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Somali Pirates to World: You Brought This On Yourselves

If you're like me, you can't wait for the winter yachting season to begin, but before you don your monocle and climb aboard your megayacht, you'd better plot your sun-seeking itinerary carefully. Just last week, pirates kidnapped a British couple from their yacht, the Lynn Rival, as they sailed off the coast of Somalia. As the AP points out, Paul and Rachel Chandler had been sailing to Tanzania when they activated their yacht's emergency beacon on November 23, 2009, and the British navy found their empty yacht on Thursday.

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It's A Great Day For A Sail, On Murdoch's $310,000-A-Week Sailboat

When we aren't out jetting around on LCCs, busing to Baltimore for $1 or hopping a high-speed train, we like to fantasize about that other form of transportation: the almighty ship. So to allay our own curiosity as much as yours, we're spotlighting yachts with either notorious owners or histories...or both. Know of a bootylicious boat? Let us know.

Last month, we featured the $1 Million-a-week yacht charter of the Fontainebleau Hotel owner's 'Mad Summer' boat. Recognizing that this price bracket is far out of reach for many people, hell, all people, we're toning it down to something more affordable.

What do you say you and nine of your friends get together and shell out a total of $310,000 for a week onboard a sailboat? This isn't just any sailboat however, it's Rupert Murdoch's 'Rosehearty,' and she's got an aluminum hull and technical advances to daze the most seasoned seaman.

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Hop An NYC Schooner For An Iron Chef's Harbor Cruise Dinner

Living in New York City is hard to do for many reasons; it's expensive, it's crowded, and it hurts to the core to leave near so much awesome water and not be able to take a boat out on it because you don't have a boat.

It's true; boating around Manhattan is a rich man's pastime, what with the cost of docking and maintenance. So instead those hankering to get out on the harbor turn to boat tours, but we're not talking about the Circle Line here. Instead, climb aboard one of two Schooners plying the NY waters: The Adirondack and the Imagine. they'll take you out for a true harbor sailing experience in very small groups for around $50 per person for the 2-hour trip—and you can chose between daytime, sunset, or nighttime city lights.

Kick up a notch however by opting for the Morimoto Sushi and Sake Sail, which for $105 per person, includes the 2-hour sunset cruise plus a dinner of sushi and sake from iron chef Masaharu Morimoto. The sushi boat leaves on Monday nights through August from Chelsea Piers; pack your to-go chopsticks and buy tickets at their website.

Related Stories:
· Morimoto Sushi & Sake Sunset Sail of NY Harbor [Zerve]
· The Schooners Adirondack and Imagine [NYC-Sail]
· Boating Coverage [Jaunted]

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Yacht Away The Recession for $1 Million a Week on 'Mad Summer'

When we aren't out jetting around on LCCs, busing to Baltimore for $1 or hopping a high-speed train, we like to fantasize about that other form of transportation: the almighty ship. So to allay our own curiosity as much as yours, we're spotlighting yachts with either notorious owners or histories...or both. Know of a bootylicious boat? Let us know.

Stinking up the hotel scene right now is the news that Jeff Soffer, the billionaire behind The Fontainebleau in Miami, has sought bankruptcy protection for his Las Vegas Fontainebleau venture. As a result, his lavish lifestyle is under the microscope and items of gritty luxury come out to play. For example, his 257' yacht, the Mad Summer, launched only last year.

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Getting The Wind In Our Hair On Lake Geneva

The first thing you need to know about sailing in Geneva is this word: Alinghi. You’ll see it on bags, on t-shirts, on hats, on bumper stickers, in the newspaper and on television, and, if you’re very lucky, on a sleek grey boat zipping across the lake.

As the defending America’s Cup champion, the Alinghi is beloved by the denizens of this nautically minded city, and its home base, the Société Nautique de Genève, is located right next door to Geneve-Plage. They host a number of large regattas, including the Bol d’Or Mirabaud, Europe’s largest lake sailing race, which goes from one end of the lake to the other, and takes place over a very long day in mid-June.

On weekend mornings, it’s easy to score a prime place by the shore to watch sailboats racing just offshore, but why not join in yourself before the big guys take to the lake later this month?

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The Simple Pleasures of Life: Pedal Boating in Prospect Park

So it looks like this won't be the year I buy a superyacht, but the recession can't keep me off the water entirely. In fact, we took our first boat excursion of the season last weekend - a lovely cruise on Brooklyn's Prospect Park Lake - and it only cost us $16.25, plus two bucks for ice cream. It had been years since I rented a pedal-boat, but the weather was beautiful and we were looking for a cheap way to float, so we took the Q train to the Prospect Park station and made our way to Wollman Rink, where we climbed into a yellow plastic pedal boat and hit the water.

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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: Buenos Aires Water

Embedded Travel Guides: We are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then stealthy embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Matt Chesterton of Buenos Aires. You might remember this x-Time Out Travel star from HotelChatter's hit series The Thinkers' Guide to Staying in Buenos Aires.

One of the best things to do in any big city is to get the hell out of it. The problem with Buenos Aires is that it is surrounded by hundreds of square kilometres of pancake-flat pampas; no hills, not many trees, and not much of interest to see unless you're a fanatical cow-watcher (and there seem to be fewer and fewer of us these days).

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