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What’s Straight Across the Ocean From You?
If you jumped in the ocean at Atlantic City, N.J., and started swimming in a straight line, where in the world do you think you would end up? ...
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Dutch Couple Lost at Sea
The bodies of Ria and Waldy Finke, a Dutch cruising couple on the Netherlands-based yacht Talagoa, were found floating off Isla San Andrés, Colombia, on April 1. The ...
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Meet the Fierce, Over-50 Women’s Team Racing 750 Miles to Alaska
The 2015 Race to Alaska was epic, but there was one thing missing from the lineup of ferocious competitors: an all-women team. The good news: All that’s changing ...
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Clipper Race Sailor Buried at Sea
A sailor who died when she was swept overboard in the Pacific Ocean has been buried at sea in a moving ceremony. Sarah Young, 40, a company owner ...
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Skip Novak: Think About a Jury Rudder Before You Have To Set One
It is a measure of good seamanship that, should the rudder fail, you don’t immediately think of the rescue services, says Skip Novak. Read More ...
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YachtAid Global Is Delivering Supplies to Fiji
Some 35,000 of Fiji’s 900,000 residents are believed to be in emergency shelters as cleanup continues from Cyclone Winston, the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Southern ...
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Salty Dawg Rally Announces Summer Cruising Events
The Salty Dawg Rally is hosting two new events on the Chesapeake this summer – the Rally to Maine, from the Southern Chesapeake to Newport and Maine, and ...
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7 Somali Men on Trial for Fatal Yacht Hijacking in 2011
Evelyne Colombo, 58, stared straight ahead as the seven men accused of killing her husband Christian in 2011 walked into the Paris courtroom. The suspects, aged between 25 and ...
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Update: Donna Lange’s Solo Circumnavigation Interrupted
Donna Lange, left Bristol, Rhode Island aboard Inspired Insanity her Southern Cross 28, in July 2015 to conquer a second solo circumnavigation and with the aim to be ...
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NOAA’s Tiny Boat Drones Map The Ocean’s Shallow Floors
What shoreline knows not our maps? Most of them, it turns out. While satellites map much of the globe on a daily basis, there are parts of the ...
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