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Back in the driving seat to successShelley Jory-LeighPage 20

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Geoff HoltPage 26

Rough Cut Racing Team Pilot, Ian Brusby, with Navigator Liam McDermott from Doncaster racing in round 1 of the 2010 SuperStock race at Penzance. Full report and pictures on page 8.

Based at Yaverland Beach in Sandown, the festival will take place over the three days of 17 to 19 September and feature over 20 extreme sports on land, air and sea.

It is expected to attract top extreme sports athletes from all over the world

The Saturday will include a party night with a top headline act.

The sea will be packed with action sports including windsurfing freestyle and racing championships, National Paddleboard Championships, surfing, kitesurfing on the bespoke slider park, wakeboards, sailing, kayaking and the Thundercats.

On land will be the Big Blue Freesports Park one of the biggest mobile urban parks in Europe. This state of the art urban park is filled with ramps

and obstacles that provide an extreme sports playground for anything from BMX and Skateboarding, to Beat Box, Graffiti Jams, and Parkour.

The festival will also raise funds for the Ellen MacArthur Trust. Activities will culminate in the ‘X-Mile’ charity event on Sunday 19 September, where the public and competitors will be encouraged to cover an extreme mile on land and water in aid of the trust.

On water participants will be encouraged to complete their mile on paddleboards, kayaks and even human power with a mile course to swim.

Organisers say the Isle of Wight provides a naturally stunning setting for the event and has a great history in hosting Extreme Sports Festivals.www.bigbluefestival.com

EXTREME action will be the watchword when the Big Blue Festival arrives on the Isle of Wight.

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IF there is anyone who still thinks boating is for fat cats, read on . . .

The image of boating is false and unfair. There are of course fantastic floating palaces and amazing state of the art, high tech sailing machines. But they are only a tiny part of the maritime story.

For every posh motorcruiser or around the world record breaking racing yacht there are thousands of small craft with worn sails or ageing engines.

There are of course rich people who can afford to indulge themselves in glorious luxury or fund their favourite playthings with professional crews on the international yachting circuit.

They are more than matched by the hoards of young men and women who make up the cooks and bottlewashers or tough winch grinders and sail trimmers who labour often for small rewards in return for the fun of visiting foreign parts or the exhilaration of winning races.

And then there are the weekend or evening racers, the ditch crawlers and the fishermen, RIBsters, rowers, paddlers and personal watercraft fanatics. They all manage to enjoy themselves on tight budgets in return for getting out on the water away from the traffic, the bureaucracy and jobs worths on dry land.

They wallow in the freedom and the weather and the other pleasures of nature’s great gift of the waterways and oceans.

But as this edition of All at Sea gives powerful testament, most of them are ready, willing and able to give something

back in return for the privilege of boating.From the biggest to the smallest of boat owners there is

a huge and growing band of fundraisers demonstrating that charity begins at sea.

Round the Island competitors have raised hundreds of thousands for charity in recent years as well as enjoying themselves.

Army doctors are rowing around Britain to Help the Heroes, brain tumour patient Josie Phillips, a doctor herself, is sailing around our island to raise awareness and funds for causes relating to her illness.

Extreme 40 racers have an extra incentive to push their mean machines still harder this year with a £5,000 prize for their chosen charity up for grabs.

These and so many others are magnificent stories as are those spotlighted by our columnist Geoff Holt and the RYA about those who provide Sailability or the Even Keel opportunities for disabled or disadvantaged people.

They prove that the sea is a great leveller but they mean it should provide a level playing field, whatever restrictions life or accidents or war may have placed on individuals.

Their stories are as heartwarming as the early summer sea breezes are welcome. Their generosity of spirit, enthusiasm and dedication provide an uplifting, inspiring message from all who go to sea.

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Join in at CowesYOU don’t need to be a professional sailor to race at Cowes Week between 31 July and 7 August.

Each year, the world’s best-known sailing regatta welcomes thousands of amateur sailors to race alongside Olympic medallists and World Champions.

The Cowes Week Crew Forum helps sailors with some experience secure a position on one of the competing boats.

If you have less experience, both Sunsail and Ondeck have their own dedicated classes at Cowes Week and offer places for sailors of any ability on professionally skippered boats.

The Early Bird discounted entry fee ends on 14 June at 17:00. www.cowesweek.co.uk

Falmouth WeekHENRI Lloyd has renewed its sponsorship for Falmouth Week between 7 – 15 August.

The event is the second largest sailing regatta in the UK. This year sees the incorporation ‘South West Area IRC Championships’ sponsored by J & H Bunn. Yachts will be brought to Falmouth from as far away as Ireland to take part in this prestigious event.

The second edition of the classic yacht regatta the Pendennis Cup will include the 30 metre schooners such as Mariette and the modern day 26 metre truly classic Velacarina.

The backbone to Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week remains the Falmouth Classics Yacht event, Henri Lloyd Dinghy Week and racing for more than 26 different classes of yachts, will be hosted by the seven Sailing Clubs and the Regatta committee around Falmouth Bay.www.falmouthweek.co.uk

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Date with dinghies ................................. 14

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Book reviews ............................................. 30

Jersey ........................................................... 31

In the drink ............................................... 36

Marina Guide ..................................... 39-41

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NEWS IN BRIEF

SARDINIA, La Maddalena, 25th May 2010, Louis Vuitton Trophy, TEAMORIGIN vs ALL4ONE. Photo: Ian Roman 2010

Inches apart in race for Louis Vuitton trophyCLOSE match racing racing continued as the Louis Vutton Trophy series moved to LA MADDALENA, Sardinia with the UK’s Team Origin with Olympic dinghy champion Ben Ainslie drove the challenge for America’s Cup hopefuls onwards. For more information and pictures of some of the world’s most exciting yatching go to www. louisvuittontrophy.com

COWES Week is set to have a new pro-am challenge for diabled and disadvantaged sailors.

A fleet of six Simon Rogers-designed Artemis 20 keelboats, helmed by qualified UKSA skippers and crewed by 12 novice sailors from a mixed background of disability or disadvantage, will compete for the inaugural Artemis Even Keel Challenge Trophy over two days.

The winners from Day 1 will then be joined by some of the leading names in sailing for what is set to be a highly competitive finale on Day 2.

Celebrity sailors will guest helm on the final race. Steve White and Brian Thompson are already in place and Dee Caffari and Mike Golding have agreed to race depending on their final sponsor commitments.

This new series is the brainchild of the Even Keel Project and its partners UKSA and is being mounted with the full backing and support of its primary sponsor Artemis Investment

Management. The Artemis Even Keel Challenge

has been put in place to help promote sailing as a ‘sport for all’ to Cowes Week’s massive audience of sailors and spectators.

The Artemis Even Keel Challenge series will start on Sunday 1 August at 5.30pm with 12 novice sailors

and their qualified UKSA skippers competing in two races over a set course off Princes Green, between the Royal Yacht Squadron and Egypt Point.

They will race under the official rules of racing and the watchful eye of a Race Officer and each race will last around 30 minutes.

The top three sailors from each race will qualify for the final on Monday 2 August at 5.30pm.

The individuals who will make up the initial 12 crew are being chosen over the course of the next few weeks at the Even Keel Project’s UK base at UKSA in Cowes through their ‘Try Sailing’ programme.

The mixed age sailors will be selected as much for their enthusiasm and desire to participate as for their sailing ability.

Managing director Dave Rutter said: “Since the start of the Artemis Even Keel Project at UKSA, it has been both humbling and invigorating to see so many people sign up from such a wide range of disabilities and backgrounds many of whom had never sailed before.

“To now have the support of some of the world’s best sailors is quite simply adding icing on the cake.” www.theevenkeel.com www.cowesweek.co.uk

Keeping on an even keel at Cowes

Enjoying an extremely successful Even Keel Project Open Day are from l-r: Dave Rutter, M.D. of The Even Keel Project; Nick Wells, Artemis Investment Management; Jon Ely, CEO UKSA; Sarah Treseder, CEO, RYA; Simon Rogers, yacht designer. Photo: EKP

Little Britain ChallengeTHE entry brochure for the 2010 Little Britain Challenge Cup is now available. Little Britain is now in its 23rd year and is Europe’s largest annual construction industry regatta promises the usual blend of challenging sport and serious fun between 16 – 19 September.www.littlebritain.co.uk.

Trust chooses SuzukiTHE Ellen MacArthur Trust decided to re-engine its existing Ribcraft support RIB with a new lightweight and fuel-efficient Suzuki DF80. Kevin Mole Outboards, who are based on the River Medina in West Cowes, arranged the deal for the Island based charity and handed over the keys to Ellen MacArthur.

Armed Forces Day THE Historic Dockyard Chatham will host an Armed Forces Day event on Sunday 27 June. As 2010 is also the 150th anniversary of the Armed Forces Cadet Movement, this year’s event will have Sea, Army and Air Cadet participation. The main elements will be a commemorative Church Service, a Veterans’ and Cadets’ Parade with ex-services standards led by the City of Rochester Pipe Band, an inter-service Cadet Gun Run Competition plus displays by the Cadets and ex-services organisations. The day will culminate with a prize giving ceremony and speeches, followed by a band display by the pipe band and a flag lowering ceremony. www.thedockyard.co.uk

On the wayROW for Heroes fundraisers Army captains Nick Dennison and Hamish Reid reached Wexford on the East coast of Ireland where they have anchored to avoid strong Northerly winds on their journey around Britain after leaving the Solent on May 12.

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NEWS IN BRIEFHistoric linkA NEW waterbus service linking two naval sites in Portsmouth and Gosport and promoting them as one historic story was to open on May bank holiday. Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, which owns the city’s dockyard now also runs Explosion – the museum of Naval firepower and the Royal Navy submarine museum. Explosion tells the story of naval warfare from Trafalgar to the Gulf War.

Project Kraken alert BETWEEN 20 and 24 May there were seven thefts of small boats, boat trailers, outboards and inflatables from Dell Quay, Emsworth, Bosham and Snowhill Creek, West Wittering. One dinghy was stolen from a small boatyard in Birdham. Boats were also targeted in the Littlehampton area where engines have been stolen and boats taken and stripped of their equipment before being set adrift or abandoned. Mariners and local residents are advised to ensure that boats and equipment are secure and where possible that smaller items such as dinghies are hidden. If you see anything suspicious call Sussex Police’s non-emergency number 0845 60 70 999 quoting ‘Project Kraken’.www.sussex.police.uk/kraken

A RECORD 174 boats have signed up for 50th Navigators & General Three Rivers Race, on the Norfolk Broads on June 5 and 6.

Organised by Horning sailing club, this year’s race will feature many new ways to enjoy the atmosphere from the start as the 50-mile, 24-hour race unfolds.

Webcams located at key vantage points around the course will allow spectators to enjoy the spectacular “skills” of competitors short tacking, up broads and dropping masts to “shoot” under bridges so low, you have to crouch on deck to pass under them!

In recognition of the race’s history, HSC has organised a mini Three Rivers Race for the race founders, the first competitors and race officers. This will also show the new generation of competitors and spectators how

it is done, as these vastly experienced vets, many of whom will be in their 80s, compete over a shortened race.

Hugh Tusting, who competed in the first race in 1960, will be competing this in the same boat with the original crew. Hugh has competed in every race, bar one or two, and his White boat Brimstone is a familiar sight on the course.

