Groupe Beneteau launches financial services

Groupe Beneteau and LaVictoire Finance have launched a collaboration under the label ‘Groupe Beneteau Financial Services’ (GBFS) to offer dedicated financing offers to private and corporate customers, with specific and creative finance products that will be made available exclusively to Beneteau group’s dealer network. “We are thrilled to become a lending partner of Groupe Beneteau […]

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CVRF’s Tsukada Nominated to Alaska Seat on NPFMC

Image: North Pacific Fishery Management Council. Ryuichi ‘Rudy’ Tsukada, chief operating officer for the Coastal Villages Region Fund (CVRF), one of six Western Alaska Community Development Quota Program groups, has been nominated to fill the obligatory state of Alaska seat on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC). Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy nominated Tsukada on […]

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Melbourne Osaka Cup 2025

The 9th Melbourne Osaka Cup, the longest longitudinal short-handed crewed race in the world, is open for entry. With 152 expressions of interest from around 11 countries, the 5500 nautical miles which traverses the Pacific from South to North is expected to fill quickly. George Shaw, Chairman of the Organising Authority, and a previous competitor […]

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Costa Sunglasses expands PRO series with launch of Corbina PRO

Costa Sunglasses expands PRO series with launch of Corbina PRO Costa Sunglasses, manufacturer of the first color-enhancing all-polarized glass sunglass lens, brings next-level performance to its legacy frame Corbina Pro for spring 2023. The enhanced Corbina PRO features new performance upgrades that keep your frames locked in place and vision clear so you can stay […]

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Relentless/Laticrete In The Team Woody Fold For 2023 Season

With the first offshore powerboat race of the 2023 season—the Race World Offshore-produced 7 Mile Grand Prix in Marathon, Fla.—a little more than a month away, movement among teams is showing no signs of slowing down. Case in point is the Mod-V-class Relentless/Laticrete team owned by Travis Petko of Maryland, which recently added Laticrete-backed throttleman […]

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Bavaria Yachts names new COO

On April 1, 2023, Norbert Leifeld will join Bavaria Yachts as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO). As COO, he will be responsible for product development and operations and form, as the second managing director, the Management Board together with Marc Diening, the Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of Bavaria Yachts. Norbert Leifeld […]

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Rolex China Sea Race 2023

The Rolex China Sea Race will start on 5 April 2023 in Hong Kong’s iconic Victoria Harbour and take competitors 565-nautical miles (1,046 kilometres) across the South China Sea to Subic Bay in the Philippines. Rolex has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with yachting dating back to the late 1950s. Close support of pre-eminent yacht clubs […]

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SailGP Christchurch

The inaugural ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix has come to a close after two spectacular days of racing on Whakaraupo, Lyttelton Harbour. Canada claimed their first-ever SailGP event win. New Zealand finished second, picking up nine championship points in the last event before the winner-takes-all final in San Francisco. New Zealand battled with France […]

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Ocean Globe Race 2023-24

“ In the Spirit of the original 1973 Whitbread Race” Celebrating its 50th Anniversary. The Golden Age of fully crewed ocean racing around the world seems a distant memory. Huge budgets and elite professionals racing custom carbon yachts that ‘fly’ on €800,000 foils steered by sophisticated autopilots, not sailors, where shore teams via satellite are […]

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NIMBUS GROUP ACUIRES EDGEWATER POWER BOATS

In an announcement today, Nimbus Group has acquired EdgeWater Power Boats and entered a strategic partnership that will solidify and expand their reach and investments in the U.S., the single largest powerboat market in the world. Every brand has a story. EdgeWater Power Boats’ story just added a new chapter to its long history in […]

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Suzuki Marine sponsors beach clean up

Suzuki Marine USA leadership, staff, and company volunteers teamed up with key representatives of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization and regional non-profit Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful to remove trash from the beaches along Picnic Island Park. The Inaugural Bucs Beach Cleanup Powered by Suzuki took place March 8. With support, logistics and equipment provided by […]

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PFMC Urges Rescinding Oregon Offshore Wind Energy Call Areas

Two Oregon call areas totaling 1.1 million acres. Image via Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) on March 9 joined commercial fisheries entities in recommending that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) rescind the current Oregon call areas designated for floating offshore wind energy management and restart the siting […]

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