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Winds Up to 40 Knots; Five Sailors Rescued by CG Off Oregon Coast
(KPTV) – This past week the watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Bend (OR) received a call that those aboard a 50-foot sailboat were unable to cross the ...
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Young Adventurer On a 27-Foot Sailboat: The World’s His Oyster
Not everyone can hear it, but the call of the sea is something all offshore sailors hear…and many hear it long before they get it together to acquire ...
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UFOs Off the Carolinas? Time for the Tin Foil Hats
It’s not every day you see clusters of glowing orbs floating above the ocean’s horizon. But that’s exactly what William Guy saw, and videoed, while aboard a ferry ...
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First Transatlantic Passage on a Catamaran Happened 60 Years Ago
If you have been to a boat show or gone chartering in the islands recently, then you will know that catamarans are now the cruising boats of choice ...
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Family Completes 7-Year Cruising Odyssey
No one ever tells cruisers that the hardest part about sailing away on a long cruising odyssey is the actual fact of coming home at the end. But ...
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Hurricane Lorenzo Leaves 53 Homeless, Causes Wide Destruction in Azores
According to the Algarve Daily News (in Portugal), the massive hurricane that missed the Caribbean, the East Coast of the U.S. and Bermuda, finnally came ashore in the ...
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Algae, Sargasso Weed and Dead Zones. What’s Going On with Our Waterways?
Over the last year we have seen a lot of strange stuff growing in our oceans, lakes and rivers. Out in the Atlantic, there is a huge Sargasso ...
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Ocean Cleanup Says its Trash-Collecting Device is Working in the Pacific Ocean
(CNN) – The Netherlands based non-profit, Ocean Cleanup has announced that its latest prototype is successfully working at picking up debris from large fishing gear to tiny microplastics ...
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One Man’s Journey From No Sailing Experience to Becoming a Liveaboard
Fabio Brunnazi describes his journey from knowing nothing about sailing to deciding to learn to sail and live on a sailboat. Over the past few years he and ...
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Hitching a Ride on the USCGC Stratton
(Boating magazine) – Randy Vance spent days on board the Stratton as she went on patrol in the Arctic. He spent three days learning the ship, its mission ...
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