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Builder fights keel failure conviction

Jury in Australia acquits a welder but convicts his boss for the tragedy that claimed four lives

Australian forensic police document the hull and keel of Excalibur after it was hauled in 2002. Four crewmembers died when the keel failed and the boat capsized. An executive in an Australian boatbuilding firm is appealing his manslaughter conviction in the deaths of four sailors whose racing yacht lost its keel and capsized in the Pacific in 2002.

NFL deaths blamed on anchoring error

Investigators say tying the rode to the stern to free their fouled anchor led to the capsize

After a day of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles off Clearwater, Fla., it was time for Marquis Cooper and his three companions to head home. But the anchor was stuck, embedded in the hard bottom 138 feet below the surface.

Madoff’s fleet hits rough seas

Victims of the financier’s investment fraud could share the proceeds when his seized boats are auctioned

Bull, a Rybovich 56, was one of four boats seized by authorities. As news helicopters hovered overhead, Bull, a 1969 Rybovich 56 sportfishing yacht — the pride and joy of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff — motored out of its covered slip at Roscioli Yachting Center in Fort Lauderdale for a very public promenade down the New River to an impoundment by U.S. marshals.

Cup foes told to settle it on the water

Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi syndicate has twice won the America's Cup. What should have been clear at the start became perfectly clear at the end: Club Náutico Español de Vela is not a proper yacht club under the terms of the America’s Cup Deed of Gift and cannot be challenger of record for the 33rd Cup.

Truth in tankage at issue in lawsuit

A California attorney claims that the builder of Selene trawlers and its “major agent and broker” on the West Coast engaged in fraud when they sold him a Selene 43 with significantly less fuel and water capacity than advertised.

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