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COMING TO EUROPE! BRITAIN’S MOST READ WATERFRONT NEWSPAPER Emirates Team New Zealand will be defending their America’s Cup title in Barcelona, it has been conﬁrmed. After winning the iconic event last March hopes of a second consecutive regatta in Auckland have gradually faded, but New Zealand’s loss is Europe’s gain with a spectacular America’s Cup promised in Spain, who edged out fellow Spanish city Malaga, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Cork in Ireland to win the hosting rights. FULL STORY PAGE 3

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BARCELONA TO HOST AMERICA’S CUP FROM PAGE 1... Emirates Team New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have announced Barcelona as the Host Venue for the 37th America’s Cup. To be held in September and October 2024, America’s Cup Defender ETNZ CEO Grant Dalton said: “As Defender of the America’s Cup, we have always felt the responsibility to grow the event, the audience and the sport of sailing on a global scale and certainly having the event hosted in Barcelona, a city of such significance, will allow us to propel the growth trajectory on the global sporting stage. “When thinking ahead to the 37th America’s Cup and the AC75s racing within a few hundred metres of the Barcelona beach, waterfront and race village fan engagement zones, it will be nothing less than spectacular.” Integral to the organisation of the 37th America’s Cup is the Challenger of Record INEOS Britannia and the Royal Yacht Squadron Ltd who have played an

important part in setting the foundations of the next edition of the Cup. INEOS Britannia Team Principal Sir Ben Ainslie said: “We are delighted the iconic city of Barcelona has been chosen to host the 37th America’s Cup. The historic weather data for Barcelona shows what a fantastic sailing venue it will be. “The marina development and race area in Barcelona will offer excellent shoreside facilities for the competing teams, alongside a great event village for fans of sport’s oldest international trophy to enjoy this iconic sporting event.” Damiá Calvet, the president of the Port of Barcelona, concluded: “We have made Port Vell available to the city and the country to be able to celebrate an America’s Cup that projects Barcelona to the world and that has innovation and sustainability as its flagship. “We will make the most of the infrastructures that we already have, we will boost the economy and employment and finally, we will leave an enduring legacy.”

BACK TO RACING The Clipper fleet heading out of Subic Bay. Image: Clipper Ventures

Confirmed challengers:  INEOS Britannia (GBR)  Alinghi Red Bull Racing (SUI)  Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team (ITA)  NYYC American Magic (USA)

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The Clipper 2019-20 Race restarted from the Philippines with the 11 yachts, crewed by non-professional sailors, departing for the North Pacific crossing to Seattle. The sailing event, which trains people from all walks of life to become ocean racers, was suspended in March 2020 after sailing halfway around the world. Race crew from 21 countries are competing on this stage, and the teams will be racing towards Seattle where they are expected to arrive in mid-April. The 6,100nm Race 10, named the ‘Sailing City · Qingdao Cup’ in honour of the Chinese city represented in this edition, will see the teams compete in one of the world’s most inhospitable oceans, the North Pacific. Expected to take just over a month, the race crew will face frigid temperatures with hurricane Force 12 winds not uncommon. Fast sailing is most definitely

on the menu and the result will be some of the most exhilarating sailing experiences seen anywhere in the world. Clipper race director, Mark Light, said: “The mighty North Pacific Ocean is one of the most hostile places on earth and few people venture there, let alone race across in high tech state-of-the-art race yachts. “The feeling of remoteness is matched only by the absolute beauty of nature and the power of all elements combining to give an awesome display of the natural world. “Having a matched fleet of 11 Clipper Race yachts means that the closest competitors will be the best allies if needed and this offers comfort in that all yachts are reliant on each other for support as well as racing hard against each other.” www.clipperroundtheworld.com

Platinum Jubilee Medal REPERCUSSIONS OF As a token of thanks, 4,500 RNLI volunteers and frontline staff are to be awarded a special commemorative Platinum Jubilee medal in recognition of the 69,212 lives the charity has saved during Her Majesty’s 70year reign. As well as being awarded to RNLI volunteers and frontline staff, those who serve in the emergency services, prison services and Armed Forces (who have completed five years consecutive service) will also receive the award. When Princess Elizabeth became Queen in 1952, she also became patron

of the RNLI, continuing a lifesaving legacy left by the charity’s first patron King George IV. RNLI chief executive Mark Dowie said: “I am delighted to see so many RNLI volunteers and staff being recognised. The Platinum Jubilee medal follows a long history of awarding medals to mark Royal Jubilee celebrations; this is the fourth medal under Her Majesty The Queen’s reign. “It is a testament to the selflessness and dependability of our people that many have served the RNLI long enough to have been awarded all four Jubilee medals. My

congratulations and thanks go to all the recipients and our thousands of other volunteers and staff who work tirelessly to deliver our essential lifesaving services.” Throughout her 70-year reign, Her Majesty has officially recognised the efforts made by hundreds of RNLI volunteers towards saving lives at sea in her twice yearly honours lists. But unofficially Her Majesty has recognised the efforts of hundreds more volunteers in person during RNLI events she has attended over the years; Princess Elizabeth conducted her first RNLI station visit to St Helier in Jersey on 27 June 1949. Inset: The new Platinum Jubilee medal. Image: Worcestershire Medal Service

RNLI volunteers wearing the previous Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals. Image: @NationalMaritimeMuseum

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P&O FERRIES’ ACTIONS Image: RNLI/Nick Walton

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The story behind the long-lost ship’s incredible discovery PAGE 8

LOOKING GOOD! Amazing new photos of the British Sailing Team revealed PAGE 10

RUSSIAN YACHTS From bans to seizures, the farreaching maritime impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine PAGE 12

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In March P&O Ferries dismissed 800 members of its staff, replacing them with cheaper workers in what the company said at the time was a “tough” decision made because otherwise it would “not be a viable business”. The move led to nationwide protests and calls to reverse the decision. The Maritime Professional Council of the UK highlighted the blow the loss of these seagoing posts will have on the ongoing efforts to increase the number of UK seafarers and in maintaining Britain’s position as a significant maritime nation. The MPC said that: “At a stroke it undermines the UK Maritime Strategy”. While the MPC recognises that most UK officers will serve on ships registered outside the UK, they say now is the time to urgently consider what further policy measures could be put in place to retain a core fleet of UK-manned ships. Maintaining such a fleet is needed to, among other things, enable junior officers to gain sea experience for their

higher certificates and maintain a credible maritime skill-base. Equally, action needs to be taken so that the already small number of UK ratings does not diminish further. The MPC went on to say: “If nothing is done, this terrible episode for those losing their jobs will have a long-lasting impact on our industry far beyond the immediate fall-out at P&O.” In a letter to P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “I will be bringing a comprehensive package of measures to Parliament to ensure that seafarers are protected against these types of actions in the way that Parliament and this Government already intended. Through that package, I intend to block the outcome that P&O Ferries has pursued, including paying workers less than the minimum wage.” Since the move to replace the 800 employees two P&O ferries, the Pride of Kent and European Causeway, have been detained by MCA over safety concerns.

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ALL ABOARD Celebrating Uffa Fox By Jane Hyde

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As I write this fourth welcome column of 2022 the office window is open and the temperature outside threatens to hit a balmy high of 18C. I can hear the gentle background noise of birds, a family of which has a nest in the tree just outside the window. I would be lying if I said I am not tempted to forget work for the day and head outdoors to make the most of the blue sky and unusually warm temperature. However, as luck would have it I am looking forward to this afternoon’s task. It is hard to believe it has come around again, but it is time for All at Sea’s two-part events guide, covering everything from regattas and festivals to boat shows and major international boat events. After the last two years, which have seen the words ‘cancelled’ and ‘postponed’ all too often, this year’s events guide is going to be a bumper affair as not only are there old favourites returning, but new events coming too. Hopefully the gorgeous weather today is a precursor of what is to come this spring and summer. I think, though, many of us will be out and about whatever the weather! One of those new events I mentioned is happening later this month – London Luxury Afloat. From the team behind the Southampton International Boat Show, we are excited about this new event, which promises to have some of the very best luxury motor and sailing yachts on display. You can read more about LLA in this month’s new pages, plus we were able to catch up with British Marine’s CEO, Lesley Robinson, to talk about the show and what trends we can expect in the marine world this year. You can read the interview on page 28 in our new monthly British Marine column. Released, as we were going to press, was the long-awaited announcement about the venue for the 37th America’s Cup. We have been following this story for some time with locations coming in and out of contention, with Barcelona emerging as the leading contender in recent weeks. It would be interesting to know what New Zealand sailing fans make of the news as Spain is hardly easily accessible for them. No doubt many have been left feeling that had things been done

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differently they could be the ones enjoying all the benefits of hosting rather than a country that is 12,000 miles away… We would love to hear from any Kiwis reading this. We enjoy reading your stories and so are delighted to be able to share another one this month. This issue’s tale is about a much-loved family dinghy, which was thought lost forever only to be rediscovered. As always, if you have a story to tell get in touch at editor@allatsea.co.uk. Are you feeling lucky? You can enter this month’s competition to win a satellite communication device in the paper (page 44), online (www.allatsea.co.uk) or through the weekly All at Sea newsletter. If you have not already done so, it is quick and easy to sign up to the newsletter at the All at Sea website. As well as competitions, the newsletter is packed with news, videos, upcoming events and more. With many of us taking to the water this month, I hope the weather stays this good and you have a wonderful time whatever you are planning. Remember to send us - and share on our Facebook page – photos of your time afloat! Until next month… Image: UK Crown Copyright 2021

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All at Sea reader and football fan Rodney Chadwick sent in this great photo taken off Zanzibar, which he is sharing following “Liverpool FC experiencing an incredible resurgence”. However, with the choice of colours these boaters may be more Everton than Liverpool! Knowing how emotive the topic of football can be, we welcome your own football related boating photos! Send them to the usual email: editor@allatsea.co.uk

EVENTS GUIDE .............................. 24 The first of our two-part boating event guide, beginning with April, May and June. Get your diaries out!

ALL AT SEA QUIZ .......................... 30 Try your hand at our latest collection of puzzles.

RACING HISTORY .......................... 33 With the return of the International Paint Poole Regatta this month, here is an interesting story dating back more than 100 years.

SHORESTYLE .................................. 18

READER STORY ............................. 33

We have some great gear for the spring, plus a tasty drink for a relaxing day afloat.

All at Sea reader James Linkleter shares the story of a much-loved family dinghy.

KIT BAG ............................................ 19 We have some new electronics kit for you in this month’s Kit Bag.

DOUGAL ON TOUR........................ 26 David Henshall looks back at the story of the German Schnellboot, of which just one remains.

PHOTO OF THE MONTH ............... 20 You take them and we publish them. More fantastic reader photos.

HOT TOPIC...................................... 22 Prepping safety equipment for the new season.

SHOOTIN’ THE BREEZE ................ 23 With Falmouth Harbour’s Vicki Spooner.

event. The focal point will be Cowes Parade where a display of around 50 Uffa Fox designed boats will be assembled, a number going back to the 1920s. There will also be an Information Desk on the Parade and visitors will be directed to the Uffa Fox trail around Cowes and East Cowes where examples of Uffa’s history and heritage can be seen at a number of exhibitions starting with Commodores House, where he lived. The Royal London Yacht Club will be running a sailing regatta on 19 and 20 August for Uffa Fox designed dinghies, keelboats and yachts. Organisers have had expressions of interest from more than 100 boat owners including Firefly, National 12, International 14, Redwing, Albacore, National 18, Jollyboat, Flying 10, Flying Fifteen, Fox 18 and 24 and Atalanta. For the complete programme of events and how to become a part of UF50 see: uf50.org You can read more about the airborne lifeboats in the February 2021 issue of All at Sea, which is available to read online at www.allatsea.co.uk/ all-at-sea-the-paper.

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UF50 is both a celebration of Uffa Fox’s life and to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Uffa was a legend in his lifetime (18981972), one of the most highly regarded naval architects and enthusiast of all aspects of sailing, a man of Cowes and East Cowes. As well as designing a number of sailing dinghies, keelboats and yachts, some of which were ahead of their time and many of which are still sailing today worldwide, he designed the Airborne Lifeboat which saved the lives of many airmen during WWII. After the war he sailed regularly with Prince Philip gaining many successes, and he also taught Prince Charles and Princess Anne to sail. Now 12 organisations in Cowes and East Cowes have got together to plan this memorable

BRITISH MARINE .......................... 28 In this new monthly feature we will be catching up with the latest endeavours at British Marine.

SAIL AWAY ..................................... 29 Have you booked your 2022 getaway? Catch up with boating holiday news and ideas.

CHANGING FACE OF MARINAS .................................... 43 MDL Marinas’ recent initiatives go far beyond just providing excellent berthing facilities.

COMPETITION ............................ 44 Your chance to win the world’s smallest satellite communication device in our latest competition.

IN THE DRINK............................. 46 Paul Antrobus tries Sourz fruit-based liquid liqueurs.

BLUE SPIRIT ................................... 35 Blue Spirit provides bursaries to young people. Dhara Thompson finds out more about the project from founder Solen Lees.

MARINA FOCUS ............................. 38 This month we make our way to the picturesque Lymington Yacht Haven in the Western Solent.

MARINA GUIDE .............................. 40 The latest news from around the UK’s marinas, plus your regional marina guide.

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British Marine has unveiled a brand new show, London Luxury Afloat, which is designed to appeal to boat buyers. Hosted in the heart of the capital from 21 – 24 April at St. Katharine Docks, central London’s only marina, it has been created by the team responsible for the Southampton International Boat Show. The show will feature more than 30 sailing, motor and super yachts from leading brands including Oyster, Sunseeker, Fairline and Azimut. Lesley Robinson, British Marine CEO, said: “Our close support of those working within the high-end yacht market has led directly to the development of an event tailored particularly to prospective buyers in this sector. London Luxury Afloat will boost prospects at the start of the season and will invest in the longer-term development of the industry’s customer base. “The UK’s thriving luxury yacht sector generates a significant percentage of the economic, employment and export earnings benefits within our £4bn, 38,000 employee industry. Success has a positive impact for manufacturers, their extensive supply chain networks and allied support services.” The historic setting of St. Katharine Docks, alongside Tower Bridge, offers the ideal platform for anticipated world launches of new classes and models on

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Arthur Beale’s shop at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is closing. Despite the location the footfall was not enough to support the store, but the good news is that their online shop is still going strong. Arthur Beale say they have “aspirations to still have a shop but in the short term it will be limited to Pop-Ups, fairs and markets.”

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The winners of February’s Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea book competition were Pete Seaman from Loughborough and Judith Eddington from Caerphilly. Lucinda Fortune, from West Yorkshire, won the Gill Aqua Parka and Wet Bag. Turn to pages 16 and 44 to enter this month’s competitions.

modern secure berths up to 40m. Visitors can expect dedicated London Luxury Afloat VIP hospitality experiences, while selective landside displays will feature smaller craft, products and services that complement the showcase’s core themes. Yachts already confirmed for the 2022 show include a world premiere of the new Oyster 495, as well as the Azimut F53 and Azimut S6. Richard Hadida, CEO and owner of Oyster, said: “We are delighted to be back

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Sunseeker 65 Sport Yacht, Sunseeker 76 Yacht and the Sunseeker Predator 74 XPS, while the range of Fairline motor yachts that will be on display include the Fairline F//Line 33, Fairline Squadron 50 and Fairline Targa 45GT. Richard Bates, managing director Bates Wharf, said: “We are delighted to be returning to London to showcase Fairline at London Luxury Afloat.” For marina access visitors will need to purchase a ticket, while access to shoreside exhibits is free of charge. Marina access tickets cost £45 for adults, with children under 15 entering for free alongside an adult. www.londonluxuryafloat.com Turn to page 28 for our new monthly British Marine column which, this issue, features an interview with Lesley Robinson, CEO of British Marine.

