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Friday, December 19, 2025 - Issue 6493
Rockport Marine’s R-37 ‘Lobster Yacht.’ Photo: Pim Van Hemmen.
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Crisis in American Youth Sports [2]
It was in the 1980s when youth sailing was modeled after other youth sports, and this paved the way for age-based boats and focused coaching. It also created a bubble of youth events which impacted the transition into adult sailing.
The shift increased the focus on improvement while limiting exposure to other sailing opportunities, and for a lot of kids, they never found the fun in the sport. This was not a unique problem to sailing, and is the basis for why John O’Sullivan founded the Changing the Game Project [3].
He wanted to put the ‘play’ back in ‘play ball’ and recently testified before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
The hearing was titled “The Crisis in American Youth Sports and Its Cost to Our Future.” And that title says everything. This conversation was about burnout. Dropout. Rising costs. Pressure. And the millions of kids walking away from sports that were supposed to help them grow.
John shared what has been seen for years through coaches, parents, and athletes across every level of sport. When competition outweighs connection, kids leave. When adults lose perspective, kids pay the price.
Youth sports should be a place where children build confidence, character, and community. Instead, too many environments are pushing kids out before they ever get the chance to fall in love with the game.
This update from Changing the Game Project was posted on Facebook which prompted significant commentary [4][0]=AZZ0AGvvXGrGewC4keX4-jOfsNki4DX4AkfBHuMVoaWH3Ge0KHGLH-jqoz0vrQAMF4BS3en_1cp84G4Tl69az-NcIsWCliQ-p62D8jt3NCd9F9zQfaccfqJCUeuyb09g0YYwpThpsVsJ9z6UyMCbPKjkr0YnAKCKThOY61tWXQF3NA&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R].
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Electra is light, tough, fast, and ready for any start line. Contact your local loft [7] and get a quote [6] to add Electra to your inventory for your next race.
I’ve got two eyes, sailing is losing ground [8]
In this WindCheck magazine report, John K. Fulweiler, provides something to think about for next season. Here’s an excerpt:
First, sailing has a pretentiousness I don’t understand. Maybe every sport does, but sailing seems to take honors when it comes to snubbing the populus.
Second, investments should be made in expanding community access (a triggering phrase for some, I know) so that the industry is fostering new sailors.
Third, without a pipeline of new sailors, IMO sailing will go the way of the many once-popular sports now relegated to niche status like fencing, horse racing, roller derby, auto rallies, etc.
Fourth, enough with the technology. Sailing suffers from a Fisherian Runaway where the technology trait is so favored that it ultimately crowds out what’s necessary and reasonable for sailing’s survival.
Fifth, update your promotion.
Sixth, I don’t have anything else right now. Maybe you do?
For the full report, click here [9].
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Is third time’s a charm for Para Sailing? [11]
When the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) dropped sailing after the Rio 2016 Games [12], 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 no longer acceptable, prompting a thorough rethink on how to move forward.
Despite progress, the IPC continued to exclude Sailing for the 2024 Games [13] and 2028 Games [14], with World Sailing again submitting a proposal to the IPC for the Paralympic Games at Brisbane 2032. Here's an update from the sailing federation:
The submission outlines a transformed global landscape for Para Sailing, driven by unprecedented growth, strengthened governance, and a modern, highly flexible sporting programme wholly aligned with IPC priorities.
Since World Sailing’s previous campaign for Paralympic Games inclusion in 2022, Para Sailing has undergone a period of significant expansion, strategic development and profound growth across all core areas. - Full report [11]
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That was then, This is now [16]
Light and variable winds are shaping as a key feature of this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with early forecasts [17] pointing to a tactical opening phase rather than a flat-out drag race along the 628-nautical course.
The 80th edition begins December 26, and it's looking to be a navigators race. For the esteemed Adrienne Cahalan, who first competed on the course in 1984, the job has come a long ways from paper charts, dividers, and a constant watch on the sky.
