Diana Nyad is nearing the five mile countdown to Key West on her epic 112 statute mile swim from Cuba to Florida. If she completes the swim, she will be the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a cage, … Continue reading
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One of our favorites, the topsail schooner Unicorn is for sale. Tall Ship Unicorn For more information contact Dawn Santamaria, Co-Owner/Operator of STV Unicorn & Founder of Sisters Under Sail at dawn@tallshipunicorn.com. Asking price: $950,000 USD. … Continue reading
There are reports of an unsuccessful attack on the Cosco Asia, a 10,000 TEU container ship, which was transiting the Suez on Saturday night. As reported by the BBC: Canal authority head Mohab Mamish said a “terrorist element” targeted a … Continue reading
An amazing short video on the art and science of sailing the America’s Cup AC 72s on hydrofoils. When “foiling” these boats have been exceeding 40 knots. Hydrofoils: Flying on Water See also: ABOUT THE AC72: A NEW-AGE SPEEDSTER … Continue reading
The strange saga of “A Whale” continues. The ship is reported to have recently come under fire by a Libyan Navy patrol boat, as it attempted to enter the Es Sider terminal in Northern Libya, apparently without clearance. The ship … Continue reading
Great activities on the water, on both coasts, this Labor Day weekend. In San Diego, the annual Festival of Sail began yesterday with a Parade of Sail and continues through Monday with lots of great activities. as described by San Diego … Continue reading
Dick Newick, the brilliant multihull designer, has died at 87. His designs, particularly his trimarans, revolutionized the world of multihull sailing. His designs are remarkably graceful, simple, light and astonishingly fast. In a very real sense, the history of multihull … Continue reading
In June, we posted about the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s traveling 16.5 metre-tall “Rubber Duck,” which has visited 13 cities in nine different countries. It last visited Hong Kong harbor and is now reported to be on its way to Pittsburgh. In … Continue reading
In 1970, fisherman discovered a shipwreck in about 85 feet of water, ten miles off the Absecon Inlet on the New Jersey coast. For more than 40 years, divers have visited the unidentified wreck. Now the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration … Continue reading
I was saddened to learn that the singer that I knew as Lou Killen died early this month after a six year battle with cancer. Killen was an influential voice in the British folk song revival of the 50s and … Continue reading
Oliver Hazard Perry‘s message to his superiors was brief: “We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.” Perry’s victory at the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, was one … Continue reading
The two headlines in the BBC are from the same day and posted only an hour apart. The first reads “World’s oldest clipper ship transported to Australia.” The second – “City of Adelaide clipper ship export ban sought.” Both … Continue reading
It is around 13 feet long, appears to have horns and stinks to high heaven. A carcass washed ashore on Luis Siret Beach in Villaricos, Spain which is being widely referred to a “sea monster.” Perhaps a bit small to … Continue reading
Is pod propulsion the best or worse thing to ever happen to cruise ships? Celebrity Cruise Line just cancelled the cruises for the rest of season in Alaska on the Celebrity Millennium due to failures in its pods. It had … Continue reading
A Russian military Zubr-type hovercraft made a surprise arrival at a crowded beach recently in what the Russian defense ministry described as a “tactical mission in a military owned area.” Navy hovercraft surprises sunbathers as it lands on Russian beach … Continue reading
In May, we posted about the discovery of a rare Howell torpedo by Navy dolphins in the Pacific off San Diego. The Howell torpedo was the first self-propelled torpedo in United States Navy service. Only fifty were built and, until the … Continue reading
In each of the first three races of the the Louis Vuitton finals to determine which challenger will compete for the America’s Cup, the race has been decided by mechanical failure. The series now stands with Emirates Team New Zealand, 2 … Continue reading
In the first two races of the Louis Vuitton finals to determine which challenger will compete against the Team Oracle for the America’s Cup, both races were determined by which boat didn’t break before crossing the finish line. In race one, Emirates Team … Continue reading
When the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition‘s three-masted barquentine, Endurance, was crushed in the Antarctic ice, expedition leader, Sir Ernest Shackleton, allowed each man to take off only two pounds of possessions, including their boots. The only exception Shackleton made was Leonard Hussey’s banjo, which weighed … Continue reading
The headline in Live Science sounds like the premise for a bad SyFi channel made-for-cable movie – Testicle-Biting Fish Invading Denmark. It turns out that a Danish fisherman caught, what is believed to be, a red-bellied pacu, an omnivorous South American freshwater … Continue reading