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GEARING UP FOR SHOW Some of the world’s most luxurious motor yacht brands are gearing up for the British Motor Yacht Show, taking place at Swanwick Marina from 15 – 19 June. Featuring top British brands, Fairline, Princess and Sunseeker, Premier Marinas has announced that this year’s show will also be hosting motor cruisers, sports boats and RIBs from other prestigious British and international brands including Agapi, Axopar, Galeon, Pearl, Prestige, Sealine and Supermarine. Graham Bristowe, general manager at Premier Marinas, said: “Last year’s show was a huge success and we are

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The Dufour 430 and Dufour 390 will be joining the line-up of performance cruising yachts at the South Coast Boat Show from 6 - 8 May. This is a great opportunity to get a good insight into the Dufour range, as both yachts borrow styling, design features, equipment and smart layout ideas used in their larger and smaller sister yachts. The friendly team from Universal Yachting will be on hand at the show to talk through all the options and choices and to help you get the most from your cruising plans. In recognition of the fact that ordering any new yacht this year will likely mean waiting at least a season for delivery, Universal Yachting are also offering all new Dufour buyers the option of private chartering during the waiting period. This is a great opportunity to get the feel of the handling of your boat and confirm your preferences on layout and equipment specifications. Raymarine navigational equipment and a luxury charter holiday are up for grabs in two free prize draws at this year’s South Coast Boat Show.

In the first of the free draws, show sponsor, Raymarine is offering equipment in excess of £4,000. Dream Yacht Charters is offering visitors to the show an opportunity to win the holiday of a lifetime. The winner of this free-toenter prize draw will be offered a six-berth, three-cabin yacht for a seven-day charter in one of Dream Yacht Charter’s worldwide charter destinations, including the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Europe, the Caribbean and the UK. Visitor attendance at the show is free, and tickets can be booked on the South Coast Boat Show page at www. mdlmarinas.co.uk/scbs. All registered visitors will automatically be entered into each of the free prize draws. Appointments to view specific boats on display can be made directly with the yacht broker. www.mdlmarinas.co.uk www.universalyachting.com dreamyachtcharter.co.uk Turn to page 24 to discover over 100 nautical events in our Spring Events Guide special!

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Endurance Discovered E actl

ears after Sir Ernest Shac leton s death, the Fal lands aritime eritage Tr st conﬁrmed that the Endurance22 expedition had located the wreck of the explorer’s ship, Endurance.

The Endurance22 expedition brought together world-leading marine archaeologists, engineers, technicians and sea-ice scientists on S.A. Agulhas II, one of the largest and most modern polar research vessels in the world. Organised and funded by The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, the aim was to locate, survey and film the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance using state-ofthe-art technology. This mission first involved navigating through the heavy sea ice, freezing temperatures and the harsh weather of the extreme Antarctic environment. The legendary vessel had not been seen since it was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915 and, incredibly, it was discovered at a depth of 3,008m approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by Captain Worsley. This was within the search area defined by the expedition team ahead of the exploration.

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As a Historic Site and Monument under the Antarctic Treaty, whilst it can be surveyed and filmed, the wreck will not be touched or disturbed in any way. Donald Lamont, chairman of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, explained: “Our objectives for Endurance22 were to locate, survey and film the wreck, but also to conduct important scientific research, and to run an exceptional outreach programme.” The Endurance22 expedition team worked from the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II, using Saab’s Sabertooth hybrid underwater search vehicles. Nico Vincent, Subsea project manager, said: “This has been the most complex subsea project ever undertaken, with several world records achieved to ensure the safe detection of Endurance. Stateof-the-art subsea technologies have been deployed to achieve this successful outcome and I would particularly like to thank the subsea team for all of the engineering support, both on board the ship and throughout the months of planning, design and testing”

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Mensun Bound, director of exploration on the expedition, went on to say: “We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance. This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact and in a brilliant state of preservation. You can even see ‘Endurance’ across the stern, directly below the taffrail.

“This is a milestone in polar history. However, it is not all about the past; we are bringing the story of Shackleton and Endurance to new audiences, and to the next generation, who will be entrusted with the essential safeguarding of our polar regions and our planet. We hope our discovery will engage young people and inspire them with the pioneering spirit, courage and fortitude of those who sailed Endurance to Antarctica. “We pay tribute to the navigational skills of Captain Frank Worsley, the captain of Endurance, whose detailed records were invaluable throughout our quest to locate the wreck. I would like to thank my colleagues of FMHT for enabling this extraordinary expedition to take place, as well as Saab for their technology, and the whole team of dedicated experts who have been involved in this monumental discovery.” Donald Lamont added: “The spotlight falls on Mensun Bound, the director of exploration, and Nico Vincent, Subsea project manager. Under the outstanding leadership of Dr John Shears, they have found Endurance. "But this success has been the result of impressive cooperation among many people, both on board the remarkable S.A. Agulhas II with its outstanding Master and crew, a skilled and committed expedition team and many on whose support we have depended in the UK, South Africa, Germany, France, the United States and elsewhere. The Trustees extend to them all our warmest thanks and congratulations on this historic achievement.”

Starboard bow of Endurance showing her incredible condition after all this time. Image: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic

Taffrail and ship’s wheel, aft well deck. Image: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic

The stern of the Endurance with the name and emblematic polestar. Image: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic

INSPIRING WORK

Under the leadership of Dr Lasse Rabenstein, Endurance22’s chief scientist, a team successfully conducted hundreds of hours of climate change related studies over the duration of the expedition. They researched the ice drifts, weather conditions of the Weddell Sea, studies of sea ice thickness and were able to map the sea ice from space. Combined, these important studies will materially help our understanding of this remote region and how it influences our changing climate. Dr John Shears, expedition leader, said: “We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search. In addition, we have undertaken important scientific research in a part of the world that directly affects the global climate and environment.” Since the expedition was conceived, educational outreach was also a key objective. The FMHT partnered with Reach the World, the US-based education organisation, and the Royal Geographical

EXPEDITION COVERAGE

History Hit, a content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow, Little Dot Studios and production company, Consequential, have produced a range of content covering the setting up of the expedition, the voyage and search, and now the discovery itself, as well as the history, science and other themes that connect to the wider mission. The team has also been filming for a documentary chronicling the expedition, which has been commissioned by National Geographic to air later this year. An in-depth story about the finding of Endurance, including its historical relevance, is available on natgeo.com.

“This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact and in a brilliant state of preservation.” Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration Saab’s Sabertooth hybrid underwater search vehicle. Image: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and Nick Birtwistle

Nat Hewit, documentary director, Stefanie Arndt, sea ice physicist of Alfred-Wegener-Institute and Lucy Coulter, expedition medical doctor, on the sea ice next to S.A.Agulhas II. Image: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and Esther Horvath

Dan Snow filming for an Endurance documentary. Image: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and Nick Birtwistle

Society, who have successfully connected with tens of thousands of children throughout the expedition via regular live stream interviews and material produced for classroom use. Dr John Shears concluded: “We have conducted an unprecedented educational outreach programme, with live broadcasting from on board, allowing new generations from around the world to engage with Endurance22 and become inspired by the amazing stories of polar exploration, and what human beings can achieve and the obstacles they can overcome when they work together.”

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition It was Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ambition to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea via the South Pole to the Ross Sea. The Ross Sea Party, which was landed at Hut Point on Ross Island, had the task of laying supply dumps for Shackleton’s crossing party, and achieved its objective, but at the cost of three lives lost. In the Weddell Sea, Endurance never reached land and became trapped in the dense pack ice and the 28 men on board eventually had no choice but to abandon ship. After months spent in makeshift camps on the ice floes drifting northwards, the party took to the lifeboats to reach the inhospitable, uninhabited, Elephant Island. Shackleton and five others then made an extraordinary 800-mile open-boat journey in the lifeboat, James Caird, to reach South Georgia. Shackleton and two others then crossed the mountainous island to the whaling station at Stromness. From there, Shackleton was eventually able to mount a rescue of the men waiting on Elephant Island and bring them home without loss of life.

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OPENING DOORS James Harayda has set his sights on the Vendée Globe. Image: Felix Diemer

Gentoo Sailing Team has announced its intention to compete in the 2024 Vendée Globe with James Harayda as the skipper. The team began in 2020 when Dee Caffari and James Harayda teamed up with the aim of winning gold at the Paris Olympics in the Mixed Doublehanded Offshore Class. However, this class was later removed from the Olympics by the IOC. Although disappointed, the decision opened the door to explore new avenues, including the Vendée Globe, which is considered one of the world's toughest sporting challenges. James said: “The race has always been the ultimate challenge, and an event I have always wanted to conquer; it is the ultimate test of human endurance. On top of this, competing in the Vendée Globe is so much more than just showing up and competing; the funding needed, qualification requirements and scale of the program is incredible.”

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Dee Caffari MBE, a veteran of the race, said: “The Vendée Globe takes talent and ability as well as resilience and tenacity. Having sailed with James for the last 18 months I have seen these qualities in him. He is a young, ambitious sailor who is keen to learn and improve. He is open to new ideas and willing to hear feedback, and these characteristics have made him a pleasure to sail with and I am keen to help him realise his dream of a Vendée Globe entry.” In addition to the Vendée Globe campaign, GST has created an initiative – the Gentoo Sailing Team Youth Development Program. The program began earlier this year when 10 boys and 10 girls, aged 16 23, from a variety of backgrounds, were selected to join the program. James, the coaches, volunteers and mentors will work with the sailors in order to open as many doors as possible in order for them to realise their ambitions. They will benefit from mentoring, on and off-the-water coaching, technical workshops and offshore racing in the 2022 JOG and RORC season. The sailors will also gain skills in teamwork, communication and leadership and play a role in the team’s wider sustainability projects. In further news from Dee Caffari, UKSA has announced that she is to be the charity’s Youth and Mental Health Ambassador. Dee’s appointment will seek to raise awareness and find solutions to help young people whose mental health has been affected by falling below the poverty line, having less time outdoors, school closures and reduced employment prospects. www.gentoosailingteam.co.uk

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The British Sailing Team released a striking set of images of its athletes as the two-year countdown to Paris 2024 approaches. Taken by renowned sailing photographer Mark Lloyd, the photos showcase the British Sailing Team’s 47 athletes training in Palma, Mallorca, ahead of the Princess Sofia Trophy regatta, which is the first time the new line-up of Olympic classes – plus the team’s new pairings – will be seen in action at the same time. For the British Sailing Team it also marks a

significant step towards Paris 2024, now just over two years away. “With all our sights set firmly on Paris 2024 it was important for us to refresh our imagery,” said Will Carson, British Sailing Team’s communications manager. “There have been plenty of changes to the team since Tokyo 2020, with lots of exciting new pairings and, of course, a fresh line-up of classes. Mark Lloyd is up there with the world’s best sailing photographers, and he has done an amazing job of capturing our athletes in action.” The X-Press Pearl was carrying 1,486 containers and burned for two weeks. It then sunk in June 2021, causing one of Sri Lanka’s greatest environmental disasters, but sadly was just one of many losses

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The Felicity Ace, a cargo ship carrying thousands of luxury vehicles, including Porsches, Bentleys and Lamborghinis, has sunk after catching fire near the Azores islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was in the midst of a salvage effort when it listed to starboard and sank whilst being towed. However, even before the sinking, it is believed that none of the vehicles were still in condition to sell. It is thought the value of the cars was more than $400m. The ship was adrift south of the Azores for some weeks before it finally sank. The hazardous lithiumion batteries, oil and gas contained on board now sit on the ocean floor. In total more than 3,000 containers were accidentally dropped into the sea in 2020, while another 1,000 fell overboard in the first quarter of 2021 alone. This year has proven just as difficult for

the industry, with a string of other large ships also running into trouble in various parts of the world. Safetytech Accelerator aims to tackle the spike in lost shipping cargo through its programme Waypoint 3: Maritime Risk. Safetytech Accelerator is a nonprofit organisation established by Lloyd’s Register. Its mission is to make the world safer and more sustainable through wider adoption of safetytech. Dr Maurizio Pilu, managing director at Safetytech Accelerator, said: “Recent events have shown there is now an urgent need to innovate how risk is managed at sea – not only because it hits the balance sheet but also because it damages the environment. Waypoint 3 is an exciting initiative that will transform the sector, helping to minimise losses, promote sustainable business practices and improve the lives of those working offshore.” safetytechaccelerator.org

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NEWS NEWS SNAPS SNAPS RUSSIAN SINKING

A Ukranian man, Taras Ostapchuk, was arrested after trying to sink the Russian owned Lady Anastasia in Mallorca. The £5m yacht’s chief engineer, Taras said he opened valves in the engine room after seeing footage of a Russian missile hitting apartments in Kyiv. The yacht became partially submerged. The engineer, who told crew to abandon the boat, later returned to Ukraine to join the fight against Russia.

GRACEFUL HACKING Last month we reported that President Putin’s superyacht, Graceful, had been moved out of a German shipyard ahead of the Ukranian invasion. Anonymous hackers later manipulated its maritime data to change the yacht’s call sign to ‘FCKPTN’ with a new destination to ‘hell’. The hackers also made it appear as if it had crashed into Snake Island in Ukraine.

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International maritime charity Sailors’ Society has launched a Ukrainian Crisis Appeal to support seafarers caught up in the conflict. The charity is increasing the funds available for emergency grants for seafarers and their families, drafting in more trained staff to resource their Crisis Response Network and increasing capacity to be able to respond to more calls to their helpline. sailors-society.org/ukraine-appeal

THE IMPACT OF THE BRITISH BAN OF RUSSIAN AFFILIATED VESSELS By: Lina Jasutiene, shipping attorney, founder and CEO at Recoupex - global cargo transportation lawyers hub The UK has enacted emergency legislation banning Russian ships from UK ports, which are being urged to refuse access to Russianflagged, registered, owned or controlled ships to help efforts to get Russia to pull its forces out of Ukraine. The government will assist ports in implementing these new laws, however, the commercial information ports receive first-hand about vessels and cargo allegedly makes them best placed to assess each individual case. A loophole in the regulations has allowed some Russian cargoes aboard non-Russianowned vessels to freely enter UK ports to keep produce and fuels moving, which created new disputes on how to ensure implementation of this law. Governments worldwide who sought to block vessels controlled by Russian interests have had to track a global list of approximately 6,448 vessels. Not all these are trading vessels, many have beneficial Russian ownership links, but 429 of these trading vessels - many of which enter British ports regularly, or at least did. These new sanctions initially saw a drop in trade, but with non-affiliated vessels being allowed to load in Russian ports discharging in the UK, trade is on the rise, however the gravitas on the worsening of trade relationships as a corollary of all sanctions and political tensions must be taken into account.

Shippers are also now looking to, and executing new business opportunities in other global markets, mitigating losses in trade resulting from the sanctions implemented by the UK government. For many small and medium-sized businesses, this is the perfect time for expansion because for many there is no any other option but to connect new business interests. Unfortunately lasting disruption to not just the UK economy but also world economy across all sectors is an inevitable outcome from removing Russia from the field. The two main commodities which keep this world ticking over are, of course, fuel and food and we have already felt the pinch with the sharp rise of fuel prices. Ukraine and Russia together hold more than 50 per cent of the global market in some agri-foods such as sunflower oil and seeds as well as around 27 per cent of the global wheat trade. Russia is responsible for exporting £17 billion worth of goods annually to the UK and a further £1.4 billion crude oil. Russia is also a global supplier of chemical products and metal. The success of this law will truly depend on government and ports’ cooperation, anticipating legal claims from the shippers when a port refuses a vessel with legitimate cargo that has not been sanctioned. It could take some time before we truly know even the short-term impact this will have on the UK, but is there an end in sight for any sanctions to be lifted to get trade moving again? Not in the near future at least…

SUSPENSION OF ATHLETES

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World Sailing joined the International Olympic Committee and global sports organisations in deciding to suspend participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials in World Sailing owned and sanctioned competitions and events until further notice. World Sailing went on to say: “We are now strongly urging our Member National Authorities, Class Associations, affiliated bodies and all event organisers to implement the measure to suspend the participation of Russian or Belarusian athletes and officials in their respective events and competitions. “Where this is not possible, due to short time frames, for organisational or legal reasons, World Sailing, in line with the IOC Executive Board

recommendation, is advising event organisers do everything in their power to ensure that Russian or Belarusian athletes (be it as individuals or teams) and officials participate neutrally, without national symbols, colours, flags or anthems. “Sport can be a force for good, bringing competitors from around the world together, united by the values of equality, inclusion, respect and fairness. World Sailing joins many international sports organisations calling for an immediate end to all hostilities and a resumption of dialogue for a peaceful resolution in place of military action.” There are no World Sailing organised regattas planned to be held in Russia or Belarus in 2022.

