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APRIL 2011 • VOLUME 11 • NUMBER 4
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Ocean dramas
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Simon Everett takes a look at a classic 1930s sailing canoe Operon Racing at the start of Ocean Sprint 4 from Punta del Este, Uruguay to Charleston, USA
Photo: Ainhoa Sanchez/w-w-i.com
THE first weekend of April was full of drama in the VELUX 5 OCEANS as the fleet raced north through the South Atlantic. American skipper Brad Van Liew on Le Pingouin was brought to his knees after being hit in the back – by a huge flying fish. A second then ‘flew’ straight into his shoulder, leaving him battered and bruised. British skipper Chris Stanmore-Major faced a shortage of water on board Spartan. To keep weight down, CSM chose to take only 20 litres in his tanks but problems arose when his water maker was broken. After falling into the cockpit of Operon Racing, Polish skipper Zbigniew ‘Gutek’ Gutkowski feared he might have broken some ribs and was forced to rely on painkillers. Then the alternator broke. In a final blow the bowsprit broke, limiting the ability to fly spinnakers. On Active House, Canadian Derek Hatfield found one of his watertight compartments full with nearly 1,000 litres of water. The problem was a broken ballast tank line.
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Swapping race days for charity Shelley Jory-Leigh
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£million appeal CELIA Imrie, much-loved actress star of stage and screen launched a £1M public appeal for funds to create a new RNLI lifeboat station in Cowes. The leading British actress appeared in films and TV work such as Nanny McPhee, Acorn Antiques, Dinnerladies and Calendar Girls. Celia is patron of the Cowes appeal, which will lead to a greatly improved lifeboat station serving the Solent.
Celia who has a home on the island was escorted by lifeboat from the current station in Shepards Wharf marina to the new building – the old Custom House. Celia charmed the waiting crowd when she said: 'I'm absolutely thrilled to be here today, and wearing this crew kit. Obviously they don't have many people with chests because this is mighty tight!'
She told an audience of RNLI supporters, fundraisers and guests that she was delighted to be the patron of the Cowes Lifeboat Station Appeal. She went on to say: “The current station is a changing room, an office, a classroom, so they need this new station. All the crew are total volunteers and it is absolutely wonderful to think they are going to TURN TO PAGE 2
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