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The Restoration of a Sail-powered Lobster Boat
Before the 1920s, when combustion engines were first mass produced, lobster boats and other vessels were powered by wind and sails, and the Friendship sloop was the most ...
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Graphene to Desalinate Seawater, or Maybe Not
Recently science writers at various news outlets have been gushing over an announcement that scientists have been able to use graphene to remove the salt from seawater. CNBC ...
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The Hunt is On For the World’s First Luxury Ship
Italian divers are to mount an expedition to try to find the long-lost remains of a ceremonial barge built on the orders of the Emperor Caligula 2,000 years ...
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Lisa Blair Heads to South Africa After her Yacht is Dismasted
Lisa Blair is now motoring to Cape Town, South Africa having been dismasted in the Southern Ocean while attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate Antarctica: solo, ...
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America’s Cup- Artemis Racing Sustains Major Damage
The mast of Artemis Racing’s America’s Cup test boat came crashing down in the Great Sound in Bermuda yesterday. No one was hurt after the mast of the ...
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Neptune Maps- Handcrafted 3D Nautical Charts
Peter Hejno at Neptune Maps produces beautifully handcrafted 3D nautical charts and historic maps. Each piece is individually crafted and hand cut into as many as twelve topographical ...
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It’s All Such A Delicate Balance
Everything we do requires balance, however delicate. Even cruising…or perhaps, especially cruising. The most successful cruisers I’ve known all share this understanding of balance. World cruisers and full-time ...
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4 Rescued After Wave Overturns Sailboat into Pier
Four people were rescued after their sailboat was swept by a powerful wave into the Redondo Beach Pier in California, capsizing and slamming into its wooden pilings in ...
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Water Police Retrieve Boat of Couple Rescued at Sea
Nick Dwyer thought his sailing boat might be bobbing about somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. He just didn’t know where. The Irishman, 55, and his French partner Barbara ...
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Untold Stories of Women Pirates
The stories of women pirates, legendary and real, who took to the seas for plunder, power, freedom! As long as there have been ships sailing the seas, there ...
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