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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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Gunboat International Sold at Auction
Gunboat International was sold at auction to GL Yachting USA. Principals at Grand Large Yachting, which consists of French builders Allures Yachting, Garcia Yachting and Outremer Yachting, reserved ...
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