Our friend Noam Gans and his wife Dalit skippered a 42 foot Cat from the Caribbean to Portugal, arriving at the end of a 3950 mile ourney just a few days ago. The story is well told at Hitchhikers Guide to the Atlantic. This video - chased by a whale - was on the last leg, from the Azores to Portugal. I particularly enjoyed it because I have just finished Stove by a Whale - Owen Chase and the Essex. That, of course, ended very badly with resort to cannibalism on the skipper's whale boat. - gwc
Iran, Russia and The New Zealand Insurer That Kept Their Sanctioned Oil
Flowing
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Last Christmas, the tanker Yug cruised out of the Chinese port of Qingdao
after offloading 2 million barrels of sanctioned Iranian oil. Near the
Arctic, a ...
1 hour ago