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Joyon Snatches Victory in the Closest Finish Ever of the Route du Rhum
In the clammy heat and very light winds of the Caribbean night, Joyon, 62, glided across the finish line on IDEC Sport at 23:21.47 local time (03:21.47 UTC) ...
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Warming Climate Contributes to Rivers Drying Up
Whether on ocean or rivers, boaters around the globe are encountering the effects of our warming climate. The New York Times has the story of the rivers in ...
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Boat Abandoned Along the Cape Breton Coast
A boat that had been picked up by the Canadian Coast Guard in September with torn sails and failed engine has now washed up on the shores of ...
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Lucky To Be Alive After Lightning Strike
(The Sun) – Nine British sailors who charted a 50 ft. catamaran in Thailand are lucky to be alive after their boat was struck by lightning. Sailing off ...
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Sailors Hunt Garbage for Science
(Earther) – Aboard the 72-foot sailboat Sea Dragon, a group of women are hunting garbage in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. They are looking for a piece large ...
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One Woman, One Year at Sea
Susan Smillie a former features editor for the Guardian (UK) quit her job to sail around the coast of England. A year on she turned left instead of ...
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Husband of Woman Missing at Sea Pleads Guilty
(CNN) – Lewis Bennett and his wife Isabella Hellman had just welcomed a new daughter when they set sail last April with the intention of sailing from St. ...
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Island in Pacific First to Ban Reef Toxic Sunscreen
Throughout the world’s oceans, coral reefs are being damaged and researches in part believe this is due to sunscreens that contain chemicals that are harmful to the marine ...
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Don’t Do This At Sea!
Don’t whistle, don’t have bananas on board, no green boat. There are any number of sailing superstitions and ybw.com has pulled together 13 of them. Surely you can ...
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Sloop Providence to be Restored
Those along the east coast may remember a winter storm in 2015 that badly damaged the Sloop Providence, a replica of the ship that was the first command ...
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