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Catalina Rug, Inc. Announces Sale of New and Antique Persian Area Rugs
CatalinaRug.com will be offering a wide selection of high-quality Oriental rugs at savings up to 50% off the store price. New and antique rugs imported directly from Persia, India and Pakistan will be included in the promotion.

Sailing Away On A Honeymoon Is Romantic
The distance that a cruise can put you from your life and most reality is what makes the cruises so special. You will find that it can be very romantic for you and your loved one to experience a cruise. Can you see yourself sailing at full speed with the wind in your hair and the stars above while in the arms of your lover? It?s a beautiful moment and you?ll find that it?s a perfect vacation for you to be able to find the romance once again. If you want to have a vacation filled with romance, you may want to think about a cruise. A cruise is your best option when it comes to reviving the romance.

Trailerable Sailboats ? Convenient And Inexpensive
One of the best ways to enjoy sailing at low cost is to get a trailerable sailboat ? something you can cruise around in, or race, yet not have to worry about the wear and tear a boat suffers on a mooring. You will also save quite a lot of money in mooring fees.

Amver Vessel Rescues 3 from Disabled Sailboat
The Amver participating vessel Sevillan Reefer rescued three people from their disabled sailboat 115 nautical miles west of Panama.

A Catalina Island Adventure
Sun and fun off the coast of CaliforniaFor a refreshing and relaxing addition to your Los Angeles or California itinerary, consider a day trip to Catalina Island and the community of Avalon. Your day will likely begin at the Balboa Pavillion in the town of Newport, California as you board the Newport Flyer, a large catamaran vessel that ferries you and your group to the island across an hour and a half of open ocean.

Fair Wind Sailing School Selected as Only Instructor Qualification Location In Caribbean
Fair Wind Sailing School has been selected by the American Sailing Association (ASA) to host a Catamaran Instructor Qualification Clinic (IQC) in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands on October 17 and 18, 2007. This clinic will be the only opportunity for sailing instructors to earn ASA qualifications in the Caribbean this year.

Malta - Great For A Sailing Holiday
Malta, Gozo and Comino are the three largest islands and are located in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea, south of Sicily The Maltese archipelago is right at the centre of the ancient sea and all ships, migrations and invasions passed by its coasts which today offer marvelous scenery and good shelters to those that chooses to sail around it

Santa Catalina - Island of Dreams
This beautiful island lies just 26 miles across the ocean from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles. Yet it might be thousands of miles away.

Pterosail Trike Systems, L.C. Announces Revolutionary Hybrid Sailing and Cycling Product
A family startup company hopes to bring the exhilaration of sailing to a road near you. With the price of gasoline increasing and the growing environmental awareness to the benefits of zero-emission vehicles, Pterosail Trike Systems, L.C. believes the timing couldn't be better.

Guide To A Sailing Charter In Croatia
Sailing across Croatia's eye-catching coastline is a wonderful experience. The country's tourism industry has been flagged up because of Croatia's cruising and yachting industries. With more than 1,180 islands and 3,000-mile long coastline, one can feel the grandeur of the magic the country can bring. In 2005 alone, there are approximately 10 million tourists in Croatia with most of them wanting to take a quick look at the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas.

Book a Catamaran Excursion on Your Next Cruise Vacation
My wife and I decided to book a cruise to Bermuda for our wedding anniversary. We thought it would be fun and of course anytime you get away from work, home and all of the stresses of life you are better off. Something about vacation that makes you forget about everything (well almost everything) in life.

Enjoy your Stay at the Catalina Resorts
If you are visiting Sunshine coast in Australia, you should stay at Catalina resort. This is because Catalina resorts provide luxurious staying condition besides being located at the exotic Maroochydore beach which is patrolled daily. The Sunshine coast where Catalina resorts are located really lives up to its name with average seven hours sunshine a day. The average summer temperature here is around 28 degree Celsius whereas the average winter temperature is 22 degree Celsius which is most favorable condition for the tourists. The spring and autumn temperature sits around 25 degree Celsius which means the place is suitable and open for tourists all around the year.

Sailing To Cnidus, The Star Of Dorian Hexapolis
If you are looking for a unique yachting holiday or vacation, you should try a sailing voyage to ancient city of Cnidus in Turkey.

Guide To A Sailing Charter In Abacos
The Abaco Islands is a beautiful holiday destination for you and your family It is situated in the northern region of Bahamas and consist the big islands of Little Abaco and Great Abaco

New Independent Directory on Sailing Yacht Charter Companies
Searching for information about a sailing vacation can often be a difficult process. sBoats solves this problem by introducing a new content directory with insightful information on sailing yacht charter (www.sBoats.com) companies from more than one hundred beautiful cruising areas all over the world.

The Rise and Rise of Croatia For Sailing Holidays

In the 1980s, Croatia - then part of Yugoslavia - built up a sizeable yacht charter industry. It was never then on the scale to rival long time favourite Greece, but it was large enough to get itself noticed as an attractive coming destination. Then came the various Balkan wars - one of them involving Croatia itself - and the disintegration of old Yugoslavia. Croatia is now the ex-Yugoslav republic with almost all the coast line!

Since the wars ended the growth of the croatian yacht charter industry has been little short of astonishing. In an industry notoriously short of credible statistics, we suspect that Croatia must now be a serious rival to Greece. There are a number of expalanations for this remarkable success:

The country is naturally blessed with sailing waters as good and varied as anywhere in the world.

After the war, the Croatian government went out of its way to encourage and indeed subsidise the re-building and building of the necessary infrastructure - most obviously the marinas.

Northern Croatia is a 4 hour drive from most of Austria, and southern parts of Germany. Even Dalmatia, where perhaps the best sailing is to be found - is only 6 hours away. This was always a big advantage, but in the wake of 9/11, when Germans in particular were reluctant to climb on an airplane, it catapulted the industry forward.

Sailing holidays in Croatia now include almost everything that customers could conceivably want. There are thousands of bareboat yachts to charter in bases from Pula and Cres in Istria, to the massive yachting centres of Zadar, Sukosan, Sibenik, Murter Island, Split, & Dubrovnik. Each one of those can be chartered with a skipper for those without the necessary experience. There are sailing flotillas from Split, and an RYA Authorised Sailing School on Murter Island. The opportunities to spend one week afloat and another ashore are endless.

One of the problems for the British used to be that getting there was expensive and there were not enough seats on such planes flew there. Things started to improve in 2004, with regular charter flights to Split at least. For 2005, there are flights to Opatija in the north, Zadar to get to central Dalmatia, Split, and also Dubrovnik. Getting to Istria is easy. Just fly EasyJet to Venice, or Ryanair to Trieste. The first has hydrofoil links to the excellent sailing of Pula; the second is a transfer bus away from Portoroz (actually in Slovenia), and Pula. Croatia is now the sailing destination for the British - the destination that has it all!

Christopher LONGMORE - Owner of Top Notch, a GibSea402 based in Turkey and of the Global Yacht sailing holidays group.