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Island Packet Owners’ Rendezvous: Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Beige sailing yachts and bright green t-shirts dominated the waterfront this past week-end as the 16th Biennial Maine Island Packet Rendezvous hosted by Norm & Mary Pierce of ...
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Surviving the OSTAR’s Perfect Storm: The Full Story of the Racers Rescued in Force 11 Summer Gale
Solo sailor Mervyn Wheatley set out from Plymouth for Newport, Rhode Island on 29 May this year with stirring tunes belting out from his beloved Tamarind, the Formosa 42 ...
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Undersea Discoveries in the Failed Search for MH370
The disappearance of Malaysian Air flight MH370, which vanished in March 2014 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board, remains one of the ...
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Details of Rescue 200 miles off the Coast of Iceland
When Morrie Piersol opened the front door to his, I greeted him with, “Good to see you!” To which he replied, with a laugh, “It’s good to be ...
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Sailor Found Drifting in Shipping Lanes off Portugal
A Spanish newspaper is reporting that a sailor rescued from a busy Atlantic shipping lane by the crew of a passing yacht, is Ron Beasley, who has been ...
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Mad Max Makeshift Magic
Cruisers often have to rely on their own resources when something breaks, needs to be replaced or invented, especially for must-have items. Sometimes the parts used for make-shift ...
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Dismal Swamp Canal to Re-Open in September
The Dismal Swamp Canal is scheduled to reopen to vessel traffic by the end of September, with the Lake Drummond Reservation and Feeder Ditch opening to canoes and ...
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Explorer Going on an Expedition to the North Pole by Sailboat
Picture the North Pole. What does it look like in your mind? Ice as far as the eye can see? In the past, that is what the area ...
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Mayday On Passage from Mo’orea to Huahine
On July 23rd, at approximately 8pm, Danny and Belinda Govatos with four of their children aboard their 46′ Leopard catamaran hit an unmarked reef on the approaches to ...
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Navy Vessels Use Shipboard Signal Lamps for Text Messaging
The signal lamp aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Stout flashed fast light bursts to the USS Monterey, located pierside 250 feet away. Aboard the Monterey, a guided-missile cruiser, ...
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