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Falmouth locals rescued from yacht in South Atlantic
At 11 o' clock yesterday Falmouth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) received a signal from a radio beacon alerting them to a yacht 'Brilliance' in distress in the South Atlantic. The yacht was on passage from South Georgia to ...
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Great Sailors and Their Boats - Troubled Affairs, Part 3
Part 2. At the far end of the spectrum of the relationship between Man and Boat are the tragic affairs. In a perverse way, they are probably the most interesting. One of the most famous examples were the cases Donald Crowhurst and Nigel Tetleys relationships with their trimarans Teignmouth Electron and Victress in the Golden Globe race of 1968 . They were identical boats and considered cutting edge speed machines that theoretically would win the race. Crowhurst mortgaged his house and bet his business in constructing the boat that he thought would bring him fame and fortune. It was tricked out with the latest in marine technology manufactured by Crowhursts own company. To the outside world, his boat was a floating advertisement for Crowhursts genius, his business and the future of sailing. Behind the scenes, it was a different story. The boat was constantly, behind schedule, not built to Crowhursts specifications and certainly not ready to cross the start line of the Golden Globe race by the October 31 st 1968 cut-off. Underway, the electronics never worked properly and the boat started to delaminate early in the race. She leaked like a sieve taking on water, very seriously in one pontoon. He knew early on that his boat would fall apart in the Southern Oceans. It was desperate. He just couldnt do it and his boat as well his own abilities had let him down. Rather than face the shame and financial ruin of abandoning the race, Crowhurst had a different strategy. He stayed in the relative safety of the Atlantic radioing in false positions. These showed him still in the race. His aim was to sail in circles till the other racers returned to the Atlantic and then rejoin the race taking second in the prize for fastest time to complete the race. Well, that was his plan. read more »
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World of Boating 3-29-08 HOUR2
This week the WOB crew escape to Jimmy Buffett’s Radio Margaritaville for an update on one of the most famous boaters on the planet! (Hour 2)
The Mast and Pit Men: America’s Cup BMW ORACLE This is the eighth in a series of videos describing the [...]
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Slammed by Hurricane Cleo - Part 1
Fifty years ago this month in August 1958, Hurricane Cleo blasted across the North Atlantic. Cleo was the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the 1958 Atlantic hurricane season and remains one of only three Category 5 hurricanes to avoid land in the historical database. Over the next few days, guest blogger Hal Weidner will be telling the true story of his encounter with Cleo ... I first met So Long in July when she anchored near a yacht club on Long Island Sound. She was unique among the other yachts---a bulldog among greyhounds. So Long at 32ft was beamy and carried huge baggy wrinkles on 5/8 inch stays supporting tree runks. Her huge rudder looked like it had come from a river barge. She was a heavy-weight. Her owner, a Norwegian named Ruddy, had been trying to sell her, but had no luck. read more »
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Great Sailors and Their Boats - Troubled Affairs, Part 3
Part 2. At the far end of the spectrum of the relationship between Man and Boat are the tragic affairs. In a perverse way, they are probably the most interesting. One of the most famous examples were the cases Donald...Adam Turinas
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