Cruising News

LightSquared Files for Bankruptcy

by Adam Cort, Posted May 29, 2012

LightSquared, the company that hopes to build a broadband cellular telephone network that has been shown to interfere with GPS signals, has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 restructuring in the wake of the FCC’s decision to not grant it permission to move ahead with its original plans.

Sailing Heals What Ails You

by Lindsey Silken, Posted November 28, 2012

Shelley Ferguson knows too well that each day is an opportunity to appreciate life. When she had the chance to spend an August afternoon sailing on the 12-Meter, Valiant, in Nantucket, where her family resides, she didn’t hesitate.

The Country’s First Offshore Wind Farm?

by Meredith Laitos, Posted April 26, 2013

As Cape Wind, the proposed offshore wind farm off Massachusetts, enters its second decade of controversy and legal wrangling, a similar, smaller installation off nearby Block Island may soon become the country’s first operational offshore wind farm.

Cruisers to the Rescue

by Lisa Gabrielson, Posted June 4, 2012

The International Rescue Group delivers humanitarian aid by boat. When a natural disaster strikes, it can take humanitarian aid programs weeks to mobilize and ship in resources. But what if those resources could already be nearby? That’s where the International Rescue Group (IRG) comes in.

First Sailors to Successfully Navigate McClure Passage

by Meredith Laitos, Posted November 25, 2012

In early September, scientists in the Arctic reported that floating sea ice had fallen to the lowest level ever observed, and a trio of sailors took their cue.

Sunstone Discovered in Ancient Shipwreck

by Becca Oken, Posted April 29, 2013

Scientists recently discovered what they believe to be an ancient “sunstone” at the site of a 1592 British shipwreck near the island of Alderney in the English Channel. Before the invention of GPS or even magnetic compasses, sailors may have used this as a navigatation tool on cloudy days.