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"Slow down! We just outran the kite!" — Michael Satterlund "As found in the WM catalog; cockpit shade, large, blue. $4099." — Rob Adkins "Hey, where'd our bowman go?” — Kent Carter "Love the new bimini!" — Betsy Crowfoot "Head's up, you're without tack, and have no clew!" — Bill Huber "OK, the backstay is fully polished. Now bring it around to the port shroud!" — Mark Bettis "How do you dry your kite?" — Jaimie Bartlett "When the whomper whomps." — " curtisazevedo "Ah man I think this sail is for downwind! Let’s have a beer and figure out how to tack this thing." — Chris Johnston "Yet another painting where the artist just doesn't understand how the sails and rigging are supposed to look." — Steven Hartman Spanish galleon with $17 billion worth of treasure that sank off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago was discovered by an underwater autonomous vehicle operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)," reported Mark Pratt of the Associated Press. "The discovery was made off the coast of Cartagena three years ago, but officials only just disclosed it last week, according to WBUR TV in Boston. "'We've been holding this under wraps out of respect for the Colombian government,' Rob Munier, WHOI's vice president for marine facilities and operations, told the station. The exact location of the wreck of the San Jose, often called the 'holy grail of shipwrecks,' was long considered one of history's enduring maritime mysteries. The 62-gun, three-masted galleon went down on June 8, 1708, with 600 people on board as well as a treasure of gold, silver and emeralds during a battle with British ships in the War of Spanish Succession. The treasure is worth as much as $17 billion by modern standards. "The Massachusetts-based WHOI was invited to join the search because of its recognized expertise in deep water exploration. The institute's autonomous underwater vehicle, REMUS 6000, helped find the wreckage of Air France 447 in 2011, which crashed in 2009 several hundred miles off the coast of Brazil.
