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Vote for Your Favorite Innovative Life Jacket Design
Boat U.S. has partnered with the Personal Flotation Manufacturers Association (PFDMA) and the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) to bring you the Innovations in Life Jacket Design Competition ...
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World Record-Holding Sailor Jon Sanders Rescued off Western Australia Coast
Prominent sailor Jon Sanders has been rescued from his stricken yacht off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast after it started taking on water. The cabin of Mr. Sanders’ yacht ...
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3 Sailors Rescued Due to Fire While Enroute from Mexico to New Zealand
Two Kiwi sailors had just seconds to grab life jackets and abandon their burning yacht after being woken by their skipper at midnight in the middle of the ...
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Swiss sailor Laurent Bourgnon missing in French Polynesia
Famed Swiss sailor Laurent Bourgnon has gone missing while diving in French Polynesia, local authorities report. Laurent Bourgnon was traveling on his yacht with four guests and three ...
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2015 Transatlantic Race Underway
Skippering the Open 60 Grey Power, the unstoppable Robin Knox-Johnston and crew were expected to be crowd favorites as they headed east from Newport. If you’re into tracking offshore ...
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Tragedy and Triumph during Marion to Bermuda Race
With great regret, the trustees of the Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race Association announced that one of the 2015 sailors died of natural causes. On Saturday night the ...
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VOR Update: Alvimedica Takes Leg 9 and Abu Dhabi Wins Overall
Team Alvimedica’s skipper Charlie Enright won the final offshore battle of the Volvo Ocean Race today in Sweden, but the overall trophy belonged firmly with his rival from ...
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Woman Falls Overboard While on Watch
A massive two-day search for Carly Hill, who reportedly fell overboard while on watch on a catamaran while her husband Peter slept below deck, has led nowhere. Carly, 58, ...
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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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