Canadians safe after grounding in the Galapagos
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Sail-World Round-up,
9:49 PM Sat GMT
Sixteen Canadians and eight Ecuadorean crew members were rescued from a yacht that ran aground in the Galapagos Islands.
No injuries were reported in the Wednesday evening rescue by navy and national park vessels, which the 140-foot (46-metre) yacht's operator described as 'safe and orderly.'
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Innovative Product of the Week: Fender Tender
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Sail-World Cruising,
9:16 PM Sat GMT
Having to move fenders quickly is often necessary when manoeuvering a yacht in close quarters, and this product is particularly convenient if you have stainless steel rails for life lines. So now, to move, adjust and re-secure fenders, there's a convenient, cost-effective solution, and the boat will also look better and tidier than having knots with messy line endings.
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Pirate on Chandlers: 'No freedom, but we've given her a gun'
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Sail-World Cruising/Daily Mail, ,
8:40 PM Sat GMT
In new interview with the Somali pirate gang who are holding kidnapped cruising sailors Paul and Rachel Chandler for ransom, spokesman Ali Gedow has told Britain's Daily Mail 'We don't care about mercy, we just want the money.' This came after hopes had been raised that the Chandlers would be freed 'within a fortnight'. He also confirmed that they had given Mrs Chandler a gun to protect herself.
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Sailing to the Andamans - oceans of flat water
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Ley Langford,
9:18 PM Fri GMT
I remember when we announced to our families that we were buying a yacht, my brother in law Peter said 'Ley, you're in love with flat water sailing - wait until you find out what it is really like out there!' Eventually I did ...
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Search called off for missing South African sailor in New Zealand
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Kiri Gillespie, Gisborne Herald/Sail-World,
8:55 PM Fri GMT
Mystery surrounds the search for a sailor missing off East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand. Solo sailor Paul Van Rensburg has not been sighted since leaving Tauranga in his 11 metre yacht Tafadzwa heading for Gisborne last Friday 12th March. He is well overdue as the trip normally takes 32 - 36 hours, but none of his emergency apparatus has been set off.
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Fiji cyclone Tomas claims yacht: Cruise ship heroes save yacht's crew
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Des Ryan, ,
8:09 PM Fri GMT
While Cyclone Tomas was ravagiing Fiji this week, crew members of a local cruise ship were battling 125 knot winds and raging seas to save the owner of a capsized yacht trapped below deck.
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Teen sailor girls - now there's one more...
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Nancy Knudsen,
5:58 AM Fri GMT
While two sixteen-year-old girls circumnavigators sail the occasional gale - Australian Jessica Watson half way across the Indian Ocean and on the home run, and Californian Abby Sunderland, in the 40's in the Pacific Ocean and heading for Cape Horn - another still younger teenager is preparing for her own circumnavigation.
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Joint Australian New Zealand Antarctic whale expedition returns
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Commonwealth of Australia,
3:58 AM Fri GMT
The world's largest, non-lethal whale research expedition has returned from Antarctic waters with a range of new information that will help inform future marine mammal conservation.
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Tropical Cyclone Ului heads for Queensland coast
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Sail-World.com, ,
2:03 AM Fri GMT
At 10:00 am EST Tropical Cyclone Ului; Category 2 was estimated to be 950 kilometres east northeast of Mackay and 1100 kilometres east northeast of Townsville on Australia's north east coast and moving southwest at 13 kilometres per hour.
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ISAF Chief warns yachts against the Gulf of Aden
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Nancy Knudsen, ,
7:58 PM Thu GMT
In a quick response to Sail-World Cruising's story of the 20 yachts which last week successfully transited the pirate riddled Gulf of Aden, an ISAF Chief has warned that the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has forecast that piracy is expected to worsen, with an increasing involvement of the feared Islamist terrorist faction the Al Shabab.
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The Latest Sail-World competition - Prize value over AUD$300,000
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www.sail-world.com,
9:31 PM Wed GMT
Since 2000 we’ve been running Sail-World online competitions.
These have been very popular, with our audience. Sailors have won everything from charter holidays, to offshore wet weather gear, inshore jackets and this year we broke new ground with our Win a Laser competition. Now we have a very different prize from those in our previous competitions.