“There was no GPS,” Cahalan recalls. “I watched another navigator taking sextant sights. You really gain an appreciation for how people had to do it before digital navigation.”
Weather information came via high-frequency radio broadcasts, supplemented by experience and observation. Cloud formations were read as carefully as charts, offering clues about approaching fronts or settled high-pressure systems. Position-finding was labor-intensive, involving parallel rulers, compasses, tables, and manual plotting. - Full report [16]
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Path to balance in sailing [19]
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, and subsequently launched The Magenta Project – today, a flagship organisation for equality in sailing. Not forgetting of course, the earlier trailblazers that came before: Maiden, Heineken, EF Education and Amer Sports Too.
No longer is it unprecedented to see females at elite level racing – even the America’s Cup has now mandated female crew members. At grassroots level, much is being done by governing bodies to encourage women. It’s fair to say the pathways, while far from being well-trodden, have now at least been pencilled on the map.
Abby Ehler, a four-time Ocean Race veteran who has behind-the-scenes involvement with the America’s Cup and SailGP, and a founding member of The Magenta Project, agrees that progress in the past 10 years has been significant. – Full report [20]
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How would you decide this? [22]
Dave Perry’s 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes [23] 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 quizzes:
Quiz 60
The race committee decides to shorten the course at the gate before the last upwind leg. It anchors the committee boat to the right of the gate (looking upwind) and displays flag S with two sounds before the first boat (Boat X) reaches the gate. How should Boat X finish? Click here [22] for answer.
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The Perfect Weekend Tender? [25]
While mostly destined for use as private yachts, Rockport Marine’s R-37 and R-51 “lobster yachts” are versatile enough to follow in the footsteps of Bystander - the gold standard tender of the J-class. They are designed to include a rowing dinghy and the layout is ideal for setting marks, hosting RC, and tows to the starting line–when they aren’t cruising between ports or taking the family on a sunset cruise. If you've spent years searching for the perfect boat (sail or power) that hits all the marks (so to speak), a custom build might be worth considering.
Designed and built by Rockport Marine, the R-37 and R-51 draw inspiration from 1950s Newbert and Wallace lobster yachts—classic Downeast character shaped for modern cruising. Powerful and practical, these ruggedly elegant designs allow for sea kindliness, moderate speed, maneuverability, and ample space on deck. The cold-molded wood-composite construction—a Rockport Marine specialty—creates a strong, lightweight hull that offers durable performance with minimal upkeep.
Inside, Herreshoff-style trim and surprisingly spacious galleys prove you don't have to sacrifice comfort for capability. An open transom with flip-down bronze swim ladder makes boarding easy, and a roller embedded in the deck allows you to launch the tender easily off the stern. Every detail is personalized.
Download Study Plans for the R-37 & R-51 at [25]
Five expert tips for the perfect start [26]
Whether you’re foiling into a start line at 30 knots or lining up in a keelboat, SailGP champion Dylan Fletcher shares key rules for getting off the line cleanly with Andy Rice in Yachting World:
Starting has always played a disproportionate part in the outcome of a race. The shorter the duration of the race, the more this is true. Dylan Fletcher knows this very well from his experience competing in SailGP, where the races often last less than 10 minutes.
Even though a reaching start against eleven 50ft foiling catamarans appears to bear little resemblance to a conventional upwind start for a large fleet of keelboats, Fletcher argues there are some fundamental principles that apply to any scenario.
“Time and distance judgement is key to any kind of start and the more you do of it the better you get,” he says. “I think that doing a lot of Moth sailing during the summer really helped my SailGP starting because in the Moth you have to eyeball it.”
