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  An Adventure of a Lifetime-Stranded Onboard a 200-Foot Schooner

  (AP) – Twnety-five high school students from the Netherlands are on an unexpected journey, sailing from the Caribbean homeward, a distance of over 4,000 miles. The students were ...

  On April 17, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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  158-Foot Yacht, Morning Glory For Sale

  (Luxury Yachts) – Interested in going up in size in your sailboat? You’ll be glad to hear that Morning Glory, a 158-foot ketch built of steel and aluminum ...

  On April 17, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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  Long Stringy Stingy Thingy-Is a Real Thing

  (Science Alert) – What’s in a name? This long stringy stingy thingy is a siphonophore which is made up of thousands of individuals and found deep in the ...

  On April 17, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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  Object Washes Ashore in North Carolina

  (Popular Mechanics) – There are lots of strange objects in the sea and recently a suspicious object washed ashore in North Carolina. Obviously floating for awhile out on ...

  On April 17, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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  140 MPH Winds Strike Vanuatu

  (The Daily Mail) – The island of Vanuatu in the South Pacific was struck by Cyclone Harold Monday, making it the strongest storm to hit the island in ...

  On April 10, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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  Tennessee Couple on a 45-Foot Lagoon Stuck at Sea

  (Local Memphis) – A Tennessee couple and their two friends were sailing from the Galapagos to French Polynesia when the Coronavirus struck. By the time they arrived at ...

  On April 10, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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  Switlik Does Its Part to Help Protect Medical Professionals

  In response to the major problem of personal protective equipment for medical professionals, SWITLIK has re-allocated their production line to make face shields for medical professionals. Using supplies ...

  On April 10, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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  Tartan Yachts Under New Ownership

  Seattle Yachts International has just announced that they will be acquiring the assets of Tartan Legacy Yachts. Seattle Yachts has been a dealer for both lines for a ...

  On April 10, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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  Fully Autonomous Mayflower To Cross the Atlantic

  (Yachting Journal) – Engineers are working on a ship to sail the same route as the Mayflower did four hundred years ago, from Great Britain to the United ...

  On April 10, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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  Storm Trysail Club’s Safety-At-Sea Video Series Free to the Public

  Created by the Storm Trysail Foundation, the Offshore Safety-At-Sea Video Series serves as a resource for all sailors. Normally, reserved for our seminar participants only, the Storm Trysail ...

  On April 10, 2020 / By Sandy Parks