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Why You Always Enter A Plane From the Left

By Grant Piper 10/13/24 When people scan their boarding passes and wait in the queue to get onto a commercial plane they usually aren’t thinking about the logistics of such a mundane sequence. As people shuffle down the jetway and onto their flight, they are thinking about how they’re going... Continue reading
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A Ghost Ship Tale for Halloween Week

There is some skepticism as to whether Ourang Medan actually existed, but its legend is well known. Around 1948, Morse code distress signals were picked up by several ships off the coast of Indonesia. The vessel in distress was a Dutch freighter called Ourang Medan, a Malay name meaning “Man from Medan.... Continue reading
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The Boatbuilding History at Kingman Yacht Center

We’ve talked with the old-timers and pored through history books and periodicals to learn the real story of boatbuilding on Red Brook Harbor, much of it dating back into the 1800's. But when it comes to Kingman it’s somewhat confusing. Here’s what we’ve got: Our boatyard’s founder, T. Barry Kingman,... Continue reading
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Christmas at Sea

by Robert Louis Stevenson The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand; The decks were like a slide, where a seamen scarce could stand; The wind was a nor’wester, blowing squally off the sea; And cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a-lee. They heard the... Continue reading