A 30-piece band will entertain the crowds by the club and start line as 50 balloons are released by children from the HSC training centre for a charity balloon race supported by Navigators & General as a warm up prior to the spectacle of the 174 boats attempting to cross a start line no more than 100 feet long at a 90 degree bend in the Broads outside HSC.www.horningsc.co.uk

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HOT summer weather led to Littlehampton lifeboats being called out five times in one day.

The first call was to assist a six metre motor boat, with five people aboard, off Aldwick. The vessel was having electrical problems and was drifting towards the shore

The Atlantic 75 and the D-Class were already in the water taking part in training exercises so were both on scene quickly. The casualty vessel had by then come to rest on the beach. Crewmen Liam Clarke and Keith Booth jumped from the Atlantic 75 and waded over to attach a tow line.

Once secured, two of the motor boat crew were transferred to the D-Class and two on to the Atlantic 75, leaving the owner of the vessel aboard to steer. The lifeboats then proceeded to tow the vessel back to Littlehampton.

After finishing the training exercises the boats were washed down, packed up and refuelled when Solent Coastguard requested they launch, the station’s D-Class lifeboat to assist a 7.7 metre yacht that had run aground on the bar at the mouth of the river Arun.

Keith Booth and Liam Clarke who had both attended the earlier shout were joined on board the D-class

lifeboat by Laura Robinson. The casualty vessel requested the crew deploy an anchor for them so they could sit it out.

Once everything was secured the lifeboat returned to the lifeboat station.

A hour later both lifebots boats were launched after a three-year-old girl was reported missing. She had last been seen playing on east beach

near the river and the foreshore office.

After searching for 15 minutes the crew were radioed to stand down as the child had been located.

Later, Andy Harris, Rob Devo and Josh Gruber aboard the Atlantic went to assist a 7 metre yacht that had broken down two miles south of Middleton. The casualty was towed into Littlehampton 0.

At 20:20 the Atlantic 75, Blue Peter 1 was launched again with Keith Booth, Andy Hicks and Josh Gruber aboard. The coastguard had received a call reporting a swimmer in distress seven miles west of the harbour. They located the casualty swiftly and offered him assistance but none was needed. The man was having his regular evening swim.

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Andy Harris and Rob Devo towing the yacht back from Middleton.

PEOPLE new to the yacht brokerage industry can attend the ABYA Practical Yacht Brokerage course is on June 7 and 8 at Marwell Hotel, Winchester. Owen Box, former President of ABYA will lead the two days intensive training which is described as the perfect springboard into brokerage. [email protected].

Break into brokerage

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MDL’s Sparkes Marina has completed the first phase of a £600,000 maintenance project. A full dredge of the marina removed 6,000 metres of silt, which equates to just over two 50m long swimming pools, ensuring full tidal access to all berths. The marina also completed the first stage of programme of replacing pontoons, pontoon equipment and mooring piles.

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NEWS IN BRIEFFamily fun daysTHERE is a huge programme of events for children and families at the historic maritime sites in Greenwich, London. There are regular Play Tuesdays, Explore Saturdays and Discover Sundays and special events such the Giant Rhymeathon on 16 July where you sing along and do the actions to your favourite rhymes. And they are all free. For the latest update of what is happening contact www.nmm.ac.uk

Rocket forceRICHARD Whitworth and Ollie Turner, a new pairing, won their second event this year at the Merlin Rockets seventh speed sails silver tiller meeting in early May. More than 50 boats competed in the event, held in the middle of a four-day training session on Rutland Water.

Branching outONE of the UK’s fastest growing sailing, racing and sea school companies has expanded into the United States. The Ondeck group has teamed up with the principal of Ocean Sailing Academy, Ned Goss and J. Richard Speer, a Charleston investor and avid sailor, to form Ondeck Charleston.

JAMAICA Lightning Bolt and Uniquely Singapore were bow to bow at the start of Race 10 of the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race.

The 1,420-mile race to New York, the latest stage of the 35,000-mile circumnavigation, will take them

past Cuba and up the east coast of North America, following the Gulf Stream.

The race is contested by ten identical stripped down 68-foot racing yachts, each sponsored by a city, region or country.

Clipper was founded by sailing legend Sir Robin Knox Johnston and the Clipper 09-10 race will be the seventh time his teams of amateur sailors will circumnavigate the planet.

The route has taken them from

the Humber to La Rochelle to Rio de Janeiro and South Africa, Western Australia, Singapore, Qingdao, California, Panama, Jamacia, New York, Cape Breton Island, Cork and then back to the Humber, where they are due to arrive on 17 July 2010.

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Photo: Rolex / Kurt ArrigoDARK & STEAMY, Team: UK Black, Class: 1, Sail No: GBR95R, Design: DK46, Skipper: Nick & Anne Haigh Rolex Commodores’ Cup 2008

An international affairWITH three months to go to the tenth edition of the biennial Rolex Commodores’ Cup, the international fleet has the prospect of being one of the more exotic in recent events.

South Africa is participating for the first time. Hong Kong has confirmed it will be back following its happy venture in 2008. Northern European teams, Ireland, France and the United Kingdom, that are the traditional backbone of the event will be present in numbers.

Organisers, the Royal Ocean Racing Club, anticipate a total of 12 teams. Racing is from 15 to 21 August, with close of entry on 12 July.

The cup is a week long series for teams of three yachts between 35 and 45 feet mixing inshore racing on the waters in and around

The Solent with an offshore course that takes the fleet out into the English Channel and a course round the Isle of Wight.

Comprehensive knowledge of the tides and currents affecting these areas is essential. It has been proved time and again that is not just the team with the best boats or the best sailors that wins. It the team that is the best prepared in all aspects.

Jamie McWilliam who leads the Hong Kong team, said: “The Solent puts unique and intense pressure on crews and seemingly trivial moments turn out to be really critical.

“I also believe that the best team here has always won the event, and that’s the best recommendation I know for a regatta.”www.rorc.org

Snap up a prizeNOW is your chance to win Hydro Power kit worth up to £3,000 for you and your team. You have until 1 July to send in a photograph of you or your team onboard during a race. Clothing brand Helly Hansen is running a global competition online to find action pictures of inshore racing from a competitor’s angle. Visit www.hellyhansen.com

Going greenTHREE major companies have joined forces to design, develop and build a new style inland waterways leisure boat with the smallest carbon footprint. The vessel will have low wave-making hulls to minimise bank erosion and use hybrid technology and solar energy. The three companies are Le Boat, part of TUI Marine, sailing boat builder the Beneteau Group and boat design and development company Seaway.

Extreme cover-upCLOTHING company, Henri Lloyd, is again the official technical clothing partner for the 2010 Extreme Sailing Series. Its 2010 marine range will be worn by race officials and shore teams on the 2010 circuit which was due to start in Sete, France on 27 May.

ALL At Sea hit the small screen in a new series sharing this newspaper’s name telling the story of six TV personalities who embarked on a sailing tour of the beautiful south coast.

Mark Durden-Smith, Nick Hancock, Richard Madeley, Dawn Porter, Rosemary Shrager, and Bradley Walsh split into two groups before making the journey from Cornwall to Kent, stopping off to see the sights along the way.

The groups make their trip in a variety of different vessels, from a luxury yacht to a 1930s motor torpedo boat and a pirate ship to a fishing trawler. Guided by each vessel’s crew, they learn how to sail the boats and take in the hidden gems of the English coast, which can only be appreciated from the sea.

There is good-natured banter and friendly rivalry as well as laughs and stories along the way as the personalities are taken out of the comfort of a studio and sent out to the open sea with only each other for company. Will

they find their sea legs and can they stomach each other?

The journey was split into three legs and the first episode saw the celebrities sail from Cornwall to Devon, taking in Richard and Judy’s holiday home, an island thought to have been visited by Jesus, ancient ruins and a spot of deep sea fishing.

Both teams started in Falmouth in Cornwall and the first week saw Richard lead his team of Dawn and Nick in a classic 1960s motor launch while Bradley led Rosemary and Mark in a 250 tonne fishing trawler.

As Richard, Dawn and Nick sipped champagne and took in their solid wood and polished brass surroundings, they decided who would be sleeping in which plush cabin and discussed whether or not anyone snores.

All At Sea was produced by Ben Mitchell and Jon Turner. The executive producer was Tania Alexander.

All At Sea hits ITV airwaves


NEWS IN BRIEFNelson’s history lesson in a bottlePORTSMOUTH’S Historic Dockyard is planning for increased interest in HMS Victory this summer following the unveiling of Nelson’s ship in a bottle.

Lord Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, which resides in dry dock at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, is depicted in an 11 feet long and seven feet tall bottle in a sculpture by leading Anglo-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare.

Commissioned by Mayor of London Boris Johnson for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, the sculpture will highlight the square’s history and Nelson can keep his one good eye on it from the top of his column.

The artwork will be the first commission on the Fourth Plinth to

reflect the historical symbolism of Trafalgar Square.

The model is a 1:29 scale replica of the original HMS Victory and Shonibare says that he hopes his model will help people reflect on British history.

The ship’s 37 large sails are made of exuberant and richly patterned textiles commonly associated with African dress.

The history of the fabric reveals that they were inspired by Indonesian batik design, mass produced by the Dutch and sold to the colonies in West Africa. Tying together historical and global threads and traversing oceans and continents, the sculpture reflects the expansion of trade and Empire, made possible through the freedom

of the seas and the new trade routes that Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar provided.

Robert Bruce, managing director of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard said: “HMS Victory played a significant part in British history so it is right that this new work should have such a prominent place and I am sure once visitors see it on the 4th Plinth, they will be interested to make the trip and see the real thing at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.”

Nelson’s Column was erected in 1843. It commemorates Admiral Horatio Nelson’s death from a sniper’s bullet on the deck of his flagship at the moment of his greatest victory. Visitors to the ship can see a plaque marking where he was shot.

It is said that the great Admiral is still keeping an eye on his fleet as he is looking in the direction of Portsmouth, the spiritual home of the Royal Navy and the resting place of HMS Victory.

There are six permanent statues in the square. Lord Nelson looks down on King George IV, Henry Havelock and Sir Charles James Napier who occupy the other three plinths and there are statues of King James II and George Washington. There is also a bust of Admiral Cunningham.

The Fourth Plinth Programme is funded by the Mayor of London and Arts Council England and sees new artworks being selected for the vacant plinth in a rolling programme. 3,000 people pass it every hour.

Winning waysTWO major awards were picked up by Sunsail in this year’s Asia Boating Awards. The company won prizes for Best Asia-based Charter Company for its operations in Phuket, Koh Samui and Koh Chang, Thailand, and Best Production Multihull for the Sunsail 384. The winners were selected by Asia Pacific Boating and China Boating Magazine.

Rallying supportREGISTRATION has opened for Blue Water Rallies 12th annual Antigua rally which sets off on 31 October from Gibraltar and arrives in Antigua on 5 December. Rally Antigua, limited to 30 boats, is aimed at sailors in Europe seeking to sail to the Caribbean with the support of other yachts. More information at www.bluewaterrallies.com

Racing for charityThe eight Extreme 40s lined up on the dock in Sète for the start of the 2010 Extreme Sailing Series. For the first time this year each team has nominated a charity to support with the overall team winning a 5,000 euro donation for their chosen charity. The prize will be presented at the final event in Almeria, on 12 October 2010.


