News Focused on Activity in our Coastal Waters

And they're off

The 33rd Rolex Middle Sea Race got under way Oct. 20 with a cannon blast fired from the Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valetta, Malta. A record 83 yachts from 19 countries started the 606-mile race, which takes the fleet around Sicily and back to Malta. www.rolexmiddlesearace.com

Lawyers battle over Cup cat

Todd Tholke towed the AC45 back to shore with his Boston Whaler. Hero or hijacker? The question has swirled around night watchman Todd Tholke, who filed a $200,000 salvage claim after finding the French America’s Cup World Series team’s 45-foot catamaran in the dead of night after it drifted away from a San Francisco pier.

Bill King: solo sailor, sub chief

Bill King on board Snapper, his first submarine command.

Bill King, a decorated British World War II submarine commander and single-hander who sailed in the first solo around-the-world race, has died at 102.

Outbound

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II

ISO: 200

Lens focal length: 24-105mm

Aperture: f/6.3

Shutter speed: 1/500 second

Location: Hunt 44 off Maine's Portland Head Light

December 2012 issue

Remembering the laughter of a bluewater sailor

Dr. Edmund 'Ned' Cabot drowned when a wave swept him from his J/46 off Newfoundland.

Dr. Edmund “Ned” Cabot, a prominent Boston surgeon, philanthropist and cruising yachtsman, drowned late this summer in a gale when a wave knocked his J/46, Cielita, down and swept him overboard off southwest Newfoundland.