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.
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.
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.
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.
Shashas are inshore fishing craft built from reeds. They were still used locally until quite recently on this part of the Batinah coast and other places further up north in the Gulf. The 7,000-year-old remains of the earliest one known were found in Kuwait...
Whilst working as a sailing coach for Oman, we decided to ask a local expert (one of the few left) to come and build a typical fishing Shasha for us. Our boat builder (who wasn’t young!) came to one of our centers. He assembled an Acacia...
The Western Flyer Returns to the Gulf of California After 85 Years: A Historic Journey Connecting Science, Education, and Conservation in the "Aquarium of...
Overnight passages are an inevitable part of the cruising lifestyle. They can be exhilarating, peaceful, and sometimes a little exhausting. Long hours at the...
