Fla. couple back home after unexpected Cuba trip

A Florida couple who said they wound up in a Cuban jail after their boat was badly damaged in a storm is back home. Robert Vassallo on Friday said he and his girlfriend, Angellette Smith, flew into Miami New Year's Eve. The couple said they had been sailing around the Caribbean when they encountered rough waves, and their boat washed ashore and sustained damages.

9-Foot, 400-Pound Dolphin Leaps From Water, Injures Boaters

Four people were riding in a boat off the coast of Volusia County on Thursday when a dolphin jumped out of the water and hit two of them in the chest.

Cruising through the canals and rivers of Brittany - Sunday Sun

EVER had that sinking feeling on holiday? It happened to me time and again on a recent trip to Brittany, and I never grew tired of it.

Old boat given new lease on life

What is thought to be Australia's oldest boat is being restored in an apple shed in the Huon Valley in southern Tasmania.

4 killed in boating accident on New Orleans river

Divers in New Orleans are looking for a man reporting missing after two boats collided, killing at least four people.

Yacht/boat Renaming Ceremony

Yacht /Boat Renaming Ceremony This is the method of renaming your yacht or boat so you will not offend the gods of the sea, L

10 pulled from water after boat hits O.C. bridge

Officials say ten people were pulled from the water, some of them injured, after a boat hit the Ocean City Expressway bridge.

8 dead, 5 missing in canoe dam accident

Divers pulled six bodies out of the Sava River and fought strong currents Friday to search for five other people still missing after two canoes were crushed running over a dam in southeastern Slovenia.

How Royal Regatta is different from the rest

Look down the river for a moment. Blot out the grandstands and booms, remove every spectator, add a perfect sky and imagine a single crew on the river. Picture the synergy of a crew skating their boat across mirror-like water.

Drunken Swede Steals Row Boat To Paddle Home Across Busy Shipping Channel

A drunken 78-year-old Swede stole a dinghy after a night out in the Danish town of Helsingor and tried to row back to Sweden, but fell asleep halfway, Danish police said on Monday.

Wild about Bass Pro

As Charles Rainey aimed his laser gun at the ducks, his restless outdoorsman's heart was content. "I never thought it would open," he said after taking down several birds in the laser arcade of the new Bass Pro Shops on its first day of business in Rossford Tuesday. "We …

Elian Gonzalez joins Cuba's Young Communists

Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde quotes Elian Gonzalez as saying he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, who succeeded Fidel earlier this year.

Superstitious town bans whistling

A superstitious coastal town has imposed a month-long ban on whistling in an attempt to ensure good weather for its annual boating festival. Portsoy, in Banffshire, has revived an ancient maritime belief that whistling at sea brings ill winds.

Tchibo billionaire dies in US boating accident

Joachim Herz, a German billionaire born into the Tchibo coffee fortune, has died after a boating accident in the US state Georgia.