Troubled times on Fletcher Christian's Utopia

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Pitcairn Island, world famous for its connection with the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1790, came to limelight in September 2004 due to a sex-abuse trial wherein half of the population of men including the mayor Steve Christian, a direct descendant to Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian, was charged with assaulting underage girls. The community, which relies on the men to transport visitors and supplies via longboats to reach ships, fears that the trial and subsequent conviction can create a rift between islanders and visiting cruisers.

Legal issues & crime, Oceania, Company legal issue, Investigations, Pitcairn, Sexual abuse

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Hibernation Mediterranean style

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Communities of cruisers at the Park Kemer Marina, located 18 miles from Antalya on Turkey's south coast organized a gathering in 2003/2004 winter. The diverse cruising community including 32 British, 15 American, 11 Dutch, 9 Swedish, 7 German, 3 Austrian, 3 Australian, 2 Danish boats along with a single vessel from Finland narrate their experience in Park Kemer Marina which is a good base to cruise the eastern Mediterranean.

Turkey, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Sailors, Antalya, Turkey

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Dickering with the duppies

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The Garifuna living in villages scattered along the Caribbean coast, built dug out canoes or dories from giant mahogany and cedar trees from coastal rainforests of Honduras. The Garifuna' s are independent self-reliant, religious, and their strong belief in the supernatural and reverence for the nature, makes them associate superstition, with making of the dory.

Management dynamics, Honduras, Usage, Practice, Boatbuilding, Mahogany, Mahogany (Plant), Cedar, Cedars, Garifunas

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