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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston Makes Solo Sailing History Again at 75 with 3rd in Class in the Route du Rhum Race
Sir Robin-Knox Johnston has made solo sailing history again by finishing in 3rd place in the Route du Rhum Race’s Rhum class. Sir Robin, 75, admitted that it ...
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Skipper gets Emergency Medi-Vac in the Atlantic Odyssey
Atlantic Odyssey skipper Nicolas Hauzy had to be evacuated from his yacht Cocojet III on Saturday evening after he broke his ankle in rough seas. Nicholas was attempting to ...
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Family Chooses the Scenic Way to Bring Home their New Boat
Duluth, Minn., is the westernmost point of Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in North America. It is some 1,500 miles away from Woods Hole, Mass. Earlier this ...
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Schooner Adventuress Becomes High School Classroom
Wish they taught this when I was in high school… Renovations complete, the schooner Adventuress will spend this winter serving as a floating classroom. For the past five winters, the ...
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This Time She’ll Go Nonstop
Remember Donna Lange? On March 29, 2007 this Oregon-raised, US Virgin Islands-based sailor made nautical history with the completion of a solo circumnavigation, westabout with stops, via the ...
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Big Breeze Helps Send VOR Crews Out of Cape Town on Leg 2
Sailors are hardly the breed to complain about too much breeze but up to 35 knots for the Leg 2 opening circuits around Table Bay followed by warnings ...
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Loick Peyron Wins La Route Du Rhum in Record Time
Thirty two years after the first of his seven attempts, French ocean racing star Loick Peyron won the mythical Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe on Monday morning when he crossed ...
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Students to Build Sailboat, Track its Voyage in Pacific Ocean
An exercise in boatbuilding is giving a group of Coos Bay, Oregon seventh-graders a lesson in engineering, design, oceanography and more. Sunset Middle School received a 5-foot, unmanned ...
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Oceans of Hope Yacht Arrives in New York City During Unique Global Voyage
Oceans of Hope, the 67-foot yacht undertaking the first circumnavigation with a working crew of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), has arrived in New York City, USA, on the ...
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250 Kilos of Cocaine Seized from UK-Bound Yacht
A UK-bound yacht carrying an estimated 250 kilos of cocaine has been intercepted in the Caribbean, following a joint operation involving the National Crime Agency (NCA), Metropolitan Police ...