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SUPERYACHTS DETAINED

Phi, owned by a Russian businessman, being detained by National Crime Agency's Combating Kleptocracy Cell in Canary Wharf. Images: National Crime Agency

There have been numerous international reports relating to the detainment of Russian linked superyachts sitting in waters of countries posing sanctions on Russian business and oligarchs. There has also been a great deal of social media activity involved in the tracking of many Russianowned superyachts, but while not all reports can be verified some have been confirmed by officials. For example, the Oceanco superyacht Amore Vero was seized in La Ciotat with the French Minister of Public Action and Accounts Oliver Dussopt saying: “As part of the implementation of European Union sanctions against Russia and in support of Ukraine, we seized a first yacht.” In Spain, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said of the superyacht Valerie: “We seized - the technical term is provisionally immobilised - a yacht belonging to one of the principal oligarchs, we are talking about a yacht that we estimate is worth $140 million.” Meanwhile the £443m superyacht, Sailing Yacht A, owned by oligarch Andrey Melnichenko was seized in Italy. It is the world’s biggest sailing yacht at 143m. A

statement from the Official Journal of the European Union described the Russian billionaire as belonging to the “most influential circle of Russian businesspeople with close connections to the Russian Government”. It was at the tail-end of March that the UK seized its first superyacht, a £38m craft named Phi, which was in London for a superyacht awards ceremony at the time. It is owned by an unnamed Russian businessman with the government say its ownership is “deliberately well hidden”. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “We have detained a £38m superyacht and turned an icon of Russia’s power and wealth into a clear and stark warning to Putin and his cronies. Detaining Phi proves, yet again, that we can and will take the strongest possible action against those seeking to benefit from Russian connections.” Grant Shapps added that the unnamed owner is not currently sanctioned but is a businessman with ‘close connections’ to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It remains to be seen what will happen to these, and other detained yachts, in the long-term however.

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RUSSIAN BUYERS The yachting industry has a number of wealthy Russian clients and so unsurprisingly has come under the spotlight after the invasion of Ukraine. So much so that some companies have released statements in relation to the war. Sanlorenzo (pictured):“The backlog amount as of 31 January, equal to €1,002.6 million, related to customers of Russian nationality does not reach 10 per cent of the total, spread over three financial years. The company also specifies that these are subjects not affected by international sanctions, whose payments are regular, and as of today no order has been cancelled.” The Italian Sea Group: “As of today, no order has been cancelled and there has been no delay in the payment of existing contractual instalments. There is only one existing contract with a Russian client; in particular the company needs to collect 6 million Euros related to the yacht’s delivery scheduled for the beginning of 2023.” Ferretti Group: “Ferretti Group has no exposure to the mega and gigayacht segment, the one of greatest interest to the Russian elites most affected by international sanctions. Furthermore, as of today, the

Group is not aware of any sales to subjects targeted by these sanctions.” Dutch shipyard, Heesen Yachts, however, has seen two Russian board members - Pavel Sukhoruchkin and Pavel Novoselov – step down citing “developments of the current international situation in Ukraine.” On the other side of the coin, though, we cannot forget the impact of the conflict on Ukranian businesses. One familiar name is RIB manufacturer BRIG, which has its headquarters in Kharkiv. In a statement BRIG said:“Due to the unprovoked, unjust and illegal Russian invasion into Ukraine, we inform you that all production at BRIG HQ is temporarily ceased. The highest priority for us is to secure nearly 500 of our employees and help them take care of their families properly, which is not so trivial, given those genocidal warfare methods carried out by Russia. “We are focused on preparations for a fast return to normal or even increased production volumes, after the inevitable victory of Ukraine. Please keep in mind that all the international BRIG infrastructure is operating as usual, so boat owners, or as we say BRIG family members, will not be left alone or unassisted.”

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NEWS COOK UPSNAPS A STORM Sharing foods on board is one of the pleasures during a day at sea but, as Susan Tracy explains, why not take advantage of the opportunity to eat both healthily and seasonally? It is a breeze: simply be on the lookout throughout this month to land the tastiest catch. These fruits and vegetables are at their best and most widely available in the UK now:

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Fruits: Apples (Braeburn and Bramley), Conference Pears, Rhubarb (forced) Vegetables: Broccoli (Purple Sprouting), Cabbage (Savoy and Spring Green) Carrots, Cauliflower, Kale Apart for rhubarb and kale, they can be enjoyed raw. Apples, for example, with a nut butter and the Conference Pears with a drizzle of honey, or how about the broccoli, carrots and cauliflower with hummus. Or, equally, enjoy them just as they come, without an accompaniment.

Quick & Tasty: Raw Cabbage Salad: Remove the outer leaves and core, then finely chop the cabbage, mix to taste with sesame seeds, sesame oil and soy sauce (assuming no allergies to sesame or soy). It will keep in the refrigerator for 2-3 days if it is not eaten before that!

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Great Britain claimed second spot in the Mubadala United States SailGP, but it was not enough to make the Championship Final Race to crown the season’s winner. On a day that saw multiple collisions, a restarted Championship Final Race and challenging winds, it was Tom Slingsby’s Australia SailGP Team who ultimately collected the $1 million prize for winning the season after claiming victory over Japan and the U.S. The British team finished the season in fourth. On an unbelievable day of action on San Francisco Bay, Spanish driver Jordi Xammar crashed into Jimmy Spithill’s F50 and tore a hole in the back of the American's catamaran. This required the U.S. team to undertake frantic on-water repairs to get ready for the Grand Final and prematurely ended Spain’s day of racing. In the next race, France and New Zealand dramatically collided – resulting in four penalty points for Peter Burling despite being the right of way boat – as Australia prevailed to win the Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix ahead of Great Britain and Japan.

In the Championship Final Race the U.S took an early lead but, after a whale was sighted on the course, racing was halted for 15 minutes. In the re-start Australia dominated, crossing the line first, followed by Japan with the U.S trailing. Australia was joined on the winner’s podium by New Zealand, after they claimed the Impact League title. Launched in July, it rewards positive actions and measures teams’ efforts over each event according to 10 criteria, including travel, tech and innovation, single-use plastic

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and using their voice for good. Ben Ainslie’s Great Britain SailGP Team came second in the Impact League. Season 3 of SailGP opens with the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix on 14 - 15 May.

PROTECT OUR FUTURE Sir Ben Ainslie, Hannah Mills OBE and the Great Britain SailGP Team have stated their ambition to help more than one million young people take action to protect nature, people and the planet as the new Protect Our Future climate education platform was launched with the team’s Charity partner, 1851 Trust.

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The programme aims to empower and equip young people and educators with skills and knowledge to understand climate science and take positive action. Hannah Mills, double Olympic gold medallist and IOC Sustainability Ambassador, said:“Our planet is at a tipping point and young people are the key

Ben Ainslie took to the water ahead of racing in San Francisco at the helm of the team’s new-look flying F50 boat. Its inspiration is taken from the reindeer cyclone, a spectacular phenomenon of nature that sees the herd come together to form a moving circle to protect their young and vulnerable, with colours inspired by the flying fish, highlighting the need to protect our pitch, our oceans.

to protecting its future. We are not doing enough to empower young people. We need to go beyond the climate headlines and equip them with science-based knowledge and understanding.” The British team is also launching a partner programme, COLAB, bringing together companies from different industry sectors to drive positive change and behaviours, supporting the team’s aim to win SailGP's Season 3 Impact League.

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The Golden Globe Race is a single-handed, non-stop round-the-world race, with no assistance, no GPS and no modern electronics on board. The next adventure will start on 4 September. In 1968 - 1969, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston won the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first solo, nonstop, round-the-world race in history, sailing for 312 days. In 2018, 50 years later, this legendary adventure was reborn in Les Sables d’Olonne for a second edition with the same navigation aids as those available in 1968. French sailor Jean-Luc Van Den Heede won that race in 211 days. In the last edition, the competitors had to go around two compulsory rounding marks: Lanzarote and Hobart. Now the course has been modified with two additional marks: Cape Town in South Africa and Punta del Este in Uruguay. The skippers will be able to drop their recorded videos and photos at these four gates without getting in contact with anyone and without docking, allowing them to share their adventure. In total 23 sailors from all over the world will embark on this adventure of a lifetime – away from the rest of the world, navigating with a sextant only. Most of them have already sailed around the world several times or have participated in the biggest offshore races. Some returnees from the last race are taking up the challenge again, like Turkish sailor Ertan Beskardes and Finnish sailor Tapio Lehtinen, who finished fifth after 322 days at sea. Australian Mark Sinclair, who was forced to stop, has sailed from Australia to France – finishing his one-stop circumnavigation this month, just to embark on a new round the world tour with the GGR 2022 in September.

Rescued Golden Globe 2018 sailor Abhilash Tomy has also re-entered the race. He was rescued after 83 days at sea following a complex international effort. Abhilash, a Navy commander who had previously sailed solo non-stop around the world, was running third when an extreme storm deep in the Southern Indian Ocean rolled and dismasted his yacht. Abhilash’s back was severely injured and he found himself unable to move his legs, so he had to send a short text message to race control and turn on his EPIRB. Half-way between Australia and South Africa, the disabled yacht was as far from rescue as anyone could be. Three-and-a-half days later, a French Government fisheries patrol vessel OSIRIS arrived at the scene. “My legs were so badly off that I had to learn to walk again,” said Abhilash “But I did learn to walk, and then got into a cockpit and got back to Navy flying and sailing! Now three-and-a-half years later, I am heading back into the same race.” Seven participants must cross at least one ocean to reach Les Sables d’Olonne - an adventure within an adventure. Preparing the boat for a round-the-world competition is already a challenge, but now they have to bring their boats to the right side of the Atlantic to make the start in Les Sables d’Olonne. This is the case for Elliott Smith (USA), Gaurav Shinde (Canada), Guy deBoer (USA), Jeremy Bagshaw (South Africa), Matthew Wright (Australia), Kirsten Neuschäfer (South Africa) and, as mentioned, Mark Sinclair (Australia). So far 11 of the 23 skippers have arrived in Les Sables d’Olonne for briefings and work sessions to get prepared for this extraordinary adventure. www.goldengloberace.com

BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK Organised by the British Classic Yacht Club, British Classic Week takes place in Cowes from 16 – 23 July. Hosted by the British Classic Yacht Club, the event will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. BCYC commodore Jonathan Dyke said: “British Classic Week began when a group of like-minded owners started a regatta to celebrate classic yachts and the people who maintain them. Whilst the regatta has evolved, the ethos is the same: quality racing, camaraderie, and a shared appreciation of beautiful classic yachts.” Entry is IRC classic yachts of 24ft and over or modern classic, Spirit of Tradition yachts of either wood or steel. This year, the regatta will host a new class for gaff-rigged yachts to race under the latest OGA ratings. Cruising yachts and classic motorboats are also invited to join the week to watch the racing, explore local waters and enjoy the social scene.

Sailors will take on a six-race series of varied courses, including round-the-cans races and the 30nm Nab Tower Race that takes in the iconic Horse Sand and No Mans Land Forts. Spectators will be able to get close to the action on the water and watch line starts and finishes in front of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and the social programme includes the traditional welcome reception on the lawn on 17 July. Then, on 19 July, regatta attendees will have the opportunity to peruse the fleet of classics during the Open Yachts Pontoon Party, and the regatta will finish with a prize giving dinner. The regatta’s charity partnership with the Tall Ships Youth Trust continues raising awareness and funds for the charity’s work helping disadvantaged young people. www.britishclassicweek.co.uk Watch a video of British Classic Week 2021 at the All at Sea online news pages.

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THIRSTY CLUB

Dougal Henshall relaxing after the talk with Lin Henshall and the retiring organiser for the Thirsty Club events, Paul Cook

Evening talks at sailing clubs are nothing new, but back in 2009 a new initiative was launched at Hayling Island Sailing Club that provided a classy twist to the idea of having the club open on a cold winter’s night. For some time, the HISC had run ‘midday meal and a talk’ sessions, known as ‘Ladies who lunch’, which had proven to be popular. In a light-hearted counter to this, a Thursday night each month was set aside for the ‘Gentlemen Only Dining Society’ (no guessing what the acronym for that was), which attracted some amazing speakers with the happy reality being that all members could enjoy the talks. In a clever twist, the Thursday night sessions were rebranded the ‘Thirsty Club’ and attracted the best speakers for an evening of good food, nice wine and an appreciative audience. One of the prime movers behind these talks has been club stalwart Paul Cook who, as well as being a very clever organiser, was the dining host ‘par excellence’. There were no big attendance fees for the speaker, instead they were given a first-rate meal and a bottle of wine, but then they had to ‘sing for their supper’.

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On the completion of this year’s supper season, Paul will be stepping down from his lead role, although he will still be a part of the Thirsty Club organisation for some time to come, due in no small part to the excellent links he has forged with so many top-class speakers. March saw his 59th and penultimate Thirsty Club, which featured our own columnist here at All at Sea, Dougal Henshall, giving a talk on how the Solent has provided such a rich source of material for the novelist Nevil Shute. This was something of a ‘bookend’ talk (a very apt phrase given the subject matter) as Dougal was one of the first speakers in that opening season, again talking about Shute, so it was a fitting way to bring the season (almost) to a close. The good news is that the Thirsty Club will continue on under the watchful eye of Michael Massey and already the programme for the monthly meetings is shaping up to provide that winning combination of good fine, fine wine and the best speakers across a range of subjects. www.hisc.co.uk Turn to page 26 for April's Dougal on Tour.

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POWER TALK

Simon Everett is the man in the know when it comes to what is being launched and the latest technologies emerging in marine engines. Get the inside scoop right here…

YAMAHA AND WINDY TEAM UP Brand collaborations have been a facet of the industry for scores of years, with boat and specific engine packages marketed together; think of the Fletcher Black Max range. Yamaha has teamed up with Windy to provide the engines for their outboard powered sports models in a five-year deal to start with, although Yamaha has long been associated with the Scandinavian builder having supplied the engines for the Draco Oceancraft range that Windy bought in a decade or two back. So, news of their new tie-up is no surprise. The new agreement will see the SR44 fitted with the flagship XTO 425hp V8, while the SR28 CC has the option of various high end Yamaha outboards, including the V6 F300 which will provide exhilarating performance on the modern 28 footer. The relationship with Yamaha is beneficial for Windy not just

for the supply of power units but also for the installation expertise and the harmonising of systems throughout, with the associated control units that will enhance the ownership pleasure and value of these boats. The partnership enhances performance for users too. A vast wealth of knowledge is shared between partners during the design phase. Work such as extensive prop testing further facilitates a superior overall performance in the finished vessel. What is more, users can tailor the vessel to their exact requirements. Additionally, thanks to the installation training that Yamaha gives boat builders, they are ensuring that every feature is optimised for the best possible boating experience. Not forgetting the aftersales support too. The first hull has already been sold, an SR44 SX with triple 425s of course…

OUTBOARD VALUES SELVA OPEN CLASSIC LINE BOAT PACKAGES. SELVA D5.6

Just as we were starting to get over the disruption to supply lines following the pandemic, the boating world has been disrupted again by warmongering. Whilst our leisure boating activities feature way down the list when compared to the suffering of the people in Ukraine, I should address what it means to the marine mechanical situation. It will not be obvious at first, but Ukraine was

a major worldwide source of vital elements in the processing of microchips. The effect of the war is bound to have a knock-on effect, especially to those engines that utilise ECU management, which is all but the smallest capacity outboards. I can only see the market being squeezed even harder and the value of used outboards becoming even stronger. My advice is to look after the one you have really well.

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On a more positive note, those clever people at Tohatsu have managed to tip the scales in their favour, yet again, in the mid-sized outboard bracket with the all new MFS25/30D. The new outboard has been put on a diet and is an impressive 19 per cent lighter than the previous version and has several useful new features, such as a water-cooled rectifier to handle the output from the 17.5Amp alternator. The three cylinder engine is only 58kgs including standard propeller, compared to the previous model’s 71kgs. That is a major weight saving, equivalent to 20 litres of fuel. The majority of the weight saving has been achieved by redesigning the crank, and making the entire inlet manifold from a lightweight resin material. Other improvements have been made to the mounting bracket, to reduce the transfer of vibrations and improve steerage. The gearcase has been made more streamlined to reduce drag and given an extra cooling water intake to ensure waterflow. The flywheel has larger vanes to increase airflow through the cowling to help cool electrical components, increasing longevity. A clever move within the block is giving

the cylinder liners, on the waterjacket side, greater surface area with stippling to improve cooling. There are additional convenience and maintenance benefits built in. The new models should be available with dealers by July. Prices have not yet been released.