NEWS IN BRIEF Penzance fuelled by power-ful trade boostTHOUSANDS of spectators packed out the Penzance promenade as the UK’s new Powerboat P1 SuperStock Championship raced into Mounts Bay.

The huge 12,000 crowds reveled in the glorious Cornish sunshine as the sparkling Penzance shoreline presented a breathtaking backdrop for the powerboat racing.

The promenade was awash with colour as the action-packed weekend and raised the profile of the West Country town and its potential to host world class events and provided a boost for the local economy.

Fire-breathing Fuel Girls, a two-day music festival featuring some of Cornwall’s best unsigned musical talent and stalls loaded with the finest local produce kept the public

entertained in between six races on the water.

HeightsofAbraham.com and Premier Cru got their 2010 SuperStock Championship campaigns off to a flying start as both teams stormed to the overall Penzance Grand Prix of

Eclipse and Team Fox racing in round 1 of the 2010 SuperStock race in Penzance. Photo: onEdition Premier Cru Team Pilot, John Wilson, from Warwickshire with Navigator, Neil Scarborough, from Oxfordshire

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World challengeTHE first official RC 44 World Championship will take place from 11-16 October in Puerto Calero, Canary Islands and will see 12 boats competing in only the fourth season of the RC 44 championship tour. The event is endorsed by the International Sailing Federation.

Hitting right noteCLASSICAL music fans get the chance to travel, dine or stay in style at Britain’s first classical music festival from 26-28 August in Dorset. Sunseeker Charters has agreed to provide its £4.5 million 90-foot long flagship High Energy as transport, dining and accommodation for people attending the Serenata Festival at Kimmeridge. www.serenatafestival.com

Silver linings ED WRIGHT won silver for Great Britain at the Finn European Championship in Split, Croatia, with Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Ally Martin also getting silver from the Women’s European Match Racing Championships in Hard, Austria.

Beauty of bargesEVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about sailing barges is included in the new edition of The illustrated guide to Thames sailing barges on sale for £6.50. It is the only publication which pictures and describes all the currently active examples of these charismatic and popular historic sailing craft.

First blood to ArranTHIRTEEN-year-old Arran Holman from Hollowell Sailing Club beat off 316 Optimist competitors to take championship honours at the Volvo Musto Inland Championships, at Grafham Water Sailing Club, Cambridgeshire. The next event is the Volvo Musto National Open British Championships, at Weymouth & Portland, from 23- 30 July.

Rough Cut Racing Team Pilot, Ian Brusby, with Navigator Liam McDermott from Doncaster racing in round 1 of the 2010 SuperStock race in Penzance. Photo: onEdition


the Sea title. Both pre-season favourites conquered the

rough racing conditions in the bay and powered to three race victories apiece.

Fearless maneuvering and aggressive handling from HeightsofAbraham.com meant the Matlock-based outfit found unrivalled pace on the water. Reaching speeds up to 80 mph, pilots Rupert Pugh and Dan Whapples secured maximum points beating Team Maurice Lacroix and Rough Cut Racing into second and third respectively.

Man behind the wheel Rupert Pugh said: “Taking the checkered flag in front of a huge crowd of people was amazing.

“We rarely race in idyllic locations where the public area is so close to the racecourse so this was a fantastic way to start the season.

In the 21-foot 150 Class, Premier Cru pilots John Wilson and Neil Scarborough were pushed all of the way by Team Fox and GSS Mermaid.

Premier Cru reaped the rewards of an intense pre-season training regime to claim gold.

After lifting his trophy in front of an enthralled Cornish crowd, jubilant pilot Wilson hailed the Penzance Grand Prix of the Sea as the “best-ever opening race”.

“The weekend got better and better with every race,” he said, “For a new series to be able to generate such widespread interest is fantastic. Anybody that wasn’t here should be kicking themselves.”

Owner of The Zero Lounge, Mike Adams, said: “Penzance has needed something new and exciting to change the way people think about the town and this has showed what the community is capable of.”

Shane Triggs, manager of The Lugger Hotel, said: “We’ve doubled our normal takings so we would be right behind getting the SuperStock Championship back to Penzance.”www.powerboatp1.com

Team Fox Pilot, Martin Colligan, with Navigator, Gideon Du Val, and Manager, Liam McDermott, from Jersey racing in round 1 of the 2010 SuperStock race in Penzance.

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The 150 Class teams racing in round 1 of the 2010 SuperStock race in Penzance. Photo: onEdition


NEWS IN BRIEF Josie sets round Britain brain tumour challengeDOCTOR Josie Phillips and her husband Roger have embarked on a voyage around the British Isles aboard their Contessa 32 Nordlys, in aid of Brain Tumour Research.

Josie’s challenge comes after being diagnosed with a low grade brain tumour in 2004 that after three operations became malignant in 2008.

The 27-year-olds started their circumnavigation from Fox’s Marina on the River Orwell at Ipswich, waved off by friends and family.

Josie, a doctor at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has set herself a challenge with three primary objectives: sail anti-clockwise around the coast of Britain, raise awareness of brain tumours and collect £20,000 through sponsorship for Brain Tumour Research and a further £5,000 for the Big C Centre in Norwich.

They will sail north along the east coast, pass through the Caledonian Canal, then head southwards through the Irish Sea and around the south coast of England, and back to Ipswich. Subject to weather they

expect to complete the challenge in four months.

Josie started sailing after meeting Roger at university.

Roger has been sailing on the Broads for as long as he can remember. Starting with dinghy sailing they bought a Cornish Shrimper and enjoyed sailing her on the Broads and the Orwell.

The news of Josie’s tumour

progressing made the couple look at life in a new light.

“So a new boat was necessary!” they said. “We sold our Shrimper, bullied Roger’s parents, persuaded his brother and drove to Falmouth to buy ‘Nordlys’.”

Marinas are helping them to minimise expenses by providing free berthing and many companies are offering the loan or gift of specialist

equipment and clothing. All other costs are being covered by Josie and Roger and any donations made will go directly to charity.

More children and people under the age of 40 die of a brain tumour than leukaemia or any other cancer.

Track their progress online at www.contessa32.co.uk/locations.php and sponsor them atwww.justgiving.com/

Breakfast ClubCOWES Week, from 31 July to 7 August, has another new supporting sponsor with the backing of Tropicana, the premium juice brand. Cowes Week competitors and visitors can visit the Tropicana Breakfast Club area, to sample its juices, watch cookery demonstrations and take part in competitions. www.cowesweek.co.uk

In the shortlistTHE national sailing academy was shortlisted in the Sport Industry Awards, Europe’s largest and most prestigious commercial sport awards. The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) was recognised for the Sport Venue of the Year Award but pipped at the post by the 02 arena. The sailing academy was the first Olympic Games venue to be completed.

Royal race venueIT’S ALL new for the Beneteau Cup with new dates, new venue and new prices. Racing is on 28 and 29 August at the Royal Southern Yacht Club, Hamble, and the entry fee has been reduced to £140 for boats up to 39ft and £180 for boats over 39ft. www.beneteaucup.co.uk


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PORTLAND Marina is among the first facilities to be completed for the 2012 Olympics.

Commissioned by marina operator Dean and Reddyhoff, will be one of the key parts of the waterfront facilities when the competition gets underway.

All the water-based elements were built and installed by Walcon Marine and the initial phase of the £27 million project provides 250 berths and full onshore facilities.

The marina has been built to a high standard and includes a number of features not widely found elsewhere.

Among these are the striking bridgehead canopy and gate with elegant design and detailed metalwork, and the innovative bridge that connects the marina to the shore.

The latter is effectively fixed at each end to a section of decking that moves as a single piece as the walkway rises and falls in response to the tides.

The decking sections attached to the head and foot of the bridge move freely on hidden runners giving a smooth transition from shore to marina, free of obstacles, steps, or other hazards.

Once afloat the main walkway is double width, with all the services running down a central duct allowing

more space for gear and equipment than is usual on a marina of this size.

Richard Reddyhoff, director of Dean & Reddyhoff, said: “Our vision was to create a marina worthy of such a world-class sailing destination.

Walcon managing director James Walters said: “The quality and the design and construction standards of Portland Marina have now set a new benchmark for the marina sector.”

The marina is built on a former Royal Naval Air Site. The marina will form part of the venue for sailing events for the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games and is positioned next to the UK’s National Sailing Academy.

Prior to the games it has also been designated as an approved training centre for overseas Olympic teams and the UK’s Royal Yachting Association is using it as its training camp. www.walconmarine.com

Marina ready for OlympicsShaw’s championshipANDY Shaw of Southampton University won the BUCS/BUSA National Match Racing Championships in sonar keelboats at the Island Sailing Club in Cowes. Twelve teams from universities across the UK competed.

Suspect salesPOLICE are asking sailors and companies to be aware of people trying to buy boats using false identity papers. It is thought they are using the opportunity to launder money, as they are asking to get cash back as part of the deal. Anyone with suspicions should contact Hampshire Police on 0845 045 45 45 and quote ‘Project Kraken’ or e-mail the Project Kraken mailbox [email protected].

New destinationSUNSAIL, the sailing holiday specialist, is opening a new charter location in Placencia, Belize, in November. This is Sunsail’s̀ eighth destination in the Caribbean and offers 185 miles of coastline for sailors to explore. The waters are suited for catamarans and the new Sunsail 384 will be available for charter. More information at www.sunsail.co.uk

Gateway to new berths

Floating bridge


NEwS iN briEfSuzuki joins upTHE Sea Cadets, one of Britain’s largest maritime youth charities, has teamed up with Suzuki GB PLC as its preferred supplier for outboard motors. The Sea Cadets is open to young people aged between 10 and 18 and has 14,000 young people with over 7,000 different boats. Suzuki will also help the Sea Cadets with training.

Business as usualIT’S BUSINESS as usual despite a major fire at Hoylake Sailing School/John Percival Marine Associates. No classes were lost when the fire was discovered when the offices opened in the morning. All schedules remain and classes are being held in an industry-approved local community centre. [email protected]

Zodiac backs showsRIB and inflatable boat maker Zodiac Marine & Pool is sponsoring both the North and South Wales Boat Shows. ZMP which makes Avon, Zodiac and Bombard brands will be represented by Glaslyn Marine at the South Wales Boat Show in Swansea from 18 to 20 June, and Cambrian Boats North Wales Boat Show, from 30 July to 1 August in Bangor.

THREE days of outstanding Solent racing made the 2010 edition of the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club’s Vice Admiral’s Cup Regatta a roaring success.

There were nine races over the three-day series in conditions ranging from light airs up to ten knots building to around 20 knots.

Class 0 for 50-52 footers featured many of the UK’s top big boat sailors crewing and competition was so close that at times it looked more like match than fleet racing.

In a regatta featuring the crème de la crème of British big boat sailors the revived Quarter Ton fleet delivered some of the most exciting

racing of all. After racing, Rickard Melander

explained that he and his team will be keeping their boat in Cowes this summer and commuting from Sweden so that they can enjoy the very best Quarter Ton competition.

Musto and North Sails provided prizes.

Solent racing attracts Swedish commuters

Quarter tonners line upTHIS year’s Coutts Quarter Ton Cup hosted by the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club from Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 June, is expected to attract a record entry.

Boats will be based in Cowes Yacht Haven for the event which has been timed to enable visiting teams to stay on in Cowes for the J P Morgan Round the Island Race on Saturday 19 June.

Two boats are expected to travel from Ireland. Five French boats are due to compete and one of the most exciting new additions to the fleet comes from New Zealand. www.quarteronclass.org.

