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The World’s Largest Model Ship Marks 100 Years
The story of the world’s largest ship model and her “brick berth” involves a businessman’s fortune, a fabled ship, a determined daughter and philanthropist, and a labor of ...
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Morning Dove Lost on Tuamotu Reef
What should have been an easy inter-island passage turned tragic, as the Alaska-based Amel 46 ketch Morning Dove — one of 183 boats registered with the Pacific Puddle ...
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Big Crowds Come Out for America’s Cup Racing in New York
In a thrilling winner-take-all final race, Emirates Team New Zealand unhooked itself from a starting buoy to win the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series New York with ...
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Antigua’s Volunteer Medics On Call Around the Clock
Sandwiched between a bookcase of medical literature and a stack of promotional t-shirts, an elderly man sits slumped in a chair, one frail hand gripping the mask administering ...
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Smart Sailing: MACIF an Ultra-Fast Tech Lab
François Gabart won the historic Transat bakerly on May 10, 2016. He sailed into New York after navigating 4,634 nautical miles across the Atlantic in 8 days, 8 ...
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San Blas, Panama: Immigration Offices Closed
Clearing into Panama in the San Blas Islands is currently in a state of flux. Due to an on-going disagreement between the Kuna Congress and the Central Government, ...
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Farewell to the ‘Perfect Skipper’
Ramón Carlín, the ‘weekend sailor’ who upset the odds to become the winner of the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74, has died in Mexico City ...
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Man Overboard: The Most Important Race
It was a record-setting year for the Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race, with overall elapsed and monohull times being eclipsed on the 125-mile course from California to ...
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U.S. Insurers Can Now Cover Cuba-bound Vessels
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) updated its Frequently Asked Questions regarding Cuba on April 21, 2016. Among the additions, U.S. insurance companies/underwriters ...
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A Tale of Survival After Whale Hits Catamaran
In October 2015, two sailors adrift off the South African coast were rescued after their catamaran capsized after a collision with a whale. French container ship CMA CGM ...
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