• Preparing for the New Year

    Updated: 2022-12-31 20:15:44
    Facebook Twitter About Subscribe Calendar Store Contact Home Photos and Videos Photos Videos Newsletter Read it Subscribe to it Resources Sailing Calendar Store Sailing Club Library Suppliers Information Search Navigation Home Photos and Videos Photos Videos Newsletter Read it Subscribe to it Resources Sailing Calendar Store Sailing Club Library Suppliers Information Photo Preparing for the New Year Published on December 31st , 2022 : Tags holiday Related Posts Because words matter ho ho ho Merry Christmas ha ha ha Elf on the Shelf when not on the shelf There’s always next year Back to Top Launched in 1997, Scuttlebutt provides sailing news with a North American focus . Look for the latest information to be posted on the website , with the highlights distributed Monday through Friday in

  • Superstitions: Umbrellas and Waves

    Updated: 2022-12-31 15:04:58
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from U and W: Umbrellas Umbrellas are for use in foul weather ashore, [&hellip

  • SWSC in 2023

    Updated: 2022-12-31 11:57:28
    The club’s winter sailing season is now in full-swing and the annual Snowball Series is schedu

  • 31 December, 2022 12:59

    Updated: 2022-12-31 00:59:06
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  • 31 December, 2022 00:44

    Updated: 2022-12-31 00:44:31
    The club’s winter sailing season is now in full-swing and the annual Snowball Series is schedu

  • 31 December, 2022 00:44

    Updated: 2022-12-31 00:44:31
    The club’s winter sailing season is now in full-swing and the annual Snowball Series is schedu

  • Two-Handed results for Sydney Hobart

    Updated: 2022-12-30 23:43:27
    Rupert Henry and Greg O’Shea have sailed Henry’s Lombard 34 Mistral to victory in the Two-Handed Division of the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the pair also claiming the Two-Handed ORCi win and third place in the Corinthian IRC division.   Henry and O’Shea placed 29th overall in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s [&hellip

  • Superstitions: Sewing and Thread

    Updated: 2022-12-30 16:37:33
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from S and T: Sewing It is bad luck to do any sewing [&hellip

  • All the extremes for Sydney Hobart 2022

    Updated: 2022-12-29 21:37:18
    Thomas Kneen, the British owner of the JPK 11.80 Sunrise, knows success. As the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race winner and Rolex Middle Sea Race runner-up, his team took on another notable 600 nm offshore race… here’s their story: For a brief moment in this Australian classic, Kneen thought: “This is ridiculous. Why are we doing [&hellip

  • Team-building tips for work and play

    Updated: 2022-12-29 21:08:53
    The Winning name is well-known in Australian 18-Skiff racing, but their lease of the 100-f00t Comanche maxi racer earned them the elapsed time win of the 2022 Sydney Hobart Race. Skipper John ‘Herman’ Winning Jr explains how as chief executive of his fourth-generation family company, he combines sport and business. As the 38-year-old retail boss [&hellip

  • Equipment Maintenance Part 2

    Updated: 2022-12-29 16:25:00
    Another important part of off-season maintenance is sail repair. The seven sets of practice sails we

  • Celestial wins Sydney Hobart 2022

    Updated: 2022-12-29 13:10:44
    Hobart, Australia (December 29, 2022) – It was never going to be anything but emotionally charged when Sam Haynes and his Celestial crew were crowned overall winners of the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Haynes and some of the same crew lost the race win last year after being penalized for an infraction of the rules, [&hellip

  • Eight Bells: Mary “Bushy” Bushnell Henry

    Updated: 2022-12-29 13:00:14
    Mary “Bushy” Bushnell Pearce Henry, 102, of Middletown, RI, passed away on December 24, 2022, in the St. Clare Home in Newport. She was the wife of the late Eugene Baker Henry, USN, Ret. Bushy was remarkable not only for her age but for her generation. As she reminded us all often, “Do you realize [&hellip

  • Superstitions: Qalupalik and Rainbow

    Updated: 2022-12-29 00:49:14
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from Q and R: Qalupalik The Qalupalik is a creature of Inuit legend [&hellip

  • Wrapping Up 2022

    Updated: 2022-12-28 17:30:00
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  • Waiting now for Sydney Hobart win

    Updated: 2022-12-28 13:18:25
    (December 28, 2022) – A year ago, Sam Haynes was on the brink of quitting sailing in disappointment after his hopes of overall victory in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race were dashed by a protest.   Today, Haynes is back in Hobart and in the box seat to avenge the set back in 2022 [&hellip

  • Superstitions: Orca and Painter

    Updated: 2022-12-28 00:58:53
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from O and P: Orca The orca, or killer whale, was “regarded in [&hellip

