Greetings Yachties, My little yachtyakka is getting big. There are currently 7000 images and many, many more links to yachting all over the world. Below is an index of the feature stories so far. Sailors Abby Sunderland Abby Sunderland: The Adventure Begins Brainaid Brad Butterworth Disabled Sailors Geoff Holt Hilary Lister Jessica Watson Jessica Watson: [...]

Greetings yachties, Laura Dekker Mike Perham Melges 17 Clipper Round The World Scuttlebutt Poll – Teenagers solo around the world Gary Jobson ishare Ben Rogerson lstanbul Europa Race Portugal Trophy Tara Oceans” expedition India International Regatta 2009 505 World Championship 2009 Enjoy, more later State care ordered for teen sailor Laura Dekker. Photo / AP [...]

Wild Days Rum, available at all liquor stores on Waiheke Island – more here When I told friends in Sydney that I was sitting on a beach in New Zealand the comment was met with no small amount of wonderment. New Zilund, for the record, does have beaches. Very nice ones at that. It was [...]

Greetings Yachties, Virtual Sailing on line Alinghi Superyacht News Odlo ishares Melges 24 TP52 Des Top News, English- French- Deutsche Mike Perham Blind Swimming St Moritz Match Racing 505 Worlds Cowes online Clipper Round The World Waka Racing Enjoy, more later Is Virtual Sailing becoming bigger than the sport itself? Hundreds of thousands of people [...]

Greetings Yachties, Laura Dekker Waka La Solitaire Tsuboi Yachts GP33 Queensland’s Pollution The Coastal Passage and Hamo 505 Worlds Melges Billy T James Enjoy,  Teenager seeks Kiwi home so she can sail away alone 4:00AM Wednesday Aug 26, 2009 By Vaimoana Tapaleao A 13-year-old Dutch girl born in New Zealand is fighting to be declared [...]

Greetings Yachties Chicago Match Race TP52 Mike Perham Hilary Lister Class 40 D35 Alinghi Wild Oats Wine Dogzilla gets finns & more lawyers Tjorn Runt Archipelago Raid Hurricane Bill Enjoy From NZL James Williamson(Bow)‚ Sam Bell(Trim)‚ Phil Robertson (Skipper)‚ Garth Ellingham(Main) Miles Addy (main)‚ Brad Farrand(bow)‚ Rubeun Corbett(Skipper)‚ Tom Bentham (jib) Logan Fraser (jib)‚ Phys [...]

Greetings Yachties, Nice footage and a few stories from: TP52 Practise Race. La Solitaire. Artemis at Cowes Week. Speed Worlds. Da-Woody. BillyT James. DesTop TV. Alinghi and more. Enjoy more here Sail TV Offers LIVE Coverage of the 2009 Audi MedCup via Virtual Eye Graphics and Commentary – Wednesday August 19th to the 23rd Most [...]

Tim Krech with wife Bre and third crew Ann Scheuerman took home the silver in the 2009 ILYA C Championships. Krech had the event won yesterday but chose to sail the race with his dad today. Joe Kutschenreuter with crew Randy Schmidt and Katie Porter hung on to second using the last race as a [...]

Scuttlebutt Poll: Boat Trackers – How do you feel? August 14, 2009 From Joe Hummel “Archimedes II”, C&C 110: “The Chicago Race to Mackinac this year was another for the books: long, slow, with big losses and gains to be made playing the shore breezes vs. offshore vs. Michigan shoreline vs. Wisconsin shoreline. During the [...]

From the Footy to the A Class Model yachts of all shapes and sizes. Getting Started in Model Yachting You have found one of the best sources of model yachting information today. By reading the many AMYA website pages, you can quickly obtain information of particular interest to you. Since this section is on the [...]