14-Jul-2006  (yacht cruise)

• 'Cruising through Britain (iafrica.com)
Queen Elizabeth and the rest of the Royal family are set to celebrate her 80th year with a cruise around the Scottish Isles. Cruising is not just for monarchs though, and there are several ways for you to enjoy a holiday in Britain afloat...
• 'Portland Bill and Beyond... (Yachting and Boating World)
After the well-deserved rest day, it had been a nice late start for crews as they departed from Weymouth, bound for Dartmouth; this was so the fleet would have favourable tide most of the way while taking the offshore route around The Bill. The distance of the passage is a total of 50 miles.
• 'Travel + Leisure Readers: Seabourn Still the World's Best (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Yachts of Seabourn continue to rule the waves in the hearts and minds of upscale readers of the magazine Travel + Leisure. For the second consecutive year, they have awarded the yacht-like ships a higher score than any other line -- large or small -- in the magazine's eleventh annual survey of the "World's Best" luxury vacation options.
• 'Enjoy fall foliage from the deck of a cruise ship (Baltimore Sun)
Setting sail With clockwork precision, every major cruise line dispatches vessels to ports in New England and Eastern Canada in fall. These annual pilgrimages enable cruisers to gawk at landscapes aglow in gold, red and amber. And now is the time to plan your autumn outing.
• 'River cruise for people with disabilities, elderly (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
A new river tour marketed specifically to people with disabilities and older people launches today at 10 a.m. at the Fox Chapel Yacht Club in O'Hara. PRN River Tours "Spirit of Pittsburgh" is a 24-foot canopied river boat cruise that will tour the three rivers.
• 'Yachting Monthly's bonus feature section (Yachting Monthly)
A yacht for cruising the Mediterranean? It sounds expensive but you don't have to spend a fortune to cruise in the sun. In August's YM James Jermain assesses a selection of contenders costing less than £35,000 and suggests what key features you should be looking for.
• 'The choice is Orangeburg (Times and Democrat)
German-based ECKA Granules, Georgia-based GTS Energy and Texas-based Lennox International Inc.'s Allied Air Enterprises are a sampling of the companies that have chosen Orangeburg County recently as a place to build for the future.
• 'High-seas adventure ends on a coral reef (The Advertiser)
A DARING yachting adventure came to an embarrassing end for two Adelaide men when they ran aground near Noumea. Their uninsured $130,000 yacht hit a reef a few days into their journey from Vanuatu to the Whitsundays, sparking an international rescue.
• 'Local skipper launches a nautical pooper scooper (Chicago Tribune)
Yacht owners may cruise through life knowing that the boat invests them with a certain cachet, but as the children's book says, "Everyone Poops."
• 'By Ed Picson (Manila Bulletin)
THE FIRST time I heard the name Manny Pangilinan was over ten years ago from a close friend and classmate from Letran elementary and high school, Carmelo "Meloy" Casas of the top-notch architectural firm, Recio+Casas.