After finishing second in race nine of the event, Ainslie made the headlines for the wrong reasons after swimming over to a media boat and angrily remonstrating with the crew.

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Laura Dekker, 14, who won a legal battle to sail earlier this year, left at around 0900 GMT aboard her 11.5m (38ft) boat Guppy, Dutch media said.

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Many on social media want to buy him another boat.

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Working down the Internet hierarchy, you have the major media players, who simply missed the boat.

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And that kind of media buzz -- as the Swift Boat controversy proved -- can be worth its political weight in gold.

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"Any spare moments where you're not manning the sails are spent navigating, doing maintenance work, media work and trimming weight from the boat, " he said.

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Aside from cave exploration, Cahyo next year plans to lead a marine expedition, with a team comprising government officials, the media and researchers, on a traditional phinisi sailing boat.

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The investigation was reopened after the captain of the boat, Dennis Davern, told US media that he lied to police, and that a fight between Wood and Wagner had led to her death.

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Multiple players will help determine the campaign's flow, including Congress, hot Senate candidates, "527" groups (like "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" and the "Media Fund") and, notably, each side's surrogates.

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Republican strategists admit that the Swift Boat veterans' attacks on John Kerry, largely ignored by the old media, would never have got anywhere without the online Drudge Report.

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