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Articles with tag : famous boats

06/08/2026 From Overblog

Venice’s vaporetti: the beating heart of the City of the Doges

In Venice, the streets are canals, the crossroads are jetties, and public transport travels on the water. For over...

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06/03/2026 From Overblog

2026 Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong: 50 Years of Dragon Boat Races in Victoria Harbour

To mark the 50th anniversary of international dragon boat racing, Hong Kong is hosting one of Asia’s largest water...

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03/16/2026 From Overblog

Amoco Cadiz: forty-eight years on, Brittany’s dark scar

16 March 1978 remains a date deeply etched in the collective memory of Brittany, France. On that day, the supertanker...

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06/10/2023 From Overblog

Legendary sailboats - Dufour Arpège, a mass-produced sailboat that performs well under sail

Engineer and naval architect Michel Dufour drew up the plans for the Arpège in 1966, with the aim of building a...

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06/03/2023 From Overblog

Yacht Christina (Christina O): a warship turned into the most luxurious yacht of its time

Before she became one of the world's most famous mega-yachts, the Yacht Christina was a frigate built by Canadian...

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02/03/2021 From Overblog

Maxim Gorki, the yacht of Joseph Stalin

Launched in 1934 in Nizhny-Novgorod, by the most important Soviet shipyard of the time, the Krasny Bogatyr (the...

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04/20/2020 From Overblog

Saddam Hussein's yachts

1979, on the Amalfi Coast. A tall, martial-looking man is received with his entourage and with great pomp by a...

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04/06/2020 From Overblog

Yachting - the boats of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, president, sailor and skipper!

If there is a president who loved the sea and travelled it on many types of boats, it is John Fitzgerald Kennedy...

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