Wednesday, January 22, 2025

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Billionaire Takes Sanctioned Super Yacht Into International Waters

Sanctioned billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, who had cleverly saved his warship like $300 million superyacht, from getting seized by hiding it in Dubai for more than two years has finally taken his yacht out in the open and is now sailing off to a mystery destination.

‘A Floating Piece of History’: How the Gucci Family Restored This 214-Foot Sailing Yacht

Allegra Gucci’s first palpable memory was aboard her family’s sailboat, the 214-foot Creole. As she recalls growing up, the world’s largest wooden sailing yacht formed a playful cocoon for water fights, running along hundreds of feet of teak decks, swallow dives into the ocean, and, at peak performance, adrenaline rushes as the boat thundered at full sail in the Mediterranean.

Florida teens washed out to sea have prayers answered by boat named ‘Amen’

The two seniors at Christ Church Academy in Jacksonville, Florida, decided to hit the beach with a group of friends in St. John's County on a senior skip day two weeks ago when the day of fun almost turned deadly. The pair jumped in the water at Vilano Beach, but made the mistake of trying to swim farther than they were able.

Sailor Cole Brauer Is Making History as the First U.S. Female to Race Solo Across the Globe: ‘It’s a...

Fifteen-foot waves crashed over the deck of Cole Brauer’s 40-foot racing yacht, First Light, in the turbulent Indian Ocean as she tried to maintain her balance in the cramped cockpit in the stern.

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Let There Be Light!

About a year before our arrival this island had been hit hard by a hurricane. The highest point of land on the atoll is...

Cruising The Virgin Islands

There is something about the Virgin Islands that make every sailor feel as if he’s been set free. The fact that the sailing is always...

We’ve All Screwed Up, Right?!?

It's hard for me to think of a single voyage where I did not make at least one mistake. This came to me the other...

Slay The Dragon!

Life didn’t get much better. We were about three hundred miles from entering the Mediterranean Sea. As this would be the first time I...

Edson SUP & Board Rack

When we sailed the world on Lost Soul we always had a kayak and paddle board aboard. Ya gotta have some fun while you're...

The Day That Changed My Life

I was standing on the deck of the Stone Witch, a 70-foot square-rigged topsail schooner out of San Francisco. We were headed south to Central...

Bahamas Dream Adventure

This is about a charter voyage we did about 10 years ago, but I think it's still pretty relevant! Lemme know if you agree? We...

East Coast A Go-Go

So Jody & I were missing our annual trip to the East Coast. For the last 30 years we'd driven from Cali to the...

To Go Or Not To Go?

To go or not to go, that is the question.  Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of living...

Fantasy Island Nightmare

After passing through the Panama Canal we waited for our friend Neill McNeil to join us in Colon, Panama. Colon is the worst place...

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