11-Apr-2006  (yacht cruise)

• 'OMANI TOURISM RECEIVES BOOST FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH II CRUISE SHIP (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
Statistics Salalah port Wednesday received the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship with 2,612 passengers on board, among them 1,614 were tourists and 998 crew members.
• 'Northwest men who dream of rowing from U.S. to England try North Peninsula waters (Peninsula Daily News)
PORT TOWNSEND -- If they succeed, their names will go down in maritime history as the first Americans to row unassisted across the North Atlantic. And a group of local boaters will be able say, ``I shook their hands and saw the boat that made the voyage.''
• 'Multibillionaire's Yacht Tatoosh Has Slipped Into St. Petersburg (The Tampa Tribune)
ST. PETERSBURG - One of the world's most luxurious yachts - belonging to one of the world's richest men - put in to port here Monday. The reason remains unclear.
• 'Yesterday's news (Mobile Register)
"The Regular Races. -- The Spring Meeting opens to-morrow with a fine field, that is very likely to make a spanking race. There are four entries, and as the weather promises to be just the thing for a race day, we expect to see a perfect crowd on the track."
• '10 Apr 2006 : Aluminium and the sea (Cape Business News South Africa Business)
FOR several decades now, the marine environment has become an area of technological and economic progress and development around the world.
• 'Meet Willis Vanasdale (News Journal)
SHELBY -- Willis Vanasdale, 87, was only half-way through basic training at Great Lakes Naval Training Center near Chicago when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.