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Dispatches April 2010

THE START OF SOMETHING BIG:

This hull mold is for the newest member of the Viking Yachts fleet, the 70 Convertible. Construction of the four-stateroom yacht was to begin in February, and the New Gretna, N.J.-based builder expects to launch it this summer. www.vikingyachts.com

Talkin' Boats

Tad Whitten of the Zeus and Axius Tour

Tad Whitten puts people at the helm of a joystick boat to show them the technology's capabilities. Tad Whitten may have more experience operating joystick-controlled boats than anyone in the country. Mercury Marine two years ago hired Whitten's company, Motorsports Management Inc. in Peoria, Ill., to demonstrate two propulsion systems that use joysticks - Cummins MerCruiser Diesel's Zeus pod drive system and MerCruiser's Axius sterndrive system.

Inaptly named Privacy no refuge for Tiger

Paparazzi stake out the Florida marina where the golfer keeps his 155-foot Christensen yacht

Tiger Woods' megayacht Privacy is back in the public spotlight. Irony of ironies. Tiger Woods' 155-foot yacht, Privacy, has been anything but the refuge the golf legend had hoped it would be.

No answers yet in San Diego tragedy

An 8-year-old boy dies when a Coast Guard vessel collides with a 24-foot Sea Ray at a holiday parade

The DeWeese family Three separate investigations have been launched to determine why a 33-foot Coast Guard boat smashed into a 26-foot bowrider in San Diego Bay, killing an 8-year-old boy during a holiday boat parade in late December.

Twice-lucky sailor cheats death at sea

First, wrongly installed EPIRB activates, then, swimming blindly in the dark, he bumps into a life raft

Dennis Clements had placed his manually activated EPIRB backwards in its bracket, which is why it went off automatically when it got wet. Dennis Clements is the luckiest sailor alive.

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