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Group Looks to Send At-Risk Youth to Sail High Seas
The Piscataqua Maritime Commission, based in Portsmouth, NH, will again partner with Seacoast Youth Services next summer to send local youth out to sea for the 2015 Sea ...
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Voyaging Canoes Celebrate Hokule’a Influence in New Zealand
As hundreds of onlookers watched from the shores of Okahu Bay in Aukland, New Zealand, six Pacific canoes converged Sunday for a rare beachside reunion to celebrate how ...
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Family Rescued from Sinking Sailboat are Wanted Fugitives
Investigators say a family rescued from a sinking sailboat in Galveston Bay, Texas are wanted fugitives. Now, they are asking the public for help to find the couple ...
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Revealing the Secrets of “San Francisco’s Titanic”
The morning of February 22, 1901, was much like any other on San Francisco Bay. A thick blanket of fog spread across the water as the steamer City ...
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SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Square Rigger Nears Delivery
Why build a tall ship from scratch at the beginning of the twenty-first century? A full-rigged, ocean-going ship hasn’t been attempted in the United States since 1904. SSV ...
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Downwind Sails for the Cruising Sailor
Here’s a great article by Quantum’s Dave Flynn on what you need to know about downwind sails before talking to your sailmaker… With a little luck and patient ...
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Beneteau Set to Launch New Oceanis 60 in Miami
Beneteau America will be launching the new Oceanis 60 at the 2015 Strictly Sail Miami boat show in February. The Oceanis 60 received a warm welcome for her ...
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Sailor Missing Since Thanksgiving Found Alive
For more than a week, Missouri man Zakary Ingraham wrestled with the news that his 67-year-old father, Ron Ingraham, vanished while fishing off the coast of Hawaii. On ...
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100 Trans-Atlantic Sailboats Rally for Science
Before the new year, crew members from 100 sailboats are set to collect 600 ocean water samples from a 602,000-square-nautical-mile area in the Atlantic Ocean for ASC’s microplastics ...
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Mindbender
On a nautical chart, is the set of the current given in degrees magnetic or true? Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner, who will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat, will be ...
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