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Musto has launched a new Flexlite Alumin dinghy sailing collection for spring/summer 2022, designed with input from the British Sailing Team. The full range can be viewed online, and includes the Men’s and Women’s Flexlite Alumin 3.0 Long Sleeve Top featuring a thermal quick-dry grid backer at the chest and back and also the Men’s and Women’s Flexlite Alumin 3.0 Long John, the styling of which has been updated to reflect the Flexlite Vapour Range, with individual styling for men and women. Flexlite Alumin 3.0 Long Sleeve Top: £160 Flexlite Alumin 3.0 Long John: £240 www.musto.com

RENVYLE SMOCK

Next up we have some ideal outerwear for sailors. Made from a two-layer TX-2 fabric Typhoon’s Renvyle Smock is designed to be waterproof, wind proof and highly breathable. Features include hardwearing PU cuff seals and collar and a neoprene waistband with twin side adjusters. There is also a waterproof zipped side pocket for keeping essentials. Sizes: S – XXL £79.95 www.typhoon-int.co.uk

PADDOCK BLUE

The spirit and heritage of Yamaha’s 2022 models has inspired the designers of the company’s clothing to create new collections, using innovative technologies, premium materials and recycled fabrics. Not just clothing, the range includes luggage and merchandise too. Paddock Blue Performance, for example, is Yamaha’s highest-tech range of sports underlayers, T-shirts and hoodies that offer great wicking and quick-drying properties. Alternatively, Paddock Blue Essentials is the new base collection that features a range of cotton and cotton-mix T-shirts, polo shirts, hoodies and jumpers. www.yamaha-motor.eu

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Not clothing this time, but definitely something that boaters will enjoy during a day on or by the water. Pentire is a non-alcoholic spirits company, centred around active living and enjoying the outdoors. They make their spirits by distilling plants native to their local headlands in North Cornwall. Seaward, for example, is a zesty infusion of sea rosemary, woodruff, sea buckthorn, pink grapefruit and wild seaweed. Serve with light tonic and garnish with a wedge of grapefruit. A varying percentage of sales is donated to the Blue Marine Foundation and other charities working to protect oceans. From £26.80 pentiredrinks.com

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Lowrance has updated its Lowrance App to include satellite view capability, weather overlay, track sharing and personalised push notifications, adding further functionality to this app which connects your smartphone with Lowrance fishfinders and chartplotters. The app is free to download and offers up-todate and detailed nautical charts from C-MAP®, creation and management of your personal waypoints, routes and tracks, along with the latest marine weather, important points of interest and much more. It is available on both the Apple Store for iOS and Google Play for Android. www.lowrance.com

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Seatronx’s SURFVISION HD+ is a fishing camera, mapping centre and vessel security system combined into a single DC powered unit. Ideal for the weekend enthusiast or professional angler, it is a marine-grade video system that allows up to four cameras to continuously record catches and cruising activity. The system includes a GPS overlay option on pictures to mark catches and releases where location evidence is desired, and is approved for all tournament recordings. Users can select the Sat2Nav Icon (subscription applies) to access fishing mapping charts, and for security SURFVISION HD+ is equipped with geofencing capabilities and will record and notify users if the vessel has moved outside of a predetermined range. The free SURFVISION app allows users to take videos and pictures. Seatronx does not have a dealer network in the UK, but they do ship here. £3,807 www.seatronx.com

COOKING ON THE GO

We love this piece of kit. Weighing only two pounds, the Go Oven is reported to be the world’s most portable solar oven. This lightweight and compact oven has the ability to cook a meal in 20 minutes, or boil water for that all important cup of tea. Rain or clouds, if you can see a shadow it will cook. You can keep food and drinks hot and ready for as long as 12 hours in the vacuum tube. The Go can fit inside a backpack and is ideal for the outdoor lifestyle in whatever form you choose that to be. £99 gosun.co/products/go

LIVESCOPE PLUS

From Garmin comes LiveScope Plus, the latest addition to its live-scanning sonar fish finders. With clear sonar imaging and noise-free interference, Garmin tells us that LiveScope Plus delivers 35 per cent improved target separation over existing LiveScope Systems, and can separate targets as small as 14 inches from 100ft away. The system includes a GLS™ 10 black box with a LiveScope Plus LVS34 transducer, along with a trolling motor barrel and shaft mounting kit, perspective mount bracket and a plug-and-play Garmin Marine Network connector for easy installation and integration with a compatible chartplotter. With a free software update, the LVS34 transducer (sold separately) can be added to an existing LiveScope System black box for customers who want to upgrade. LiveScope Plus: £1,899.99 LiveScope Plus LVS34 transducer: £1,249.99 www.garmin.com

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PHOTOS OF THE MONTH

Send in your photos and you could be in a future issue of All At Sea, on our Facebook page or in our weekly newsletter. Send your entries, with a caption, to editor@allatsea.co.uk with the subject header Photos of the Month. A beautiful day afloat taken at Newtown Creek by Karen Howcroft.

Steven Mitchell’s first evening sailing taken at the beginning of August 2020.

This lovely sunrise photo was taken while returning to Plymouth from the Isles of Scilly by Brian Ellison.

An autumn sunset at Chichester taken by Jillie Abbott.

This fantastic photo of an RS Diver working/surveying houseboats at Chichester Marina was taken by Wendy Chalk.

Sunset in Wicor in Portsmouth Harbour taken by Caroline Waller.

This peaceful photo was taken at Island Harbour Marina by Jill Harris.

ALL AT SEA APRIL 2022 The Farne Islands approaching from the south. A scene of calm seas and blue skies of the Northumbrian Coast by David Bewley.

“A quiet evening in Plymouth Yacht Haven. The water was so flat, and the marina was silent. That does not happen often!” Arabella Lloyd

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Three Wherries moored in Wroxham Broad, Norfolk. This beautiful photo was taken by Terry Jenkins.

Captured en route from Eastbourne to Rye. Thanks to Graham Humphrey for sending in this photo.

‘Solitude’. At anchor in Worbarrow Bay – thanks to Russ Cox.

Chichester is popular this month! This picture was taken in Chichester Harbour by regular contributor Huw Williams.

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HOT TOPIC

We discuss important topics with marine industry experts who share their opinions and top tips to help you get the most from your boating.

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PREPPING SAFETY EQUIPMENT FOR THE NEW SEASON

s we enter a new boating season, to ensure you ha e a fun- lled and carefree ti e a oat, listair ac ett, anaging director at Ocean afety, o ers his ad ice on prepping your on board safety e uip ent so that it is ready to go should you e er need it E uip ent on board

ike insurance, on board safety equipment gives you peace of mind, but you hope you will never have to use it. However, if you did, there are four questions to ask when considering how effective it will be. One, do you have the right equipment on board for the type of sailing you are doing? Two, does everyone know how to use it? Three, is it in a fully functional condition? And finally, do you and your crew have a plan of what to do and when to do it?

In addition to the basics of lifejackets for each person, a VHF radio, flares and first aid kit, the safety equipment you have will largely depend on where you are sailing, coastal or offshore, and the number and experience of the crew. If you are venturing further afield, it is advisable to have an EPIRB and a liferaft with capacity for all those on board. If you do not own a liferaft because you rarely leave coastal waters, but are planning a voyage with some longer offshore passages, then you could actually hire one. This is a service offered at Ocean Safety. It is a fraction of the cost and you do not have to worry about servicing it either.

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Thankfully, apart from lifejackets, safety equipment hardly ever needs to be used. But this does pose the problem of crews not being familiar with equipment and knowing how it works in an emergency. Before heading off, ensure you show your crew where everything is stowed, making sure they can access things easily. Run through how everything works too and get them to give you

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a demo once you have explained it. It is also a good idea to carry out a man overboard drill, just so everyone is aware of what to do in the event of a man overboard situation.

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It is all very well having an extensive inventory of safety equipment, but if it is out-of-date or does not work, you might as well not have it at all. It is important to get everything checked regularly as it is easy to overlook the state of equipment when it is used infrequently, or it is inside a canister.

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Shootin’ the Breeze We catch up with Vicki Spooner, environment & quality systems manager at Falmouth harbour.

(although the most recent experience was in January to try and plant seagrass seeds from a prototype seagrass seedpod rotter we had on our trial Advanced Mooring System, which was chilly!).

What would you say are the biggest environmental issues at Falmouth at the moment?

VS The marine environment is so complex it is tricky to answer this question, but I think water quality is a huge issue, along with invasive species such as pacific oysters - and their impact on native species and habitats. Greenhouse Gas emissions are also a key concern and we are thinking hard about how we can reduce these as lessening them is the thing the ocean needs most.

Vicki at the Cornwall Sustainability Awards in which Falmouth Harbour Commissioners won the Environmental Growth award

What does your work at Falmouth Harbour involve?

VS I am so lucky to have my job! Day to day I work with colleagues to ensure we are limiting our environmental impacts and developing ideas to reduce and minimise these even further. In 2021 we created a seagrass regeneration area, installed black water reception facilities (we say Pump Don’t Dump!) and installed a Seabin at our Falmouth Haven Marina. I also work with students from the universities of Exeter and Plymouth to explore the feasibility of future environmental initiatives such as seawater heat pumps, natural capital accounts and waste management. I even get paid to snorkel occasionally, and on those days I really have to pinch myself

How much have things changed environmentally in recent years at Falmouth?

VS During my time at the harbour (more than six years), the most notable change with regards to the environment is actually a wider awareness of environmental issues. This has increased over the years, and I feel there is a real momentum building, which is essential to making the necessary changes.

If there is one single thing leisure boaters could do to be more environmentally friendly what would it be?

VS Everyone on the water should be following the Green Blue program jointly developed by the RYA and British Marine. It covers best practice on everything from cleaning your boat to antifouling to preventing litter to using black water reception facilities wherever they exist. Not ‘one single thing’ but one single program of advice.

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Tell us about Falmouth Harbour’s 150th anniversary environmental pledge.

VS In September 2020 Falmouth harbour commissioners celebrated our 150 year anniversary. As part of this I was provided with some funding to help create an environmental legacy. Some funds were used to support an amazing local initiative called Cornwall Climate Care - a series of truly engaging documentaries on climate change and its impacts. The rest of the fund, along with a substantial contribution from local marine tech company PaddleLogger, went towards our Seabin. As part of this project we are raising people’s awareness of local marine litter with the aim of reducing it. We have installed an interpretation board on our quay and use the Falmouth Harbour website to display catches – all updated and regularly reported back to the international Seabin Project. Looking forward as an organisation, we are finalising our sustainability action plan which looks to address four main areas: greenhouse gas emissions, water quality, waste management and how we can contribute to the health and wellbeing of our staff and harbour users.

This year All At Sea reported on the Seabin at Falmouth Harbour. Is it working well?

VS The Seabin is an amazing piece of kit; it hoovers up floating plastics 24/7 and it catches really small particles that you would likely miss if completing a beach clean or using a net. We are finding a lot of small particles of polystyrene which we think is probably coming from a pontoon float or something similar.

What are some of the more unusal things you have found in the water at Falmouth?

VS On a trip across the harbour we found a mop floating in the water and I have most recently found

A pipefish caught in the Seabin was returned to the sea

a dumpy bag. We also caught a beautiful pipefish in the Seabin which was unexpected. He/she survived the ordeal and was returned to the sea.

VS This year we are working with a naval architect on design and trials for an Advanced Mooring System, which is a method of mooring a vessel in our waters without the chain scouring and damaging the sea bed. We plan to monitor the performance of this mooring and learn more about how we can potentially use more of these AMSs throughout the harbour – particularly where we have sensitive sea bed habitats.

When you get the chance to relax, what do like to do?

VS When I can, I enjoy canoeing with my family. We go wild camping at some lovely locations further up the estuary. It always reminds me how lucky we are to live where we do.

Tell us something people might not know about yourself!

VS I enjoy snorkelling from our local beaches and honing my underwater photography skills. There is always something interesting to see. I particularly love the way anemones and jellyfish look underwater, so I have many photos. www.falmouthharbour.co.uk

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Your guide to the best of April to June’s boating events. APRIL 6 – 10 April Ancasta Used Boat Show Various locations ancasta.com 7 April Chichester Marina Lock Workshop Chichester Marina chichester@premiermarinas.com 9 April Boat Jumble & Car Boot Sale Hythe Marina Association Hythe Marina Village 9 April Boat Jumble and Hot Cross Bun morning Sovereign Harbour www.shbha.co.uk

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1 May Boat Jumble Hancock’s Boatyard Pembroke Dock www.wwmhs.org.uk

23 April Sea Safety Day Universal Marina Southampton www.premiermarinas.com

1 May Salcombe Crab Festival Salcombe, Devon salcombecrabfest.co.uk

23 - 24 April Warsash Spring Championships Southampton www.warsashsc.org.uk 24 April Royal Lymington Spring Series Royal Lymington Yacht Club Hampshire www.rlymyc.org.uk/springseries

6 - 8 May The South Coast Boat Show Ocean Village Marina Southampton www.mdlmarinas.co.uk/boat-shows 7 May Chichester Marina Lock Workshop Chichester Marina chichester@premiermarinas.com

9 – 10 April Warsash Spring Championships Southampton www.warsashsc.org.uk

7 – 8 May North Sails May Regatta Royal Southern Summer Series www.royal-southern.co.uk/summer-series

9 - 15 April RYA Youth National Championships Plas Heli www.rya.org.uk/events/racingevents 10 April Royal Lymington Spring Series Royal Lymington Yacht Club Hampshire www.rlymyc.org.uk/springseries

2 May MayDay Safety Day Portland Marina Dorset www.boatfolk.co.uk

7 – 8 May Paignton Open for Single Handers (POSH) Paignton Sailing Club paigntonsailingclub.co.uk

29 April RORC Cervantes Trophy Cowes – Le Havre www.rorc.org 30 April Clipper Race 11 Start Seattle to Panama www.clipperroundtheworld.com

8 May Suffolk Boat Jumble Suffolk Showground Trinity Park Felixstowe Road, Ipswich www.rotaevents.co.uk

30 April – 1 May Maritime Festival Bournemouth www.maritime-festival.com

8 May boatgen Get Afloat Day ASC Portsmouth www.boatgen.co.uk

15 - 18 April Easter Boat Gathering National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port canalrivertrust.org.uk

30 April – 2 May Poole Regatta www.pooleregatta.co.uk

14 May Riverfest Newport, Isle of Wight footprint-trust.co.uk

17 April Paddle Powered Easter Egg Hunt Portland Marina www.boatfolk.co.uk

30 April – 2 May Eric Twiname Junior Championships Rutland Sailing Club www.rya.org.uk/events/racingevents

10 April North Essex Boat Show & Jumble Horsley Cross, Essex www.facebook.com/Boatjumblenorthessex 15 - 17 April RORC Easter Challenge www.rorc.org

21 – 24 April London Luxury Afloat St Katharine Docks www londonluxuryafloat com

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30 April - 2 May IWA Canalway Cavalcade Little Venice, London www.waterways.org.uk

MAY 1 May Royal Lymington Spring Series Royal Lymington Yacht Club Hampshire www.rlymyc.org.uk/springseries

22 – 24 April Shepherds Boat Show Windermere Marina Village www.shepherdswindermere.co.uk

1 May Sussex Boat Jumble South of England Show Ground Ardingly, West Sussex Sussexboatjumbles.com

14 - 15 May Barrier Free Boating Weekend Solent wetwheelsfoundation.org www.disabledsailing.org 14 - 15 May Sail GP Bermuda sailgp.com 15 May OSTAR / TWOSTAR Start Royal Western Yacht Club Plymouth www.rwyc.org 15 May Northern Boat Jumble Moss Edge Farm Lancaster 20 May Scottish Islands Peak Race West coast of Scotland www.scottishislandspeaksrace.com

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20 – 22 May Flotilla 200 - Union Canal Flotilla Edinburgh - Falkirk Wheel www.scottishcanals.co.uk

