Tag: Sailboat

  • The game about the truth behind the Nord Stream explosions

    The game about the truth behind the Nord Stream explosions

    At the end of September 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines will explode in the Baltic Sea. The gas leak becomes huge and strong currents wash around debris in the sea. Speculation about the sabotage starts immediately, there is a struggle to shape the story of what happened. Many point to Russia, which owns the pipelines…

  • Biden administration continues to cover up responsibility for destroying Nord Stream pipelines: Seymour Hersh

    Biden administration continues to cover up responsibility for destroying Nord Stream pipelines: Seymour Hersh

    After the recent visit of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz In Washington, US and German intelligence services allegedly tried to spread false cover stories through the New York Times and Germany’s Die Zeit to counter the Hersh report. Since the Hersh bomb revelation, the Biden administration has gone to extremes, often re-revealing at great lengths…

  • Historic and modern boats are displayed on the Day of the Russian Navy

    Ships from bygone eras sailed alongside the Navy’s modern fleet in the Neva River in St. Petersburg Russia celebrated its Navy Day on Sunday with annual parades across the country, including the main one in the city of St. Petersburg. This year’s event marked 350 years since the birth of Peter the Great, the 18th-century…

  • Danish News Round-Up: Extra spicy, but not in a good way

    Danish News Round-Up: Extra spicy, but not in a good way

    A brand of tortilla chips is being withdrawn from sale due to the risk that they have been contaminated with higher than normal doses of atropine and scopolamine. Paulig is recalling all packages of its organic Santa Maria Tortilla Chips with an expiration date of March 30, 2023 or earlier. Unwelcome additionSmall doses of atropine…

  • Danish news overview: Denmark on board with EU gas cuts, but convinced that it will manage on its own supply

    Danish news overview: Denmark on board with EU gas cuts, but convinced that it will manage on its own supply

    The news that Russia is drastically reducing its gas supply to Germany – from tomorrow down to 33 cubic meters per day, a fifth of the capacity of 167 million – should not worry Danish consumers too much, according to the Danish Energy Agency. On 11 July, it confirmed to CPH POST that Denmark is…

  • A solar sail backed by NASA could take science to new heights

    A solar sail backed by NASA could take science to new heights

    Phase III seeks to strategically transfer NIAC concepts that have the greatest impact to NASA, other government agencies, or commercial partners. “When we dare farther into space than ever before, we need innovative, cutting-edge technologies to guide our missions,” said the NASA director. Bill Nelson. “NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program helps unlock visionary ideas –…

  • Prosecutor: Turku lawyer shot "performance style," thrown from a sailboat in 1994

    Prosecutor: Turku lawyer shot "performance style," thrown from a sailboat in 1994

    Criminal proceedings for the disappearance and death of a Turku lawyer nearly 30 years ago continued on Tuesday, with the prosecutor accused of taking the victim in his sailboat, shooting him to death and then throwing him into the sea wrapped in garbage bags and anchored. Victim, Ilpo Härmäläinendisappeared in August 1994. At the beginning…

  • The murder story of Turku, which is decades old, is taking a new turn

    The murder story of Turku, which is decades old, is taking a new turn

    The Central Criminal Police is investigating new information about the mysterious disappearance of a Turku lawyer. Ilpo Härmäläinenalmost 30 years ago. The District Court of Southwest Finland began proceedings in December 2021 and January 2022, and the 68-year-old suspect is in custody. The prosecutor has demanded the defendant’s life sentence for Härmäläinen’s murder. The suspect,…

  • UNESCO lists wooden sailboats from the Viking Age on the heritage list

    UNESCO lists wooden sailboats from the Viking Age on the heritage list

    ROSKILDE, DENMARK – For thousands of years, wooden sailboats allowed the peoples of northern Europe to spread trade, influence and sometimes war across seas and continents. In December, the UN’s cultural body added Nordic “clinker boats” to its list of representing traditions Mankind’s intangible cultural heritage. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden jointly applied for…

