The show was to have featured displays of boats across the city's docks and a programme of demonstrations including championship sailing, wake-boarding, power boat racing, and water-skiing.

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According to their website the team was attempting to row unassisted across the Atlantic Ocean, a daring 3569 nautical mile journey, using human power to propel the boat, and solar and wind power to charge its instruments.

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Some of the start-up engine companies say they could ultimately get orders from makers of power generators or boat engines.

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Yet to come (and be placed) is a marine-safety agency, at one moment destined for that mighty seaboard power, Luxembourg, until France rocked the boat with a claim from Brest.

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After Labor won power in 2007 it closed the camps and processed boat people on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, as well as on the mainland.

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The lack of power and limited food supply have put her in the same boat as millions of others this week.

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