From the tragedy earlier this month when a Mexican Navy ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge to the German battleship Bismarck having its rudder damaged ... a 3,000-square-foot sail to help maneuver ...

This is especially true at sunset, when lateen sail boats and traditional wooden vessels called albuferenc set out from the jetty at Gola de Pujol, offering tours of the Albufera lagoon.

Widger’s first week at sea tested him. He faced storms, sail repairs, and the most “terrifying”- a rudder failure. “The boat was just rocking like this every thirty seconds,” he said ...

HONOLULU — An Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaii with ... point of the trip came when a rudder failed, Widger said.

The vessel set sail from Acapulco on Mexico’s Pacific ... told investigators that he lost control of the vessel after the rudder stopped working. “They had some kind of mechanical problem.

(Oliver Widger via AP) HONOLULU — An Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaii ... the trip came when a rudder failed, Widger ...

The accident Saturday night raised a slew of questions about how the tall ship – a training vessel – was able to sail in the wrong ... it lost power and the rudder stopped working, the senior ...

In this screengrab taken from a video posted on Oliver Widger's Instagram account on May 4, Widger talks to the camera somewhere in the Pacific Ocean as he and his cat, Phoenix, sail from Oregon ...

The most difficult problem throughout the sail occurred when the rudder failed. For three hours, the boat tilted precariously while he made repairs. Traveling with a cat has also created some ...