  • Sailboats packed with migrants are looking for Italy in the latest tactics

    Sailboats packed with migrants are looking for Italy in the latest tactics

    ROCCELLA JONICA, ITALY – When the Taliban occupied Kabul in August, Zakia was six months pregnant and in her first year at university while her husband, Hamid, worked as an accountant. They decided to flee and, together with five relatives, embarked on a two-month odyssey that took them through Iran and Turkey. When it was…

  • The Icelandic company will help reduce carbon dioxide

    The Icelandic company will help reduce carbon dioxide

    Chinese chemical producer Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals (JSP) has signed a contract with Icelandic technology company Carbon Recycling International (CRI) to build a factory. The plant is designed to produce methanol by recycling carbon dioxide, and the total project cost is estimated at ISK 4.6 billion. At a teleconference between Reykjavik and Beijing, Foreign Minister Guðlaugur…

  • Shipbuilder Meyer designs luxury-powered luxury mega yachts

    Shipbuilder Meyer designs luxury-powered luxury mega yachts

    The shipbuilding company Meyer Group, which has a shipyard in southwestern Finland, intends to expand its product range to include luxury mega yachts. The German company announced the matter on Thursday at the Monaco Yacht Show when it unveiled a 150-meter-long ONE 50 sailboat powered by fuel cells and batteries. The ONE 50 can reach…

  • The love of Greece came with marriage

    The love of Greece came with marriage

    Thus, they followed their mother Queen Ingrid’s tradition of holding summer reunions in southern Jutland. When Anne-Marie turns 75 on 30 August, she has long since returned from Denmark to the Peloponnese in Greece. Here she and her husband, ex-King Constantine, have lived since 2013. Princess Anne-Marie was only 15 years old when the Greek…

  • Lifeguards warn: Dark-clad swimmers run the risk of accidents

    Lifeguards warn: Dark-clad swimmers run the risk of accidents

    The swimmers are difficult to see for sailboats or other larger vessels that are also out on the water, says Anders Myrhøj, who is coastal lifesaving manager at Trygfonden’s Coastal Rescue. – There are lots that pull in the water, and they are really hard to spot – also for our lifeguards, says Anders Myrhøj.…

  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: How the EU moved the goalposts for the Irish

    Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: How the EU moved the goalposts for the Irish

    The Celtic Tiger economy sizzled with enough ultraviolet rays to tan a nation of reluctant pale-skinned crackers. It vibrated, trembled and trembled like a gilded Harcourt Street hooker dildo. Then ‘bankers, fat cats and politicians’ combined it faster than a rock than one could say: “Subprime evaporation of liquidity”. Back in the ‘Yellow Brick Road’…

  • Postponed imprisonment for a fatal boat accident

    Postponed imprisonment for a fatal boat accident

    The Helsinki District Court has sentenced one year and six months to imprisonment for a boat accident in which two people died. The collision between a motorboat and a sailboat took place in the Archipelago Sea in southwestern Finland in August 2019. The crash occurred in the part of the high seas known as Airisto…

  • Right now

    Right now

    Can self-propelled sailboats replace cargo ships in the future? Among other things, students and researchers at Mälardalen University are working with it to make it possible. If the cargo ships on the Atlantic can be replaced with self-propelled sailboats that are powered by sustainable energy, there can be enormous environmental benefits, says Mikael Ekström, professor…

  • The adventurer who became an Olympic winner in sailing

    The adventurer who became an Olympic winner in sailing

    Valdemar Bandolowski was already taken down to the sailboat club in Sundby when he was a purung, and as a 14-year-old he built his own little dinghy. He took a serious interest in sailing as a sport when he was 15 years old. And although he later had to enjoy great triumphs in the sport,…

  • The pandemic has led to more boats being sold

    The pandemic has led to more boats being sold

    The boating industry has received a real boost this year. Sales of new boats have increased, according to a new survey from Sweboat. It could even be a new record year. – It has been a good year. It is as for many others that it died when the corona struck, but then a couple…