The USS Enterprise has set sail on her final mission. The fifty year old carrier is heading to the Middle East on a seven-month deployment. The “Big E,” as she is called, was the first nuclear powered air craft carrier in the world. She is also the longest US aircraft carrier as well as the oldest, commissioned in 1961. Where all other US nuclear carriers have two nuclear reactors, the Enterprise has eight. She also has four rudders, where most carriers have two.
She has been deployed to conflicts around the world including Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Persian Gulf. The Enterprise was one of the first ships to respond after the Sept. 11 attacks. She was a spotter ship for John Glenn’s historic orbit around the earth and played a starring role in Tom Cruise’s hit movie, “Top Gun.”
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Jack Chippendale, a master wooden boat builder, died on February 24th at the age of 87. Over his seventy year career, he is said to have built more than 4,000 boats, including boats which won 30 world and national sailing championships. He was appointed MBE in 2010.
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The Florida Legislature has designated the schooner 
I will admit to not knowing much about Oman. I know that it is a Sultanate. It exports oil. I can find it on the map on the south-east corner of the Arabian peninsula. One thing that I do know is that it has a rather remarkable sailing program.
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