Fletcher explains that in the Moth, you have no technology to tell you where the line is. Judging that approach to the line and doing it multiple times helps with any other starting, whether it’s SailGP, on a Cape 31, or an RC44. In the following five tips, Fletcher shares not only how to give yourself the best shot at a winning start, but one that puts you in the best place for your overall race strategy. – Full report [27]
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The hard climb for Charlotte Rose [29]
Following her Olympic Trials defeat, ILCA 6 hopeful Charlotte Rose goes all in once again, this time for LA 2028. Story by Alison Chenard for Sailing World:
She won the most races of any ILCA 6 competitor at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. She’s only 25 years old, but with two back-to-back Youth World Champion titles to her name, she’s a respected force in one of the most competitive sailing classes in the world. Her name is Charlotte Rose, and a heartbreaking defeat in the lead-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics tempted her to walk away from sailing—forever.
It’s a feeling most will never experience: a brutal, cold, sterile “no” to everything you’ve worked toward for at least four years, sometimes your whole life. Arriving at the honor of representing one’s country and hopefully standing on a podium requires a fierce core belief in oneself that’s crafted by years of introspection and the encouragement of friends, family and coaches. It’s not a goal made lightly, and the risk of it all washing away with the result of one regatta takes another kind of strength to open oneself up to the possibility.
“To have it slip through [my] fingers is a pain that will sit with me for the rest of my career,” Rose wrote on social media a week after the Olympic Trials concluded. - Full report [30]
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Hold a crew meeting after the finish [32]
Dave Dellenbaugh, member of the 2025 Class of the National Sailing Hall of Fame [33], discusses in WindCheck magazine [34] how the race doesn’t end at the finish line:
While the race may end when you cross the finish line, your efforts to improve your sailing skills should not. Learning is a never-ending quest, and one of the best times to learn (or to reinforce something you’ve already learned) is right after a race or a day of racing.
The time you spend sailing or motoring back to the mooring or dock is a perfect chance to review the race(s) with your crew. The racing is fresh in everyone’s minds, and you have a captive audience.
Begin your crew meeting after everyone has cleaned up the boat, and try to end it before you need to get out the lifting rings or fenders. Gather all crewmembers in the cockpit within earshot, and give them a chance to reflect on the experience they have just been through. Encourage everyone to participate by making comments or asking questions. For some of the subjects you might cover, click here [35].
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Under the skin of Argo [37]
When the start gun fires in Lanzarote for the 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race on January 11, two of the most extraordinary offshore racing machines will once again go head-to-head across the Atlantic.
The MOD70 trimarans Argo (USA) and Zoulou (FRA), skippered by Jason Carroll and Erik Maris respectively, are capable of sustaining speeds of more than 35 knots. Between them, they have set records, crossed oceans, and rewritten the limits of human endurance.
This January, it will be two years since Argo and Zoulou last raced across the Atlantic. We spoke to Argo’s project manager Chad Corning, who has been and ‘Argonaut’ for 17 years and will be on board once again for the 3,000 nautical-mile battle. As Argo’s Project Manager, Chad takes care of business for the complete management of the project. Argo came out of the water in Marina Lanzarote on 15 October and is back in the water for training in December before the big start in January.
This feature takes a deep dive inside the Argo project ahead of the race, exploring the technology, preparation and people behind one of offshore racing’s most compelling machines — and why another transatlantic duel promises to push limits, nerves and speed records all the way to Antigua. – Full report [38]
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Eight Bells in 2025 [40]
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 watch ended in 2025, their information submitted to Scuttlebutt Sailing News is listed below in the order it was published:
• Gaudenzio Bonini, Matteo Auguadro [41]
• Tony Correa [42]
• Larry Law [43]
• Elizabeth Anne Keys [44]
• His Highness the Aga Khan [45]
• John Dinsdale [46]
• Bob Evelyn [47]
• Don Casey [48]
• Line Markert [49]
• Nick Nadalin [50]
• Matt Mitchell [51]
• Don Stokes [52]
• Jean-Marie Finot [53]
• Garry Hoyt [54]
• Michael Ellison [55]
• Robert Douglas [56]
• John Muir [57]
• Frank Davenport [58]
• Mark Ellis [59]
• Pat Healy [60]
• Tom Shadden [61]
• Hugh Treharne [62]
• William J. Baxter Jr. [63]
• Dave Hood [64]
• Peter Tong [65]
• Paul Antrobus [66]
• Lindsay Cunningham [67]
• Bary Gately [68]
• Dean Cady [69]
• Alan Adelkind [70]
• Peter Lester [71]
• Eddie Adams [72]
• Terry Arndt [73]
• Jesse Terry [74]
• Roger Vaughan [75]
• Don Trask [76]
• Andy Kostanecki [77]
• Charles Tobias [78]
• Hubert Raudaschl [79]
• Jane Anne Pincus [80]
• Kevin Keogh [81]
To submit information to Scuttlebutt Sailing News, send to [editor@sailingscuttlebutt.com].