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South African sailor missing off New Zealand
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Sail-World Roundup,
6:31 PM Wed GMT
Mystery surrounds the search for a sailor missing off East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand. Solo sailor Paul Van Rensburg has not been sighted since leaving Tauranga in his 11 metre yacht Tafadzwa heading for Gisborne last Friday 12th March. He is well overdue as the trip normally takes 32 - 36 hours, but none of his emergency apparatus has been set off.
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New West France Cruising Guide
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Wiley/Sail-World, ,
5:53 AM Wed GMT
Neville Featherstone, Wiley Nautical Almanac editor and cruising author, returns to West France to produce this revised and updated pilotage guide to one of Europe’s most popular cruising areas.
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Two lost in Mediterranean yacht tragedy
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The Independent/Sail-World Cruising,
8:25 PM Tue GMT
A Cypriot policeman died and the mother of two children is missing after a yacht capsized in rough seas off the coastal resort of Paphos on Cyprus. The yacht, with a Russian couple and two young children on board had sailed 150 miles from the Turkish port of Finike, a popular destination for yachts and a Sunsail charter base. The policeman had been making a rescue attempt.
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9th Century sailing ship reaches India from Oman
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Sail-World Cruising,
8:24 AM Tue GMT
The replica ninth century ‘Jewel of Muscat’ square rigged sailing ship has completed the first leg on its way from Oman to Singapore, triumphantly arriving into the Indian port of Kochi to a great welcome..
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American solo sailor drowns after falling overboard off Cape Town
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George Thomson, IOL/Sail-World Cruising, ,
7:53 PM Mon GMT
A 36-year-old yachtsman who went sailing solo without a tether or a life jacket has been drowned in calm waters. Russell McKay went sailing from the False Bay Yacht Club in waters off Simon's Town near the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa on Saturday, but didn't return.
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Lloyd's Maritime Atlas - 25th Edition
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Sail-World Cruising, ,
7:35 PM Mon GMT
Cruising Guides do a magnificent job for the cruising sailor, but how can you get adequate and up-to-date information on the world's busy commercial ports. If you are to carry an atlas on your boat, why not carry one which gives you the kind of information you can use? - Lloyd's Maritime Atlas
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Pioneering Deep-Sea Robot lost at sea
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
10:30 AM Mon GMT
pioneering deep-sea exploration robot—one of the first successful submersible vehicles that was both unmanned and untethered to surface ships—was lost at sea Friday, March 5, on a research expedition off the coast of Chile. The vehicle was designed, built and operated by scientists and engineers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
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Cruising sailors successfully brave the Gulf of Aden
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Sail-World Cruising,
8:54 AM Mon GMT
In spite of all the warnings against transiting the Gulf of Aden, a convoy of 20 boats has just sailed into Aden after transiting the pirate riddled Gulf, arriving into the Yemeni port on 11th March.
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OceansWatch wants volunteer yachties for South Pacific whale project
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Sail-World Cruising, ,
7:12 PM Sun GMT
Are you longing for a sailing adventure and would love to be involved in a worthy cause? OceansWatch, the organisation of sailors who are dedicated to assisting scientific ocean research projects reach remote areas, is looking for enthusiastic yachties, skippers with yachts and those who wish to crew, wanting to participate in a whale research project in Niue between August and September 2010
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Seven top tips for cleaning your boat
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Martin Flory.,
8:12 PM Sat GMT
Here are seven top tips from Shurhold Industries Inc. to keep your boat cleaner, easier to keep clean and more valuable when you come to sell:
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Najad sailing boats scoop the pool in Swedish environmental awards
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Nancy Knudsen,
7:30 PM Sat GMT
If you are searching for a yacht that is environmentally the best, it seems that you may have to consider the Najad. The Swedish Yachting Association has selected the Najad 355 in the sailing boat category for the award Environmental Boat of the Year 2009, and the yacht has also received the award as Swedish Boating Association's Environmental Sailing Boat of the year.
