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USCG Mini Boat Challenge

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Crew members from Coast Guard Station Yankeetown, Florida, and eighth-grade students

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from Dunnellon Christian Academy in Dunnellon, FL pose for a photo with an unmanned sail-

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boat to celebrate the first Gulf Coast Mini Boat Challenge, in Yankeetown, FL on Feb. 19. mail, Tom Russell, Publisher: thenewscaster1@gmail.comIEmail, Debbie Russell, Editor: d

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patterns on the water. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ashley J. Johnson.)

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 Coast Mini  Challenge,   west

CrewmembersCoast StationYankeetown traveled helplaunch a

 from  Guard    offshore to  

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small unmanned sailboat, to assist 8th grade students from Dunellon Christian Academy in

Dunnellon, 

 FL.

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Students constructed the sailboat and equipped it with a GPS tracker, hand-written

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letters and a baseball, with the hopes of watching the sailboat travel the world in an effort to

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learn more about weather patterns on the ocean.

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"This was a great way for us to reach out to our local community," said Chief Petty

Officer Robert Whitmore, officer-in-charge of Station Yankeetown. "We are always excited

This week's featured photo is of Corey PennyDunnellon with an     

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to take advantage of any boating education opportunity."

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though we have a great  selection!

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5   e  , 2B   / 2   A     

g Soils

$

2

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0

0

0

culite - Peat Moss

Disease Controls