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Sailor Presumed Lost at Sea Off West Coast of Mexico
Nearly three weeks overdue on a passage from El Salvador to Acapulco, the unusual 40-ft ‘hybrid wave-piercer’ sloop Seven Sisters was recently found by the Coast Guard, upside-down 400 ...
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Vestas Wind: A Tale of Escape
Team Vestas Wind’s nine ship-wrecked men finally made it back to civilization yesterday, telling of their amazing escape from a collision with an Indian Ocean reef which grounded ...
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Building Boats Can Rebuild Lives
In Tacoma, Washington, juvenile offenders are making a promise to turn their lives around, thanks to a program that’s teaching them to build boats – and much, much ...
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UPDATE: Salty Dawgs Complete Successful Fall Rally to Caribbean
The 68 strong fleet in the Fall Salty Dawg Rally are in the B.V.I. and Bahamas and thoroughly enjoying life in the sun. The passage south started on ...
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Couple Hard at Work Resurrecting Historic Schooner
The Nathaniel Bowditch is virtually unrecognizable. It’s been gutted and stripped, and it’s in the process of being renovated, repaired and reconstructed. But by mid-summer 2015, Noah and Jane ...
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Bermuda to Host 2017 America’s Cup
The tax haven of Bermuda has been picked over San Diego to host the 2017 America’s Cup, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press ...
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Caribbean Weather Reporting Buoy Adrift
The NOAA Weather Reporting Buoy (no. 42059), based in the Eastern Caribbean Sea 180 NM SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico is now adrift. This weather reporting buoy is still ...
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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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