25 – 29 May GC32 Racing Tour Riva del Garda, Italy www.gc32racingtour.com

20 - 22 May Cowes Spring Classics cowesspringclassics.com

26 – 29 May Sailing Champions League Vilamoura Portugal sailing-championsleague.com

21 May Devon Boat Jumble Newton Abbot Racecourse Newton Abbot 07870 812 893 21 - 22 May Rickmansworth Canal Festival www.rwt.org.uk/festival 21 - 22 May Moira Canal Festival Ashby Canal www.moiracanalfestival.com

27 – 29 May Yarmouth Sea Songs and Shanties Festival Yarmouth Isle of Wight Yarmouth Sea Songs and Shanties on Facebook 27 May – 5 June Allianz Regatta Hempel World Cup Series The Netherlands Sailing.org

21 – 22 May RYA Olympic Classes National Ranking Series WPNSA www.rya.org.uk/events/racingevents

28 May Irish Sailing and Mountaineering Adventure Challenge Kinsale to Dingle www.trionium.com

22 May Solent Boat Jumble The Royal Victoria Country Park Netley, Southampton Hampshire boat-jumbles.co.uk

28 – 29 May British Keelboat League Championship Ullswater Yacht Club Lake District www.britishkeelboatleague.co.uk

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London Luxury Afloat will be hosted in the heart of the capital at St. Katharine Docks between 21 – 24 April. Created by the team responsible for the Southampton International oat Show, ondon u ury A oat will feature sailing and motor yachts from leading brands including Oyster, Sunseeker, Fairline and Azimut. The historic setting of St. Katharine Docks, alongside Tower Bridge, makes this event easily accessible. It offers the perfect platform for anticipated world launches of new classes and models on modern secure berths up to 40m. uests can en oy dedicated ondon u ury A oat VI hos itality experiences, while selective landside displays will feature smaller craft, products and services that complement the showcase’s core themes. For marina access visitors will need to purchase a London Luxury A oat ticket, while access to shoreside e hibits is free of charge. Marina access tickets cost £45 for adults, with children 15 and under entering for free alongside an adult ticket holder. For more information and tickets visit www londonluxuryafloat com

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10 – 12 June Barclays Jersey Boat Show jerseyboatshow.com 10 - 12 June Suffolk Yacht Harbour Classic Regatta Suffolk Yacht Harbour www.syharbour.co.uk 10 – 17 June Fife Regatta Clyde estuary www feregatta com 11 June Royal Ulster Regatta Day Bangor Marina www.boatfolk.co.uk

Portsmouth is hosting a Barrier Free Boating Weekend from 14 - 15 May. Disabled people will have the opportunity to take a ride on a powerboat or enjoy a relaxing sail around Portsmouth Harbour and the Solent thanks to the collaboration between two accessible boating organisations. The Disabled Sailors Association, who operate their fully accessible catamaran Scott Baderin Portsmouth, and Wetwheels Solent, who also operate their fully accessible power catamaran in Portsmouth, will be offering all disabled people, including those with profound and complex disabilities, the opportunity to enjoy the Blue Health beneﬁts of being on the water. he boats will be running ﬁ e tri s a day on both days of the weekend starting from 9:30am. Disabled people can pre-book a 90 minute experience on either vessel free of charge, including one carer, by contacting Wetwheels (07904 997 622) or Scott Bader (07841 675 308). It is recommended that people book early to reserve their slots. The event will be held courtesy of Gunwharf Quays who have made their marina and facilities available.

28 – 29 May British Keelboat League Premiership Carsington Sailing Club, Derbyshire www.britishkeelboatleague.co.uk 28 – 29 May Brixham Heritage Regatta www.brixhamheritageregatta.uk 28 May - 4 June Sail Caledonia Scotland www.sailcaledonia.org 29 May RB&I Start www.rwyc.org 29 May Duver Dash Duver Marina www.bembridgeharbour.co.uk

11 – 12 June British Keelboat League Championship Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Burnham-on-Crouch www.britishkeelboatleague.co.uk 11 – 12 June Birdham Classic Boat Festival Birdham, Chichester www.castlemarinas.co.uk 15 June Wolf Rock Race The Royal Western Yacht Club Queen Anne’s Battery Plymouth, Devon rwyc.org 15 - 19 June The British Motor Yacht Show Swanwick Marina Hamble www.britishmotoryachtshow.com

17 – 19 June Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival Cornwall www.falmouthseashanty.co.uk

22 – 26 June GC32 Racing Tour Lagos, Algarve Portugal www.gc32racingtour.com

17 - 19 June Scottish Traditional Boat Festival Portsoy, Aberdeenshire www.stbfportsoy.org

23 – 26 June Bangor Town Regatta www.bangortownregatta.com

17 - 19 June Falmouth Classics Cornwall www.falmouthclassics.org.uk 18 June SSE Renewables Round Ireland Yacht Race www.roundireland.ie 18 - 19 June British Keelboat League Championship Hayling Island Sailing Club Hampshire www.britishkeelboatleague.co.uk 18 – 19 June Regional Junior Championships Various locations www.rya.org.uk/events/racingevents 18 – 19 June Sail GP United States Chicago, Illinois sailgp.com 18 – 25 June Seafair Haven 2022 Lawrenny, Pembrokeshire www.tallships.wales/seafair-haven

4 June Rock the Boat Duver Marina www.bembridgeharbour.co.uk

19 June Clipper Race 13 Start Bermuda to New York www.clipperroundtheworld.com

4 – 5 June Champagne Charlie Platinum Jubilee Regatta Royal Southern Summer Series www.royal-southern.co.uk/summer-series

21 - 23 June Seawork Southampton www.seawork.com

4 - 5 June Etruria Canals Festival Etruria Junction, Stoke on Trent etruriacanalsfestival.org.uk

15 – 19 June Sea Angling Classic Portsmouth www.seaanglingclassic.com

25 June Round the Island Race Cowes www.roundtheisland.org.uk 25 – 26 June Bala Long Distance Weekend Lake Bala balasailingclub.wordpress.com 25 – 26 June Summer Market The Waterfront at Sovereign Harbour www.premiermarinas.com 25 June – 1 July Cowes Classic Week www.cowesclassicsweek.org 29 June Clipper Race 14 Start New York to Derry-Londonderry www.clipperroundtheworld.com 29 June – 2 July Superyacht Cup Palma www.thesuperyachtcup.com

Next month we will bring you July – September’s events. There are more events online at www.allatsea.co.uk Please check with organisers as events are subject to change. All At Sea cannot be held responsible for quality of events. Send further dates to: editor@allatsea.co.uk

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4 – 5 June Sea Bangor and Jubilee Celebrations Bangor Marina www.boatfolk.co.uk

JUNE

4 - 5 June Leicester Riverside Festival www.visitleicester.info

2 June Clipper Race 12 Start Panama to Bermuda www.clipperroundtheworld.com

4 – 8 June Centenary XOD Week Royal Lymington Yacht Club www.rlymyc.org.uk/xodweek

2 June Myth of Malham Race Cowes – Eddystone Lighthouse – Solent www.rorc.org

16 - 18 June Green Tech Boat Show Queen Anne’s Battery marina Plymouth Devon www.mdlmarinas.co.uk/boatshows 16 - 19 June Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival Middlewich www.middlewichfabfestival.co.uk

2 June Jubilee Beacon Lighting Bangor Marina www.boatfolk.co.uk 3 – 5 June Crick Boat Show Crick Marina www.crickboatshow.com

8 June World Ocean Day big pier clean up Bangor Marina www.boatfolk.co.uk

3 – 6 June Queens Jubilee Weekend Hayling Island Sailing Club www.hisc.co.uk

9 June Chichester Marina Lock Workshop Chichester Marina chichester@premiermarinas.com

17 June Morgan Cup Race Cowes - Dartmouth www.rorc.org 17 – 19 June UK Hansa Class Championships Carsington Sailing Club Derbyshire www.hansaclass.org.uk

Cowes Classics Week will see racing from 27 June – 1 July. The world’s biggest classic yacht regatta of its kind is open to a wide range of yachts and offers multiple race courses catering both for large one design eets and for all comers in handica eets. Classic yachts built in wood or steel before 1975, or GRP yachts designed at least 50 years ago, are eligible. So too are all classic S&Sdesigned yachts, including Swans and S&S 34s, regardless of design date. Spirit of Tradition yachts designed to classic lines are also welcomed. There will be a non-spinnaker division for classic yachts above 30ft. Cowes Classics Week follows the Round the Island Race, providing a week of varied, challenging and fun racing in Cowes. Furthermore, on 26 June more than 60 high quality classic cars and interesting classic boats will assemble on the Parade and the Trinity Landing for the second edition of Cowes Classics Day. The Royal London Yacht Club, organiser of Cowes Classics Week, has chosen two charities to support with its 2022 regatta – UKSA and Autism on the Water. To enter, visit www.cowesclassicsweek.org/the-regatta/enter

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Solent based dinghy sailor David Henshall is a well known writer and speaker on topics covering the rich heritage of all aspects of leisure boating.

THE LAST TIGER HUNTER! A commission for a for a fast motorboat in Germany some 100 years ago led to a new breed of fast attack boat which went on to play a deadly role in World War II.

The last E-Boat (actually an S-Boat) being restored in Cornwall.Even with the hull stripped bare, the beauty of the hull lines fails to mask the menace these superb high speed attack boats posed to the allied ships. Image: Henshall

hen the 2012 Olympic regatta was being held at Weymouth, the media quickly latched on to the hot competition at the front of the Finn Class, which they christened ‘The Battle of the Bay’. This, of course, was Weymouth Bay, but if you take the trip westwards around Portland Bill, you move into the much larger and wilder Lyme Bay. There had already been a Battle of the Bay there as well, but it was back in 1588, when the British fleet had harassed the Spanish Armada as they headed eastwards up the English Channel. However, the real ‘Battle of the Bay’ would take place 356 years later in 1944, for as D-Day drew near, there was a pressing need for the Allied forces to practice the techniques needed for a successful amphibious landing. A number of stretches of South Coast shoreline that shared the features of some of the Normandy beaches, from the Isle of Wight, past Studland, down to Slapton Sands on the Devon coast near Torbay, were pressed into service as locations for dummy landings. One of the final dress rehearsals took place just six weeks before D-Day, with the exercise titled Operation Tiger. From the outset this would be an event tainted with tragedy, as the exercise highlighted the problems of seamless communications in what was a complex and challenging situation. Tiger was a ‘live-fire’ exercise and when some of the troopships were delayed as the soldiers came ashore from the landing craft, they were fired upon by warships out in the Bay. There was a heavy loss of life in this ‘blue on blue’ incident, with some reports suggesting that over 400 men had been killed.

Things were about to get even worse as the following day, on 28 April 1944, a convoy of eight US troopships, waiting for dawn to send troops ashore, found itself left with only minimal protection out in the Bay. This was the result of a litany of organisational mistakes, with just one small warship left to guard the vulnerable troopships and different radio frequencies in use, which then left the convoy open to attack. Fast and heavily armed, the German S-Boats of WW2 had a long operational range, great seakeeping qualities and were diesel engined. Image: Hans Frank

German Attack Boats

Even this late on in the war, the German high speed attack boats were known to be a serious threat as they carried out hit and run raids from their bases on the Northern French Coast. On this night, a flotilla of nine heavily armed E-Boats had left Cherbourg and made their way northwards across the Channel without being detected. On encountering the convoy, they attacked

with torpedoes and, despite the deadly nature of their attack, it was nearly an even greater disaster. The convoy was made up of LSTs, Landing Ships, Tank, which were fairly shallow draft, and it may have been that some of the first salvo of torpedoes launched passed underneath their targets without exploding. The good luck would not last and three of the eight LSTs were torpedoed, with one catching fire but still making it to shore. Sadly two others, LST 507 and 531, would take hits and sink, with LST 531 going down in less than six minutes. The soldiers had not been put through any meaningful emergency drills and were cast into the water, which in April is still cold, with those who did not drown soon succumbing to hypothermia. Coming on top of the tragedy the previous day, the death toll from the two boats was shockingly high, with the US military admitting to 639 deaths. With the whole matter shrouded in pre D-Day secrecy we will probably never know the true number of casualties, but the figure could be as high as 946, with there being stories back ashore of secret burials, and the story being covered up by the authorities. What is certain is that there were more American soldiers lost at Slapton and in Lyme Bay than were killed during the actual landing on Utah Beach on 6 June.

The Schnellboot

The boats that did all this damage were the dreaded German E-Boats, but that was just a convenient title gifted to them by the Allies, for their correct name was the S-Boot, Schnellboot, which has the easy translation of ‘fast boat’. The Americans had their PT boats and the British their MTBs (motor torpedo boat), with many of these owing their hull forms to the developments made by

the British Powerboat Company at Hythe on Southampton Water (watch out for an upcoming article on the BPC) but the S-Boots had a very different parentage. Back in the mid-1920s a German banker approached the Lürssen boatbuilders in Bremen with a commission for a fast motorboat that would be equally at home on the inland waters of the Rhine as it would be in the demanding conditions out on the North Sea. This presented the builders with a tricky issue, for the thinking of the day recognised that in the pursuit of better performance, the seakeeping qualities would be compromised. Their solution was a piece of maritime genius, a round bilged hull that was sea kindly, but with a long flat run in the aft sections to provide dynamic lift and enhance performance. They knew that the hydrodynamics of such a hull would see it starting to ‘squat’ by the stern at speed, so they positioned the engines centrally in the hull to ensure that the boat stayed level in the fore and aft trim. Their other idea was to make the boat both strong and light, so they proposed an aluminium skeleton over which the planks would be laid. The result was the Oheka II, a 74ft long hull that weighed in at only 22.5 tonnes and, with three 550hp Maybach engines, would comfortably do 34 knots, making the boat the fastest of its kind in the world. In the late 1920s the Kriegsmarine in Germany were strictly limited to the size and composition of their naval forces, but patrol boats were allowed, so Lürssen were given the contract to build an uprated, military version of the Oheka II that would be armed and fitted with twin torpedo tubes. This boat was designated S-1, the first of this new breed of fast attack boat. Lürssen quickly added further developments, with one addition being to ‘out-angle’ by 30 degrees the twin

ALL AT SEA APRIL 2022 One of the Landing Ship-Tanks, LST-289 limps back into the harbour at Dartmouth after being attacked during Operation Tiger. Image: National Museum of the US Navy

“Even in pieces in a Cornish shed, you can feel the power in S-130, wonder at the technology of the hull construction and appreciate the clean, yet curvaceous lines of the hull.” rudder blades. At speed these helped by providing additional lift that not only flattened the ride but reduced the prominence of the wake from the stern. In these pre-radar days, this made it harder to spot the boats from their wake, making night the natural hunting time for these deadly boats.

On closer inspection, the damage wreaked on LST-289 is all too clear to see. Although they took a number of casualties, the crew were lucky to save their ship. Image: National Museum of the US Navy

Ready for war

By the start of WW2 the S-Boots had evolved into hard hitting attack craft that could be used for high-speed hit and run raids, mine laying and coastal defence, with the genre reaching its zenith with the S-100 range of boats, a 35m/114ft long, heavily armed mini-warship capable of 44kt and with a range of some 800nm. The UK equivalents, the MTBs, were powered by marinised aircraft engines running on high-octane aviation fuel, but this could be a risky enterprise when incendiary cannon shells were flying around. In contrast, the S-Boots were diesel powered, with three V20 2,000hp Daimler-Benz engines, each driving its own shaft and propeller. For much of the war the German boats had better range and, in open water, could be faster and were more robust than their Allied equivalents. But, just as with the Air-Sea Rescue boats that we featured recently, the rapid advances in technology seen during the war years would soon render the S-Boots obsolete, with the attack on the Operation Tiger transports being something of a final fling for them. Just two months after the action in Lyme Bay, their Cherbourg base had fallen to the Americans and with the Allied forces enjoying near total air superiority, the S-Boots were being savaged by aircraft in their harbours and when they were out on patrol. With the surrender of Germany, the remaining S-Boots were seized and put back into service in the navies of a number of nations. The problem for the S-Boots was that aircraft and helicopters could do their job faster, better and cheaper, and although

Just one of the massive V-20 diesel engines that would power an S-Boat. Each boat had three of these, each with its own shaft and propellor. Image: Henshall

One of the hidden secrets of the S-Boot’s performance lay in the construction, which used a lightweight aluminium skeleton on to which the planking was laid, resulting in a strong, but light hull. Image: Henshall

The other secret of the S-Boot’s performance lay in her hull shape, with wide, powerful sections aft that helped promote planing. Image: Henshall

they continued to work into the 1960s the S-Boots would vanished from the scene as they were broken up.

albeit under tow, around to Appledore on the North Devon Coast, where the main restoration can be started.

