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Troubled Waters: Piracy Over the Years
As globalization pushes maritime trade to historic new heights, the ocean fills each year with more and more ships carrying an ever greater wealth of goods and resources. ...
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Searchers Find Body of Missing Yachtsman in Waters off Victoria, Australia
Searchers have found a body believed to be that of a sailor who went missing in waters off eastern Victoria, Australia over the weekend. The 65-year-old’s boat was found ...
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Mini Transat – an Ocean Race for Mad People?
The Mini Transat Îles de Guadeloupe is a sailing race that is solo sailed and on which there is no contact with the outside world. “First, pass your ...
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Maine Maritime Students Rescue Sailor in Atlantic
An excerpt from Day 41 of the Cruise Blog of TS State of Maine, Maine Maritime Academy Training Ship. Roughly 500 miles from Nova Scotia the bridge was contacted ...
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UPDATE: 2018 Golden Globe Race
June 14, 2015 marked the 46th anniversary of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s departure from Falmouth UK back in 1968 to become the first person to sail singlehanded non-stop around the ...
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Will globe-wide high-speed internet become a reality?
Globe-wide high-speed internet would truly be a boon for boaters, cruisers, and others who can’t be reached by a cable. Bill Gates tried in the ’90s until the ...
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Bone Island Regatta Boats Cruise to Havana
For the first time in many years, American cruising boats have reached Cuba – legally! A Cuba travel organization and an American yacht club arranged for a group ...
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Lifeboat Assists Helicopter Rescue off Caldey Island, UK
While sailing 10 miles south of Caldey Island in the UK, a 62-year-old crew member went over on his ankle and fell, suffering a cut to the back ...
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Team SCA Historic Winners of Leg 8 of Volvo Ocean Race
Well, that’s one way of silencing the critics. Skipper Sam Davies and her Team SCA crew struck a resounding blow for women’s offshore sailing in the early hours ...
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Francis Joyon to Tackle the Jules Verne Trophy
Since 2008, he has held the solo round the world record, but now Francis Joyon at the age of 59 is about to attempt what would be a ...
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