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How To Watch the Eclipse from Your Boat

A rare total eclipse of the sun will move across North America on Monday, April 8, starting in Mexico, moving across the U.S. from Texas to Maine, and then exiting along the coast of Canada. A total eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, covering the full disk of the Sun and briefly revealing the Sun’s corona, its wispy, white outer atmosphere. You can watch the eclipse anywhere along its route (see the NASA map). If you’re in the “path of totality,” you’ll experience a period of total darkness as the umbra, the darkest part of…

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HMY and Two Oceans Launch Outboard Cruisers

HMY Yacht Sales and Two Oceans Marine just announced that they’re developing a new line of luxurious outboard-powered, express cruising boats, starting with a 50- and a 60-footer. HMY is one of the largest yacht brokers and dealers in the U.S., with offices in Florida and South Carolina. Two Oceans is a long-time builder of blue-water catamarans in Cape Town, South Africa. The two companies joined forces last year to introduce a line of power cats to the U.S. The new express cruisers are the ECLIPSE 505 (pictured at top and below) and ECLIPSE 605. They are designed by Michael…

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Best Places to Watch the Eclipse from Your Boat

In a special report, The New York Times Magazine had this to say about the eclipse: “On the morning of Aug. 21, the moon’s shadow will appear over the Pacific Ocean and move swiftly toward Lincoln Beach, Oregon, just south of Portland, making landfall at 10:16 a.m. local time. If the morning fog has lifted by then, and if the weather is clear, viewers will see something in the sky that most have never seen: a black hole where the sun should be, and around the edges sinuous flames radiating out in all directions.” The shadow then will move on…