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Celebrating the Winners of Art of the Sea Exhibition
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Annual Awards Dinner 23 October 2025
2025 Annual Awards Dinner 23 October 2025 – New York Yacht Club Honoring Leslie Kohler American…
62nd Annual Meeting Featuring Charles Anderson: Sinking the United States
Watch the Annual Meeting Recording >> Watch: The Sinking of the United States >> Thursday…
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In the Pages of Sea History 190
“American Steams Yachts at War: Yachtsmen and Their Boats Commissioned for Wartime Service” by Steve Dunn Read this featured article “The Indefatigable Howard I. Chapelle” by John S….
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Giant Squid
By Richard King The first known photograph of a nearly complete specimen of a giant squid was taken in 1873 in the living room of a reverend living in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Those are eight 6-foot-long arms sliding down in the middle (in the photo below), while on each side, draped up and down, are…
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