Applications for booking visitor berthing in Weymouth Harbour and anchorage in Weymouth Bay during the sailing events of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are now open.

To avoid disappointment please book early.

Over the last 18 months the Weymouth Harbour team has been working hard to ensure that boat owners who come to Weymouth & Portland in summer 2012 enjoy the unique experience of visiting the waters around the Olympic sailing events.

There will be plenty going on during the

Scottish sailor, Luke Patience has sailed his way to a silver medal at the Perth 2011 Sailing World Championships. Along with Stuart Bithell, Luke Patience led the medal race from start to finish in the men’s 470 class out in Australia to secure their second place overall in style at the championships. The winners of the gold medal were Australia’s Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page.

The pair teamed up in 2009 and has been training extremely hard to prepare for what was a very important World

Local sailor Jamie Calder from Balerno will pick up one of youth sailings most prestigious awards in the New Year, the RYA Scottish Young Sailor of the Year Award 2011, in recognition of the fantastic results he has achieved in the sport throughout the year.

Jamie is the youngest Scottish sailor to have secured a place on the Optimist World Championships team which will see him travel to New Zealand early next year. He also placed third at the British Optimist Nationals earlier this year. He receives

During the inauguration of the Vendée stand on Tuesday morning at the Paris Boat Show, Bruno Retailleau, President of the Vendée Council and Louis Guédon, MP and Mayor of Les Sables d'Olonne, accompanied by the British sailor, Samantha Davies, revealed the official poster for the 2012-2013 Vendée Globe, which is due to start on Saturday 10th November 2012.
A new poster and new horizons
In the presence of the British sailor Samantha Davies, who officially confirmed her participation last weekend and in so

Easy Mooring AKA Dock and Go from Beneteau 

Earlier in spring this year I had a chance to test the new joystick controlled mooring system fitted to a new Sense 50 sail boat from Beneteau . The system modifies the standard Yanmar saildrive unit so that the propellor can rotate through 360° in less than 1 second. By engaging the joystick control at the cockpit the wheel becomes locked and the only control left is the small joystick that powers the bow thruster as well as the modified sail drive unit.

We can

Goodchild takes on the Southern Ocean in the Global Ocean Race

Artemis Offshore Academy sailor Sam Goodchild will be taking on the Southern Ocean in the double-handed Global Ocean Race with Conrad Colman onboard the 40-ft monohull, Cessna Citation. At just 22 years of age, Goodchild will be the youngest sailor competing in the 7,500nm leg from Cape Town (South Africa) to Wellington (New Zealand), starting at 12:00 (GMT) this Sunday (27th November).

The 2011 Nautica Outstanding Seamanship Award goes to two MOB rescuers

This year's 80th Anniversary J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, hosted and run by the Island Sailing Club (ISC) in Cowes, Isle of Wight, was the largest ever to be staged with 1,908 yachts entered.

It was also conducted in very challenging weather conditions that lead to an unusually high number of incidents on the water and the highest level of nominations ever for the Nautica Outstanding Seamanship Award, now in its

RYA Dinghy Show Dates

Passionate about dinghy sailing or simply want to find out more; then the RYA Volvo Dinghy Show 2012, the home of British dinghy sailing, is a must for your calendar.[/b] Taking place at the magnificent Alexandra Palace in London over the weekend of 3-4 March 2012 the RYA Volvo Dinghy Show, in association with Yachts and Yachting and Suzuki Marine, [url]http://www.whatboat.com/suzuki-marine[/url] has something for everyone; young or old, novice or pro, cruiser or racer and it

The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) and TracTrac

The leaders in live sports tracking, are pleased to announce that they have signed a collaboration agreement and they will be working closely together. Event organisers at the WPNSA will now have the option to access pay as you go tracking infrastructure which will make the on-the-water action more accessible and more attractive to sailors, clubs, spectators, coaches and sponsors. The technology can be put in place to be used by