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All at Sea takes a look at one of the wildest new sports to hit the UK’s waters, as Bournemouth Surf Boat Club shows us what its all about.
Forget the sophistication of rowing at Henley on Thames, public school etiquette and Pimms. Welcome to the exciting world of Bournemouth Surf Boat Club and the super friendly, gung-ho adrenaline sport of Australian surf boat racing.
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Monday, 11 July 2011 14:46 |
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 A DISUSED part of the Port of Poole has been transformed into a new marina housing 60 metre super-yachts and smaller vessels.
The Port of Poole Marina is up and running and almost all of its berths have been snapped up.
The marina, which occupies the old Ro-Ro Brittany Ferries berth, is in a peaceful spot within easy reach of the vibrant Poole Quay and will provide a base for sailing enthusiasts visiting the 2012 Games along the coast at Weymouth and Portland.
Henry Cobley, Bosun at the marina, said: “This is a really exciting time for us as we welcome new guests from all over the UK. A limited number of berths are still available.
“There’s a wonderful diversity about the boats which have taken up permanent moorings here... from yachts and superyachts to smaller boats and jet skis and even a barge.”
John Binder of Poole Quay Boat Haven, the company behind the project, said: “We’re delighted with the quality of our new marina. Local labour and materials have been used as much as possible; the floating breakwater was constructed in Southampton and we’ve been able to re-use a top quality pontoon which was used at the Southampton Boat Show.
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Monday, 13 June 2011 13:37 |
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 The National Museum of the Royal Navy will be looking its best for the celebrations of 100 years of naval heritage within Portsmouth Dockyard.
And figurehead historian Richard Hunter has been bringing the bust of Lord Nelson back to its former glory on HMS Trafalgar in Victory Arena.
Richard and his colleague Philip Hudson attracted a lot of visitor attention and questions as they spent over a week on site, painting the figurehead with fast drying enamel paint that should ensure the figurehead’s future for the next decade.
One of Richard’s favourite parts of the process is painting the faces as many of them have lost their character and he can help bring them back to life.
Eagle-eyed visitors will also notice that this time around Nelson is without detail of his right eye as per the original figurehead of 1841.
Nelson famously lost the sight in his right eye at the siege of Calvi on 10 July 1794 and this is how sailors would have recognised the image of him. The eye has been painted in for previous restorations but it has been returned to its original form to celebrate 100 years of naval heritage.
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Monday, 13 June 2011 12:09 |
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 Actress and TV presenter Denise Van Outen will fire the gun at 0600 on June 25 to send off a record breaking fleet for the 80th Round the Island Race.
She will be joined by Michelle Luke, a Social Worker at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, who won the draw for the ‘Buy a Mile’ charity fund raising promotion run by the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust.
With 1,856 entries registered by the beginning of June the race around the Isle of Wight sponsored by J.P. Morgan Asset Management was set to live up to its reputation as Britain’s favourite yacht race and one of the biggest in the world.
The fourth biggest participation sports event after the London Marathon and the Great North and South Fun Runs was set to break the previous record of 1,875 of entries before the June 18 closing dates.
The race had its first outing in 1931 when 25 yachts entered.
Denise and good friend, actor and TV presenter Chris Parker, will be joining Volvo Car UK as their guest for the race weekend to learn how to sail.
As complete novices to sailing, they will be in safe hands with fellow Essex local, top British 470 Olympian and Team Volvo for life sailor, Saskia Clark. Saskia is confident that they can prove the ‘only way is Essex’ and beat the fellow Team Volvo for life sailors also competing in the race on board J109s.
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Monday, 09 May 2011 11:43 |
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 A journey into space for a small piece of history from Henry VIII’s flagship the Mary Rose was delayed when the space shuttle Endeavour's final flight was delayed.
The shuttle was due to make a 14-day mission to the International Space Station last month with a three-inch wooden ball from the 16th century warship which sank off Portsmouth in 1545 on board.
The ball, called a "parrel", was part of the mechanism used to raise sails up the masts.
NASA space shuttle and International Space Station managers decided that the flight would have to be delayed until May 10 at the earliest.
At a gala dinner last June the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard presented the crew of the Atlantis space shuttle with the ball with a view to sending it into space.
The historic artifact was due to be launched aboard Endeavour on its final flight before retirement.
John Lippiett, Chief Executive of the trust, who made the presentation to the astronauts, said: “The Mary Rose was as revolutionary in technological advances 500 years ago as the Space Shuttle was in the early 1980s. Both have helped pioneer exploration and advance the sciences.
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