Where can you find the most beautiful water in the world? Here’s a list of the 13 spots with the best blue water, according to Travel + Leisure, ranging from the ones you’d expect (the Maldives) to places you’ve probably not yet considered (Con Son, an island 110 miles off the coast of Vietnam). Ambergris Caye in Belize, a diver’s paradise for many years, is on the list for good reason (see the picture, above). The waters there teem with sharks and stingrays, as well as more peaceful eels, turtles and colorful fish. And many cruisers or charterers already know…

Four young Irishmen, three doctors from Cork and a successful entrepreneur from Dublin, are training to row across the Atlantic in a 28-foot boat on Dec. 12. They hope to beat the record of 35 days from La Gomera, in the Canary Islands, to Antigua, in the Caribbean, although they say it make take them 60 or so. The doctors are Sean Underwood, Patrick O’Connor and Eoin O’Farrell, and they got the idea for their Atlantic adventure to raise money for the children’s unit at Cork University Hospital, where they work. Thomas Brown, who met them through mutual friends, had…