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Swiss Cruising Family Highlights Climate Change
A Swiss family traveling the world to learn about climate change is making a stop in Portland, Maine. The Schwoerer family is trying to visit seven summits by ...
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Spanish Sailors Allegedly Smuggled Cocaine on Famed Naval Tall Ship
Six members of the Spanish Navy were acting more like pirates when they allegedly used a naval tall ship to smuggle 31 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to ...
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Man Stranded On Sailboat For 8 Days
The sailboat was there, day after day, in shallow water between Jetty Island and the Tulalip Indian Reservation near Everett, Washington. It didn’t move. Someone who’d been watching ...
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A Pirate Walks Into a Bar … Jokes From the Deep Blue Sea
What’s the best way to pass the time at sea and keep your mates entertained? Why, tell a joke, of course. If your treasure chest of sailing-related jokes ...
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Alternative Medicine Questioned in Death of Sailor
What began as a sail around the world and turned into a love story ended in tragedy when one man’s crewmate-turned-wife suddenly died in his arms one night. ...
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Better Communication Through Cruising
You’ve witnessed it, or maybe even experienced it firsthand: boat approaching dock, wife on the foredeck with line in hand as her white-knuckled hubby grips the helm. Things ...
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Chinese Singlehander Missing
Chinese singlehander Guo Chuan, 51, has gone missing while trying to break the solo record for sailing across the Pacific from San Francisco to Shanghai. His shore team ...
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A Library That Brings Books by Sailboat
The toothless steersman positioned the rudder. A second sailor, balancing barefoot on an outrigger, coaxed an elderly engine into life. A third poled the boat away from the ...
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Trading in Cell Phones for Shell Phones
“Sailing around the world for eight years with three kids taught us to live without structure.” Behan Gifford and her husband Jamie had it all. Three young children, ...
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A Look Back at the History of the Famous SOS Distress Signal
The SOS distress signal has been a staple for emergency communication for 110 years, and although communications technology is very different now to the days of Morse Code, ...
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