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Robert Pirsig Graduated From Bike To Westsail 32

The author poses in front of a mural in Tuxpan on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, which shows Granma being provisioned for the invasion of Cuba. Tuxpan was the departure point for Raul Castro’s historic 1956 expedition. Among the 82 men on board was Che Guevara and Castro himself.
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Was Granma Built in New Orleans?

The author grimly faces his 51st birthday with a Kalik in hand inside the Compleat Angler. Twenty-four hours later, the famed 12-room inn and saloon was in ashes.
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Angler Burns: 11 Years Ago Bimini Lost a Monument to Hemingway

Tracy Lynn Tedesco drove a truck to support her family.
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Arrest Threat Recalls Christmas Past

A pair of U.S.-flagged sailboats race past El Morro castle at the entrance to Havana Harbor in 2013, two years before the Obama Administration made it legal for them to enter Cuban waters.
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Trump has Four Choices on Cuba

One Mile Swath of River: This satellite images provides a typical view of a little more than a mile of the river’s south bank. Most of these 37 residental docks are likely damaged or destroyed.
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Hurricane Matthew smashes docks in north Florida by the thousands

Marina Hemingway, which has side-tie berths for about 150 boats, was developed after the Cuban Revolution on the site of a villa development that American gangster Meyer Lansky owned.
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Cuba Policy Change Could Affect Hundreds of Thousands in Florida

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Celebrity Car Dealer Answers ‘Yes’ To Guns On Board, Faces Charges in New York

P-Nuts are boiled in brine and typically sold at roadside stands in sandwich bags.
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A Gateway To Old Florida, Green Cove Springs Boasts Unique Marine Infrastructure and Artifacts

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‘Hunger Games’ Immigration Policy Is Immoral

What looks like a container washed up in the Exumas a few weeks after El Faro sank during Hurricane Joaquin.
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Weather router Chris Parker analyzes El Faro debris movement

Novelist Ernest Hemingway used to carry a Thompson submachine gun aboard Pilar. He used it to shoot sharks when necessary and leaping stingrays for target practice when drinking.
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Keeping guns aboard lawfully; it’s complicated

Officials clear a U.S. boat into Cuba in 2002. American sportfish captains participating in a tournament in Havana last month complained about being shaken down for “hundreds of dollars” while entering and leaving the country. Loose Cannon asks why they lacked the cojones to refuse to pay.
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Just say no (but if you can’t, please give a ten, not hundreds)

This newspaper image shows the start of the St. Petersburg-Havana Yacht Race in the late 1950s. The United States has begun to reverse a policy of the George W. Bush administration, which put an end to American participation in regattas and fishing tournaments in Cuba. Now one of each is happening in May.
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Door to Cuba for U.S. boats opens a crack

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Mr. President, let us help

As you can see from this chart, Sutterfield’s dinghy would have had to drift on a path athwart the powerful current of the Gulf Stream. Even without a loss of propulsion, the range of a small outboard was nowhere near the 72 miles it needed to travel from Marathon to Cay Sal Bank, even if it were powerful enough to buck the Stream.
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'Drifting' dinghy defies Gulf Stream

The clam chowder at The Grog in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is renowned in the region. Note how the butter floats on the surface of the creamy broth.
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Quit calling your pasty chowder “New England Style”

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Coddled nation

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Curmudgeons trump canines on a Jamaica run

Nearly every boat in the Bahamas and the Caribbean is directly discharging into the water, with few reported ill effects. That includes the big charter fleets.
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NDZs are not the answer