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A 14m Medina Class lifeboat being built for a UK volunteer lifeboat service (not part of the RNLI) will be equipped with DuroWiper systems. The vessel will be fitted out with Class 50 pantographs, the smallest in the DuroWipers range, ideal for applications where space is at a premium. “We’re proud to stand alongside the […]
Members of the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) have elected Dr Deborah Fish, OBE as the new commodore of the London and Cowes based club with effect from 1st January 2024. She will take up the role from James Neville. Fish is the first woman to be elected commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, […]
Two people have been rescued from an 18m Princess motor cruiser named Peroni, which went up in flames off the Isle of Wight on the UK’s south coast. Images taken by the RNLI capture the devastation during the blaze, which broke out on 11 November. The crew had taken to a small tender that they […]
UKSA has announced it is creating the Isle of Wight’s first oyster regeneration project in partnership with the Blue Marine Foundation. The Cowes-based charity UKSA, which provides water-based adventures, education and maritime training, will aid the restoration with breeding and growing of oysters in high densities, hung in baskets in the water beneath UKSA’s pontoons. […]
Frustrated Isle of Wight fisherman Geoff Blake, from Ventnor Haven Fishery, has called on the media to help put pressure on the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to change its blanket approach to boatbuilding rules. Blake, speaking to BBC Radio Solent, says that the rules designed to make fishing boats safer could be putting lives at […]
Vendee Globe veteran Pip Hare has broken two sailing records at once, after sailing around the Isle of Wight single-handed. The Poole-based sailor completed the voyage in the new outright fastest time for a solo sailor, and now also holds the overall 60ft boat record: crewed or solo. The record was ratified by the World […]
Maritime training and education charity UKSA has reported an increase of more than 50 per cent in the number of students receiving funding for its Superyacht Cadetship course, when compared to the average across the last five years. For its 2022 intake, the Isle of Wight-based charity has seen 70 per cent of students receive […]
Police say enquires are ongoing to determine the exact circumstances surrounding a boat ploughing into the cliffs at Totland Bay, Isle of Wight, on Saturday evening (24 September 2022). According to Yarmouth RNLI, the 30ft motor boat had hit the rocks west of Totland bay with casualties sustaining multiple injuries. The RNLI’s casualty care crew […]
Sailing charity Wetwheels Foundation has confirmed that the recent Solent Platinum Jubilee celebrations in August have helped raise £12,000, which will all be used to help more disabled people access the water. Wetwheels was the chosen charity for the Jubilee Year celebrations on 6 August, which were one of the biggest the Solent has seen […]
David Haze, adventurer and holder of seven stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) world records, is about to undertake the world’s first completely carbon neutral, environmentally friendly expedition by SUP, as he commences a five-day solo trip around the Isle of Wight. Everything Haze is using on the ‘The Great Green Paddle’ expedition, from his equipment to his […]
Spinlock has expanded its production facility in Cowes, Isle of Wight, to help facilitate global sales growth and new markets. The additional 40 per cent space, alongside the existing production facility, allows the increasing factory team to source and hold more component stock, add in-house processes with new machinery and grow the company’s finished product […]