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New 32-Knot Grand Banks 60 Flagship Coming This Summer

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The new, more contemporary Grand Banks 60 is under construction in the factory in Malaysia, and is due to be launched this summer. The three-stateroom, two-head cruiser will be the flagship of the Grand Banks Heritage fleet, which now tops out at 54 feet. Built under the leadership of Grand Banks (and Palm Beach) CEO Mark Richards, the new 60 also will be stronger and lighter and made with more sophisticated materials than previous models, reflecting Richards’ decades of experience as one of the leading sailboat racers in the world. We don’t have may details yet, but we know the…

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Granny, World’s Oldest Killer Whale, Dies at 100

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The last time anyone saw Granny, the world’s oldest killer whale, was more than two years ago in the Salish Sea between  Vancouver, B.C., and Seattle. Researchers, who had been studying orcas there for many years, thought she was about 100 years old then, qualifying her as the oldest killer whale on the planet, and she was still using her accumulated wisdom to find food for her whale family. They now assume that she has died. Read about Granny here: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38496164 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38496164

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It May Look Like an Egg, But This Jet Capsule is Really a 20-Knot Cruiser. See the Video

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You probably don’t want to take the Jet Capsule on the Great Loop (the locks would be a problem), or on the Inside Passage to Alaska, but I’d love to have one for tooling around Fort Lauderdale, say, or Lake Union in Seattle or even Narragansett Bay off Newport. It may look like an egg, but the new jet-powered craft is 24 feet long, 12 feet wide and with a 370-hp Rotax 4TEC engine it’s supposed to cruise at 20 knots. And it’s fun. Be the first kid on your block…Take at look at this video of the Jet Capsule,…

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Coast Guard Icebreakers Start Clearing the Great Lakes

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So you think it’s cold where you are? Take a look at the ice beard on the crane on the Coast Guard Cutter Alder, above. And that’s before the 225-foot Alder and other Coast Guard vessels start their annual ice-breaking duties on the Great Lakes. They’re starting on northern Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, and then will move south (relatively speaking) as winter sets in. The Coast Guard urges recreational boaters to use caution in the area. See the story, and more  pictures, here: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/12/coast_guard_begins_ice_breakin.html

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Arctic Ice Melting Dramatically, See Two New Videos

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Each year, more and more old, thick ice in the Arctic is melting in the summer and is being replaced in the winter by new, thinner ice, which is turn melts even faster the next summer. You can see these changes, which have dramatic consequences both for the Arctic and for the oceans of the planet, on these two new videos: https://youtu.be/c6jX9URzZWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofsncwIMeWA

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Great Dismal Swamp Canal Closed Indefinitely

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The Army Corps of Engineers now has closed the Dismal Swamp Canal, which first opened in 1805, indefinitely so it can clear all the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew in October. The Canal, which is part of the ICW connecting the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia with Albermarle Sound in North Carolina, will be closed while the Corps removes trees and debris, completes dredging and checks for shoaling. Work on the Deep Creek Lock river gates alone will take 75 days, starting in early January. Meanwhile, if you’re heading south for the winter, use the Albermarle and Chesapeake Canal section of…

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Yikes. Scientists Measure 62-foot Wave in North Atlantic – A World Record

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And you thought you’d been caught in some bad weather. Consider this: The World Meteorological Organization just announced a new record – a 62-foot wave measured by an automated buoy in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the United Kingdom. This  record-breaking wave was recorded just after a strong cold front with winds of over 50 mph swept through the area. The previous record – 59.9 feet – was also measured in the North Atlantic. Read about it here: https://gcaptain.com/19-meter-north-atlantic-wave-sets-new-world-record/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gcaptain+%28gCaptain.com%29

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Crew’s Last Moments on Doomed El Faro Even More Terrifying Than You Thought: NTSB Releases Transcript from Black Box

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” Something bad’s going to happen,” one crew member said as he started his watch almost ten hours before El Faro, the doomed container ship, sailed into a hurricane near the Bahamas on Oct., 2015, and sank, killing all 33 people on board. Now the NTSB has recovered the ship’s black box in 15,000 feet of water and released a 500-page transcript that shows the bone-chilling terror of the crew’s final moments. “Help me. Help me,” one crewman yells to the captain, who has just ordered everyone to abandon ship. “I’m a goner.” Read about it here: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-m-goner-transcripts-show-el-faro-s-final-harrowing-n695581

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