ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Most people opt to make a transatlantic sea voyage on a cruise ship. Matt Kent, the U.S. Brig Niagara’s fourth mate, plans to sail the Atlantic Ocean in 2017 in a boat measuring just ...

Can you imagine sailing the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean to the frigid waters of Greenland? This summer, about 40 graduate students and faculty from Portugal, Norway, Greenland, and the U.S. are ...

MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — A Mercer Island man was rescued from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean while sailing from Brazil to South Africa. "You got a second life,” said Balthasar Wyss. “An opportunity at ...

A Canadian couple who were found dead in their life raft after a failed attempted to sail across the Atlantic Ocean have been identified. Brett Clibbery, 70, and his wife, Sarah Packwood, 60, had set ...

More than 800 sailors and 145 boats began the 40th ARC Rally from Las Palmas for the 2700-mile passage to Saint Lucia. The ...

Alumni Michael and Suzanne Pail met as engineering students at RIT. Now, in retirement, they are sailing the world on a ...

Sailor Anna-Liisa Talts on Thursday became the first Estonian woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo. She covered a little over 4,000 nautical miles, or nearly 7,500 kilometers in her 6.5-metre ...

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