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After just over 100 hours in the SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race, Franco Niggeler’s Kuka3 crossed the finishing-line at Wicklow Harbour on Wednesday evening after convincingly leading the on the water race for four solid days.

“Modifications, unless properly planned, can significantly erode a vessel’s margin of stability,” says Andrew Moll, chief inspector of marine accidents. “It is essential that skippers know the limitations of their vessels,...

The first Green Innovator Award was presented at MDL’s Green Tech Boat Show on Friday, 17 June to exhibitor ePropulsion UK, by technology and motorsports presenter, Nikki Dean.

Not content with winning the Marine Equipment and Materials Innovation Award for its Omega shock mitigating seat insert at this year’s Seawork, Sea Sure has launched its latest Shock-wbv suspension seat the ‘L Series’.

The Dorset Seafood Festival is returning to Weymouth Peninsula on the 10 – 11 September for its 15th year.

Diverse Marine and Turner Iceni have announced the completion of their fourth upcycling refit, Iceni Defiant, serving as an example of a successful refitting of an older craft with modern, environmentally-friendly solutions.

Silent-Yachts has acquired a new-build facility in Fano on Italy’s Adriatic coast comprising several hangars for building and outfitting its Silent 60 and 80 series models. The site includes five construction sheds with 22,000 m2 of covered...

Five highly protected marine areas (HPMAs) could be created by the government to ban all fishing and rewild the sea.

£2.4 million has been allocated for projects to support seafarers’ mental wellbeing and support the maritime sector. The government says it has partnered with three organisations across the UK to deliver pilot projects to provide ever...

The chair and trustees of the general council of The Seafarers’ Charity have announced the appointment of Deborah Layde as chief executive officer.

A fisherman from South Wales has caught a six-stone shark – the largest of its kind ever hooked in British waters.

Electric propulsion and data capture to aid ocean clean-up operations have become a top priority for today’s marine environment.

The excitement is mounting with just a few days to go until the annual Round the Island Race welcomes more than 6,000 competitiors to race around the Isle of Wight on 25 June.

Princess Yachts reveals the new Princess Y85 as part of their refined Y Class Motor Yacht range.

The National Composites Centre has launched a Blue Composites Project in an effort to address the growing challenge of decarbonisation and recycling of composite materials in the marine industry. It aims to create the UK’s first glass fibre...

National maritime charity, the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, is once again on the lookout for photographers to submit their favourite images of the sea, for its tenth annual competition honouring the UK’s proud maritime heritage.

Working in partnership with the RNLI, Helly Hansen has announced the return of its annual lifejacket clinic, providing Personal Flotation Device PFD guidance at the annual Round the Island Race.

New research shows that there has been a massive growth in the number of people participating in watersports during the pandemic. The annual Watersports Participation Survey 2021 says that approximately 11.7m people took part in one or more of th...

The MTA awards dinner returned this week (20June22) after a two and a half years hiatus and MIN is delighted to report that its publisher, Mike Shepherd, has been awarded Personality of the Year. Shepherd was nominated for his passion to create o...

The world’s longest-ranging, fully electric ferry, Ellen, set a new world record at the 7th annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency in Sønderborg, Denmark. The electric boat sailed 50 nautical miles (92 kilometres) on a single ...