Congratulations to the Ocean Revival Adventures team who have become the first to row from New York to London. The team of four serving and former serving Royal Marine Commandos completed the epic 72-day, 3,700-mile row across the North Atlantic from the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City to Tower Bridge in London.
In May, I was fortunate enough to meet Ian Clinton and Simon Chalk, members of the Ocean Revival Adventures crew, waiting with their ocean rowing boats at Liberty Landing in New York harbor for a suitable weather window to set off on what has been dubbed the “world’s most dangerous row.” See our previous post.
In addition to being a museum ship as America’s only steam-powered lighthouse tender, the 
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Last September, the 
It is amazing how many commonplace items are related to ships and the sea. Or perhaps not, given that over 70% of the globe is covered by water and 90% of all trade is moved by sea. Here is one example of an unexpected connection to ships.
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A repost from several years ago. Sailors have long considered Friday to be an unlucky day and Friday the 13th, particularly so. On this Friday the 13th, it seems appropriate to remember the unlikely tale of 
Five years ago we posted about the beginning of the construction of “
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Last week, a wall of ice, representing an iceberg, collapsed at the 
We had a lovely stay in the old seaport village of Stonington, CT on our recent cruise. In honor of our visit, here is a repost from a few years ago about the 
In September, we posted about a Swedish consortium that included