The Sailing Directory Newsletter

Chaque lettre envoyée par la flotte.

Une lettre de la flotte : ce que les équipages ont rapporté de l'eau, ce qui a changé dans l'index, et les moments exacts à ne pas manquer. Chaque numéro que nous avons envoyé est conservé ici dans son intégralité — pas de mur d'inscription, rien n'est retenu.

4 numéros

• 23 août 2026

  Two 21-foot Hobie Cats thread South America's only natural river link, GPS spoofing stacks a dozen ships at a phantom point off Poland, and a lithium bank fails ten days into high season

  Eighty-three videos from 67 channels spread across 13 cruising regions this week. The fleet published a Brazilian coastal hop that ended with miracle berries, a diesel-electric catamaran deciding…

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• 16 août 2026

  Hard Knocks on the Hard: Hostage Boats, Cracked Hulls, and 400-degree Pitch Poured into the Bilge

  Ninety videos from sixty-four channels reached across twelve cruising regions this week, carrying word of boatyards behaving badly and crews pushing back.

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• 9 août 2026

  Lauren Landers counts her anchor chain by the foot while Nigel Calder counts kilowatt-hours and a Brazilian sailor counts four decades in the same hull

  Eighty-five videos published by 68 channels across 14 cruising regions — the fleet stretched from a boatyard in Les Sables-d'Olonne, where a gaff-rigged circumnavigator is being stripped to 1988…

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• 2 août 2026

  The sharks of Raroia, Atlantic crossings both ways, and Sven Yrvind, 87, stowing sardine tins to sail the world in a boat not that much bigger than a sardine tin

  This week 72 channels from the fleet put 92 videos to water in 12 cruising regions — stretching from the tidal passes of the Tuamotus to the cargo lanes of southern Brazil, from the Gambia River to…

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