Photo: Fiona Brown


NEwS iN briEfChopper hopsA NEW helicopter shuttle service is being laid on for Cowes Week by Atlas Helicopters based at Daedalus Airfield near Gosport. Return seats will cost £95. More information at www.atlasthelicopters.co.uk

Championship pairSIX times RS700 national champion Paul Bayliss and his crew Chris Feibusch are challenging in the RS800 class with the backing of sailboat hardware manufacturer Allen Brothers of Burnham. Their focus is the Europeans in Garda in July.

Riding for cancerA TEAM of five led by New Zealander Jeremy Burfoot sets off from the Houses of Parliament on 1 August attempting to break the world personal watercraft record by riding from London to New Zealand. The Ultimate Ride is a 32,000 km journey ending in November and raising awareness and funds for worldwide cancer research charities.

Emsworth HoistEMSWORTH Yacht Harbour has taken delivery of 50T Mobile Boat Hoist capable of moving boats weighing up to 50 tonnes and 60 feet in length.

SOME of the biggest names in sailing will play their parts in this month’s J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race.

Dame Ellen MacArthur will be up with the sun to start the 1,800 boat race around the Isle of Wight at 0500 hours on Saturday June 19.

And among the racers will be record-breaking multihull pairing of Francis Joyon and his big red Trimaran Idec II hoping to beat their own unbroken record of 3.08.29, set in 2001.

Joyon says that he keeps returning because he has many sailing friends who also do it and he finds racing in the Solent ‘exotic’.

Dame Ellen will be up for the sunrise because tides govern the timing of the start.

The world’s most celebrated yachtswoman will fire the starting cannon at the Royal Yacht Squadron to set the fleet on its way. She will then join one of the four Ellen MacArthur Trust boats with the crews made up of young people recovering from cancer and leukaemia.

Team GBR Olympic 49er sailor Ben Rhodes from Exmouth, Devon will be racing for fun on Lisette, a Hunter Medina 20.

Double Olympic Gold medallist Shirley Robertson will be racing on board Team Volvo 1 and the world number one Laser sailor and 2008 Olympic Gold medallist Paul

Goodison, from Sheffield, will be going round on Team Volvo 2.

Triple Olympic Gold medallist Ben Ainslie will be racing on J.P. Morgan Asset Management Prince’s Trust .

There will be at least two Extreme 40s and Mike Golding and Ecover are signed up.

Thousands of sailors will follow

in boats raging from the equivalent of grand prix racing cars to family cruisers which race just once a year in the event that is the fourth biggest participation sporting occasion in the UK.

Four cancer charities have each been provided a SailTime Beneteau Oceanis 40 yacht and an experienced

skipper and first mate.The charity challenge has helped

raise more than £350,000 during J.P.Morgan’s time as title sponsor.

A weather Briefing by top meteorologist Libby Greenhalgh will take place at the Island Sailing Club at 1800 hours on Friday 18 June.www.roundtheisland.org.uk

Big names join island race fleet

IDEC trimaran rounds The Needles at last year’s JPMorgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. Photo: TH Martinez/Sea&Co/onEdition


NEwS iN briEfLadies who launchSOLO yachtsman Katie Miller and her bluQube team were due to join 50 women in nine boats in the 2010 Ladies Who Launch Channel Challenge on 29 May, between Lymington and Cherbourg to raise funds for the Help For Heroes Charity. www.ladieswholaunch.org.uk

Epic journeyADVENTURER Don McIntyre and his three-man crew are re-creating Captain Bligh’s 4,000 mile journey after he was cast adrift from HMS Bounty 220 years ago. They left Tonga for Timor on their seven-week journey on 28 April and are doing it with no charts, no modern luxuries and meagre provisions – except for a rugged convertible laptop computer built by Blazepoint to provide communications. They are sailing Talisker Bounty, an open top 18th century whaling boat. Follow their progress at www.bountyboat.com

Long distance helpFALMOUTH Coastguard helped rescue a 33 year old injured crewman from a yacht 1,000 miles west of the Azores. The American sailor on board Sagamar had an infected open leg wound and suspected blood poisoning and needed urgent medical help. The coastguards co-ordinated communications and liaised with US and Spanish Coastguards, the British and Spanish navy and medical help in the Azores.

Tomorrow’s worldLEISURE sailors, professionals and anyone interested is welcome to Beneteau’s new website to sketch out the yacht of tomorrow. The company is focusing on the future by putting its customers at the heart of the debate. More information at www.sailboats-of-tomorrow.com

Yacht hits icebergFOUR people were plucked to safety after their Oyster 60, Hollinsclough hit a submerged iceberg and broached in 50 knot winds off the Falkland Islands. Carl Lomas, his wife and two teenage daughters were rescued by HMS Clyde, a Royal Navy warship, after they activated their McMurdo SMARTFIND EPIRB in the South Atlantic. Falmouth Coastguard contacted the Falkland Island authorities to co-ordinate a rescue which took 20 hours. The yacht is feared lost.

Big moneyLittlehampton and Arundel branch of RNLI fundraisers raised £1437.20 on 21 and 22 May collecting outside Tesco in Littlehampton helped by three lifeboat crewmen in full kit. www.littlehamptonlifeboat.co.uk

AFTER finishing my college course studying outdoor education, I was somewhat lost, having little idea about what I wanted to do.

Then I heard about the “Zero to Hero” courses in places like the UKSA and the one I went to was Plas Menai National Water sports Centre.

I found I could take out a career development loan. It is like a student loan, with low interest but you have to pay it back as soon as you finished the course.

The course lasted six months and was full board. They ask that you have at least a level two in at least two of the sports, which means you would hopefully leave with tickets to teach sailing, windsurfing and kayaking, as well as other qualifications such as First Aid.

The six months were amazing. I had only 12 or so days where I did not participate in some kind of activity. The centre gave us every opportunity

to learn and progress, granting us free entry on to courses.

The instructors were excellent and tried to tailor the course closely to our individual needs and experience. I had already participated in many water sports and wasn’t entirely a ‘zero’ yet I was never held back.

Six months down the line I left laden with qualifications, such as sailing, windsurfing, kayaking and power boating instructor, not to mention my Day Skipper certificate, VHF licence, first aid, sea survival, mountain leader training, mountain bike leader award. And there were various levels of personal qualifications such as three star sea kayak, intermediate planning windsurfing and a few other bits and pieces that made me more employable.

Becoming employed after the course should be easy, however my course finished at the end of August, which is when the summer season finishes and there are limited instructor jobs available.

The course offered me endless options, which I will always have opened to me. They include travelling abroad and teaching because RYA

recognised centres are worldwide or working in the UK as a senior instructor.

The course provided me with confidence and enjoyment and means I am never too far from the water.Alex Lardner currently instructs from Whale Island sailing club in Portsmouth.

Unstoppable in the CaribbeanCHIPS Howarth from Hayling Island and Vyv Townsend from Bewl Valley were a dominant force at the Fireball World Championships in Barbados.

A fleet containing numerous Olympic campaigners, national champions, the reigning European champion and the reigning world champion, promised competitive racing.

The score board saw them win with a day to spare, discarding a third place finish after choosing not to sail the last race. They won six out of nine races to claim back to back world titles.

They have chosen to retire from Fireball sailing after 12 years sailing together. Matt Burge, from Poole YC, with Richard Wagstaff, were best of the rest, closely followed by David (DJ) Edwards from Corus SC with Simon Potts completing the top three.

British teams made up seven of the top ten places. The British National Championships are the next event on the calendar for the British fleet and with Chips retiring it is time for a new National Champion, but who?Sam Brearey, Fishers Green Sailing Club

Narrow missED WRIGHT, from Colwyn Sailing Club in North Wales, narrowly missed out on becoming the Finn European Champion.

The 2006 champion fought hard in the light and fluky conditions to lose by one position in the medal race.

The championships were held in Split, Croatia and the event was won by local man Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic. Giles Scott was second Brit, finishing seventh overall.

Meanwhile, the Women’s European match racing Championships held in Hard, Austria, saw Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Allie Martin also take second. The girls lost three -one to Russia’s Ekaterina Skudina. Joe Adams, Portsmouth University

MANY people are changing careers or taking elongated gap years to become water sports instructors. People want qualifications, and they want them fast. Alex Lardner describes his journey to become qualified and the advantages of the ‘zero to hero’ course.

AFTER two weekends of trials at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy and Pwllheli Sailing Club the squads for this year’s European and World Championship squads were announced at the Volvo Musto Optimist Inlands at Grafham Water last month.

The Worlds will be held from December 28 to January 8 in Langkawi, Malaysia. The team is: Josh Voller, 14, from Burghfield SC, Matt Whitfield, 13 from Penarth YC, Scott Wallis, 14 , Spinnaker SC, Arran Holman, 13, Hollowell SC and Oliver Grogono, 14 of St Mawes SC.

The European Championships will be held in Kamiens Pomorski in Poland. Five days of racing gets

underway on the 4 July.The team is: James Taylor,

13, from Burghfield SC, Harry Gozzett, 14, of Dabchicks SC, Fraser Woodley, 14, of Burghfield SC, Johanna Asplund, 15 from Guernsey YC, Callum Airlie, 15, of East Lothian YC, Jemima Lawson, 13, of Emsworth SC and Sarah Norbury, 13, from South Staffordshire SC.

Two thirds of the Olympic sailors sailed Optimists when they were younger.

The next UK national event is the Volvo Musto National Open British Championships to be held at Weymouth and Portland between 23 and 30 July. www.optimistsailing.org.uk

Oppie squads announced

DATE WITH DINGHIESEdited by Joe Adams [email protected]

From zero to hero

Photo: Sportlibrary / Fotolia


Snap to it to help solve marine mysteries

Earlier this year Sea Watch recorded the sighting of one of its known Cardigan Bay bottlenose dolphins – Spot – with her first known calf.Spot is regularly seen around the Cardigan Bay area of Wales and also around the Anglesey and in December was seen with a calf thought to have been born in October/November last year.

The nicks and marks on this bottlenose dolphin dorsal fin enable Sea Watch researchers to match it to known individuals on their photo Id cata-logue. If there are no previous matches, then the animal would be given a reference number so that if it is seen again it can be recorded.

A pretty picture, but the angle does not allow researchers to view any identifiable markings and they are therefore not able to use this to try and match with known individuals or to record this animal for future.

A LEADING marine research charity wants the boating public to help solve the mysteries of the UK’s dolphin population

Sea Watch wants people to send in photos of dolphins and whales that show details of nicks and markings on fins.

The pictures can then be compared to others held on national ID databases at the charity’s base in Wales, and with regional catalogues held by other organisations.

Sea Watch emphasises that pictures should be from opportunistic encounters – either when dolphins are bow riding or when they approach a boat.

The 28 species of dolphins and whales and porpoises recorded in UK and Irish waters are protected species so there are strict regulations preventing boats from intentionally disturbing

them by sailing too close or following them.Dolphins face threats including accidental

capture in fishing nets, marine pollution, noise disturbance and depletion of fish stocks. They may also be affected by rising sea temperatures.

Dr Peter Evans, Sea Watch research director said: “The more we receive, the more we should be able to uncover about dolphin movement patterns, habits and behaviour.

“We need to understand more about them to shape conservation policies and so enable them to thrive in UK waters.”

