The Association of Brokers and Yacht Agents was formed to maintain the highest professional standards in the sale and purchase of new and secondhand craft.
A car ferry officer has been cleared of the manslaughter of three crewmen who died when their boat sank in the English Channel.
Michael Hubble, 62, was accused of "turning a blind eye" when the P&O ferry, Pride of Bilbao, was involved in a close encounter with a yacht.
National Boat Shows would like to reassure the industry that the activity being carried out is being done so with appropriate licences and in consultation with the local Kensington and Chelsea Council. In addition to the formal arrangement the team is only approaching those visitors exiting Earls Court.
The first ever Whyte & Mackay Earls Court Boat Show celebrated its official opening yesterday with a lively turn out from the press and invited guests. Katie Derham welcomed fellow Prince's Trust Ambassador Penny Lancaster on stage to cut the Whyte & Mackay ribbon - with a little help from the Royal Marines who abseiled from the roof of Earls Court to present her with a pair of scissors. Penny was also joined on stage by Kenny and Gabby Logan, the Hon. Alexandra Shackleton and Britain’s Olympic sailing hopefuls, Team Mirabaud - Sarah Webb, Sarah Ayton and Pippa Wilson.
A British man suffered head injuries when he was swept across the cockpit of his yacht by a large wave during a round-the-world race.
Crewman Tony Peters, 47, of Hanworth, Berkshire, was on the clipper New York between Durban and Fremantle when the wave struck.
The restoration of Donald Campbell's Bluebird has taken a major step forward with the donation of a new jet engine. De Havilland Aviation provided the Bristol Orpheus engine, which had previously been on display at the Bournemouth Airport's aviation museum.
The last of the passengers and crew rescued from a shipwreck in Antarctica have been flown back to mainland Chile.
A military plane transported a group of 77 people from a refuge in the Antarctic to Punta Arenas, where another 77 had been flown on Saturday.
One hundred passengers and crew have been rescued from a stricken tourist ship after it hit ice off Antarctica. The M/S Explorer is listing at 30 degrees close to the South Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic Ocean.
A group of British holidaymakers were injured on a sightseeing ship in the Arctic when ice fell from a glacier.
A total of 17 British passengers were injured, two seriously, along with one crew member, off the Svalbard Islands, 500km (310 miles) north of Norway.
Salvagers are preparing to tow part of the stricken cargo ship MSC Napoli from Devon to Belfast for recycling.
The damaged ship, which was beached off Sidmouth in January, was split in two after a series of explosions.
A minute's silence is being held before Minehead's annual raft race on Sunday, in memory of a teenager who died after jumping into the harbour.
Sam Boyd, 16, disappeared under the water after leaping off the steps to the harbour last Thursday.
The distinctive swimming technique of a bony fish is being used to develop agile, propellerless submarines.
US researchers have created prototype mechanical fins that mimic the movements of the bluegill sunfish.
A lone British sailor is recovering after being rescued from his stranded yacht by an Australian warship.
A helicopter from the ship winched Stephen Landles, 55, from Wimbledon, to safety after his yacht had become stuck on a reef in rough seas.
Orders for two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers have been confirmed by Defence Secretary Des Browne.
He said the £3.8bn contract would lead to the construction of the largest vessels ever sailed by the Royal Navy.
A passenger ferry has sunk in central Philippines, leaving at least eight people dead and an unknown number missing, officials say.
The MV Blue Water Princess sank off the town of San Francisco, about 220km (140 miles) south-east of Manila.
The Spanish Civil Guard has intercepted a boat operated by a US company amid a row over treasure from a shipwreck.
The guard had been ordered by a Spanish judge to seize the vessel as soon as it left the British colony of Gibraltar.
The stricken container ship MSC Napoli has been refloated, nearly six months after it was grounded off the south Devon coast.
The 62,000 ton vessel floated free a mile off Sidmouth after 58,000 ton of water was pumped from her holds.
The owner of a north Devon-based fishing boat has been fined £3,000 for operating an unsafe boat.
Barnstaple Magistrates found Richard Fishleigh, 61, had breached a detention notice served on the FV Pacemaker in March for failing a stability test.
A rescue operation has been launched after a vessel with 23 crew members suffered an engine fire.
The fire wiped out power on board the Russian trawler Marginella about 16 miles (26km) off the Isle of Wight.
Australia has announced plans to buy five new warships at a cost of more than A$11bn ($9bn; £4.5bn).
The three destroyers and two amphibious troop carriers will be Australia's most advanced and expensive warships.
A Viking ship has set sail for Dublin from the Danish port of Roskilde, in an attempt to recreate the voyages undertaken by early Norsemen.
The 30m (100ft) long replica, called Sea Stallion, is said to be the world's largest reconstructed Viking vessel.
The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal has returned to its home base in Hampshire following a £20m refit.
The 20,000-tonne warship arrived at Portsmouth Naval Base on Saturday morning having undergone the two-year upgrade at Rosyth in Scotland.
A port authority has banned children from its harbour after CCTV captured images of children jumping from a ship's mast into shallow water below.
Milford Haven Port Authority is not allowing children to play or swim in the area following the incident.
Salvage teams are hoping to refloat a bulk carrier which has been stranded on the Australian seaboard for almost three weeks.
Three tugboats have started trying to winch the Japanese vessel Pasha Bulker past a reef, and deeper to sea.
A drug made from the sea squirt may help those with a form of cancer, a study in The Lancet Oncology suggests.
Just over half of a study of 51 patients with a type of soft tissue sarcoma responded positively to treatment with the drug Trabectedin.
