pair won a bronze medal at the last event 29er skiff in Malaysia. When it comes to sailing underway, these girls will not leave any scope for other teams to win.

The expectation of winning the championship is also high with sisters because they are friendly with the location where the championship is taking place. It is their home water and thus they are better aware of all the challenges. What matter here how the day for these sisters and how they are going to gel-up with water.  

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The French Come In Extreme Sailing Series

November 13, 2016 Yacht Lifestyle

The Norauto crew paired up with the team of America’s Cup to join the Extreme Sailing series. Norauto is a sailing team which comprises of Groupama Team France that joined the Extreme Sailing Series in Act 6 at Lisbon. This was one of the wild card entries in the act. In total there would be nine teams of world class caliber who would be sailing hydro foiling GC32s in a fleet in the debut race at Lisbon. This race will take place from 6th to 9th October.

The Norauto crew has joined as the team from the French America’s Cup. The lineup includes Groupama Team France members. It includes Kiwi Adam, 30 years of age and a racing champion of the World Match along with the experience of having sailed in the Extreme Sailing Series before. Befittingly he would be leading the team and he looks forward at the challenging race coming up.

Whilst it’s not always been Plain Sailing, he stated that he was happy to have been invited to be part of the race. He feels that it would be cool to race against the other members in the fleet that would be sailing. The fact that the race would be on the course defined, as well as on specific terms would make the race even more difficult.

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About The Wilmington Rowing Club

August 21, 2016 Yacht Lifestyle

Rowing with the Wilmington Rowing Club is definitely educational for the new members. The Christina River that is in Wilmington definitely showcases the Wilmington Rowing Club boathouse that is set by its shores. The premier member of the club is Lydia Turner, who is now 88 years of age. Being a native of Wilmington she is originally from Germany.

She started rowing first when she was 16 years of age. She then settled in the US with an American soldier. Here she continued the craft. Today she is considered a stalwart member of the rowing club.

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Royal Huisman Sailing Yacht offered for sale

April 7, 2016 Yacht Lifestyle

With a rich history of making custom-built aluminum-made yachts up to ninety-meters in length dating back to the late nineteenth century, the Royal Huisman is one of the most honored superyacht shipyards.

This Dutch institution is behind some of the most well known sloops, schooners as well as ketches in history, and that includes Athena, Twizzle and Hyperion.
Y.CO, one the leading yacht brokerage firm in the world, is really very excited to feature yet another magnificent Royal Huisman yacht as February’s featured yacht for sale – it is the forty-meters S/Y ANTARES. Constructed in the year 2005, this aluminum-hulled ketch has only completed a full refit, complete repaint as well as ten-year classification survey as well as it is in faultless condition. An all new owner could anticipate lots of adventure onboard this magnificent sailing yacht.
For possible owners looking to buy a yacht with already-established world cruising ancestry, S/Y ANTARES’ is all set to cruise Mediterranean sea, Caribbean as well as other deepest and remote places of the world. The vessels comfortably cruises at fourteen knots. Capable of high gear performance sailing, mainsail could be hoisted under power in two minutes and her key sail covering alterations are also power operated.

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Croatian vessel maker introduces second yacht

November 9, 2015 Yacht Lifestyle

Brodosplit, the largest shipyard of Croatia, has introduced their 2nd pleasure yacht, the sixty meter Katina, back in June this year that was then showcased to the public for the very first time at recent Monaco Yacht Show. The custom made 4-deck vessel is built with a steel hull as well as aluminum superstructure and it features a hugely voluminous interior because of her square design shapes.

Ali Getz, a Turkish designer, realized the owner’s idea of an unlittered exterior image concentrating on linear blueprint cues like her continues wrap around exterior decks and uninterrupted profile lines. Accrording to a Croatian yacht charter company’s blurb, the grand sundeck region is dedicated to outdoor living with several sunbathing regions as well as a raised platform for Jacuzzi.

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Nick Thompson happy at his Rio call

October 1, 2015 Yacht Lifestyle

Nick Thompson, a Lymington-born sailor, has expressed his relief after he was named in the Team GB team for the Olympic Games next summer. The twenty-nine-year-old world champ, was a bronze medalist of last year’s Olympic test event. Now he is set to be a part of the Great Britain team in Rio.

Speaking about his happiness, Nick said that he has been attempting very hard for a long time to be selected for an Olympics. He has done 3 Olympic cycles full-time and almost more, and to not actually have had the scope to represent his country has been utterly disappointing.

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