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Pursuit DC 306
On any sunny summer weekend you’ll find groups of boaters beached, rafted up or anchored alongside sandbars. From Tice’s Shoals in New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay to Peanut Island in Florida’s Palm Beaches, and at hundreds of spots in between, the fascinat
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The Scientist Sailor
Sailing is not the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of the great theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, but like so many of us, the Nobel Prize winner had a passion for the water. At the age of 18, unable to swim, Einstein learned to sai
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Out of This World
This Boeing 307 Stratoliner served as a commercial aircraft before it was purchased for personal use by American billionaire Howard Hughes in 1939 for around $315,000 (around $6.5 million today). Just 10 years later, Hughes sold the Boeing, but not b

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