Last Survivor

Saving S-130

The wartime order had been for 347 S-100 class boats, but in the end only 86 were completed to see service, with 85 of these being lost. However, the one remaining example is a very special boat, for it was one of the S-Boots that took part in the attack on the Tiger convoy and is credited with sinking one of the LSTs. S-130, named Rabe, was built at Travemünde in 1943 and was thus ‘state-of-the-art’ in terms of S-Boot development. At some point in her service she was damaged in an air attack, and then came her attack on the Tiger transports. Shortly after the war’s end, S-130 was back at work, mainly in the Baltic and in the hands of the UK Intelligence Service as part of the Cold War. After that she was used as a training vessel, then a houseboat, but then, after 50 years’ service, her hard life afloat was taking its toll. In 2003 she was saved from the scrapyard and taken to Southampton, where she underwent some interim remedial work before she was towed down to Cornwall, where she now rests in her own shed. The latest plan is to get her, if not seaworthy, at least watertight, which itself will be a huge task, but at least then she will be able to make the journey,

This will be a multi-year, not to mention multi-million-pound undertaking, but we have to hope that the fates smile kindly on the work, as S-130 is a boat that really should be saved for future generations to see. Not just as a museum piece, but as a living embodiment of the development in performance motorboat hulls. More than that it is a true rarity, a boat that did not just see active service but played a part in one of the great sea actions just off our coasts, albeit under the enemy flag. There are those who point to the central role played by S-130 in that Battle of the Bay, who question the moral correctness of championing the cause of this boat. That is a shame, for we have to separate the role played by the people involved and the ‘tools’ they had at their disposal. Just like the Spitfire, the S-Boot was ground-breaking in performance and ability (not to mention in looks as well) and was superbly capable for the job of being a fast hunter of the seas. Even in pieces in a Cornish shed, you can feel the power in S-130, wonder at the technology of the hull construction and appreciate the clean, yet curvaceous lines of the hull. This is a boat that has to be seen back afloat and we wish the restoration team well with their efforts.

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ROUND-UP In this new column, every month we will be sharing the latest news and updates from British Marine.

LONDON LUXURY AFLOAT With the announcement that a brand new boat show is launching in the capital this month, we caught up with British Marine’s CEO, Lesley Robinson, to find out more.

to Southampton International Boat Show 2022, which is fantastic. So the demand is there at the moment and in all parts of our sector whether that is manufacturers, inland boating or UK sailing holidays, and the return of sailing holidays abroad is also great to see.

LR: We have a highly experienced events team responsible for the Southampton International Boat Show, and this is a standalone event run by the same team. With London Luxury A oat we are adding to our portfolio of events for the industry. One of our objectives is to develop, promote and nurture the industry, and we believe this is a gap that will be fulﬁlled with the show.

Does the new event have any ties to September’s Southampton International Boat Show or is it a standalone show?

British Marine CEO, Lesley Robinson

British Marine is bringing a new show to London this spring. How did the event come about? LR: We have been talking to the venue since 2019 about wanting to do something again, but the pandemic affected us as it did everyone else. So, we are really delighted to now have a deal with St. Katharine Docks for London Luxury A oat this month.

Why did you decide to hold London Luxury oat in pril

LR: A couple of reasons really, including to boost member proﬁts at the start of the season but to also invest in longer term development of the industry. And with boot Düsseldorf not happening in January, the show will help to ﬁll that gap for businesses. It also means we do not clash with any other industry events taking place.

What types of craft can visitors to the show expect to nd

LR: We have been working closely with the luxury yacht market – both motor and sail – to develop something which is tailored for their respective buyers. It is not the biggest location in the world, but it is a beautiful setting and visitors will be able to view craft up to about 24m. Brands exhibiting at the show include Azimut, Fairline, Oyster, Pearl, Ryck and Sunseeker. There will be some key launches and there will also be VIP hospitality. As well as the yachts, the shoreside display will offer complementary products and services; you could say the ‘toys’ that go with some of the boats on display.

Were there concerns about the impact of Covid on the show?

LR: As responsible event organisers, if the government has regulations in place we will of course follow them. There will be no regulations to wear masks unless the government brings something back. We ran a successful Southampton International Boat Show last year following all the guidance and we are very conﬁdent in running this premium event, and do not forget it is outdoors, which helps.

Will London Luxury oat beco e an annual event?

LR: Yes, we hope so. We always take feedback from exhibitors and visitors and we will be doing the same with the launch show. If we need to make changes we will do that. After all, the event is for the industry.

With another new boat show in February, BoatLife Live, is this a re ection of the positive mood within the marine industry? LR: Yes, I think it is. There has been the recent boom in the staycation and the general sentiment is positive, but as we see international travel begin to open up again we need to focus on retention of those people who have become interested in boating. Therefore where shows are serving different sectors within the industry and they are complementary it is really helpful. London Luxury A oat is a very different show to BoatLife Live which has a wider remit. To be able to provide events and shows that appeal to various sectors of our market is really invaluable in helping the industry overall.

What would you say are going to be the biggest trends this year in the boating market?

LR: t was very difﬁcult last summer to be buying anything like a paddleboard or kayak because the industry literally could not supply them fast enough for the demand, and I think we are going to see a continuation of that. We also know that manufacturers’ order books have been full for a couple of years now, but that is the cycle and they support shows because they want that full order book. It is great to see the demand for it though. Clearly everyone is struggling with the worldwide supply chain issues, but whereas that hit everyone last summer, they have had a bit more time to plan where they can now. So the supply chain point will perhaps have less of an impact, and when we are talking to our exhibitors everybody is keen to sign up

Inaugural British Marine National Conference heralded a great success Former Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls was one of the speakers at this year’s British Marine National Conference

What do you think about the growth in watersports and boating in the last couple of years? LR: It is great to see so many people out on the water in any shape or form. Whether getting started with stand-up paddleboarding and moving on to try dinghy sailing or starting with something bigger, watersports and boating of any genre is great for physical and mental wellbeing and as a social activity. It really does tick so many boxes for people.

What else is on the agenda for British Marine in 2022?

LR: In February British Marine hosted a small number of British Marine members at a marine stand at the Caravan, Camping and Motorhome Show at the NEC. The event opens up a whole new audience for our members offering complementary products. At the same show British Marine also had their own stand showcasing onthewater. co.uk. It is a great resource if people are not sure how to get on the water or where to go to get training and advice, and it helps get people on the water in a safe way. We ran our inaugural British Marine National Conference in March at the National Conference Centre in Birmingham. We had over 200 delegates and a fantastic line-up of speakers from Robert Courts MP, Minister of Maritime, Aviation and Security, to Simon Schoﬁeld, CT at BAR Technologies. At the Southampton International Boat Show last year new show zones were launched and they were really successful, along with the new entrance. We will be building on those developments this year. We also have an exciting new VIP offer under development and we will be launching an Early Bird ticket offer earlier than usual.

Congratulations on your OBE. How did it feel to receive such an honour? LR: It was a great honour to receive it on behalf of the leisure marine industry. I was very humbled, but proud to represent the industry in my brief conversation with Prince William.

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SAIL AWAY Market Uncertainty When the GMBA (Global Marine Business Advisors) held a meeting last month a number of key issues affecting the recreational marine sector were discussed including the charter market. Whilst the charter season bookings look very positive this year, there does appear to be some uncertainty in the market given the negative publicity surrounding yacht seizures, which is creating issues in the market. In Croatia, as an example, it was reported some charter contracts had been cancelled. Clearly the situation in Ukraine is having an impact on some upcoming boating holidays. For example, Sea Cloud Cruises has cancelled this year’s St. Petersburg calls of its new sailing vessel the Sea Cloud Spirit. The cruise company will develop a new itinerary for the voyages in June and July. www.seacloud.com

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Grenada continues to grow in popularity amongst the sailing community. Port Louis Marina has launched a 90+ day berthing offer for yachts wishing to stay in the Southern Caribbean this hurricane season. Zara Tremlett, marina manager at Port Louis Marina, said: “The 90 day rate was launched last year as we saw an increase in boats wishing to berth with us for the hurricane season. We are delighted to be able to offer the same opportunity again, as it is our intention for everyone to enjoy the delights of Grenada. It is an island that should not be missed! “We have links with diving and fishing companies on the island for adventure activities. Our swimming pool provides the ultimate relaxation, and there is a private jet terminal alongside international flights transfers to other Caribbean islands, America and Europe.” Known as the ‘Island of Spice’ with links to aromatic spices and cocoa, Grenada offers an authentic Caribbean experience away from the hustle and bustle of many other Caribbean islands. en.cnmarinas.com/book-a-berth

Diving in Grenada

Grenadian-Canadian marine biologist Christine Finney runs and owns Eco Dive Grenada, a full service 5-Star PADI 100 per cent AWARE scuba diving and freediving centre on the world-famous Grand Anse Beach. Christine runs various diving and snorkelling trips around the shores of Grenada, and its neighbouring island of Carriacou. The Carriacou free dive day trip, for example, sees guests board a specialised 38ft luxury dive and snorkel boat to sail between the main island of Grenada, Carriacou and a handful of other uninhabited Grenadine islands. This excursion allows free divers to experience all that Grenada’s rich and diverse coastline has to offer. www.ecodiveandtrek.com

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Following the discovery of one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, The Endurance, in March a growth in expedition sailing will no doubt follow. Kraken Travel, for example, has a number of interesting expeditions available which could see you travelling to amazing destinations all over the world. With two dates in July, the Spitsbergen Ice Edge Adventure, from £4,090 per person, is a nine-night trip through a magical ice kingdom that will see you explore glaciers, fjords and polar ice with the opportunity to see polar bears, whales and seals. No previous experience required. Or, still available at the time of writing, how about following in the footsteps of Roald Amundsen crossing the Barents Sea to Svalbard. Taking place from 25 April – 2 May, this trip is a working passage where you will be expected to take turns doing jobs on board throughout the trip. Novice sailors are welcome on this adventure. £2,520 per person. Kraken.travel

Now here is somewhere you might not have considered visiting for a sailing holiday. Home to the second largest barrier reef in the world, Belize is considered one of the best diving destinations for marine exploration. To preserve natural reef habitats, the Belize Tourism Board has worked with the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association and Blackbird Caye Resort to submerge a 375ft concrete ship, The Wit Concrete, to become Belize’s largest wreck dive and reef enhancement project. The ship has been submerged in the Turneffe Atoll Marine Reserve with the aim of relieving stress on the natural reef habitats, to increase marine biodiversity and to provide further revenue for the marine reserve. For more information about travelling to Belize visit www.travelbelize.org. www.turneffeatollmarinereserve.org

With many of us choosing to holiday in the UK, the joy of discovering a new corner of the UK appears to be high on the priority list for many staycationers. Mintel’s Report on Domestic Tourism found that 89 per cent of UK holidaymakers said they enjoyed discovering a new part of the UK during their holiday, while Mintel’s Report on Family Holidays revealed that more than 22 per cent of family holidaymakers said they had discovered a new place in the UK for a holiday as a result of Covid-19. Graham Donoghue, CEO of Sykes Holiday Cottages, said: “A holiday does not have to mean flying abroad or driving hundreds of miles. Our research shows that Brits are now much more open to exploring what lies closer to home. With beautiful countryside and award-winning beaches, the UK is a wonderful location for a staycation and it is great to see that lots of people are planning to make the most of what the country has to offer.”

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Steeped in Racing History he nternational aint oole Regatta returns o er the wee end of pril, but did you now pictures ue oole arbour has a long and rich history of sail racing, with so ething to disco er whiche er way you turn building was suspended, resuming in years ago. Six races were run, with Image: Poole Flying Boat Celebration www.pooleflyingboats.com

ast year regatta president Andrew Pearce came across an old photo showing yacht racing against the background of flying boats and seaplanes. It turns out that Poole was a serious airport as well as harbour during the 1930s and ‘40s. It was also the birthplace of BOAC, a predecessor of modern-day British Airways. It all came about when flying boat operations were moved from Southampton Water at the start of the war due to the risk of air raids. With seven runways spread around the harbour, flying boats and seaplanes headed from the UK across to the USA and out to the furthest corners of the British Empire. It is said that up to 24 passenger flying boats were based

in Poole with BOAC employing 600 local people. The marine department comprised a 60 strong team and operated 12 high speed launches to shuttle passengers, crew and freight around.The ministry of Civil Aviation used a further 14 fast launches for water control purposes, ensuring runways remained safe and clear for use. A further fleet of powerful workboats acted as flying boat tugs to move them between moorings and the runways.

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During the war, the passenger fleet was joined by aircraft operated from RAF Hamworthy with 461 Squadron of the Royal Australian Airforce using Sunderland Flying Boats to attack

German U-Boats in the Channel and then later 210 Squadron, who operated 12 American Catalina aircraft in a similar role. RNAS Sandbanks was located on the opposite side of the harbour in the current Royal Motor Yacht Club’s buildings with Squadrons 765 and 766 deploying an array of different seaplanes for training and the vital role of air-sea rescue. The harbour was a hive of civil and military flight activity, but clearly opportunities for yacht racing still existed. The photo shows XODs racing amongst the BOAC flying boats. The equivalent of motor racing around Heathrow airport.

EARLY DAYS

The X One Design was the vision of Alfred Westmacott, the managing director of Woodnutts Boatyard at St Helens on the Isle of Wight. The yard built small day racing boats and designs included the Seaview Mermaid, Solent Sunbeam and Victory. XOD racing first took place in Southampton Water in 1911 under the organisation of the MYC (later to become the Royal Motor Yacht Club, Poole). By the outbreak of the First World War 10 boats had been built, but

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1923 and continuing until 1939, when the fleet stood at 81 yachts. It once again stopped during the Second World War and resumed in 1946 with production then running through to current day. At the start of WWII XOD divisions had been established at Parkstone, Lymington, Itchenor and Hamble, so it is highly likely the yachts in the image here are from the Parkstone division.

RACING TODAY

The 2018 International Paint Poole Regatta saw five XODs out racing in a similar location in the harbour to those seen in the image from all those

X40 Kyperini and David Law on helm winning the class. She was built in 1929 so could well have been sailing out of view of the camera as well. Sadly, none of the pictured yachts raced in 2018, but the XODs class will be back at the International Paint Poole Regatta. Of the XODs in the image, the regatta understands hulls 9 and 14 are now part of the Lymington division and sadly 28 sank and was lost in 1977. The Poole Regatta 2022 provides another opportunity for these historic yachts to recreate a part of this image. To find out more about the history of flying boats in Poole visit www.pooleflyingboats.com www.pooleregatta.co.uk

About Poole Regatta

Sailing regattas have taken place in the sea around Poole and within Poole Harbour since 1849 and the 2022 Poole Regatta continues the tradition. The regatta in its current form was brought back to celebrate the millennium in 2000 and has been held biannually ever since then, growing in popularity. It is organised by the seven yacht clubs located within Poole Harbour, alongside Poole Yacht Racing Association. The ethos of Poole Regatta is to provide outstanding racing for serious amateur sailors, in a warm and friendly atmosphere. The regatta has become equally renowned for its onshore social events where crews can relax after hard days of racing with other like-minded individuals. With racing across five courses both inside the harbour and outside in Poole Bay, there are opportunities for all sailing classes to compete.

James could even remember the letters carved into Orcadian

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barn at another cottage, this time at Barnard Castle in County Durham. She was in near perfect condition. Not too wet, not too dry, and the Maritime Trust agreed they would restore her given her builder’s history on the Tyne. Orcadian once again sails our shores in all her glory still going strong at 114-years-old, still enjoyed by the family today. Find out more about the North East Maritime Trust at nemaritimetrust.co.uk Send your stories to editor@allatsea.