  • Comanche first to finish Sydney Hobart

    Updated: 2022-12-27 20:29:21
    (December 28, 2022) – John ‘Herman’ Winning Jr has set his sights on back-to-back Line Honors wins in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race with Andoo Comanche after the maxi claimed this year’s title. Early this morning, Winning Jr skippered the champion 100-footer to its fourth elapsed time victory for the 628 nm course, but [&hellip

  • Match racing circuit in California

    Updated: 2022-12-27 13:00:40
    The Grade 3 California Dreamin’ Series in 2023 features three match racing events on the west coast of the USA. The series begins with San Diego Yacht Club in their fleet of J/22s on January 28-29. Competitors then head north to St. Francis Yacht Club on March 4-5 for more J/22 competition on San Francisco [&hellip

  • 27 December, 2022 11:34

    Updated: 2022-12-27 11:34:03
    Ah — happiness!Feel that warmthIt rises in your bellyFollowed by its long tail — sadnessA rudder tha

  • 27 December, 2022 11:33

    Updated: 2022-12-27 11:33:59
    Ah — happiness!Feel that warmthIt rises in your bellyFollowed by its long tail — sadnessA rudder tha

  • Sunfish need a new name

    Updated: 2022-12-27 06:04:22
    Soon after the fleet of 109 boats began the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on December 26, Louis and Marc Ryckman’s 12m Akilaria RC2 Yeah Baby collided with marine life that can weigh up to 2200 pounds. Here are details from The Western Australian: Louis Ryckmans says he had dismissed all the tall tales [&hellip

  • Eight Bells: Steve Henkel

    Updated: 2022-12-27 00:45:39
    Stephen Charles (Steve) Henkel, author, sailor, and polymath, died December 14, 2022 at the age of 89 in Sarasota, FL. Steve grew up in Short Hills, NJ and attended Princeton University (BS in mechanical engineering) and Rutgers University (MBA). He married his college sweetheart, Carol Pippitt, in 1955, and from 1955 to 1984 worked as [&hellip

  • No elapsed record for Sydney Hobart

    Updated: 2022-12-27 00:26:51
    (December 27, 2022) – The 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet is revelling in the downwind run to Tasmania thanks to the prevailing north-to-north easterly winds from yesterday’s start.   By mid-afternoon today, the four maxis were continuing to make their charge across Bass Strait in their bid for Line Honours victory in the [&hellip

  • Superstitions: Mugs and Nudity

    Updated: 2022-12-27 00:08:02
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from M and N: Mugs If a mug is stowed on a hook, [&hellip

  • America’s Cup sold to Barcelona

    Updated: 2022-12-26 13:41:55
    Alex Powell with New Zealand news service Newshub grabs the low hanging fruit as he selects his Disappointment of 2022. In March, Emirates Team NZ confirmed what we’d all feared for a long time and announced that the 2024 America’s Cup defence would be sailed in Barcelona. Granted, the financial boost of hosting it in [&hellip

  • Glamour start for 77th Sydney Hobart

    Updated: 2022-12-26 13:23:10
    Sydney, Australia (December 26, 2022) – The 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race got underway today at 1:00 pm on Sydney Harbour in north to north easterly 10-15 knot winds, under glorious sun and blue skies, belying the thick fog that blanketed Sydney at dawn.   Moments after the fleet of 109 boats began their 628 nautical [&hellip

  • Superstitions: Knife and Launching

    Updated: 2022-12-26 08:07:42
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from K and L: Knife If becalmed for a long time, a knife [&hellip

  • VIDEO: Start of Sydney Hobart Race

    Updated: 2022-12-26 00:59:44
    The 628 nm Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will be the 77th edition in 2022 which had a fleet of 109 boats for the start on December 26.   Race details – Tracker – Facebook From the start in Sydney Harbour, the fleet sails out into the Tasman Sea, down the south-east coast of mainland [&hellip

  • Downwind forecast for Sydney Hobart

    Updated: 2022-12-25 18:38:21
    The Line Honours race record is there for the taking in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, so long as the forecast of downwind conditions prevail through to the finish. That is the view of Mark Richards, skipper of the nine-time Line Honours-winning maxi, Hamilton Island Wild Oats.   Richards made the declaration on [&hellip

  • Superstitions: Intuit and Jonah

    Updated: 2022-12-25 13:26:33
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from I and J: Intuit In Intuit culture, a major taboo is combining [&hellip

  • Because words matter… ho ho ho!

