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Skipper your own boat in The Artemis Transat!
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Plymouth, UK, 10th May 2008 - BeTomorrow, in association and with the organisers of The Artemis Transat, OC Events, are delighted to announce LiveSkipper is now available on www.Liveskipper.com! for the duration of the oldest solo race in history.
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A Grand Night Out at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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17 May 2008, 17.00 - 20.00
As part of Museums and Galleries Month, join us for a cosmic evening of activities, workshops, performances and planetarium shows, set in the beautiful surroundings of Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Visit the Royal Observatory, Greenwich for an evening of exciting activities including shows at London’s only public planetarium, interactive workshops with questions to an astronomer, a performance on the Meridian Line telling the story of the Royal Observatory, live jazz music and a chance to observe the 28-inch refracting telescope and Camera Obscura in action. In addition, enjoy screenings of Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out, a marvellous animated tale involving a trip to the moon and a quest for cheese
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Simon Patterson: The Undersea World and Other Stories
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Exhibition: 1 May–26 October 2008
Location: Level 2, Neptune Court, National Maritime Museum
The Undersea World and Other Stories investigates Simon Patterson’s consistent explorations of the sea, stars and time – themes central to the collections and research at the National Maritime Museum (NMM). The Museum unpacks the material cultures that result from human attempts to find their place in the world, be it mapping the skies above, the ocean depths below, or seeking relationships across time and space. Such structures form frameworks of understanding that are bounded by limits of knowledge and distributed through language.
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29,700 miles sailed with only another 1,000 to go
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I’ve been lucky with the weather so far since departing Mehamn. It’s been said that luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity - who knows. Gary Player, the great South African golfer once said, ‘The more I practice, the luckier I get.’ I hooked onto a band of east winds to ride over the top of northern Norway, then north-easterlies chased me down the coast as far as Vestfjorden. Since then the wind combos have been more or less kind allowing Barrabas to weave a track towards the Shetland Islands.
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In brief
- Race direction announces a compulsory ice gate
- "It's great to have the race village in The Barbican", says two-times winner Loick Peyron
Read our feature about historic Plymouth here
- Meet Steve White, the 13th man in the IMOCA lineup
- Read SOLO, the official race magazine online http://www.theartemistransat.com/solo/uk
- Remember LIVESKIPPER has opened its registration – your chance to race the boats yourself, live, during the race from the dry and warm cockpit of your computer desk! http://www.liveskipper.com
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Ericsson Racing Team gets boost with Swedish veteran
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Ericsson Racing Team has recruited veteran Magnus "Mange" Olsson as a crewmember on the Nordic crew in the next Volvo Ocean Race. For Olsson it will be the sixth time he sails around the world. Skipper Anders Lewander says: "We have loads of youthful enthusiasm, desire and strength. Now we'll bring aboard experience and knowledge."
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Turmoil and Tranquillity: the sea through the eyes of Dutch and Flemish masters,
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This exhibition will celebrate the National Maritime Museum’s unrivalled collection of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish maritime paintings. These seascapes and coastal views of the Stuart Age are of outstanding quality, whilst the Queen’s House itself once housed a studio for featured father and son artists, the van de Veldes.
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BT AND SEB JOSSE READY TO GO
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It's been a week since the BT IMOCA 60 was named on the Thames in London and Seb Josse is now in Plymouth alongside the 23-strong fleet of The Artemis Transat that will leave this Sunday 11th May at 1400BST.
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PASSENGERS TAKEN OFF GROUNDED CRUISE SHIP
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LATVIAN naval vessels have taken more than 650 passengers off the
Bahamas-flag 28,891 Mona Lisa which grounded about 10 miles off the
country's coast early on Sunday morning.
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TRICKY CONDITIONS IN LANGENARGEN
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The first day of Match Race Germany in Langenargen on Lake Constance saw a picture perfect landscape with only one slight problem…the wind, or lack of it. After the opening ceremony hosted by the Langenargen Yacht Club in the striking Montfort Castle last night the first 2 races of flight one were started this morning, and while the left looked to be favoured the wind soon died away from both sides leaving the races abandoned. The course was moved West in an effort to find more wind
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