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Coast Guard makes dramatic nighttime rescue as heavy swells batter disabled sailboat
While conducting the rescue, the boat ran aground and the sailboat’s mast collapsed, the Coast Guard said. A rescue swimmer ...
World racer's dream shattered as sail 'explodes'
The tear happened as his yacht Vulnerable gybed (swinging a sail or boom) twice under autopilot, which controls the boat's direction, in about 35mph (56km/h) winds off the Azores. The mainsail was ...
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World’s longest: 450-feet cargo sail ship with 5,842 tons cargo capacity launched
The ship is powered by two masts and a huge sail. It is equipped with 3,000 square meters of sail and two 249-foot (76-meter) ...
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Sailing round the world in the 1970s: Chichester Probus Club members hear about a challenge
Answering an advertisement in the Financial Times in 1976 led to participation in a seven-month yacht race round the world.
Coast Guard rescues two boaters near San Juan Islands; 1 dies
U.S. Coast Guard rescued two boaters from a disabled 31-foot sailboat near the San Juan Islands Monday night, the agency said ...
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World’s longest: 450-feet cargo sail ship with 5,842 tons cargo capacity launched
The ship is powered by two masts and a huge sail. It is equipped with 3,000 square meters of sail and two 249-foot (76-meter) foldable Solidsail carbon masts. The ship's masts are fitted with ...