Your Straits Solution
Ship supplier Wilhelmsen Ships Service says that it has launched a new “integrated service solution” for vessels passing through the Straits of Gibraltar. Known as ‘Your Straits Solution’, the new initiative will...
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Esimit Europa 2 takes the Honours
Just before 0100 CEST on Tuesday, 24 October, Igor Simcic’s Esimit Europa 2 crossed the finish line in Marsamxett Harbour in Malta to claim the line honours win at the 2011 Rolex Middle Sea Race. The Slovenian boat fin...
Rolex Middle Sea Race Begins
The Middle Sea Race is the flagship race of the Royal Malta Yacht Club and each year, members of the club, young and old take part in the spectacular race. First 45, Elusive St.Regis typifies the importance of this race ...
Update: W1: Global Ocean Race
The first week of racing on the first leg of the double-handed, Class40, Global Ocean Race has taken the vessels 1,300 miles from the start in Palma, Mallorca, out into the Atlantic, along the coast of Morocco to the Can...
EU says Spanish Boat Tax is Unlawful
After years of lobbying by the nautical industry the European Commission has finally spoken out about the controversial Spanish Matriculation Tax (ISDMT). The commission deemed the taxation of charter vessels from other ...
Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
THE FINEST TRADITIONAL AND MODERN YACHTS AT LES VOILES 2011 – Thirty years on: the “Nioulargue spirit” is honoured at Les Voiles de Saint Tropez – Modern craft: over 50 yachts measuring more than 18 metre...
Global Ocean Race : Buckley leads the race to Gibraltar
On Sunday 25th September the six double-handed Class 40’s in the Global Ocean Race 2011-2012 fleet crossed the starting line in Palma, Majorca with the first leg, a 7,000 mile trip to Cape Town, South Africa, ahead. A ...
