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UPDATE: Japan! (Day 63)
Here’s the latest post from Matt Rutherford upon arrival in Japan after 63 days and over 6,500 miles… This expedition remained exciting to the very end. For the last ...
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Morgan Completes Vineyard Leg of 38th Voyage
The Charles W. Morgan safely navigated from Newport, Rhode Island, to Vineyard Haven on Wednesday, a leg of the 38th Voyage that turned out to be rougher than ...
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Bahamas National Trust Seeks to Establish a National Park system
The Bahamas National Trust has been working with a local NGO on San Salvador, the San Salvador living Jewels, to establish a National Park system on the island ...
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Sailors Flee Croatia as EU Fees Imposed
Yachtsmen are fleeing or avoiding Croatia following draconian EU charges. Cruising Association members keeping their boats in Croatia have had to pay up to £480 for documentation since ...
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Summer Sailstice is this Saturday! Sign Up and Win!
It’s not too late to sign up for the global sailing holiday, Summer Sailstice! Founded in 2001 as the global, annual celebration of sailing held on the summer ...
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Early Signs Point to a Strong, Disruptive El Niño
A developing El Niño in the equatorial Pacific has generated the usual predictions of drastic weather changes—some devastating, some beneficial—throughout the world. There’s a 90 percent probability that an El ...
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Coast Guard Report Blames Management, Captain for Sinking of HMS Bounty
If the management and the captain of the sunken tall ship HMS Bounty had “exercised the proper responsibility, judgment and prudence,” the deaths of two people would have ...
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UPDATE: Hokule‘a and Hikianalia Make Good Time Sailing to Tahiti
Strong, steady trades and lighter, swifter hulls are so far helping Hokule‘a make its fastest time yet to Tahiti, crews sailing on the first international leg of the ...
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New Polar Code for Cruising in the High Latitudes
Thinking of sailing to the Arctic or Antarctic any time soon? Then you’ll need to know about the new “Polar Code”, being developed for ships and yachts. The ...
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Meet the 19-Year-Old With a 10-Year Plan to Clean Half the Pacific Ocean
He’s ambitious, backed by 100 researchers, environmentalists and communications professionals, and he’s only 19. Boyan Slat is the president and founder of the Ocean Cleanup and creator of a technology ...
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