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Couple admits they spied for Cuba

The Myerses agreed to serve prison sentences under a plea deal. A well-known boating couple late last year admitted in federal court that they had spied for Cuba for the last three decades, receiving coded instructions over shortwave radio and passing them along.

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FASTEST AFLOAT

The 60-foot hydrofoil trimaran l’Hydroptère, skippered by Frenchman Alain Thébault and with a 10-man crew, broke the sailing speed record Nov. 8, clocking 50.15 knots over 1 nautical mile in a 28-knot northwesterly off Hyères, France. The project incorporated the support of eight engineers from the aeronautics industry. The record was subject to ratification by the World Sailing Speed Record Council. www.hydroptere.com

Talkin’ Boats with Paul Hureau

Paul Hureau founder of Maritime skiff

The Maritimne 23 Defiant Paul Hureau is founder and former owner of Maritime Skiff, builders of clean, functional boats.

How Capt. Bligh is helping climate study

Scientists are using centuries-old logbooks in the British archives to understand weather patterns

A depiction of Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan, with Mt. Sarmiento in the distance. Scientists are mining the logbooks of British sea captains from the age of exploration and discovery for troves of weather data to help them understand global warming, climate change and weather variability.

The Northwest Passage in a Nordhavn

A filmmaker completes an 8,500-mile transit to document the effects of climate change on the region

The crew found the icebergs awe-inspiring. Sprague Theobald had never seen ice like this. “Ice before was something you would skate on or slip and fall on, but this ice was so powerful … you couldn’t help feel like it had a very strong personality,” he says.

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