Sea Watch is organising the photo campaign as part of its annual National Whale and Dolphin Watch. Sponsored by BG Group, this year’s watch will run from 7 to 15 [email protected]


BOATER’S WELLY BOOTTHE right footwear can make a huge difference to a boater’s comfort and safety - and, while wellies might not be your first port of call in that pursuit, Henri Lloyd’s new Deck Boot is not your average welly. Designed for low moisture absorption, fast drying, fast draining and strong grip, these tough waterproof boots are built from vulcanised rubber and feature a calf collar tie system, for a more secure fit and reduced water ingress. The razor cut soles, with their water dispersing channels, ought to provide excellent grip on deck and, for a top brand, they’re pretty good value too.Price: £45www.henrilloyd.com

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BACK TO BUTTONSWHILE Garmin is rightly famous for its pioneering work in the field of touchscreen marine electronics, some of its finest ever GPS units (like the resolutely idiot-proof GPSMAP 76c) have been far simpler affairs. It is therefore great to see another button-operated handheld from these Gods of the intuitive interface. The new GPSMAP 78 and 78s feature newly designed rubber side grips, plus new high-end features including a three-axis, tilt-compensated, electronic compass and wireless data transfer between compatible units. It is particularly useful for the active boater because it also happens to float. Weighing just 219g, the new GPSMAP 78 lasts up to 20 hours on two AA batteries and comes with 1.7 GB of internal memory and a micro SDTM card slot for optional map data. It’s another class act.Price: £299.99 (78) / £349.99 (78s)www.garmin.co.uk

LIGHT YEARS AHEADTHE Mobi Power-Pack is a portable 12-volt unit that also acts as a powerful LED torch. The rechargeable pack can come to your aid as a power supply while travelling or when power is required in remote locations. With plenty of 12-volt boating appliances now on the market, the Power-Pack can be used to power entertainment devices, portable inflators or handheld electronics. In addition, it also serves as a high intensity torch, with nine ‘cool blue’ LEDs. The Power-Pack uses a 12-volt, 4000mAh battery and, although it only claims to be capable of 45 hours continuous illumination, a test unit ran for 62 hours before becoming too dim to be useable. Price: £39.99 (including delivery to UK mainland)www.mobiwasher.co.uk

ANTIFOULING THE EASY WAYHULLGUARD is an ultrasonic device designed to provide an eco-friendly, cost-effective antifouling system. It basically uses sound to eliminate unicellular algae in the immediate area of the boat, reducing the build up of nuisance barnacles and mussels, removing the need to lift your boat out of the water to scrape at your hull or apply expensive paints. The Hullguard Antifouling unit is easy to install. Multiple units can be installed on bigger boats, with no maintenance needed and very low running costs. For boats without a regular power source, an optional solar panel can also be used, reducing running costs to zero.Price: POAwww.hullguard.co.uk


Outboard owners step this wayMike Pullen, boater, journo and lover of engines, urges all outboard boaters to get on board with the UK’s engine quest . . .

HAVING just got back from the Sports Boat and RIB Show, I have to say that the sheer variety of outboards available to the modern boater is staggering. At the top end, Yamaha’s new 300hp unit certainly had people scratching their heads. It was using the same block as the old 225 and yet it had managed to shave 22kg off the weight of the lower powered engine by replacing the cast iron cylinder linings with the same plasma coating used on the company’s high-revving motorbikes.

Meanwhile, to the left of the new engine sat the relatively heavyweight but still spectacularly desirable 350hp V8, the company’s flagship motor and still the one to hunt down if you want to feel a little bit special.

Just a couple of aisles away from Yamaha’s mountain of assorted automotive hardware, the Reader’s Forum stand offered up a waspish little Fletcher with a far older but well loved Yamaha 85hp outboard, while on the Thundercat stand, a lightweight 15hp Suzuki four-stroke graced the transom of a little inflatable cat destined for an inaugural season of racing at the hands of a new breed of marine-crazy kids.

Down on the water, Evinrude had a pair of 300hp units on the latest Humber Sports Pro Leisure RIB, bringing not just ferocious acceleration but refinement and frugality from a two-stroke engine, while the supercharged Verado saw plenty of action from the likes of Stingher, Cobra and Ring.

As befits a heritage of unerring dependability and resilience, Honda’s stand exhibited a range of ultra-dependable outboards, all with tremendously reassuring UK leisure warranties of six years, while down in the arena, the Thundercat display teams buzzed around with tiller-operated 50hp Tohatsu’s.

Yes, in a nation replete with outboard variety, and with a couple of fresh outboard manufacturers in the form of Vector and Hidea adding their offerings to the established engine providers, there has never been a better time to be a lover of the outboard engine.

The hunt is onWe have embarked on a nationwide quest to find out all about the UK’s privately owned outboard engines. All you need is an outboard engine that works. It doesn’t matter what make it is or how old it is. All that matters is that you can provide us with a photo and some basic details.

If you are one of the first 250 people to give us that, we will give you a free pair of tickets to the Southampton Boat Show. And once we have taken a look at all the outboards entered, the eight we like best will also win a batch of goodies, including a foulie jacket, an Icom handheld VHF unit, a one-day training course and a 35-litre Yamaha Dry Bag.

And it doesn’t end there. The ‘Best Overall Engine’ (as picked by our panel of judges) will walk away with all of the above prizes plus a brand new Yamaha outboard of the equivalent horsepower to his winning entry. How’s that for an incentive to fill in a form . . .

Tell us about your outboardTo enter your outboard in the UK Engine Quest, there are two ways to do it. Either go to your nearest Yamaha outboard dealer (www.yamaha-motor.co.uk) or visit www.sportsboat.co.uk, click on the Engine Quest button in the navigation bar at the top and enter your details online. You can then keep up to speed with the latest entries in the online gallery.

For more details on the UK Engine Quest, turn to page 22 or visit www.sportsboat.co.uk


Keep your hat on when you come off watch

ON a long passage there are many ways of running your watch system.

There is the good old system of four hours on and four hours off with two dog watches of two hours in the late afternoon.

This will give a skipper a chance to have everyone up, the boat tidied and cleaned, an evening meal prepared and nobody will stand the same watch as the previous day. A briefing can be given, all updated on the passage and the boat aired if necessary.

But what about the rolling watch system? Each watch lasts four hours but at every two hour point, one person goes off watch and another comes on. This system works better with an odd number of crew but the difficulty could be people not knowing exactly when they come on watch.

I have not found this a problem, except in a small boat where “hot bunking” takes place and sometimes crew coming off watch are not sure where their reliefs are sleeping. Often if crew go to bed with their distinctive woolly hats on, this can make life easier!

Wake up timeWhat are your instructions as skipper on when you should be woken on a long passage? Here are some pointers:

If there is a major change in wind direction (30°) or speed (15 kns).Any sudden change in sea state.If visibility is less than two miles.

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If any large vessel is close than two miles and particularly is on a constant bearing.On receiving a gale warning either in the current sea area or an adjacent one with the gale approaching your area.Before making a change of course.Before reefing or making any change to the sail plan. My maxim is that you should reef ten minutes before you think about doing so, and shake out a reef 20 minutes after thinking about it.On sighting land or any navigational marks.Where the crew are in the slightest doubt as to what they should do.Accidental damage.If a navigational mark has not appeared within “x” hours of expected sighting - “x” depends on boat speed.

Light up earlyMany years ago I was chatting to the skipper of a large commercial vessel about the ability of pilots, helmsmen and skippers to see yachts at night.

The problem can be that yachts under sail will normally use the tricolour at the top of the mast and this light can easily merge into the background shore lights when viewed from the bridge of a vessel coming into harbour.

In contrast the bow and stern lights of a yacht are much easier to see and to judge a small vessel’s distance and speed. Once the engine is started the tricolour has to be doused and the bow, stern and steaming lights turned on, so why not do this a bit earlier than normal and ensure that you are easily seen by large vessels?www.sail-help.co.uk

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Sticky’s tipsBy Sticky Stapylton

A. Bay ‘open’ B. Bay ‘closed’

Open and closedDo you understand the expressions “open” and “closed”? Have a look at this diagram: as an aid to pilotage, the position line as a transit is invaluable, and you can easily see how to keep clear of the rocks by the first headland.


IT was little over month ago that I was left asking myself if my 2010 dream of a World Championship title was a possibility or shattered before the season had even started.

The race promoters pulled out leaving the Powerboat P1 teams without a championship. But with the passion and commitment that powerboat racers possess in abundance, race officials and competitors alike made sure the season continued.

Meanwhile it was back to business for me with a new team and sponsor to promote.

I headed to the Jersey Boat Show to meet Jersey’s TV Chef Shaun Rankin

as we opened the show by cutting a very, large, old fishing rope with a chef’s knife to fanfare by Royal Marine trumpeters.

The third annual Jersey Boat Show, in association with Barclays Wealth, attracted thousands of islanders and mainlanders.

I caught up with a familiar face in UK ‘Windy’ sales representative and ex Zapcat Racer, Ben Toogood, who had brought boats over specifically for the show.

“Everyone here in Jersey has been very helpful and it has all been incredibly well put together,” he said.

With the show over my attentions quickly turned to Yalta and the first Grand prix of the season but to say I was unenthusiastic for my first race in a new boat, new team and new season was an understatement.

The last few months have been so

discouraging that the easiest option would have been to pull out and take the year off I have been promising myself for the past 14 years.

But I pushed myself like many of my racing colleagues, race officials and organisers and we pulled off one of the best powerboating events the sport has ever seen, with no main promoter on board.

Yalta in the Ukraine was an excellent venue topped with an excellent opening and closing ceremony and 20,000 adoring public.

Patrick and I along with the rest of the Spirit of Belgium team did not have much time for practice but we took our new Nortech Boat out for the pole position race on the Friday and secured second place in one of our first outings together as a team.

Friday’s weather was calm and the boat was handling well. Things were looking good but Saturday saw an unexpected change. Gale force gusts swept across the marina and Black Sea, stopping practice and making launching near impossible.

Back on the trailer the pit crew noticed that the lead ballast bags had split and dispersed everywhere in the boat. There was mad panic and a big team effort to get it scooped up and replaced with solid lead plates in the 45 mins before the start.

We could not have run without the ballast. We would have been underweight at the end of the race and disqualified.

The race was hard and fast with a big swell and lots of airborne moments but the boat handled brilliantly and

the 2600hp Mercury Supercharged engines did not miss a beat.

A bad start saw us in sixth place and drenched by other boats’ spray which should have provided intercom problems but the new DS Development Neptune system helped us secure the third place in our first race together.

On Sunday after a much better start in better weather we quickly pulled back the places to second and began the battle for first.

Spirit of Belgium #17 hounded Team Bahia #38 for nine laps but just

could not get past their expert racing line.

They took gold and we took the silver medal for the Ukraine Grand Prix of the Sea and that puts us in a strong position for the next round in Malta on 11, 12 and 13 June.

Shelley Jory-LeighBritish Powerboat Champion

www.shelleyjory.com

Back in the driving seat to success

On podium taking the silver medal overall for the week-end Photo: powerboatracing.be


Breaking the mould for a greener future

By Jane Swan – Project Manager

YACHT 2041 has been berthed at Haslar Marina for the past few weeks so we dropped by to take a look.

She’s a 67-foot steel-frame racing yacht built in 1990 to race the wrong way around the world in Chay Blythe’s Global Challenge.

