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First Thursdays Seminar Series:
Celebrating the Winners of Art of the Sea Exhibition
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Annual Awards Dinner 23 October 2025
2025 Annual Awards Dinner23 October 2025 – New York Yacht Club HonoringLeslie KohlerAmerican President Lines, LLCCaptain…
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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Walrus
By Richard King Looking over the rail of the boat, Matthew Henson knows he will die in minutes if he falls into this water. He is in a polynya (an ice-ridged expanse of open sea) that extends into Ikeq-Smith Sound, between the far northern tips of Nunavut and Greenland. Yet the walruses, for which Henson…
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