Published on June 2nd, 2025
Sailing has its traditions, and for better or worse, the adult beverage is one of them. At some yacht clubs, this tradition goes so far as a designated house drink. In 2010, Scuttlebutt took on the ... Read More →
Published on December 17th, 2025
Sign on fence: “Salesmen welcome. Dog food is expensive.” Providing “insight” since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of major sailing news, commentary, opinions, features and ... Read More →
Published on December 17th, 2025
by Andrew Rice, The Athletic When you’re about to head into the teeth of a yacht race like the Sydney Hobart Race, it helps to have a sense of humor. Asked how he sleeps on the ... Read More →
Published on December 17th, 2025
by Georgie Corlett-Pitt, Seahorse There’s no doubt our sport has changed. It’s been a decade since an intrepid group of women very visibly challenged the status quo as Team SCA in the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15, ... Read More →
Published on December 17th, 2025
A ship’s bell is struck for each half-hour of a four-hour watch, and when a sailor has died, they are honored with the sounding of eight bells; meaning “end of the watch”. For those sailors whose ... Read More →
Published on December 17th, 2025
Dave Perry’s 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes highlights specific aspects of the racing rules in a fun format designed to help you become more familiar with The Racing Rules of Sailing. Here is one of the ... Read More →
Published on December 16th, 2025
I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food. Providing “insight” since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of major sailing news, ... Read More →
Published on December 16th, 2025
When the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) dropped sailing after the Rio 2016 Games, it was a wake-up call for World Sailing. Poor management, rising costs, and limited participation for the single-, double-, and triple-handed events was ... Read More →
Published on December 15th, 2025
We keep making the world better, but are we? Bill Crane reflects on how the good old days were pretty damn good: In the ’70s and ‘80s, juniors sailed high performance dinghies, crewed on Solings and ... Read More →
Published on December 15th, 2025
With an all-women crew, The Famous Project CIC set out on November 29 to record the fastest crewed, non-stop, unassisted circumnavigation of the globe and claim the Jules Verne Trophy. But after falling far behind the ... Read More →
Published on December 15th, 2025
As a dominant international rating service, ORC relies on science to handicap dissimilar boats. In this report by Thomas Nilsson and Matt Gallagher, they describe how the system functions, how data is used, how ORC responds ... Read More →
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