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| Walvis Bay Speed Week 2004 broke many records NEW!
Caribbean raised Maaike Kallenborn - nick named Wild Woman -  living and working in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, took over Natascha Petersmann's national speed record. Unofficially she timed 34.90 knots; the commissioner of the World Sailing Speed Record council however calculated an official time of 33.62 knots, which is 0.5 a knot faster than Natascha's in 2001 at Walvis Bay recorded 33.13 knots.
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| Sailing & Yachting
Knowledgebase - Daily update!
Watch-keeping at the High Seas and navigation. In this column questions of readers will be answered and nowadays topics about sailing and yachting will be discussed.
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| The Amazing Caine Story - third episode NEW!
The sailors’ adventures of the South African family Caine are as well as dramatic as full of charm. It is a heartbreaking story about the pensioned surgeon dr. Garron, his wife Robyn, the kids Lara and Robert and hand-for-a-bunk sailor Lionel. Leaving Cape Town, South Africa, on an early morning before six o’clock without a mile experience the Caines jumped in an all-time adventure. .
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| X-Files:
The Sails Blew Out And We Stranded
Ian Thompson just finished a 12-months round-trip to the Caribbean. Back home in Falmouth, England, he could not cope with everyday live. Though he joined a delivery through the Red Sea. Read more of this horrifying story.
| The Reed Race
Three adventurers fight to prove that Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia is the Center of the New World. Thor Heyerdahl is wrong. Not Egypt but the Tiwanaku empire once centered around Titicaca carries the wisdom of our world. Maaike and Peter check the rumors and the fight between three men. A story, live from Lake Titicaca.
| Unexpected, Unwanted
CrossRoads is anchored in front of the Anchorage Hotel on the Southwest coast of the island of Dominica. An unspoilt island sprinkled with volcanoes that are covered by the tropical rain forest and surrounded by the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean. Climbing volcanoes, diving and looking at whales are the biggest attractions of this paradise. A tropical depression number 16 was born in the Caribbean area, which grew to a tropical storm in less than a day and was then christened hurricane Lenny.
| Western Europe - Canaries
A nice trip once you passed Biscay. Till then you can expect for 85% westerly winds between 15 to 20 knots. Easily reaching 35 knots for a day. We sailed this route 4 times and this is what we experienced.
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