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PUMA LEG FIVE DAY 36 QFB: received 21.03.09 1524 GMT
Kenny’s asked me to fill in for him today as he’s been laid up in with a bad stomach.
One thing’s for sure it’s not from overeating, we are slowly starting to move into a rationing situation. The food was planned out for a 36 day leg, which is tomorrow. Add to that the fact we had a strangely contaminated batch of food on one of the earlier days so essentially today is our last day of regular food… starting tomorrow … Details
On the sun-splashed Florida peninsula, the US foreclosure crisis is sinking lavish lifestyles on land and at sea and luxury yacht owners are increasingly finding themselves high and dry.
The listing for a recent attractive property swallowed up by the crisis appeared to be a sea-front condominium: two bedroom/two bath, outdoor grill, water views, elegant and spacious. Satellite television and temperature-controlled wine cabinet included.
But it was a 60-foot (18.3-meter) yacht, docked amid a crush of other luxury marine toys at a Fort Lauderdale boat yard……Â Details
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Being a 20-something ski bum in Fort Collins, Colo., just wasn’t fun enough for Michael Guerriero: Party opportunities tended to melt away when the snow did — so that’s when he hit the road.
He puts it like this: “Basically, before and after ski season, my friends and I would drive from Lake Tahoe to the East Coast and back to the Rockies, following an asphalt zig-zag from one festival to the next.  Details
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Typically a rock thrown in water sinks, but that’s just what engineers at UCSD are trying to avoid.
The students said “bon-voyage” to a twenty-five-foot “concrete canoe” Thursday, that will hopefully take sail in Hawaii next month as part of a civil engineer’s competition.
Overall the canoe weighs around ….
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