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Cruising Club of America’s Annual Awards presented in New York City
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Dana Paxton, Media Pro Int'l,
9:36 AM Sat GMT
On March 5 2010, the Cruising Club of America presented its annual awards at a dinner held in New York, N.Y. at the New York Yacht Club. The Cruising Club of America is dedicated to offshore cruising, voyaging and the 'adventurous use of the sea' through efforts to improve seamanship, the design of seaworthy yachts, safe yachting procedures and environmental awareness.
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Solo Circumnavigators and the trouble they get into - Jeanne Socrates
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Nancy Knudsen, ,
9:52 PM Fri GMT
Jeanne Socrates, 60-something, and the female answer to Japan's eight-time-circumnavigator and 76-year-old Minoru Saito, has been forced to postpone her bid to sail solo around the world non-stop after being hit by engine problems. Jeanne is no stranger to disappointment, nor to triumph
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50 days around Australia with a message: Eliminate plastic bags!
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Save Our Seas,
8:25 PM Fri GMT
There's always another record to break, and Save Our Seas wants to make the world plastic-free. Put these two facts together, there's a winning project. Ian Thomson, Save Our Seas member, will set off in late April to break the world record for sailing non stop solo unassisted around Australia, to raise awareness of the damage that plastic bags do to our environment
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Henri Lloyd to provide official technical clothing to F1 team
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colin burgess, sydney ,
10:40 PM Thu GMT
Fresh from their successful partnership with Brawn GP, winners of the 2009 Formula One Constructors' and Drivers' Championships, Henri Lloyd have now applied their knowledge and experience to develop team clothing for the team in its new guise as Mercedes GP Petronas
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Top five reasons why boaters need a tow - and the rise of the battery
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Sail-World Cruising,
7:13 PM Thu GMT
BoatU.S., the Boat Owners' Associatioin of the United States, keep a great count of what they do. The result is statistics which tell a story that probably applies to the rest of the boating world. This time it's about why boaters - yachts and powerboats, need a tow. As many yachts cannot reach their mooring or dock without the help of their engine, yachts are well included in these numbers
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Mauri Pro Sailing – The global online chandlery from Texas
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John Curnow,
3:29 AM Thu GMT
These Dallas based international, online chandlers are anything but cowboys. Mauri Pro Sailing has been around since 2003 and was the brainchild of South American sailor Juan Mauri. There is a dedicated and passionate band of multi-national sailors behind the brand and online shop who can assist you find the right clothes to wear, arrange your deck gear and virtually anything in between.
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Worldwide boat exchange club launches at Dubai International Boat Show
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Saltwater PR, ,
11:24 AM Wed GMT
The world launch of the world’s first global online boat exchange club, a concept pioneered by BVC International, has introduced a unique concept in boat exchange at the Dubai International Boat Show.
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When sailing and fishing blend - all because of the beans...
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Rolf Fricke,
4:37 AM Wed GMT
Just because you sail, does it mean you can't fish? Certainly not, particularly if you are engaged in long distance sailing away from supermarkets which dispense meat and fish in quantity, and particularly if the alternative is that you have to live on beans - as Rolf Fricke, travelling on catamaran Ketoro with his wife Irene, and currently in the Chagos Archipelago, describes:
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Two new cruising guides - Turkey and Central America
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Sail-World Cruising,
7:20 PM Tue GMT
Two new cruising guides will be a welcome addition for those who plan voyages in Turkey or Central America. The Turkey Cruising Companion, by Emma Watson will be out in April, and the Sarana Guide, by Eric Baicy and Sherril Watson is available now, in its updated 10th Edition
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Abby Sunderland and Jessica Watson - what mothers think...
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Sail-World Cruising,
5:19 AM Tue GMT
One of the chief aspects that differs the two 16-year-old solo sailors currently trying to circumnavigate the world from other adventure sailors is the controversy that follows them.
In one corner we have the liberals, who applaud encouraging their spirit, in the other corner the protectors, who think it's too dangerous, they're too young and should be in school. But what do mothers think?.
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Kidnapped cruising sailors reunited
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Sail-World Cruising round-up,
7:34 PM Mon GMT
British cruising sailors kidnapped by Somali pirates and held near Haradheere in northern Somalia in separate locations have been temporarily reunited after weeks apart, a doctor(pictured) who treated the two in February is reported to have said
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