Messing About In Sailboats (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Last week, I was lucky enough to hear Rich Wilson speak about his sailing of the non-stop single-handed round the world race, the 2008 Vendee Globe. Rich was the only American and the oldest sailor. He also was the only...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
The guided-missile frigate USS John L. Hall (FFG 32) recently completed a theater security cooperation (TSC) port visit to Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Estate Agents In Fareham Hampshire (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... spent four months sailing around Britain with the Ellen MacArthur Trust you might have expected sailors Cath Vise and Karen Fraser to take the opportunity for a well earned rest. Instead they have taken on a new challenge, cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats via the three peaks of Snowdon, Scafell Pike, and Ben Nevis, and climbing each one on route. By the time they...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Photograph of the USS New York in the Mississippi River by U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 2nd Class John P. Curtis (via AP) Now that the World Trade Center's wreckage warship has set sail , it looks like the next 10 days of the USS New York's maiden voyage from the Big Easy to the Big Apple are going to be busy. The 361-member crew, which roughly 10 percent is New Yorkers , will practice training...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Marblehead sailor Rich Wilson , who cut his sailing teeth in Marion and is the second American to finish the Vendee Globe Race - a solo, around-the-world nonstop event of some 28,790 miles - is speaking about his adventures Nov. 14 in Marion. He finished the race in March, having started last November from Les Sable d’Olonne in western France.
Marginalized Action Dinosaur (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The Navy Chief noticed a new seaman and barked at him, “Get over here! What’s your name sailor?” “John,” the new seaman replied. “Look, I don’t know what kind of bleeding-heart pansy crap they’re teaching sailors in boot camp these days, but I don’t call anyone by his first name,” the chief scowled. “It breeds familiarity,...
SAILORS, MARINERS & WARRIORS LEAGUE (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Ninety years after their disappearance in a Lake Superior blizzard, shipwreck hunters are trying to find two French warships that vanished without a trace, taking two Canadian Great Lakes captains and 78 French sailors with them. The wrecks of the Inkerman and Cerisoles, newly built at the Canada Car foundry in what was then called Fort William, Ont., caused the greatest single loss of life...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Ninety years after their disappearance in a Lake Superior blizzard, shipwreck hunters are trying to find two French warships that vanished without a trace, taking two Canadian Great Lakes captains and 78 French sailors with them.
CDR Salamander (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
... same effects as being drunk.” Big Navy knows the fleet is unhappy with lean manning. Adm. John Harvey, head of Fleet Forces Command, used one of the earliest posts on his official blog to ask sailors what they thought about manning in the Navy. And he acknowledged to Navy Times on Sept. 28 that the Navy was still adjusting to its current end strength of about 330,000 people,...
LOL Manuscripts! (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
John Davis (c.1550-1605) was a successful explorer during the reign of Elizabeth I. He discovered the Falkland Islands, where his crew killed like 100,000 penguins and the meat spoiled and most of the sailors died, and the Davis Straight, which he named after himself. Basically, he sailed all over the place (maybe even with Raleigh!). Then he invented some sort of quadrant called the...
