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‘A legend is born’: Kirsten Neuschäfer becomes first woman to win historic Golden Globe Race

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5/23/2023 - edition.cnn.com. Kirsten Neuschäfer has become the first woman to win the Golden Globe Race. Neuschäfer and 15 other competitors, who were all men, set off from Les Sables-d’Olonne, France on September 4, 2022, with the aim of making it around the world via the five Great Capes before returning to the coastal town… SEE MORE

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Shorting the Circuit

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5/13/2023 - By tradeonlytoday.com The idea of zero emissions that comes with electric vehicles and boats has an almost romantic allure. If we all just parked our internal-combustion cars, trucks and boats, we would be saving the environment and all of mankind. Or would we? “You can’t automatically assume that electrification is… SEE MORE

Departing from Wilmington, North Carolina along the route.

Suzuki Marine Completes Run to the Capitol Powered by New Sustainable Fuel

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5/8/2023 - By SUZUKI MARINE USA, LLC. 940-Mile Voyage Aboard 26-Foot Center Console Powered by New Sustainable EcoFuel Tampa, FLA. — Today’s opening of the 2023 American Boating Congress (ABC) in Washington, DC will feature a small boat that recently concluded a truly big and significant adventure — running by water from… SEE MORE

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Provides $20M in Grants to Marinas

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3/29/2023 - By saymedia-content.com. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the agency’s Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) program will provide more than $20 million in grant funding for 19 states to construct, renovate and maintain marinas and other boating facilities for outdoor recreation. Under the BIG program, more than $2.8 million will… SEE MORE

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Going Electric

3/18/2023 - By soundingsonline.com As more builders introduce new models with electric propulsion, DIY types are converting their old boats with their own hands. When Dave and Danielle Baker and their two young children pull up to a marina and begin maneuvering into a slip, they often get wondering stares from people… SEE MORE

Shipwreck on the Norwegian Coast By wikipedia.org

Archaeologists Believe a Piece of Flotsam That Washed Up on a New York Beach Could be Part of an 1821 Shipwreck

3/6/2023 - By Min Chen The SS Savannah was the first steam and sail hybrid vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Last October, a weathered hunk of flotsam washed up on a New York shoreline following Hurricane Ian. No plain marine debris, though, the wreckage, experts believe, could well have been part… SEE MORE

Shipwreck of the SS American Star on the shore of Fuerteventura via WikiCommons

The Hunt for an Elusive Florida Shipwreck That Killed 41 Enslaved People

3/5/2023 - By Karuna Eberl Searching for the slave ship Guerrero, the nonprofit Diving With a Purpose has also trained scores of young Black men and women to find and tell stories once lost to the waves. CARYSFORT REEF WAS DARK UNDER the new moon. Coral tentacles undulated with the changing tide,… SEE MORE

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How to Get Your Boat Ready for Spring

3/4/2023 - By scoutboats.com Make Spring Easier with Proper Winterizing If May rolls around, it’s a little late for this step, but you can always remember it for next year. To get your boat ready for spring, it helps to winterize the boat properly. By thoroughly preparing your boat for winter storage, it… SEE MORE

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Krishna M. Jackson, Public domain, US_Navy_120107-N-RP435-486_Boatswain's_Mate_3rd_Class_Moulton_LeBlanc_moors_a_U.S._Navy_coastal_patrol_boat_after_a_patrol_of_Kuwait_Naval_Base's_h via Wikimedia Commons

Recreational boating degrades vegetation important for fish recruitment

2/25/2023 - By springer.com Recreational boating increases globally and associated moorings are often placed in vegetated habitats important for fish recruitment. Meanwhile, assessments of the effects of boating on vegetation, and potential effects on associated fish assemblages are rare. Here, we analysed (i) the effect of small-boat marinas on vegetation structure, and… SEE MORE

Cindy Shebley, CC BY 2.0 , Everett_WA._-_USA_02_19_2020_Boat_mooring_with_Anthony's_Homeport_Resturant_on_Port_Gardner_bay._(49565791383) via Wikimedia Commons

Environmental impacts of increasing leisure boating activity in Mediterranean coastal waters

2/23/2023 - By www.sciencedirect.com [caption id="attachment_44806" align="alignnone" width="512"] 1950s_boat_Gloucester_Massachusetts_USA_5336085003 via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Leisure boating is an important economic activity which is increasing in popularity worldwide, and the Mediterranean Sea is one of the most popular nautical tourism destinations in the world. While the overall ecological impacts of recreational boating on freshwater ecosystems… SEE MORE

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