In 1994 she was acquired by Robert Swan OBE, the first person to walk to both the

North and South Poles and a champion for the preservation of Antarctica – hence 2041 because that’s the year when the moratorium on drilling and mining in Antarctica is up for review.

Recycled and outfitted for adventure sailing, since 2008 she has been on a five year global Voyage for Cleaner Energy - sustainable living and renewable energy.

Aside from the eight solar panels capable of

producing 1,400 watts of clean solar energy, two wind turbines capable of generating 2500 watts, a motor that can run on biodiesel and vegetable oil, and LED lighting, the two really interesting features on Yacht 2041 are the world’s first furling solar panel sails and the sails themselves made from recycled plastic bottles. Take a look at www.2041.com/

So what does all this have to do with The Green Blue? Well a dose of inspiration and strategic leadership always helps but it’s also great to see such exceptional projects taking on green technologies and products, showing that they can and do work and encouraging our sector to accept them as standard fare.

A walk through any marina will see that it is starting to happen, with growing numbers of sailboats fitted with wind turbines and solar panels.

Closer to our world of recreational boating, we have our own inspirational project embracing much of the same technology. The germ of an idea by the Rogers family to create a greener version of their iconic Contessa 32 has transformed into a full scale build of ‘Calypso’, and with the chance to exhibit her at the PSP Southampton Boat Show it’s now full speed at the Jeremy Rogers yard to get her ready in time.

It is a journey of no compromise on safety, performance and quality but also a journey of pragmatism and constructive debate - how to hold fast to green ideals yet create something accessible and achievable for manufacturers and yachtsmen alike.

Calypso’s hull is made of GRP but the logic is that its longevity arguably makes it one of the most sustainable materials available, even though ‘end of life’ opportunities to recycle it are still limited.

Where Calypso is embracing innovation is the use of a new type of teak replacement called Kebony for her decks and interior which is durable, strong and sustainable. And with Hybrid Marine recently delivering her new hybrid engine she’s starting to shape up nicely.

Calypso embodies a magical combination – a green vision, a classic yacht and a legendary boat builder, all supported by the only bespoke environmental boating programme of its kind – The Green Blue.

We’re excited and hope you will be too. Join us in following her journey at http://buildingcalypso.blogspot.com/

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By Sam Jefferson

NO matter what kind of sailing you are in to, the common denominator that keeps us all keen and enthusiastic is the freedom that being out on the water gives us.

The thrill as you head away from land, sheet in your sail and feel yourself propelled forward by the forces of nature is undeniable.

If you’re disabled, then all those feelings of freedom are multiplied as you hit the water and leave behind the restrictions of a landlocked life.

Sailing is one of the few sports which you can get involved with whatever your disability.

It was with this in mind that the RYA originally set up the RYA Sailability Programme with the aim of ensuring that as many disabled people as possible got the chance to take part in the sport.

Since its inception, the programme, which is also a registered charity, has flourished: At present there are 145 Sailability Centres throughout the UK, with around 25,000 disabled sailors regularly participating in the sport. Compare that with the 16,000 taking part in 2007 and you can see there are real tangible results from the programme’s work.

One of the big success stories from

the last couple of years has been the RYA Sailability multi class regatta which takes place at Rutland Sailing Club over the weekend of August 13.

Now in its fourth year, this is the only event in the world which offers inter-class racing for disabled sailors. The regatta is open to all racing sailors with disabilities who race in the following classes; Access, 2.4mR, Challenger, Sonar, SKUD, Artemis and Laser Stratos.

The event is organised by RYA Sailability and funded by Sport England and the Sailability Trust.. Debbie Blachford, who manages the RYA Sailability Department, explained the ethos: “The basic thinking behind the weekend is to get more people involved in the sport and also showcase how exciting it can be.

“Year on year, we are getting more entries. There were some 72 boats and 94 entrants to the last regatta, so you’re looking at a pretty big event which provides a great opportunity for disabled sailors to test themselves against the very best.”

The weekend kicks off with a race training day on Friday, with morning and afternoon training session for all levels of racers.

A full day of class racing takes

place on the Saturday, followed by an evening regatta dinner as well as spot prizes for the day’s notable performances. General handicap racing takes place throughout Sunday and the weekend culminates with prize giving presentations for the top boats in the class and

handicap races.Disabled or able bodied, first

time racer or training for the 2012 Paralympics, you are welcome to get involved.

Race entry is £10 per person and includes training on Friday, racing fee and Saturday evening dinner.

Entry forms and Notice of Race details are available at www.rya.org.uk/sailability For more information contact event co-ordinator Joanna Bentley; telephone: 07789 991 603 or email: [email protected]

Read Geoff Holt – see page 26

Disability can be plain sailing


SAILABILITY boasts that 20,000 plus disabled sailing experiences were delivered last year across 140 Sailability sites in the UK.

It’s a phenomenal achievement and all credit to those clubs and groups. But just about every one of those sessions was in a sailing dinghy.

Across those sites, there are nearly 1,000 boats; a mix of disabled classes including the Access, Challenger, Skud, Sonar, 2.4, Laser, Drascombe longboats and many others, all of them dinghies. That’s a lot of investment being well utilised.

But what about cruising? Getting out on to the sea for a prolonged period on a proper sailing yacht? It’s a completely different experience to sailing a dinghy and one which many disabled sailors have yet to enjoy.

Having benefitted from an international wave of publicity a few months ago with my Atlantic crossing, I received scores of emails from disabled people around the world all asking the same question; “Where can I find a boat like yours to go cruising?”

This is nothing new. A decade ago as Chairman of RYA Sailability, our committee wrestled with the same question but the challenge still remains. There are a few, highly specialised, custom-built, privately owned vessels in the world, Impossible Dream, the boat I chartered for my Atlantic crossing, being one of them, but I was lucky enough to be friends with an obliging owner.

Being privately owned usually rules the boat out from the possibility of general charitable use or charter by other disabled people. From my research, there are only a handful of these privately owned disabled-accessible yachts in the world and as few as six wheelchair accessible boats available to public charter anywhere in the world.

That is an amazing but disappointing statistic. Out of those six boats, three are in the UK and are owned by charities.

Knoticat is a 30-foot catamaran run by the Sports Forum for the Disabled based in Dorset and is mainly used for day sailing by members of the charity. The other two, Verity K, a 35-foot monohull, and Scott Bader, a 35-foot catamaran, are both owned by the Thomas Morley Trust and much of their disabled sailing activity is organised through the Gwennili Trust out of Port Solent.

Both of these boats are now several years old but they see a lot of action with disabled sailors coming from across the UK and overseas.

Wheelchair users wanting to charter something in warmer waters have to venture to Greece or Mallorca where there is just one monohull yacht in each venue modified to take wheelchairs.

Of course, not every disabled person uses a wheelchair. Many blind people, for example, prefer cruising to dinghy sailing. There are several blind sailing events including Blind Week, a long-established event held in the UK each year which is always oversubscribed.

Owners bring along their yachts and allow the blind sailors to crew with them during the week. One advantage is that blind people can adapt to almost any type of sailing craft which makes the physical accessibility of the yacht less important to their sailing experience.

The same applies to those with intellectual disabilities. The Sussex Fleet of Rotary holds an annual “Kids Out on the Water” day in Chichester harbour for just such a group.

Again, yachts of all shapes and sizes are provided by the owners. So

long as the kids are ambulant to some degree, the physical accessibility of the boat is not such an issue. Deaf people too have their own sailing association and competition. Although facing their own specific challenges on a boat, once again the type of boat presents less of a problem to deaf people than those in wheelchairs.

So are yacht charter companies missing a trick? Yes, I think they are. Not only for wheelchair users but disabled people in general including the deaf, the blind, those with an intellectual disability and those with other physical disabilities.

There are countless thousands of yachts around the world operating within charter fleets. Many of these fleets include catamarans which, from my personal experience, provide the most stable platform.

If there was a corporate will, either new boats could be designed or existing boats could be modified to accommodate disabled guests, regardless of disability.

Disabled people have an estimated

£62 billion of disposable income each year according to Disability Matters Ltd. Disabled people take holidays too and disabled sailors would take sailing holidays if they were available.

It’s a massively untapped market but despite my efforts, some of the key players in the yacht charter game

turn a blind eye. It’s a shame because not only are

many wheelchair users around the world missing out on a sailing holiday with friends and family but the yacht charter industry itself is missing out on a very lucrative section of the market.

Missing a lucrative section of the market

Geoff Holt

The former professional yachtsman who was paralysed in a swimming accident and inspired sailors when he became the first quadriplegic to sail the Atlantic.

More informationMakers of Impossible Dream: www.multimarine.co.uk/Very K / Scott Bader: www.gwennili.org.uk/Knoticat: www.sportsforum.org.uk/sailing.htmlGreek sailing: www.disabledsailingholidays.com

Disabled people have an estimated £62 billion

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SINCE the Cardiff barrage was built, the city has continued to attract more and more visitors each year. And now that the water has begun to mature and the building projects have been completed this waterside area of the Welsh capital has become a hive of activity and a venue that attracts a variety of waterborne activities. One of the very best of these is the annual classics weekend in August.

This year, the event will take place over the weekend of 14 and 15 August, two weeks before the Cowes to Torquay event. The City of Cardiff has always been very supportive of the Classic Motor Boat Association and the harbour staff have worked hard to put on an excellent weekend for everyone. In the last couple of years, there has also been a mass gathering of classic cars on the Sunday. The cars park up in an easy-to-view formation, on the quayside next to the classic boats. It is a combination that works well and draws large crowds of onlookers and it is set to do exactly the same in 2010.

This joint meet has the benefit of crossover interest, not least because you will often find the same engines used in the cars and boats from the same era. The boat builders of the day were compelled to use whatever engines were available, so sports car motors were very much favoured and still feature strongly in many of the classic boats today.

While no news has yet been released as to which cars will be attending this year, previous years

suggest that we will see a bevy of Austin Healeys, Triumph TRs, Rolls Royces, Aston Martins, the odd Lagonda, plenty of MGs, Jaguars and even some Italian exotica. This is married to a gathering of boats bearing the names of Healey, Albatross, Delta, Donoratico, Tremlett, Broom, Stapeley, Fenn & Wood, Moonfleet, Fairey, Chris Craft and possibly a Dowty Turbojet. The variety of craft encompasses a period in boat design that saw massive leaps forward in speed and seakeeping so there is plenty for everyone to see.

If you own a classic boat and are keen to be a part of the event, the places are limited to 50 so you need to get your name down quickly. For visitors, there is excellent viewing from the raised walkway around the barrage lake, while for rally participants, the Cardiff Bay Yacht Club is again offering to play host. Either way, with water-based activities throughout the weekend, there is ample opportunity to get involved.www.cmba-uk.com

The burgeoning boat hub of Cardiff is once again set to play host to a Classic Boat Weekend. Simon Everett takes a look at what you can expect . . .

Boat builders of the time were forced to use whatever engines were available so, inevitably,

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Britain’s ‘bit of France’

Alex Smith took an extended weekend to soak in the atmosphere at the UK’s ‘continental’ boat show that was a perfect opportunity to sample all that the Channel Island has to offer.

HAVING only committed to Englishness in the 1820s, following the defeat of Napoleon, Jersey is about as French as a British place can be - and with the implications that this has for the food and the pace of life, it is inevitable that most of us are pretty keen to visit.