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GUEST COMMENTARY
Scuttlebutt strongly encourages feedback from the Scuttlebutt community. You can add your comments directly to stories on the website [83] or submit commentary by email [mailto:editor@sailingscuttlebutt.com]. Please save your bashing and personal attacks for elsewhere.
GOOD OLD DAYS WERE PRETTY DAMN GOOD ( #6492 [84])
The good old days were the best. We had direct lines to guys like Terry Hutchinson, Steve Benjamin, Greg Fisher, the Read brothers, and others. They all shared, cheered, and taught our generations to sail faster and have fun. Great times!
- Matthew D. Princing
Bill Crane has hit the nail squarely on the head. Too much advancement in technology in our sport has made it less affordable, thus the growing number of boats going unused and going away. Too much tech takes away from thinking and figuring out the next step to take in sailing and other things, too.
- Paul Dovey
LA28: NOT AS COOL AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ( #6492 [84])
Did holding the 2024 Olympic sailing events in Marseilles, a terrible venue, do anything for Marseilles or French sailing? LA28 sounds even worse. The Olympics have devolved into mediocre entertainment. Other than a chunk of cash from the International Olympic Committee, what's the point?
- Cory E. Friedman
Editor’s note: Unlike Marseille, there will be wind in 2028, and the board classes have a great venue along Belmont Shore. However, God help the six classes in San Pedro that got snared in petty politics.
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Friday, December 19, 2025 - Issue 6493
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Crisis in American Youth Sports [2]
It was in the 1980s when youth sailing was modeled after other youth sports, and this paved the way for age-based boats and focused coaching. It also created a bubble of youth events which impacted the transition into adult sailing.
The shift increased the focus on improvement while limiting exposure to other sailing opportunities, and for a lot of kids, they never found the fun in the sport. This was not a unique problem to sailing, and is the basis for why John O’Sullivan founded the Changing the Game Project [3].
He wanted to put the ‘play’ back in ‘play ball’ and recently testified before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
The hearing was titled “The Crisis in American Youth Sports and Its Cost to Our Future.” And that title says everything. This conversation was about burnout. Dropout. Rising costs. Pressure. And the millions of kids walking away from sports that were supposed to help them grow.
John shared what has been seen for years through coaches, parents, and athletes across every level of sport. When competition outweighs connection, kids leave. When adults lose perspective, kids pay the price.
Youth sports should be a place where children build confidence, character, and community. Instead, too many environments are pushing kids out before they ever get the chance to fall in love with the game.
This update from Changing the Game Project was posted on Facebook which prompted significant commentary [4][0]=AZZ0AGvvXGrGewC4keX4-jOfsNki4DX4AkfBHuMVoaWH3Ge0KHGLH-jqoz0vrQAMF4BS3en_1cp84G4Tl69az-NcIsWCliQ-p62D8jt3NCd9F9zQfaccfqJCUeuyb09g0YYwpThpsVsJ9z6UyMCbPKjkr0YnAKCKThOY61tWXQF3NA&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R].
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I’ve got two eyes, sailing is losing ground [8]
In this WindCheck magazine report, John K. Fulweiler, provides something to think about for next season. Here’s an excerpt:
First, sailing has a pretentiousness I don’t understand. Maybe every sport does, but sailing seems to take honors when it comes to snubbing the populus.
