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Coast Guard Aids Woman Sailor with Head Injuries

The Miami Herald reported this week that a woman sailing near Key West Florida suffered a head injury while underway and required assistance. The woman was sailing aboard ...
On February 6, 2019 / By George Day
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Caribbean, Bahamas & USA East Coast: SSCA HF Net is a Valuable Service for Cruisers

While more and more offshore sailors are carrying satphones and high tech satellite communications with them as they make passages, the trusty old high frequency radio comms made ...
On February 6, 2019 / By George Day
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Lost Grave of Famous Explorer Matthew Flinders Found: First to Fully Map Australia

The British explorer Matthew Flinders whereabouts has been something of a mystery for 200 years. But, the once lost sailor show was the first to circumnavigate and map ...
On February 6, 2019 / By George Day
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On January 28, 2019 / By Administrator
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2019 Salty Dawg Rallies

The nonprofit educational organization, Salty Dawg Sailing Association, has as its mission statement to help sailors realize their cruising dreams…safely. Passage-making seminars, crew list service, rendezvous where ‘dawgs’ ...
On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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Sailing Into the Record Books

From Castanet comes word that Jeanne Socrates is on her way to complete her dream. Socrates, at 76 years old hopes to become the oldest person to circumnavigate ...
On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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Calico Lobster: One in Thirty Million

(CNN) – There have been blue lobsters, yellow lobsters, even albino. Now comes a calico lobster. The chance of finding one is about one in 30 million. The ...
On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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Equator Record-Spindrift Racing

On Monday 21 January at 07h45 UTC, Spindrift 2 broke her own record by just over an hour, by crossing the Equator (leaving from Ushant) in 4 days ...
On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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Cleanup of 544 Derelict Boats: Finished

Three months after Hurricane Michael charged up from the Gulf, nearly all the 544 boats it left derelict in the water along Florida’s Panhandle have been picked up, ...
On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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Magnetic North Pole on the Move

There have been a number of reports this week on the rapid rate of shifting of the magnetic North Pole. This is of concern to any number of ...
On January 18, 2019 / By Sandy Parks