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By CW Editor at 2008-12-02 18:19
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Gary Jobson has just posted a blog entry about the premiere of "Maine Built Boats: Art & Soul."
To learn about the documentary, and other sailing videos Gary has produced this year, click here.
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By CW Editor at 2008-09-16 17:53
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French commandos have rescued two French sailors who had been held hostage by Somali pirates since September 2, says CW contributor Jimmy Cornell, who came across this story on the BBC website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7618142.stm
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By CW Editor at 2008-07-10 21:09
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Here's a tidbit Andrew Burton came across on www.instapundit.com:
Nanotechnology may soon give cruisers less power-hungry desalination plants. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered that water molecules flow easily through carbon nanotubes while the ions that make up salts are rejected.
-Ed.
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By CW Editor at 2007-11-13 19:46
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We started out with a pair of 200-mile days on the passage from Bermuda to St John. After spending the weekend waiting for Hurricane Noel to get well clear, on Monday, November 5, we hoisted the main in St George's Harbour, bent on the newly repaired jib, and reached out Town Cut at nearly 10 knots. We turned right at the Spit buoy and poled out the jib on the port side sailing south at more than 8 knots, rolling in the leftover waves from the hurricane.
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By CW Editor at 2007-11-13 19:26
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"Beat feet! Let's get out of here now or we'll be stuck in here in Newport for another week!" That was my mantra as we prepared the ex-Whitbread Around the World Racer, Ceramco NZ, to leave for the US Virgin Islands. We finally got under way and cleared Castle Hill a little before sunset on Sunday, Oct 28.
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