Lifeboat officials in Northumberland have condemned vandals who damaged a lighthouse and prompted a rescue alert.
The Blyth lifeboat was scrambled on Sunday, after reports up to 30 youths were stranded on the town's east pier.
Dubai is to buy the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship for $100m (£50.5m) and turn it into a floating hotel off the Gulf emirate's man-made islands.
The 70,000-tonne vessel, launched by the Queen in 1967, is to be sold to the Dubai World firm by Carnival, the world's largest cruise operator.
Sealine is holding a series of demonstration weekends, in conjunction with Peters Opal, beginning at the end of June.
An ideal opportunity to explore the Sealine range away from the crowds, the first event takes place in Brixham on Friday 30th June.
Ventura, the new superliner designed for Britain, has already made a big splash - 10 months before entering service for Britain’s leading cruise line, P&O Cruises.
The 115,000-ton family friendly ship, the largest in the P&O Cruises fleet, is taking shape at Fincantieri Monfalcone shipyard (close to Trieste) and today saw the float out of Ventura and a special two part ceremony.
For former US seaman Gary Brummett, the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war has stirred painful memories.
As a 21-year-old third class petty officer, Mr Brummett was serving on board the USS Liberty off the coast of Egypt on 8 June, when, without warning, the vessel came under fire, first from fighter planes, then torpedo boats.
A Spanish court has ordered the interception of two US boats should they leave Gibraltar, amid a row over treasure from a shipwreck.
A judge in Cadiz instructed police to capture the ships if they entered Spanish waters, Spanish media said.
Team New Zealand put in another strong performance to take their lead over Luna Rossa to 3-0 in the best-of-nine Louis Vuitton Cup finals.
The Italians fought the start well and crossed the line four seconds ahead.
Two brothers have been charged with murder after the captain of a pleasure boat died following a row.
Michael Reed, 67, from Barking, died in hospital on Saturday night.
An archaeologist who introduced her husband and teenage son to diving has told how she watched them die on a holiday on the Maltese island of Gozo.
Richard Avent, 58, and son Rhydian, 16, from Raglan in Monmouthshire, drowned during a dive last August.
A woman has been charged with motoring offences after her fiance's work van was allegedly dumped into a harbour.
Emma Thomason, 24, of Snebro Road, Whitehaven, Cumbria, is accused of taking Jason Wilson's van and rolling it off the town's marina on 13 May.
A man who illegally hired out a Jet Ski to a youth who then crashed it, killing his girlfriend, has been fined.
Aristos Ioannou, 30, was convicted of allowing then 16-year-old James Dudley to use the machine while under the legal age of 18 in Cyprus.
The sapphire pendant which is believed to have inspired the love story in the film Titanic is to go on display in Belfast. In the movie, actress Kate Winslett is presented with a necklace. The real-life pendant was given by an English businessman to his lover. He drowned, but the woman survived and passed the jewel on to her daughter.
The fire at Cutty Sark could mean just one clipper from the same period remains intact - and there are plans for it to be demolished.
The City of Adelaide was built in 1864 and, like Cutty Sark, combines a cast iron frame with a wooden hull.
One of East Sussex's most famous landmarks has gone on sale.
The Grade II-listed Belle Tout lighthouse at Beachy Head has been put on the market for £850,000.
A fire which severely damaged the famous 19th Century ship Cutty Sark is being treated as suspicious by police.
The ship, which was undergoing a major restoration project, is kept in a dry dock at Greenwich in south-east London.
Engineering group Babcock International is to buy Plymouth's Devonport naval dockyard in a £350m deal.
Devonport maintains, upgrades and fuels the Royal Navy's submarines, and the deal is set to make Babcock the UK's leading naval maintenance firm.
"It's a mean looking beast. I think it looks like the alien," remarks Chris Nelson of BAE Systems, as we walk round the front of the Royal Navy's new Astute submarine in Barrow.
Canadian coastguards are trying to rescue the occupants of about 100 boats carrying seal hunters trapped by pack ice off the country's eastern coast.
Several of the boats are threatened with damage or sinking, and at least one crew had to abandon ship.
Russia has started building the world's first floating nuclear plant, designed to provide power for remote areas.
The plant, costing £100m ($200m), is due to be launched in 2010.
Russia's atomic energy ministry (Minatom) announced that the base unit for the plant had been prepared in Severodvinsk, in Russia's Arctic north.
The oil rig support ship which capsized off Shetland, killing eight of the crew, has sunk.
The Bourbon Dolphin overturned in the Atlantic on Thursday and coastguards said it sank at 2115 BST on Sunday.
A sailing yacht which was lost with its three crew in the Solent last year was either hit or swamped by a P&O ferry, an official report has concluded.
The Ouzo disappeared at night on 21 August after leaving Bembridge on the Isle of Wight headed for Dartmouth.
Trusty builder Blue C Marine are celebrating major strides for their new
Trusty 23 cruiser, with a new UK dealership structure and a healthy order book. An exclusive UK distributorship with
Global Yachts at Hamble Point will see test boats in the Solent, while existing dealers will come under Global Yachts’ wing.
Small and densely populated, the Netherlands is one of the countries most at risk from climate change and rising sea levels.
Two specialist crane barges are sailing from Rotterdam in the Netherlands to join the operation to salvage the cargo of beached container ship MSC Napoli.
They will start lifting the remaining 2,394 containers off the ship, grounded off Sidmouth in east Devon, on Friday.
A British 14-year-old has arrived in Antigua to become the youngest person to sail the Atlantic single-handed.
Michael Perham, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, ended his 3,500-mile voyage when he sailed into Nelson's Dockyard at 1400 GMT.
