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You Can Now Insure Your Boat for Travel to Cuba
Common sense has finally prevailed. Pantaenius America, a U.S. marine insurer, said it will offer coverage for American boats traveling in Cuban waters. This eliminates a major barrier ...
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Celebrating the Fourth of July by Boat
The Fourth of July holiday is the granddaddy of summer boating weekends in the United States, and if there’s one occasion an owner uses his boat during the ...
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Panama Opens Canal Extension
A mammoth ship bearing 9,472 containers and the unwieldy name Cosco Shipping Panama completed the first official voyage through the newly expanded Panama Canal, a $5.25 billion project ...
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Clipper Race Crew Member Medevaced from North Atlantic Ocean
Chris Drummond, 62, from High Wycombe, UK a crew member on board IchorCoal, had complained of severe chest pains but was stabilized after receiving care from one of ...
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Body and Debris Found in Search of Gulf Coast Sailors
US Coast Guard officials announced that they had found a body during their search for a missing 29 ft sailboat that carried a father and his three teenage ...
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Sailors and Paddlers to Test Endurance in 750 mile Race to Alaska
Some 150 sailors, paddlers and rowers will climb aboard 60 assorted boats in Port Townsend and set off for the second nonmotorized Race to Alaska this week. It’s ...
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Kids Crush Newport Bermuda Race
High Noon has captured ‘Traditional’ line honors in the combined St David’s & Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Divisions in the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race. The Young American Junior ...
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Summer Squall Sailing Tactics
The danger in running before the squall (or tacking downwind, a tactic sometimes employed by Transpac racers) is the inevitable wind shift that can cause an accidental jibe. ...
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NOAA Uses Crowdsourced Data to Improve Charts
The United States has about 3,400,000 square nautical miles of water within our coastal and Great Lakes jurisdiction. Coast Survey, who is responsible for charting that vast area, ...
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9 Ways to Keep Your Log Impeller Fouling-free
Practical Boat Owner has great suggestions for the ever present problem of a fouled log impeller. They solicited their readers to send in their favorite solutions to this ...
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