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Controversy Brews at ARC Rally Over Cruising Yachts’ Engine Hours
Would you listen to the relentless thud of a diesel engine for days on end while pretending to everyone outside that you were sailing along in your own ...
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Louis Vuitton Ventures Into Marine Safety Market With Couture Life Rafts
Spotting a gap in the offshore survival business, the French luxury goods manufacturer Louis Vuitton has launched a line of high-end ‘guest’ liferafts. The rafts, capable of taking ...
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Voyaging With Children: Ten Tips From A Kid
For the last three years I have lived on Sila, a Boréal 47, with my family. My parents wrote a while ago about living with kids on a ...
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Have You Seen These Sailing Movies?
Just in time for the holidays, Sosailize has put together a list of favorite sailing documentaries. You may have seen a few of them but I’ll bet there ...
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Paul Elvstrom: Sailing Great, 88, Dies
Denmark’s Paul Elvstrom — an Olympic yachting great, sailing pioneer and an inspiration to many — has died peacefully in his sleep aged 88. Elvstrom, who died at ...
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Video: Two Men Rescued From Grounded Yacht off Brisbane Australia
Two sailors have managed to escape their yacht after it capsized at a popular dive site north of North Stradbroke Island near Brisbane, Australia. The 1959-built Clare-D-Lune crashed ...
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Successful Rescue of Vendée Globe Captain
Kito de Pavant, the 55 year old French skipper of Bastide-Otio, who suffered damage to his keel when racing in the remote South Indian Ocean while racing in ...
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An Autonomous Sailboat for Novice Adventurers
The Argoknot is a trimaran hydrofoil sailboat concept that can travel autonomously at speeds in excess of 50 knots. The idea was to create a sailboat capable of ...
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The Lie of the Land: When Map Makers Get it Wrong
The history of cartography is littered with mistakes, myths and mendacity. From the magnetic mountain at the north pole to Australia’s inland sea, Edward Brooke-Hitching charts five centuries ...
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48° North Interviews Laura Dekker
Laura Dekker started her circumnavigation at age 14 and completed her record-breaking voyage in the Caribbean at age 16, making her the youngest person to ever solo circumnavigate ...
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