Second, investments should be made in expanding community access (a triggering phrase for some, I know) so that the industry is fostering new sailors.
Third, without a pipeline of new sailors, IMO sailing will go the way of the many once-popular sports now relegated to niche status like fencing, horse racing, roller derby, auto rallies, etc.
Fourth, enough with the technology. Sailing suffers from a Fisherian Runaway where the technology trait is so favored that it ultimately crowds out what’s necessary and reasonable for sailing’s survival.
Fifth, update your promotion.
Sixth, I don’t have anything else right now. Maybe you do?
For the full report, click here [9].
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Is third time’s a charm for Para Sailing? [11]
When the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) dropped sailing after the Rio 2016 Games [12], 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 no longer acceptable, prompting a thorough rethink on how to move forward.
Despite progress, the IPC continued to exclude Sailing for the 2024 Games [13] and 2028 Games [14], with World Sailing again submitting a proposal to the IPC for the Paralympic Games at Brisbane 2032. Here's an update from the sailing federation:
The submission outlines a transformed global landscape for Para Sailing, driven by unprecedented growth, strengthened governance, and a modern, highly flexible sporting programme wholly aligned with IPC priorities.
Since World Sailing’s previous campaign for Paralympic Games inclusion in 2022, Para Sailing has undergone a period of significant expansion, strategic development and profound growth across all core areas. - Full report [11]
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That was then, This is now [16]
Light and variable winds are shaping as a key feature of this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with early forecasts [17] pointing to a tactical opening phase rather than a flat-out drag race along the 628-nautical course.
The 80th edition begins December 26, and it's looking to be a navigators race. For the esteemed Adrienne Cahalan, who first competed on the course in 1984, the job has come a long ways from paper charts, dividers, and a constant watch on the sky.
“There was no GPS,” Cahalan recalls. “I watched another navigator taking sextant sights. You really gain an appreciation for how people had to do it before digital navigation.”
Weather information came via high-frequency radio broadcasts, supplemented by experience and observation. Cloud formations were read as carefully as charts, offering clues about approaching fronts or settled high-pressure systems. Position-finding was labor-intensive, involving parallel rulers, compasses, tables, and manual plotting. - Full report [16]
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Path to balance in sailing [19]
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, and subsequently launched The Magenta Project – today, a flagship organisation for equality in sailing. Not forgetting of course, the earlier trailblazers that came before: Maiden, Heineken, EF Education and Amer Sports Too.
No longer is it unprecedented to see females at elite level racing – even the America’s Cup has now mandated female crew members. At grassroots level, much is being done by governing bodies to encourage women. It’s fair to say the pathways, while far from being well-trodden, have now at least been pencilled on the map.
Abby Ehler, a four-time Ocean Race veteran who has behind-the-scenes involvement with the America’s Cup and SailGP, and a founding member of The Magenta Project, agrees that progress in the past 10 years has been significant. – Full report [20]
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How would you decide this? [22]
Dave Perry’s 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes [23] 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 quizzes:
Quiz 60
The race committee decides to shorten the course at the gate before the last upwind leg. It anchors the committee boat to the right of the gate (looking upwind) and displays flag S with two sounds before the first boat (Boat X) reaches the gate. How should Boat X finish? Click here [22] for answer.
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The Perfect Weekend Tender? [25]
While mostly destined for use as private yachts, Rockport Marine’s R-37 and R-51 “lobster yachts” are versatile enough to follow in the footsteps of Bystander - the gold standard tender of the J-class. They are designed to include a rowing dinghy and the layout is ideal for setting marks, hosting RC, and tows to the starting line–when they aren’t cruising between ports or taking the family on a sunset cruise. If you've spent years searching for the perfect boat (sail or power) that hits all the marks (so to speak), a custom build might be worth considering.