    Updated: 2022-12-25 08:32:05
    I have seen your social media posts… you’re getting a dictionary for Christmas

  • Merry Christmas – ha ha ha

    Updated: 2022-12-25 08:01:15
    I have seen your social media posts… you’re getting a dictionary for Christmas

  • On Course, Episode 23

    Updated: 2022-12-24 18:43:17
    The On Course series takes a regular look at the sailing world with show host Matt Sheahan: When Charles Caudrelier took line honours in the Route du Rhum single handed race across the Atlantic aboard Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana 17 he had won the Ultime class also set a new race record. Meanwhile, on [&hellip

  • Etchells Class modifies illegal boats

    Updated: 2022-12-24 18:00:52
    When the Australian-built Pacesetter boats uncommonly dominated the 2019 Etchells World Championship, eyebrows were raised. After investigation confirmed discrepancies, the class sought a solution for the 25 boats built from the M11 mould. International Etchells Class Association (IECA) Chairman Andrew Cumming shares what happened: In order to independently evaluate the differences between M11 boats and [&hellip

  • Superstitions: Green and Hat Overboard

    Updated: 2022-12-24 13:06:37
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from G and H: Green Green has traditionally been frowned upon in the [&hellip

  • The World Sailing Show

    Updated: 2022-12-24 06:58:59
    The World Sailing Show delivers 30-minute episodes which feature news, profiles, and racing highlights from across the world of sailing. The December 2022 episode leads with an in-depth preview of The Ocean Race 2023, which gets under way on January 15 in Alicante, Spain. Following a nine-stop route, the new-look event will round Africa’s southernmost [&hellip

  • Coiling Lines and Flaking Halyards

    Updated: 2022-12-23 10:42:55
    Coiling and flaking running rigging properly is an important step to ensuring it runs freely when you it to. Erik Shampain shares his tips in this Sailing World report: Ropes can be finicky. Sometimes they run flawlessly and sometimes they have a mind of their own. Luckily there are some simple techniques to ensure they [&hellip

  • British Invasion for Sydney Hobart

    Updated: 2022-12-23 10:38:19
    Thomas Cheney is pinching himself that he and the crew on the JPK 11.80 yacht, Sunrise, are in Australia and all but ready to sail in their first Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. For the British navigator, of the Royal Ocean Racing Club entry, the prospect of being in the fleet for the Rolex Sydney Hobart, which [&hellip

  • Superstitions: Evil Eye and Farewell

    Updated: 2022-12-23 08:21:20
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from E and F: Evil Eye The evil eye is painted on vessels, [&hellip

  • Joe Harris: Relief and satisfaction

    Updated: 2022-12-23 01:46:30
    American Joe Harris along with Roger Junet are competing in the Globe40, a multi-leg doublehanded round the world race in Class40s. Seven teams were at the beginning on June 26, with five teams now on the fifth leg from Papeete, Tahiti to Ushuaia, Argentina. After starting on November 26, Harris files this report on December [&hellip

  • Eight Bells: Merle Hallett

    Updated: 2022-12-22 13:46:27
    Merle Elwood Hallett died at his home in Vero Beach, FL. on December 13, 2022. He was 94 years old. For 25 years as winter approached the shores of the Maine coast, Merle set sail south on the Wings of Time with his lifelong friend Dodge Morgan to the Caribbean. A dead run to a [&hellip

  • US Sailing revamps championship plan

    Updated: 2022-12-22 13:37:56
    In an effort to promote youth sailing and organize its regatta schedule, US Sailing has revealed changes and updates to its historic youth championship regattas for the 2023 season. The US Sailing events for youth sailors date back to the Sears Cup in 1921, with gradual revisions to over the years to reflect the growth [&hellip

  • Superstitions: Coins and Debt

    Updated: 2022-12-22 08:58:41
    Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed. Compiled by R. Bruce MacDonald, he goes through the alphabet detailing on what provides good and bad luck at sea. Here’s a sampling from C and D: Coins Coins are thrown into the sea as a [&hellip

  • Five teams to compete in The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint

    Updated: 2022-12-22 00:59:46
    While five IMOCA teams are set to race around the world in The Ocean Race 2023, there are five confirmed VO65 entries for The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint which will compete in three of the legs. The Ocean Race Sprint Cup* Leg 1: Alicante, Spain to Cabo Verde Leg 2: Aarhus, Denmark to The Hague, [&hellip

  • Elf on the Shelf when not on the shelf

    Updated: 2022-12-22 00:18:39
    This has been the 25th anniversary for Scuttlebutt, which is another remarkable achievement for a publication that was never intended to begin, let alone so alter the landscape of sailing media. It’s now that time of year when Scuttlebutt HQ focuses on family and friends to recharge for the New Year, and there are some [&hellip

  • Top ten advance to eSailing Worlds

    Updated: 2022-12-21 17:47:54
    The 2022 eSailing World Championship has advanced the top ten players for the Finals to be held January 7, 2023. The event will be held in front of a live crowd alongside the entrants for The Ocean Race 2023 in Alicante, Spain. A total of 40 sailors began the Semi-Finals in October, and now the [&hellip

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