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Orcadian once again sails our shores in all her glory still going strong at -years-old, still en oyed by the fa ily today

Orcadian was loved by the Linkleter family for many decades

his is Orcadian, a 16’8” sailing dinghy made from yellow pine on the Haven in Tynemouth. She was built in 1908 by William Dalton Linkleter, designed by his father James Linkleter and sailed by grandson Jimmy Linkleter. It is now sailed by James’s great-grandchildren Guy Linkleter and myself.

Orcadian spent most of her life on the Haven in Tynemouth, sailing out of Tynemouth Sailing Club along to Blyth Sailing Club and back. She won just about every race she sailed!

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Then, in the late 1970s, she was taken out of the water and kept in a

cottage’s garden. However in 1990 she disappeared from the cottage, no one knew where, apart from my grandfather. Unfortunately he died five years later. Then, four years ago, I received an email from a sail maker friend of mine in Stockholm. He had seen a message from the North East Maritime Trust on a maritime message board looking for

And still enjoyed today at 114-years-young…

family members who might know about a boat called Orcadian. Upon reading the message I knew exactly the boat being referring to as I could picture her in the cottage’s garden. I could remember the letters carved into her. I explained this and was put in touch with the Trust, who in turn put me in touch with her guardian, Julia Wright.

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Hosted by Sail Boat Project, the Blue Spirit Laury Gratiet Bursary Fund grants sailing bursaries to young people. Dhara Thompson talks with Blue Spirit founder Solen Lees.

A. Blue Spirit is a fund that provides bursaries to young people aged 16 to 25. Applications are open to any young person who would not normally be able to access sailing and who would benefit from the enhanced well-being that sailing can give. We work in partnership with two sailing organisations in the South-East and North-East of England – Sail Boat Project in Chichester and Ocean Youth Trust North in North Shields.

A. All the details can be found www. sailboatproject.org/blue-spirit-sailingbursaries. Organisations can contact me direct via bluespiritsails@gmail.com if they want to get a group together or refer a young person to us. A sail can take the form of anything from a ‘taster’ or day sail to a five or sixday voyage. We ask for a small financial contribution from the participant, or the voluntary organisation, if it is a group booking, and we ask the young person to commit to giving us feedback in some form. Our bursaries cover everything directly related to the sail, including food on board and hire of sailing waterproofs. We can also consider helping out with travel costs to/from the port and costs for a carer if they need to come on board.

How can young people apply for a sailing bursary, and what can they expect?

Blue Spirit provides sailing bursaries for young people, how does it work?

You set up Blue Spirit in memory of your son, Laury. Please tell us about him and his love of sailing. A. Laury had a short but very intense life - he packed a lot into it! He was born and raised on the northern coast of Brittany, France. Growing up by the sea and 1km from the local sailing school, it was quite easy for him to learn to sail at resident rates during the summer holidays. He developed a passion for it, began sailing throughout the year and then went on to train as a sailing instructor. As his concern for the environment grew, he decided he would only travel sustainably and was planning to sail across the Atlantic with his girlfriend. Before he got ill, he was very gregarious, and loved people. He spoke four languages fluently, played the accordion and loved Breton culture. One of my favourite memories was when he got everyone learning a Breton circle dance at a Ceilidh in Northumberland. What everyone remembers about Laury is his beautiful smile. He had an infectious laugh and a warm heart and was sensitive, intelligent, stubborn, charming, lovable, idealistic, determined, affectionate – and sometimes infuriating!

What do you think sailing and the sea can o er to young people facing challenges in their lives? A. We lost our beautiful Laury to suspected schizophrenia in July 2020, when he died by suicide. Although his issues proved too much for him in the end, Laury always felt happiest when sailing, and it was his passion from the first time he set foot in an Optimist aged seven. I have read that one in four people will face a mental health challenge at one stage in their life and that our youth are the worst affected. At the same time, research shows that just being in blue spaces (like the sea) can have a positive effect on stress reduction and well-being. Add to this the multiple benefits of the activity of sailing itself, and the potential benefit for young people is enormous! Learning to sail helps develop essential life skills, it can bring you out of your comfort zone and challenge your perceived limitations; it can help increase your self-confidence and resilience; it can teach you how to work with others and even lead a team and, of course, it can be great fun.

As well as learning new skills sailing is great fun

Q Blue Spirit is in memory of Laury, who loved spending time afloat

Learning to sail can help build confidence in young people Being in blue spaces can have a positive impact on well-being

What do you hope to achieve with Blue Spirit?

A. I hope that Blue Spirit sailing bursaries will give young people a chance to experience the peace and the sense of well-being and achievement that sailing and blue space can offer. An experience like this can be transformative. Its impact might last for a day, a week, a month, a year or a lifetime. It would be amazing if a young person found their path into a career in sailing, just as Laury was planning to do. And it would also be amazing if a sailing trip could help a young person find friendship or a renewed faith in and enthusiasm for life. Personally, I will be happy if just one young person finds hope and has their life transformed through one of our bursaries, but I also believe that this has the potential to reach hundreds of young people and impact their lives in some way.

A. Please help us spread the word, refer young people to us and like us on social media. The biggest way you can support us, however, is by donating. Our fund is finite and we rely on donations to keep us going and – hopefully – expand our work. Thank you! www.sailboatproject.org/blue-spiritsailing-bursaries

What has Blue Spirit achieved so far?

A. We Crowdfunded almost £30,000 in May 2021, including a grant from Sport England. We have worked closely with Sail Boat Project, which houses our fund, to set up our operations and lay the foundations for our partnership. In August and September, we funded our first two sails with Sail Boat Project for six young sailors from the Shoreham-based ESTEEM – which offers vocational and professional development for young people – with overwhelmingly positive feedback.

How can people support and contribute to Blue Spirit’s work?

What do you have planned in 2022?

A. We will continue working with Sail Boat Project, funding more sails for ESTEEM and hopefully young people who come to us through other organisations or independently. In the north east – where I live – we will be starting work with OYTN. We have a five-day sail booked by Newcastle College in August and two weekends in May that will reach a total of 36 young people. Then there is our sailing trip to Brittany in the summer to raise awareness with my family about Blue Spirit and to get some young people out on the water over there. As I am not a sailor myself, I am quite nervous about this trip – but excited too! Further down the line, we plan to fund sails in Brittany in association with the Glénans sailing school. A final project for 2022 is a short film.

Sailors’ Feedback “The sailing trip was a great new experience for me. There is something about being on the water that is really relaxing and peaceful. It was an amazing way to let off a lot of stress. Getting out on the water is something I would like to start doing consistently.” Dan (20) “We learnt a lot of things changed our mindset from negative and stress to a positive way. We had a good day and have learnt in life we have to move on sometimes from what has happened and that sometimes things happen for a reason, so thank you very much.” Mo (20) “Before going on the sail, I felt tired and lethargic and afterwards I was ready to do anything, energised. I deﬁnitely felt happier after the sail and more conﬁdent, probably because I had done something I had not done before. What I liked the most was the scenery.” Skylar (17)

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arina irector: Rupert agsta Lymington Yacht Haven, Kings Saltern Road, Lymington SO41 3QD T: 01590 677 071 E: lymington@yachthavens.com W: www.yachthavens.com VHF Channel 80. Call sign ‘Lymington Yacht Haven

2022 is a golden anniversary year for Lymington Yacht Haven. Nestled between a Georgian market-town and Hampshire’s New Forest, this well-established marina quietly goes from strength to strength. Family-owned, and 50 years on, still familyrun, this marina has been welcoming boat enthusiasts for half a century and continues to be a ﬁrm favourite with Solent sailors because of its full-tide access, protected harbour and ﬁve-star facilities. Re-accredited with their Five Gold Anchor award last year, they continue to achieve excellence in their processes and standards of practice, with the added convenience of being a fully-serviced marina with a boatyard and chandlery on-site.

But the Yacht Haven Group’s winning card has always been its people. Priding themselves on having helpful staff on-site 24/7, there is always someone to take your lines and extend a warm welcome. From the Haven Masters to the boatyard crew; this friendly team run an efﬁcient marina with the comfort and safety of visitors and their boats the number one priority. Extending everyone the same warmth; from berth-holders, visitors, staff, restaurant-goers and event holders to the communities they serve.

FACILITIES & BERTHING Happy to go the extra mile, the Lymington Yacht Haven team deliver a comprehensive set of boating services.

■ Annual and visitor berthing; ■ More than 600 berths – to suit almost any boat; ■ Modern pontoon berths for quick and easy access; ■ Free water and Wi-Fi at every berth as well as 16 or 32 amp electricity; ■ 50 ton boat hoist and hard standing for 230 boats; ■ Yacht Charter and Boat Club on-site; ■ Well-stocked chandlery and convenience store (open daily);

■ Dedicated disabled facilities; ■ Boat repairs, shipwrights, engineers, electronics, riggers and more; ■ 24-hour security and CCTV; ■ 24-hour access to modern washrooms and laundry facilities; ■ On-water petrol, diesel & Calor/ Camping Gaz available 24/7 (and ice for your gin!); ■ On-water sewage pump-out facility; ■ Recycling for glass, cardboard, oil and more; ■ Haven Bar and Restaurant; ■ Bike and G-Tech electric bike hire; ■ Ample free car parking; ■ Electric car charging points; ■ Sea wall and nature reserve access; ■ Lymington High Street and other amenities a short walk.

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CRUISING

THINGS TO DO

This magniﬁcent coastline of nature reserves and beaches hosts a surprising variety of sailing conditions, running between England’s south coast mainland and the sle of Wight. t is a popular cruising and international racing ground, offering plenty of sailing options; whether you are planning day trips, coastal adventures, dropping anchor in sheltered waters or competing in one of the races and regattas. For day sailing and anchorages, for example, choose a quiet natural harbour like ewtown Creek or head for Southampton. Beyond the Solent, to the West, there is the natural harbour of Poole or the sandy beaches of Studland Bay. And there is Portsmouth to the East – one of the most historical harbours in the .

f you are a novice or ust want to en oy boats without the overheads, there is Lymington Boat Club. Boasting a diverse eet of well-maintained boats it is membership controlled, to ensure everyone en oys unlimited access for a single annual fee. Both bike and electric bike hire are available from the marina. Explore the ew Forest ational Park with its varied coastal and inland cycle routes. Take in the scenery and en oy the wildlife by walking or biking. Pick up the footpath from the marina and head out to the sea wall - popular with birders and photographers - leading to the Lymington and eyhaven ature Reserve (dogs on leads for this bit please) beyond. The Georgian town of Lymington is also only a short walk away, with its traditional Saturday market, lovely independent boutiques, cafes, chandleries and high street stores.

LOCAL EATERIES

The Haven Bar and Restaurant is the social hub of the marina, with the best view in town. t offers a delightful menu of freshly sourced produce and drinks, seven days a week. En oy something chilled and a delicious meal in either the cosy snug, spacious restaurant or festoon-lit terrace. There are lots of great pubs and restaurants within walking distance, but if you would prefer to venture further aﬁeld there are plenty of ew Forest pubs and sle of Wight delights.

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“Excellent customer service, great facilities, fabulous bar and restaurant. Thoroughly recommend.” C WC

Happy 50th Anniversary! Find out about the changing face of Lymington Yacht Haven in next month’s issue - how they started and how they have evolved over 50 years.

“Popped in to this marina on Saturday having taken our boat from Poole for a day trip, great marina with lovely staff who were really friendly and helpful.” Steve Wells

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MARINA GUIDE APRIL 2022

SOUTH WEST

PREMIER MARINAS FALMOUTH Manager: Mark Evans North Parade, Falmouth, Cornwall. TR11 2TD T: 01326 316620 E: falmouth@premiermarinas.com W: www.premiermarinas.com

PORT PENDENNIS MARINA Manager: Mark Webster Challenger Quay, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3YL T: 01326 211211 E: marina@portpendennis.com W: www.portpendennis.com MYLOR YACHT HARBOUR Manager/contact: Culum Matheson Mylor Yacht Harbour, Mylor Churchtown, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 5UF T: 01326 372 121 E: marina@mylor.com W: www.mylor.com FALMOUTH HAVEN Contact: Barry Buist 44 Arwenack Street, Falmouth TR11 3JQ T: 01326 310990 E: welcome@falmouthhaven.co.uk W: www.falmouthhaven.co.uk MAYFLOWER MARINA Manager: Charles Bush Mayflower Marina, Plymouth, Devon T: 01752 556633 E: info@mayflowermarina.co.uk W: www.mayflowermarina.co.uk

MDL BRIXHAM MARINA Manager: Martyn Sherratt Berry Head Road, Devon. TQ5 9BW T: 01803 882929 E: brixham@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.brixhammarina.co.uk MDL TORQUAY MARINA Manager: Mike Smith Torquay, Devon , TQ2 5EQ T: 01803 200210 E: torquaymarina@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.torquaymarina.co.uk AVON MARINA Manager: Alexis Smith Rossiter Quay, Bridge Street, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 1DZ T: 01202 612610 E: info@avonmarina.com W: www.avonmarina.com

PLYMOUTH YACHT HAVEN Manager: Steve Kitchen Shaw Way, Mount Batten, Devon, PL9 9XH T: 01752 404231 E: plymouth@yachthavens.com W: www.yachthavens.com

WEYMOUTH MARINA Manager: Alistair Clarke Commercial Road, Weymouth Dorset. DT4 8NA T: 01305 767576 E: berths@weymouthmarina.co.uk W: www.weymouthmarina.co.uk

YACHT HAVEN QUAY, PLYMOUTH Manager: Will Rahder Breakwater Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL9 7FE T: 01752 481190 E: boatyard@yachthavenquay.com W: www.yachthavens.com

WEYMOUTH HARBOUR Manager/contact - Jamie Joyce 13 Custom House Quay, Weymouth T: 01305 838423 E: weymouthharbour@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk W: www.weymouth-harbour.co.uk

MDL QUEEN ANNE’S BATTERY Manager: Chris Price Queen Anne’s Battery, Plymouth Devon. PL4 0LP T: 01752 671142 E: qab@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.queenannesbattery.co.uk

PORTLAND MARINA Manager: Paul Swain Osprey Quay, Portland, Dorset. DT5 1DX T: 01305 866190 E: berths@portlandmarina.co.uk W: www.portlandmarina.co.uk

SUTTON HARBOUR MARINA Marina Manager: Mark Brimacombe The Jetty, Sutton Harbour, Plymouth PL4 0DW T: 01752 204702 E: marina@sutton-harbour.co.uk W: www.suttonharbourmarina.com

LAKE YARD MARINA Manager/contact - Jenny Burrows Lake Yard Marina, Lake Drive, Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset. BH15 4DT T:- 01202 674531 E: office@lakeyard.com W: www.lakeyard.com

KING POINT MARINA Marina Manager: Mark Brimacombe Brunel Way, Milbay, Plymouth PL1 3EF T: 01752 424297 E: marina@kingpointmarina.co.uk W: www.kingpointmarina.co.uk PREMIER MARINAS NOSS ON DART Manager: Andy Osman Bridge Road, Kingswear, Dartmouth Devon , TQ6 0EA T: 01803 839087 E: noss@premiermarinas.com W: www.premiermarinas.com MDL DARTSIDE QUAY Manager: Alex Warner Galmpton Creek, Brixham, Devon T: 01803 845445 W: www.dartsidequay.co.uk

SALTERNS MARINA LTD Manager: Robert Golden 40 Salterns Way, Lilliput, Poole, Dorset. BH14 8JR T: 01202 709971 F: 01202 700398 E: reception@salterns.co.uk W: www.salterns.co.uk MDL COBB’S QUAY MARINA Manager: Daniel Lewis Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset. BH15 4EL T: 01202 674299 E: cobbsquay@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.cobbsquaymarina.co.uk LYMINGTON YACHT HAVEN Manager: Rupert Wagstaff Kings Saltern Road, Lymington, Hampshire , SO41 3QD T: 01590 677071 E: lymington@yachthavens.com W: www.yachthavens.com BUCKLER’S HARD YACHT HARBOUR Harbour Master: Wendy Stowe Harbour Master’s Office Buckler’s Hard Yacht Harbour Beaulieu, Hampshire, SO42 7XB T: 01590 616200 E: harbour.office@beaulieu.co.uk W: www.beaulieuriver.co.uk HAVEN QUAY, LYMINGTON Haven Quay Dry Stack Mill Lane,, Lymington Hampshire SO41 9AZ T: 01590 677072 E: havenquay@yachthavens.com W: www.yachthavens.com DEACONS MARINA Manager/Contact name: Rachael Foster Bursledon Bridge, Southampton SO31 8AZ T 023 80 402253 E:berths@deaconsmarina.co.uk W: www.deaconsmarina.co.uk