Designed and built by Rockport Marine, the R-37 and R-51 draw inspiration from 1950s Newbert and Wallace lobster yachts—classic Downeast character shaped for modern cruising. Powerful and practical, these ruggedly elegant designs allow for sea kindliness, moderate speed, maneuverability, and ample space on deck. The cold-molded wood-composite construction—a Rockport Marine specialty—creates a strong, lightweight hull that offers durable performance with minimal upkeep.
Inside, Herreshoff-style trim and surprisingly spacious galleys prove you don't have to sacrifice comfort for capability. An open transom with flip-down bronze swim ladder makes boarding easy, and a roller embedded in the deck allows you to launch the tender easily off the stern. Every detail is personalized.
Download Study Plans for the R-37 & R-51 at [25]
Five expert tips for the perfect start [26]
Whether you’re foiling into a start line at 30 knots or lining up in a keelboat, SailGP champion Dylan Fletcher shares key rules for getting off the line cleanly with Andy Rice in Yachting World:
Starting has always played a disproportionate part in the outcome of a race. The shorter the duration of the race, the more this is true. Dylan Fletcher knows this very well from his experience competing in SailGP, where the races often last less than 10 minutes.
Even though a reaching start against eleven 50ft foiling catamarans appears to bear little resemblance to a conventional upwind start for a large fleet of keelboats, Fletcher argues there are some fundamental principles that apply to any scenario.
“Time and distance judgement is key to any kind of start and the more you do of it the better you get,” he says. “I think that doing a lot of Moth sailing during the summer really helped my SailGP starting because in the Moth you have to eyeball it.”
Fletcher explains that in the Moth, you have no technology to tell you where the line is. Judging that approach to the line and doing it multiple times helps with any other starting, whether it’s SailGP, on a Cape 31, or an RC44. In the following five tips, Fletcher shares not only how to give yourself the best shot at a winning start, but one that puts you in the best place for your overall race strategy. – Full report [27]
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The hard climb for Charlotte Rose [29]
Following her Olympic Trials defeat, ILCA 6 hopeful Charlotte Rose goes all in once again, this time for LA 2028. Story by Alison Chenard for Sailing World:
She won the most races of any ILCA 6 competitor at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. She’s only 25 years old, but with two back-to-back Youth World Champion titles to her name, she’s a respected force in one of the most competitive sailing classes in the world. Her name is Charlotte Rose, and a heartbreaking defeat in the lead-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics tempted her to walk away from sailing—forever.
It’s a feeling most will never experience: a brutal, cold, sterile “no” to everything you’ve worked toward for at least four years, sometimes your whole life. Arriving at the honor of representing one’s country and hopefully standing on a podium requires a fierce core belief in oneself that’s crafted by years of introspection and the encouragement of friends, family and coaches. It’s not a goal made lightly, and the risk of it all washing away with the result of one regatta takes another kind of strength to open oneself up to the possibility.
“To have it slip through [my] fingers is a pain that will sit with me for the rest of my career,” Rose wrote on social media a week after the Olympic Trials concluded. - Full report [30]
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Hold a crew meeting after the finish [32]
Dave Dellenbaugh, member of the 2025 Class of the National Sailing Hall of Fame [33], discusses in WindCheck magazine [34] how the race doesn’t end at the finish line:
While the race may end when you cross the finish line, your efforts to improve your sailing skills should not. Learning is a never-ending quest, and one of the best times to learn (or to reinforce something you’ve already learned) is right after a race or a day of racing.
The time you spend sailing or motoring back to the mooring or dock is a perfect chance to review the race(s) with your crew. The racing is fresh in everyone’s minds, and you have a captive audience.
Begin your crew meeting after everyone has cleaned up the boat, and try to end it before you need to get out the lifting rings or fenders. Gather all crewmembers in the cockpit within earshot, and give them a chance to reflect on the experience they have just been through. Encourage everyone to participate by making comments or asking questions. For some of the subjects you might cover, click here [35].