The fact that it also has a vast tidal range

that can double the island’s landmass at low water makes it a devilishly interesting place for the recreational boater, and its geographical location, just off the north coast of France brings with it climatic benefits that the mainland visitor tends to enjoy.

Despite an unseasonal flurry of northerly

winds during our own visit, Boat Show weekend was a fine time to organise a trip.

You can get there by ferry or by air but, if you arrive in your own boat, it has to be registered at the Harbour Office on arrival. Insurance documents are required as a matter of course, so if you treat it as you would a trip to France, and make sure


About JerseyJersey is a small island, adrift in the Bay of Mont St Michel, a few miles off the coast of northwest France. It measures just nine miles by five and yet it is the largest of the Channel Islands, with 45 miles of varied coastline, some of it geared up for tourism, some of it surprisingly secluded and all of it of immense appeal to the visiting boater. The capital of the island is St Helier, in the middle of the island’s south coast, at the eastern edge of the huge sweeping sand expanse of St Aubins Bay. Here, there are two excellent marinas for visiting boaters with easy access to the centre of town.

Top ten Jersey activitiesTake a wine tasting tour at Le Mare Wine Estate in the north of the island.

Take the amphibious bus across the water to Elizabeth Castle.

Take a wildlife-spotting safari.

Find a secluded bay and drop anchor for a beach picnic.

Circumnavigate the island by boat - it’s a great 45-mile trip from St Helier.

Visit the German War Tunnels and imagine how it must have been during the WWII occupation.

Explore the extraordinary Gerald Durrel Zoo in the north of the island.

Visit Bohemia for some ‘best of Jersey’ cuisine from the famous TV chef himself.

Take a cruise around the rest of the Channel islands.

Try surfing in the Atlantic swells off St Ouen’s Bay on the west coast of the island.

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Celebrity TV Chef, Shaun Rankin, who owns and runs the Michelin starred ‘Bohemia’ bar and restaurant in Jersey, opened the show alongside All at Sea columnist and champion powerboat racer, Shelley Jory - and it was immediately plain that, once again, the key focus of the show was on the power side of things.

Behind the celebrity guests, ‘High Energy’, a 90-foot Sunseeker charter boat dwarfed the Sunseeker Portofino 47, while on the rest of the marina pontoons, builders, dealers and distributors from the British mainland embraced the show with just as much verve as the local inhabitants of St Helier. MRL, based at Drivers Wharf in Southampton, had brought a selection of Stingher RIBs across from the English south coast and so too had Bates Wharf, with a fleet of Trophy sports fishers and rather delicious Sessa express cruisers.

Pursuit UK and Morgan powerboats of Plymouth had also made the trip under their own steam and you can see why. It may boast only a brief three-year history but to date the event has always done a brisk and vibrant trade.

As well as around 120 exhibitors, the assorted visitor attractions were also busy, with families enjoying the chance to experience a taste of life at sea, treading the decks of a variety of working boats moored at the special ‘Condor Get on Board’ pontoons.

The Royal Navy’s 79-metre Fisheries Protection vessel, HMS Mersey was also on display, as was the tall ship, Lord Nelson, the Port of Jersey tug, Duke of Normandy, and two of the Navy’s training vessels, HMS Tracker and HMS Trumpeter.

All were on hand to lower their gangways and welcome visitors on board. Live entertainment also added to the good vibes, with performances including a Beating the Retreat performed by the Band of the Royal Marines. The band also joined young Jersey musicians in a Gala Concert at Jersey’s Opera House for a sell-out show.

Having attended the show for the first time in 2009, I was struck by the cultural integrity of the event and I am delighted to say that nothing has changed there.

In place of the regular boat show fare of overpriced burgers or (worse still) bagels with cream cheese, we were offered locally harvested mussels and locally brewed cider which is considerably stronger than it tastes.

And while the sheer quantity of boats leaves you in no doubt as to the strength of the event’s identity as a boat show, it retains an element of open-mindedness that sees stands selling things as welcome and as tenuously related as woollen jumpers, nautical artwork and GRP garden furniture.

In terms of the island’s natural assets, it’s a tough place to beat. The climate is great, the island is full of boating and watersports options, and a fractious history has left the place littered with areas of enormous historical interest.

Even getting there on the ferry is a simple affair. It tends to cost from £50 to £100 for a foot passenger from Portsmouth, Poole or Weymouth.

Travel with a family and a car works out cheaper still. See you there in 2011 . . .

Top ten Jersey activitiesTake a wine tasting tour at Le Mare Wine Estate in the north of the island.

Take the amphibious bus across the water to Elizabeth Castle.

Take a wildlife-spotting safari.

Find a secluded bay and drop anchor for a beach picnic.

Circumnavigate the island by boat - it’s a great 45-mile trip from St Helier.

Visit the German War Tunnels and imagine how it must have been during the WWII occupation.

Explore the extraordinary Gerald Durrel Zoo in the north of the island.

Visit Bohemia for some ‘best of Jersey’ cuisine from the famous TV chef himself.

Take a cruise around the rest of the Channel islands.

Try surfing in the Atlantic swells off St Ouen’s Bay on the west coast of the island.

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About the showEstablished: 2008 Location: St HelierDuration: three days Exhibitors: 160 Entry: free

ContactsJersey TIC 01534 448877Jersey Boat Show 01534 447745www.jerseyboatshow.comFor more details regarding registration and insurance, contact the Harbour Office in St Helier (01534 885588)


To Brittany to enjoy a real beer ‘BRETAGNE’, the home for French sailors, has many close links to our ‘Grande Bretagne’s’ west coast from Devon and Cornwall to the Hebrides – culturally, with a similar sea-oriented lifestyle, through language and harvesting the fruits of the sea.

And it is famous for doing clever things with apples, like Calvados, and amazing ciders, like St Malo’s Cidre Fermier ‘Brut’, delivered in a wired-up bottle like champagne – sparkling, dry, crisp and a match for any of our west country’s best.

It may come as a surprise to find that they are clever at making a splendid real ale too, a match for the most traditional of English brewing.

While there, do look out for the terrific range of AR-MEN beers made locally by the Brasserie de Bretagne at Tregunc, some ten kilometres south-east inland from Concarneau. These are the realist of real ales, not French lagers, and Atlantic robust, like the Ar-Men lighthouse after which they are named.

‘Armen’ in Breton means ‘the rock’ and this iconic lighthouse sits on an outcrop rock west of the Isle de Seine and Pointe de Raz, at the western limits of France itself. The rock protrudes only 1.5 metres above sea level, so construction work was only possible for a few hours each year and it took 14 years from 1867 to being lit in 1881.

Now standing at 105 feet (32m) high, the lighthouse has become legendary for photographs of spectacular waves breaking over it and the difficulty of relieving its keeper until it was automated in 1990.

The Armen’s white flash every 20 seconds at 48.03.00 N and 04.59.54 W guards some treacherous rocks and tidal rips but once ashore in Brittany the AR-MEN range of beers is waiting to refresh and rebuild a sailor’s courage.

AR-MEN is top fermented, bitter/real ale style, non-pasteurised and conditioned in bottle, which is now a rarity in the UK. The original bottled Guinness and White Shield Worthington were famous bottle-conditioned beers of the 1950s and the Nelson Brewery, Chatham, is one that still does it.

The fizz is naturally made from live yeast added at bottling. You have to store it in the cellar a week before it is ready to drink. Sediment of still fermenting yeast begins to form, hence the careful angled pouring into a glass and you should never totally invert the bottle. If left too long it becomes too yeasty and will

froth madly on opening. It is no longer viable for the pub trade

here, but not in Brittany. Founded only ten years

ago, the Brasserie de Bretagne produces a range of five splendid AR-MEN beers, ranging from ‘Blonde’ at five per cent abv to ‘Dorée’ at seven per cent abv. This is in the style of the very best Belgian Abbaye beers, meaty, malty, dark and strong, for relaxed and considered imbibing, not quaffing, and producing a comforting sensation like donning a traditional Breton sweater.

Very much hand knitted ales, the brewery produces in one year what Guinness produces in one day!

Sadly they are not available over here, so make sure you get a share when you make your Brittany landfall. But do drink it, don’t just keep it.

By Paul Antrobus

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SUMMER is here and it’s getting towards the time when you can forget about sitting in a stifling hot classroom and are finally free to do whatever you want to do. The question is what to do? Fingers crossed, the weather will be hot, so you really want to be outside enjoying yourself and what better place to do that than on the water?The problem is if you want to go boating, you generally need to learn how to do it: So here’s a controversial suggestion - why not spend the summer doing a bit of extra learning by doing an RYA course?Don’t worry, it’s nothing like being in the classroom; you’ll spend most of your time out on the water messing around. There will be an instructor around to make sure nothing goes wrong, but he or she’ll be nothing like your usual teacher. Generally they’ll be wearing shorts, flip flops and sunglasses on their heads. With any luck they’ll refer to you as ‘dude’.

WhatcoursescanItake?The RYA offers a whole range of courses for younger boaters and they make sure that

they are all about having fun. Here are some of the courses we offer. Who knows, if you enjoy it, you might end up as an instructor yourself, and there’s plenty of fun to be had teaching RYA courses.In addition when you’re a bit older, you can also use the powerboat courses as part of your Duke of Edinburgh Award. Some training centres will offer the courses as a weekend away, so it would be a great way to get out of the house and make new friends. The RYA has loads of courses, but here are a few that might be good for the summer holidays:

PowerboatsIf blasting around in powerboats is your thing, then anyone over the age of eight can take our level one powerboat course and anyone over 12 can take the level two course. This will give you the knowledge to show off a bit of powerboating prowess.

SailingPowerboating is one thing, but some of us prefer the peace of sailing. It’s definitely

worth a go and it gets pretty addictive too. The beauty of our youth sailing scheme is that you can break it up in to two-day sessions and move through the modules from stage one to stage four.This means that over the course of a summer, you could progress from a complete novice, through to the level of total expert. There generally isn’t an age limit on these courses but many places will prefer to take people over eight.

WindsurfingWindsurfing is always fun to learn during the summer months. If it’s warm, you can have a lot of fun splashing around and will spent a lot of time laughing at other students wiping out. The course works in just the same way as the dinghy sailing one, with separate modules that you can do over a couple of days.

HowdoIbookacourse?Ok, you’ll probably have to get your parents to do this but you can take a look at what courses are available by going to www.rya.org.uk. If you see something

that tickles your fancy, have a chat with your parents and see what they say. After all, they should be keen because you’re learning something.But, trust me, you will be a long way from that stuffy classroom.

