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A review of the delivery of 11th Hour Racing's return delivery after the Transat Jacques Vabre to the base in Lorient France
with Amory Ross providing the photos and the insight:



With the 2019 Transat Jacques Vabre now in the rearview mirror, team leaders Mark Towill and Charlie Enright have quickly shifted focus to the next phase of 11th Hour Racing’s campaign towards The Ocean Race in two years ...

In case you missed it the 1st time around, Hydroptere has returned to San Francisco Bay, this time with a new owner, one Gabriel Terrasse, who hopes to rehabilitate
her to her previous state of glory. As you might recall, CLICKY
She did a previous tour on SF Bay back in 2012, ahead of the 2013 America's ...

Introduction: Sunsetting NOAA Nautical Charts

As was noted in the National Charting Plan, released in November 2017, NOAA has been reviewing different approaches for making paper nautical charts more efficiently1. This Sunsetting Traditional NOAA Paper Charts document or "Sunset Plan" describes NOAA's decision to sunset – that is, gradually and completely end – production of the traditional NOAA paper2 nautical charts and related raster products by January 2025. This is part of a strategy to improve the availability of the most up-to-date data for marine navigation in other NOAA products.
This strategy includes the development of an alternative paper product called the NOAA Custom Chart (NCC), which as the National Charting Plan predicted will be, "a slightly different looking nautical chart product."

This document provides an overview of activities that NOAA is undertaking to facilitate the transition.
Three parts of the sunset
The sunset ...

With the Alameda Marina redevelopment starting to take hold, the old Hogin Sails Loft which has been a part of
Alameda Marina for decades, and founded by Bob Hogin in the early 70's and currently run By Steve McCarthy, who purchased the
loft a while back when Bob retired, has been climbing the stairs for too long, is moving. ...

Richard Swinton of Los Angeles Times Reports

SANTA BARBARA — When the Conception first hit the water in the early 1980s, the personal electronics revolution was decades away.

Divers who boarded the 75-foot boat for excursions in the Channel Islands brought film cameras. There were no smartphones to plug in or the array of other electronic devices now used to take underwater photos. But when the vessel set off decades later on its fateful Labor Day voyage, those on board needed ...

Hurricane Dorian rolled through the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Canadian Maritimes over the weekend
after the massive damage done to Bermuda before rolling up the eastern seaboard... Hurricanes rarely reach
this far north, but it does happen....




Image via Linda Cunningham







Dorian is continuing to weaken as it moves toward Canada's Newfoundland island, but forecasters caution that it still remains "powerful."

The post-tropical cyclone has top sustained winds of 80 mph (129 kph) and is moving north-northeast at 26 mph (42 kph). The Canadian Hurricane ...