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Under the skin of Argo [37]
When the start gun fires in Lanzarote for the 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race on January 11, two of the most extraordinary offshore racing machines will once again go head-to-head across the Atlantic.
The MOD70 trimarans Argo (USA) and Zoulou (FRA), skippered by Jason Carroll and Erik Maris respectively, are capable of sustaining speeds of more than 35 knots. Between them, they have set records, crossed oceans, and rewritten the limits of human endurance.
This January, it will be two years since Argo and Zoulou last raced across the Atlantic. We spoke to Argo’s project manager Chad Corning, who has been and ‘Argonaut’ for 17 years and will be on board once again for the 3,000 nautical-mile battle. As Argo’s Project Manager, Chad takes care of business for the complete management of the project. Argo came out of the water in Marina Lanzarote on 15 October and is back in the water for training in December before the big start in January.
This feature takes a deep dive inside the Argo project ahead of the race, exploring the technology, preparation and people behind one of offshore racing’s most compelling machines — and why another transatlantic duel promises to push limits, nerves and speed records all the way to Antigua. – Full report [38]
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Eight Bells in 2025 [40]
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 watch ended in 2025, their information submitted to Scuttlebutt Sailing News is listed below in the order it was published:
• Gaudenzio Bonini, Matteo Auguadro [41]
• Tony Correa [42]
• Larry Law [43]
• Elizabeth Anne Keys [44]
• His Highness the Aga Khan [45]
• John Dinsdale [46]
• Bob Evelyn [47]
• Don Casey [48]
• Line Markert [49]
• Nick Nadalin [50]
• Matt Mitchell [51]
• Don Stokes [52]
• Jean-Marie Finot [53]
• Garry Hoyt [54]
• Michael Ellison [55]
• Robert Douglas [56]
• John Muir [57]
• Frank Davenport [58]
• Mark Ellis [59]
• Pat Healy [60]
• Tom Shadden [61]
• Hugh Treharne [62]
• William J. Baxter Jr. [63]
• Dave Hood [64]
• Peter Tong [65]
• Paul Antrobus [66]
• Lindsay Cunningham [67]
• Bary Gately [68]
• Dean Cady [69]
• Alan Adelkind [70]
• Peter Lester [71]
• Eddie Adams [72]
• Terry Arndt [73]
• Jesse Terry [74]
• Roger Vaughan [75]
• Don Trask [76]
• Andy Kostanecki [77]
• Charles Tobias [78]
• Hubert Raudaschl [79]
• Jane Anne Pincus [80]
• Kevin Keogh [81]
To submit information to Scuttlebutt Sailing News, send to [editor@sailingscuttlebutt.com].
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GUEST COMMENTARY
Scuttlebutt strongly encourages feedback from the Scuttlebutt community. You can add your comments directly to stories on the website [83] or submit commentary by email [mailto:editor@sailingscuttlebutt.com]. Please save your bashing and personal attacks for elsewhere.
GOOD OLD DAYS WERE PRETTY DAMN GOOD ( #6492 [84])
The good old days were the best. We had direct lines to guys like Terry Hutchinson, Steve Benjamin, Greg Fisher, the Read brothers, and others. They all shared, cheered, and taught our generations to sail faster and have fun. Great times!
- Matthew D. Princing
Bill Crane has hit the nail squarely on the head. Too much advancement in technology in our sport has made it less affordable, thus the growing number of boats going unused and going away. Too much tech takes away from thinking and figuring out the next step to take in sailing and other things, too.
- Paul Dovey
LA28: NOT AS COOL AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ( #6492 [84])
Did holding the 2024 Olympic sailing events in Marseilles, a terrible venue, do anything for Marseilles or French sailing? LA28 sounds even worse. The Olympics have devolved into mediocre entertainment. Other than a chunk of cash from the International Olympic Committee, what's the point?
- Cory E. Friedman
Editor’s note: Unlike Marseille, there will be wind in 2028, and the board classes have a great venue along Belmont Shore. However, God help the six classes in San Pedro that got snared in petty politics.
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