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LAT 51 07 N LONG 1 19 E

TIME ZONE UT(GMT) TIMES AND HEIGHTS OF HIGH AND LOWWATERS YEAR 2010

0027 6.7 0725 1.0 0131 6.1 0112 6.5 0147 6.0 0150 6.6 0202 6.0 0300 6.30757 0.9 1210 6.5 0839 1.5 0848 1.0 0846 1.5 0924 0.8 0921 1.5 1017 1.2

SA 1246 6.6 SU 1943 1.0 TU 1350 6.3 W 1340 6.7 TH 1401 6.3 F 1413 6.9 SU 1418 6.2 M 1525 6.42010 1.0 2059 1.4 2113 0.9 2109 1.4 2149 0.6 2143 1.5 2246 1.3

0106 6.5 0028 6.5 0212 5.9 0204 6.4 0219 5.9 0239 6.5 0233 5.9 0354 5.90829 1.1 0803 1.1 0908 1.6 0934 1.1 0917 1.5 1004 1.0 0955 1.7 1102 1.7

SU 1326 6.5 M 1254 6.5 W 1430 6.1 TH 1431 6.6 F 1431 6.1 SA 1502 6.7 M 1454 6.0 TU 1621 5.92043 1.2 2023 1.1 2132 1.6 2202 1.0 2142 1.5 2232 0.9 2220 1.7 2337 1.8

0147 6.3 0114 6.4 0255 5.7 0300 6.2 0252 5.7 0331 6.2 0314 5.7 0459 5.50859 1.4 0844 1.2 0942 1.8 1021 1.2 0952 1.7 1046 1.2 1035 1.9 1203 2.1

M 1409 6.2 TU 1343 6.4 TH 1513 5.9 F 1526 6.4 SA 1505 5.9 SU 1554 6.4 TU 1542 5.8 W 1729 5.52115 1.5 2108 1.2 2211 1.8 2253 1.1 2220 1.7 2318 1.2 2305 2.0

0231 5.9 0206 6.2 0343 5.5 0400 6.0 0329 5.6 0428 5.9 0409 5.4 0045 2.20928 1.7 0930 1.4 1024 2.0 1113 1.4 1032 1.9 1136 1.6 1128 2.2 0616 5.3

TU 1455 5.9 W 1440 6.2 F 1600 5.7 SA 1624 6.2 SU 1547 5.8 M 1652 6.0 W 1648 5.5 TH 1321 2.32151 1.8 2200 1.3 2300 2.0 2348 1.3 2304 1.8 1858 5.3

0322 5.6 0309 6.0 0438 5.3 0506 5.8 0419 5.4 0012 1.6 0011 2.2 0203 2.31005 2.0 1024 1.6 1117 2.1 1211 1.6 1121 2.1 0534 5.6 0553 5.2 0747 5.3

W 1547 5.6 TH 1544 6.0 SA 1655 5.5 SU 1728 6.0 M 1642 5.6 TU 1237 1.9 TH 1252 2.3 F 1446 2.22239 2.1 2301 1.5 1800 5.7 1830 5.4 2042 5.4

0421 5.3 0425 5.8 0001 2.0 0047 1.4 0001 2.0 0116 1.9 0148 2.2 0327 2.11100 2.3 1131 1.8 0539 5.2 0618 5.7 0530 5.3 0651 5.4 0724 5.4 0900 5.6

TH 1647 5.4 F 1654 5.9 SU 1225 2.2 M 1314 1.7 TU 1226 2.2 W 1348 2.0 F 1424 2.1 SA 1609 1.92350 2.3 1755 5.4 1839 5.9 1752 5.5 1923 5.5 1949 5.6 2141 5.8

0527 5.1 0011 1.6 0107 2.0 0150 1.5 0114 2.1 0226 2.0 0304 1.9 0439 1.81224 2.4 0546 5.7 0641 5.3 0727 5.7 0645 5.3 0808 5.5 0827 5.7 0949 6.0

F 1753 5.3 SA 1244 1.8 M 1335 2.2 TU 1420 1.7 W 1346 2.2 TH 1502 2.0 SA 1534 1.8 SU 1707 1.51808 5.9 1855 5.5 1950 5.9 1903 5.5 2045 5.6 2050 6.0 2223 6.0

0106 2.2 0120 1.5 0209 1.9 0255 1.6 0226 1.9 0341 1.9 0409 1.6 0527 1.50638 5.1 0700 5.7 0736 5.4 0830 5.8 0748 5.5 0913 5.7 0921 6.1 1027 6.3

SA 1338 2.3 SU 1352 1.7 TU 1438 2.0 W 1527 1.6 TH 1457 2.0 F 1618 1.8 SU 1635 1.3 M 1751 1.31901 5.4 1920 6.0 1949 5.7 2055 6.0 2006 5.7 2148 5.8 2144 6.3 2256 6.2

0210 2.0 0225 1.4 0307 1.7 0404 1.5 0329 1.7 0452 1.7 0508 1.2 0606 1.40743 5.3 0802 5.9 0824 5.7 0925 5.9 0843 5.8 1003 6.0 1010 6.5 1101 6.5

SU 1438 2.1 M 1456 1.5 W 1534 1.7 TH 1633 1.5 F 1558 1.6 SA 1719 1.5 M 1733 1.0 TU 1826 1.21959 5.6 2021 6.2 2037 5.9 2151 6.1 2101 6.0 2236 6.0 2233 6.6 O 2324 6.3

0304 1.8 0330 1.2 0401 1.5 0507 1.4 0428 1.4 0545 1.5 0606 1.0 0637 1.30831 5.6 0856 6.1 0909 5.9 1014 6.1 0934 6.1 1045 6.2 1055 6.9 1133 6.6

M 1529 1.8 TU 1600 1.3 TH 1626 1.5 F 1730 1.3 SA 1653 1.3 SU 1807 1.3 TU 1830 0.7 W 1854 1.22043 5.8 2115 6.3 2123 6.1 2240 6.2 2153 6.3 2313 6.2 2318 6.8 2351 6.4

0353 1.5 0434 1.1 0453 1.3 0558 1.3 0523 1.2 0626 1.4 0659 0.8 0701 1.30909 5.8 0944 6.2 0952 6.2 1057 6.3 1022 6.4 1122 6.4 1139 7.1 1203 6.6

TU 1616 1.6 W 1659 1.2 F 1716 1.3 SA 1818 1.2 SU 1747 1.1 M 1847 1.2 W 1922 0.5 TH 1918 1.12121 6.0 2204 6.4 2207 6.3 O 2322 6.3 2242 6.5 O 2346 6.3

0439 1.3 0530 1.0 0542 1.2 0641 1.3 0618 1.0 0701 1.3 0002 6.9 0017 6.30945 6.1 1028 6.4 1035 6.4 1136 6.4 1109 6.7 1157 6.5 0745 0.6 0725 1.2

W 1700 1.4 TH 1749 1.1 SA 1803 1.1 SU 1900 1.2 M 1841 0.9 TU 1920 1.2 TH 1223 7.2 F 1230 6.52157 6.2 O 2250 6.5 2252 6.5 2330 6.7 2008 0.3 1944 1.1

0523 1.2 0618 1.0 0629 1.1 0000 6.3 0711 0.9 0018 6.3 0045 6.9 0041 6.31020 6.2 1110 6.4 1118 6.5 0718 1.3 1154 6.8 0729 1.3 0826 0.6 0752 1.2

TH 1742 1.2 F 1834 1.0 SU 1850 1.0 M 1215 6.5 TU 1933 0.7 W 1231 6.5 F 1306 7.2 SA 1251 6.52232 6.4 2332 6.5 2337 6.6 1937 1.2 1948 1.2 2049 0.4 2011 1.2

0605 1.1 0659 1.0 0716 1.0 0037 6.2 0016 6.7 0048 6.2 0127 6.8 0100 6.31055 6.4 1150 6.5 1203 6.6 0751 1.4 0759 0.8 0754 1.3 0902 0.7 0821 1.3

F 1823 1.1 SA 1915 1.0 M 1937 0.9 TU 1252 6.5 W 1240 7.0 TH 1301 6.5 SA 1350 7.1 SU 1312 6.52309 6.5 2010 1.2 2022 0.6 2014 1.2 2127 0.5 2040 1.3

0646 1.0 0012 6.4 0023 6.6 0113 6.1 0103 6.7 0116 6.2 0212 6.6 0124 6.31131 6.5 0735 1.2 0802 1.0 0819 1.4 0844 0.8 0820 1.3 0938 0.9 0851 1.4

SA 1903 1.0 SU 1230 6.5 TU 1251 6.7 W 1328 6.4 TH 1326 7.0 F 1327 6.4 SU 1436 6.8 M 1340 6.42347 6.5 1952 1.1 2025 0.9 2040 1.3 2107 0.5 2041 1.2 2204 0.9 2110 1.4

0052 6.3 0139 6.1 0155 6.20809 1.3 0849 1.4 0924 1.6

M 1310 6.4 SA 1350 6.3 TU 1416 6.22026 1.3 2111 1.3 2144 1.7

Tidal predictions

NEW MOON: 12/06/2010 FULL MOON: 26/06/2010

NEwS IN BRIEF Four saved from cold swellsVOLUNTEER RNLI lifeboat crew members from Northern Ireland worked together to rescue fishermen and swimmers on Sunday 16 May.

In the morning, Portrush inshore lifeboat was called to man struggling 40m from the West Strand rocks in an ebb tide that was dragging him further out to sea. A second casualty was then spotted by a lifeboat crew member around 100m away.

The three volunteer crew members pulled the men – both in their early 20s – into the lifeboat and gave first aid. The first casualty was suspected to be hypothermic with cuts to the legs and feet. The second casualty also showed signs of hypothermia and was disoriented, violently sick, and very weak. They were taken to Causeway Hospital.

Robin Cardwell Portrush RNLI Lifeboat Operations Manager said: “The fast response of the volunteer RNLI lifeboat crew undoubtedly saved the lives of these two men. The outcome could have been very tragic as the temperature and the sea conditions were extreme at that time.”

The volunteers of the Portrush all-weather lifeboat and Red Bay inshore lifeboat were called on later that day when two fishermen got into difficulty.

An anchor from the five metre fishing boat, which was off Sheep Island at Ballintoy, went down and one of the men leaned over the bow of the boat to retrieve it. He was caught by a wave and pulled into the freezing water.

When the lifeboats arrived on scene, the man had been recovered back onboard by his crewmate.

Conditions were poor, with force 5 winds and a big swell. Both men

were suffering from cold and shock. They were taken on board the

Portrush all-weather lifeboat, while Red Bay lifeboat towed the fishing vessel back to land.

The fishermen were met by an ambulance at Ballycastle.

Girls saved at Loch NessTWO young girls were rescued from the chilly waters of Loch Ness on 19 May by Loch Ness volunteer lifeboat crew. A honeymooning couple from Yorkshire had dialled 999 after seeing the girls struggling in the water, separated from their dinghy. The girls had been playing in the boat and drifted out into open water. Wearing lifejackets, they had tried to swim to shore but had been overcome by the extremely cold water. The lifeboat launched within six minutes of being notified by the Coastguard. The dinghy was quickly found, and the lifeboat crew was guided to the girls by the couple and an off-duty policeman. Crew Member Ian Putnam said: “The two girls were extremely distressed and unable to swim as a result of the effects of the cold water.” The girls were taken on board and taken to the lifeboat station, where they were given first aid by more lifeboat crew and a paramedic. An ambulance then transferred them to hospital. Both girls were discharged home later that evening.

Redcar volunteers rescue boysTHREE boys aged 9, 11 and 13 were rescued from the base of cliffs near Saltburn, North Yorkshire on Sunday 23 May after being left stranded by the high tide. The children had set out on a walk but, when they failed to arrive at their destination by 2.30pm, a concerned parent raised the alarm. Redcar’s B class inshore lifeboat crew spotted the children at the base of the cliff, and called for the station’s smaller D class lifeboat to help. A crew member from the B class swam ashore with lifejackets for the boys, and then the D class ran in to the base of the cliff, picking up the boys and the crew member. The trio were landed at Saltburn, where coastguards and paramedics, along with the boys’ parents, were waiting.

RNLI / Red BayPortrush transfer two men on to the lifeboat

all at sea - july 2010

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