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As conference attendees drift back to their offices to catch up on work and recover from a stimulating and very entertaining conference, we will be posting speaker presentations on the blog as they are recieved.  Please contact ASTA or STI with any questions.   TSAC Briefing for Ships on Security and Safety Regulatory Issues in North America COM Kevin [...]

SCUTTLEBUTT 2728 - November 19 2008: The latest news in the sport of sailing, letters from the 'buttheads, and the Curmudgeon's Observation.

SOUTHPOINTE, Pa. - ANSYS, Inc. , a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced the first commercial simulation of more than 1 ...

This is going to be a very short blog as I need some kip. The last 24hrs have been non-stop with huge storm clouds every six hours or so, and when I say huge they are something to both ...

The following two minute promotional film was shown at the International Sail Training and Tall Ships Conference in Halifax on Friday 14 November. This film will be translated and sent out to each of the National Sail Training Organisations for use in their country. Please feel free to link to this film and promote as widely [...]

Four hundred delegates from 28 countries around the world converged on Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the end of last week (14-15 November) for the International Sail Training and Tall Ships Conference 2008. Organized by Sail Training International in collaboration with the American Sail Training Association (the biggest of STI’s 25 member national organizations), the conference [...]

By Sharat Pradhan, Dehradun, Nov 18 : 'For a sailor, it is his call of the sea, so there is no way that I am going to tell my husband not to sail again,' says a jubilant Seema Goyal, shortly after winning a ...

A small low upsets the tradewinds and forces the skipper of Sodeb’O to postpone his departure by around 24 hours The enormous zone of high pressure currently filling the entire Atlantic, would ensure Thomas Coville an almost perfect descent ...

Nieuwenhuis extended their lead at the Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta. The Dutchmen took both bullets in again tricky sailing conditions on the Caribbean Sea. Pols/De Waard and Zanen/Heemskerk are tied on ten points, with Pols/De Waard still in second ...

In one of their boldest hijacks yet, Somali pirates have seized a massive, Saudi-owned oil supertanker loaded with crude oil and carrying 25 crew members off the Kenyan coast, the U.S. Navy said Monday.