POOLE QUAY BOAT HAVEN Manager: Kerrie Gray Poole Quay Boat Haven, Poole Town Quay, Poole, Dorset. BH15 1HJ T/F: 01202 649488 E: info@poolequayboathaven.co.uk W: www.poolequayboathaven.co.uk

MDL HYTHE MARINA VILLAGE Manager: Richard Godwin The Lock Building, Shamrock Way Hythe, Southampton, Hampshire. SO45 6DY T: 023 8020 7073 E: hythe@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.hythemarinavillage.co.uk

PORT OF POOLE MARINA Manager: Kerrie Gray Poole Quay Boat Haven, Poole Town Quay, Poole, Dorset. BH15 1HJ T/F: 01202 649 488 E: info@poolequayboathaven.co.uk W: www.poolequayboathaven.co.uk

MDL OCEAN VILLAGE MARINA Manager: Paul Atkins Marina Office, 2 Channel Way Southampton, Hampshire. SO14 3TG T: 023 8022 9385 E: oceanvillage@mdlmarinas.co.u W: www.oceanvillagemarina.co.uk

Three Sea Safety Days Pains Wessex have announced a series of flare amnesty days. Giving the public a safe and convenient route to dispose of out-ofdate flares, Pains Wessex’s amnesty days are open for all boaters to hand over their old pyrotechnics, regardless of the brand, age or condition. Anyone using the service is invited to make a cash donation for the flare disposal, which will go towards a series of charities. Each of the days will run from 10am - 3pm, and customers will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. • 2 April – Macsalvores, The Boathouse, Commercial Road, Penryn, • 23 April – Universal Marina, Crableck Lane, Sarisbury Green, Southampton • 14 May – Pains Wessex Flare Amnesty at Poole Yacht Club, The Yacht Haven, Hamworthy, Poole

In 2021, Pains Wessex took back nearly 3,000 out-of-date flares, with the oldest expiring in 1964! A variety of new pyrotechnics will also be available to purchase at a discounted price for those using the service, alongside the opportunity to answer any questions and discuss any concerns with a brand representative. www.painswessex.com

MDL SHAMROCK QUAY Manager: Barry Radband William Street, Northam, Southampton Hampshire. SO14 5QL T: 023 8022 9461 E: shamrockquay@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.shamrockquay.co.uk

PREMIER MARINAS SWANWICK Manager: Graham Bristowe Swanwick (on the Hamble) Southampton, Hants. SO31 1ZL T: 01489 884081 E: swanwick@premiermarinas.com W: www.premiermarinas.com

MDL SAXON WHARF Manager: David Walters Lower York Street, Northam, Southampton. SO14 5QF T: 023 8033 9490 E: saxonwharf@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.saxonwharf.co.uk

HAMBLE YACHT SERVICES Port Hamble, Hamble, Southampton, Hampshire,SO31 4NN T: 02380 201501 E: info@hysgroup.co.uk www.hysgroup.co.uk

MDL HAMBLE POINT MARINA Manager: Debbie Burns School Lane, Hamble, Southampton Hampshire. SO31 4NB T: 023 8045 2464 E: hamblepoint@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.hamblepointmarina.co.uk MDL PORT HAMBLE MARINA Manager: Bertie Marsh Satchell Lane, Hamble, Southampton Hampshire. SO31 4QD T: 023 8045 274,1 E: porthamble@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.porthamblemarina.co.uk MDL MERCURY YACHT HARBOUR Manager: Dominic Brown Satchell Lane, Hamble, Southampton, Hampshire. SO31 4HQ T: 023 8045 5994 E: mercury@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.mercuryyachtharbour.co.uk

PREMIER MARINAS UNIVERSAL Manager: Graham Bristowe Crableck Lane, Sarisbury Green, Southampton, Hampshire, SO31 7ZN T: 01489574272 E: universal@premiermarinas.com W: www.premiermarinas.com HASLAR MARINA Manager: Ben Lippiett Haslar Road, Gosport, Hampshire. PO12 1NU T: 023 9260 1201 F: 023 9260 2201 E: berths@haslarmarina.co.uk W: www.haslarmarina.co.uk PREMIER MARINAS GOSPORT Manager: Jonathan Walcroft Mumby Road , Gosport, Hampshire. PO12 1AH T: 023 9252 4811 F: 023 9258 9541 E: gosport@premiermarinas.com W: www.premiermarinas.com

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Show returns to Swanwick Marina

Setag Yachts Welcomed MDL Marinas has welcomed luxury motor yacht design and refit specialist Setag Yachts to its Queen Anne’s Battery marina in Plymouth. With a focus on Fairline, Sunseeker and Princess yachts, the design led company has taken a modern business unit below QAB’s marina office to house its sales office, as well as its highly skilled and experienced engineering and design teams. Setag Yachts will also carry out its bespoke luxury refitting service on-site, occupying significant hardstanding and workshop space in the marina’s Atlantic and Tamar Buildings. Since its launch in April 2021, Seatag Yachts has secured 20 design and refit projects, with yachts ranging from 33 – 88ft, and budgets of between £10,000 and £1,000,000. The relocation to MDL’s QAB marina is a strategic move to ensure the business continues to go from strength to strength, benefitting from the increased proximity to its supply chain. “Our professional team’s collective skills and experience come from many years building luxury motor yachts in Plymouth,” said Setag CEO, Chris Gates. “We specifically looked at where we

would be best located in Plymouth, with regards to our suppliers and other marine business services. MDL’s Queen Anne’s Battery was ideal, having established a hub of marine businesses. But it is more than just the location. MDL’s sustainability initiatives were also integral to our decision. “We, too, are committed to driving positive change for the environment. We do this by building responsible and sustainable considerations into every stage of our refits. The simple act of refitting an existing yacht is the ultimate in upcycling.” Tim Mayer, sales and marketing director at MDL, said: “We are truly delighted to welcome Setag Yachts as a tenant at our Queen Anne’s Battery marina. As a business, its core values with regards to the environment align so well with our own. “Setag will also be exhibiting at our Green Tech Boat Show in June. It will be showcasing how it raises the concept of ‘refit’ to a new level to encourage more people to experience the boating lifestyle on a pre-owned yacht, helping to make boating more sustainable.” setagyachts.com www.mdlmarinas.co.uk

Around the marinas... Yacht designer and builder GT Yachts is expanding its business and presence with a move to MDL’s Mercury Yacht Harbour. The launch of Mustang Survival’s new technical clothing range is here with the opening of a ‘shop within a shop’ at the YouBoat store at Swanwick Marina. Tingdene Marinas’ Hartford site has completed the next stage of its expansion with the installation by Walcon of the second of three new piers. MDL Marinas has welcomed boat share membership company FlexiSail and its fleet of craft to Hamble Point Marina. In addition to berthing for its fleet, FlexiSail will also occupy one of MDL’s business units at the marina, acting as its new headquarters and sales office. Premier Marinas has welcomed Mermaids Coffee Shop back to Universal Marina. They will be relocating to the dedicated coffee shop premises, and in the meantime are operating an outdoor coffee shop with ‘Corky’, a vintage coffee truck. The build of the new Sales Pavilion at Premier Marinas’ Swanwick Marina is nearing completion, with handover to commercial tenants scheduled for the end of this month.

Boat brokerage, engineering and Yamaha servicing outfit The Boat Shop Worldwide Ltd have relocated to Fambridge Yacht Haven, taking tenancy of a new state-of-the-art unit on the banks of the River Crouch. Fairline Yachts has announced Salterns Brokerage as its new dealer in Poole Harbour. The Salterns Marina-based dealer will work closely with the existing South Coast dealership, Bates Wharf, and will be known as Fairline Poole Harbour. After 35 years Carolyn Elder is stepping down from the day-to-day management of Largs Yacht Haven. Taking the reins as marina manager is Dave Hewitt who has been with the company since 1999. The Windsor Anchors Cruising Club, in conjunction with Tingdene Marinas, has kicked-off their boating season with an evening of safety talks and demonstrations. MDL Marinas has a new online booking system, offering berth holders and visitors the chance to book and pay for visitor berthing through its website. www.mdlmarinas.co.uk Catch up with the latest marina news at www.allatsea.co.uk.

The world’s most luxurious motor yacht brands are gearing up for the 2022 British Motor Yacht Show taking place at Premier’s flagship marina at Swanwick from 15 – 19 June. Featuring top British brands, Fairline, Princess and Sunseeker, the show will also host motor cruisers, sports boats and RIBs from other prestigious British and international brands including Agapi, Axopar, Galeon, Pearl, Prestige, Sealine and Supermarine. Graham Bristowe, general manager at Premier Marinas, said: “Last year’s show was a huge success and we are ROYAL CLARENCE MARINA The Bridgehead, Weevil Lane, Gosport, Hampshire. PO12 1AX T: 023 9252 3523 F: 023 9252 3523 E: info@royalclarencemarina.org W: www.royalclarencemarina.org PREMIER MARINAS PORT SOLENT Manager: Mark Phillp South Lockside, Port Solent, Portsmouth, Hampshire. PO6 4TJ T: 023 9221 0765 F: 023 9232 4241 E: portsolent@premiermarinas.com W: www.premiermarinas.com PREMIER MARINAS SOUTHSEA Manager: Peter Pring Fort Cumberland Road Portsmouth, Hampshire. PO4 9RJ T: 023 9282 2719 F: 023 9282 2220 E: southsea@premiermarinas.com W: www.premiermarinas.com GUNWHARF QUAYS MARINA Manager: Carl Jarmaine Gunwharf Quays, Marina Office Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3TZ T: 02392 836732 E: gwqmarina@incentive-fm.com W: www.gunwharf-quays.com/marina

ISLE OF WIGHT

COWES YACHT HAVEN Manager: Katy Ednay Vectis Yard, High Street, Cowes, PO31 7BD T: 01983 299975 F: 01983 200332 E: berthing@cowesyachthaven.com W: www.cowesyachthaven.com VHF: Channel 80 EAST COWES MARINA Manager: Mike Townshend Britannia Way, East Cowes Isle of Wight. PO32 6UB T: 01983 293983 F: 01983 299276 E: berths@eastcowesmarina.co.uk W: www.eastcowesmarina.co.uk

proud that Swanwick Marina’s beautiful surroundings will once again provide the backdrop for this unique event, with the added attraction of our new Sales Pavilion, showcasing some of the best marine brands including three of the biggest names in British motor yacht sales. We always enjoy hosting this show as it improves year on year.” This five-day show is free to attend, but viewing boats on the water is by appointment only; giving serious buyers the time to talk through their requirements with experts. www.britishmotoryachtshow.com COWES HARBOUR SHEPARDS MARINA Manager: Jock Rafferty Medina Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight, PO31 7HT T: 01983 297821 E: shepards.chc@cowes.co.uk W: cowesharbourshepardsmarina.co.uk ISLAND HARBOUR MARINA Manager: Danie Erasmus Mill Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 2LA T: 01983 539994 E: info@island-harbour.co.uk W:www.island-harbour.co.uk BEMBRIDGE HARBOUR Manager/Contact - Gordon Wight The Duver, St Helens, PO33 1YB T: 01983 872828 E : mail@bembridgeharbour.co.uk W: www.bembridgeharbour.co.uk YARMOUTH HARBOUR Harbour Office, The Quay, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, PO41 0NT T: 01983 760321 E: info@yarmouth-harbour.co.uk W: www.yarmouth-harbour.co.uk VHF: Ch 68 (harbour), Ch 15 (water taxi)

SOUTH EAST MDL NORTHNEY MARINA Manager: Claire Kennedy Northney Road, Hayling Island, PO11 0NH T: 023 9246 6321 E: northney@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.northneymarina.co.uk MDL SPARKES MARINA Manager: Claire Kennedy 38 Wittering Road, Hayling Island Hampshire. PO11 9SR T: 023 9246 3572 E: sparkes@mdlmarinas.co.uk W: www.sparkesmarina.co.uk BIRDHAM POOL MARINA Birdham, Chichester, W Sussex. PO20 7BG T: 01243 512310 E: info@birdhampool.co.uk W: www.birdhampool.co.uk

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THE CHANGING FACE OF MARINAS As we continue to discover the ways marinas are evolving to meet the needs and expectations of today’s boaters and the local community, we talk to MDL Marinas about its recent initiatives which go far beyond just providing excellent berthing facilities to supporting the wider boating industry’s sustainability drive.

Electric boats at the last Green Tech Boat Show

f you were to look in a dictionary, the definition of a marina would be something along the lines of ‘a specially designed harbour with moorings for pleasure yachts and small boats’. However modern marinas are now so much more than that. Marinas are an integral part of the marine industry. But for them to do well, the marine industry as a whole needs to be doing well; if people are not buying boats, they do not need somewhere to keep them. The marine industry, as with every industry, has to evolve with global trends and changes in consumer behaviour to continue to thrive.

Environmental agenda

Climate change and sustainability are on every business agenda. The success of marinas and marine businesses is directly dependent on the continuing health and attraction of the marine environment. It needs to be protected, and those businesses dependent on it need to lead the way. An environmental revolution is taking place across many industries, and changes are manifesting in workplaces around the world. People want to see these changes reflected in their leisure time too. As a company, MDL has introduced a green strategy, focusing on the prevention of environmental issues through innovative eco initiatives ranging from harnessing solar power and utilising renewal energy sources to a 100 per cent zero waste to landfill policy and provision of electric vehicle charging points.

“We have committed to the marine environment to ensure it is in great shape for years to come for everyone to enjoy,” says Tim Mayer, MDL’s sales and marketing director. “We are working with our supply chains, on-site businesses and berth holders to make huge strides forward in operating with as minimal negative impact on the environment as possible. “But there is still a long way to go, not just for us as a marina group, but also for the leisure marine industry in general. Looking outside of our organisation, we want to be part of the solution and support the industry as much as we can with its sustainability endeavours.”

Demistifying options

Development of green marine technologies is gaining pace, from electric propulsion systems and boats manufactured from recycled material to more eco-friendly antifouling and cleaning solutions. However, with an increasing number of companies in the marine world focused on bringing green technologies to the fore, it can be a struggle for consumers to understand the more sustainable options now available to them. The rationale behind MDL’s Green Tech Boat Show (16 – 18 June) is to address the growing number and complexities of the greener choices for

“The success of marinas and marine businesses is directly dependent on the continuing health and attraction of the marine environment.” boat owners and potential boat owners. “We felt the industry needed an event to bring together the extensive range of eco-friendly options on the market to demystify what is on offer,” says Tim. “With so much innovation happening so quickly, it can be confusing. We wanted to make it as simple as possible for people to understand the choices they have, so it is easy for them to make their boating as environmentally sound and sustainable as possible. We are delighted with how well received the show’s been, and how it is growing.” Now in its second year, the scope of the Green Tech Boat Show has expanded to incorporate a new trade element and an Innovation Hub sponsored by the University of Plymouth, which is one of the UK’s leaders in  The Aqua 75 dual CCS configuration supercharging Here is a Seabin installed on River Soar two electric boats. Image: Aqua superPower Ltd

green marine research and innovation. Businesses and organisations at the cutting edge of clean marine technology will be on hand to demonstrate how their products contribute to combatting climate change, while still enabling people to enjoy time out on the water and the benefits that brings.

Working together

MDL has recognised that for the industry to really push towards sustainability it needs to come together, with the different sectors supporting each other as much as possible. For example, for the electric boat market to evolve, it is essential that a charging network is developed offering rapid charging for smaller vessels, such as RIBs and sports boats. Understanding the importance of this, last year MDL partnered with Aqua superPower to install electric boat chargers at five of its marinas, becoming the first UK marina group to offer an electric boat charging solution. “Yes, we are a marina group, but we are also part of something much bigger. So, looking at how the boating industry is evolving, we are investing heavily to support it with regards to sustainability in any way we can,” continues Tim. “We would like to invite other companies to join us. We believe together we can tackle climate issues and help protect the marine environment that we all depend on and love.” L s reen ec oa ow www.mdlmarinas.co.uk/events/greentech-boat-show

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