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Handcrafted Model Ships Announces Holiday Sale of 50% Off Popular Model Ships

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 30, 2008 -- Handcrafted Model Ships (http://www.handcraftedmodelships.com) is the premiere online model ship superstore. Handcrafted Model Ships has been the...

Olympic Sailing Hopeful Backs Hospital Ship Charity

Garden Valley. TX (Vocus) August 5, 2008 -- Reigning four-time European Laser Champion and one of Britain's greatest medal hopes at the Beijing Olympics, racer Paul Goodison, has announced his...

Ex-German seaman recounts a sailing ship’s double life (New Haven Register)

Long before U.S. Coast Guard cadets were hoisting sail on the training ship Barque Eagle, Tido Holtkamp was climbing her rigging.

Playing from memory on board of life (Greensboro News & Record)

Editor's note: "Winter People" is an annual series by columnist Lorraine Ahearn that appears Sundays between Thanksgiving and the end of the year. There is a move in chess that is game-changing, if not game-ending. A lone pawn, an expendable foot soldier, makes his way square by square across the board. In the shadow of the larger chessmen, he goes unnoticed, posing no threat. read ...

Old news: Shipyards in Kennebunk's lower village (York County Coast Star)

Jorge Christenson was born into a shipbuilding family in Bergen, Norway, in 1826. He and his brother Jacob immigrated to this country in early 1850 to escape the high unemployment rate in their native land. Jacob settled first in a Norwegian community in...