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Antigua and Barbuda resident’s loyalty was split three ways when it came to cheering at the 36th America’s Cup, which sailed in March in New Zealand. That’s because three island sons each raced on different teams. Shannon Falcone, with five Cups already under his belt, sailed for the Italian Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team. Louis Sinclair, who was on the roster for Oracle Team USA in the last Cup, served as a grinder for Cup winner Emirates Team New Zealand. Sinclair’s younger brother, Alex, made his America’s Cup debut as a grinder for the New York Yacht Club’s American Magic. It’s incredible to consider that one island nation that measures a little more than half the size of New York City can boast not one, but three sailors in the most recent America’s Cup.
Mother still desperately searching for clues on son missing for almost four years
Roman Mussabekov went missing in May 2017, after vacationing in Antigua. His mother is holding on to the hope that he will still be found, despite being missing for so long.
Nearly four years after her son, Roman Mussabekov, went missing after vacationing in Antigua, Marina Bezborodova still remains hopeful that he will be found.
Mussabekov arrived in Antigua on May 15, 2017 and was staying in the Hodges Bay area, before reportedly taking a taxi to English Harbour the next day. According to his mother – who allegedly spoke with the taxi driver who transported her son – he disembarked close to the Antigua Yacht Club Marina.
The 91-metre steamship
Nahlin has just celebrated her 91st year afloat and was seen this week taking refuge in Falmouth, Cornwall. Launched on the 28th April 1930, the steamship, previously named
Libertatea, was designed by the Scotish firm
G. L. Watson & Co and built in Clyde, Scotland, by John Brown & Co. The last time
Nahlin was seen in Falmouth, she was mounted aboard a cargo ship en route to the beginnings of her restoration work in 1999.
Photo: Giovanni RomeroThe extraordinary motor yacht was part of a fifteen year campaign to rescue the steamship from dilapidation in Romania, in which her designers G. L. Watson & Co, were the major instigator. Nicholas Edmiston and a yachtsman named William Collier discovered the vessel in dire straits, and after 15 years of negotiation, returned the vessel to the United Kingdom in 1999.
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When parents of challenged children at a local school in Antigua heard about a program to get their kids sailing, some were concerned. After all, even the most able-bodied, fully trained of mariners have met their fate on the sea. Yet, all it took was for one of the Parent-Teacher Association board members, a well-respected Caribbean sailor, to sign-up his daughter up for the newly launched program, and others followed suit. That happened in 2014 and today, Sailability Antigua, directed by Bob Bailey, serves nearly 90 participants each week, all of which are differently-abled.