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Rowing Drake Passage: an impossible feat?0
- Leisure Marine
- December 5, 2019
A team’s attempting to row Drake Passage from Cape Horn to mainland Antarctica. They face 750 miles of ferocious seas and freezing temperatures in an 8m vessel, battling waves of up to 80 feet. The journey’s expected to take 20 days with the rowers taking turns in 90-minute shifts. The endeavour’s been dubbed The Impossible
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Clipper Race confirms London finale 0
- Leisure Marine
- December 5, 2019
Royal Albert Dock in London’s Royal Docks is confirmed as Race Finish Partner to the 40,000 nautical mile long Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in August 2020. The waterfront location, situated between three DLR stations, London City Airport and the new Crossrail station at Custom House in the heart of the capital’s Royal Docks,
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Bellotti signs up with Lignia, expanding European reach 0
- Leisure Marine, Superyacht
- December 5, 2019
Lignia Wood Company, the award-winning modified timber specialist, has signed a distribution agreement with Italian timber experts, Bellotti Spa, who will be distributing Lignia and Lignia Yacht products to the Italian and Swiss markets. The agreement was signed in Amsterdam at METSTRADE where both companies were exhibiting their product ranges. There were further celebrations at
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Torqeedo powers all-electric harbour water clean-up boat 0
- Leisure Marine, Maritime & Commercial
- December 5, 2019
The Waste Cleaner 66 – billed as the world’s most powerful all-electric boat designed for cleaning up pollution in inland waterways and harbours – will be unveiled by EFINOR’s Sea Cleaner subsidiary at the International Nautic Boat Show in Paris-Porte de Versailles 7 to 15 December. The six-metre (20-ft) aluminium boat is said to be
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Tees Components completes precision machining work on a submarine rescue system 0
- Leisure Marine, Maritime & Commercial
- December 5, 2019
Tees Components was contracted by Portobello RMF to carry out precision machining work on a submarine rescue system components, sub-assemblies and assemblies to support a Forum Energy Technologies (FET) project commissioned by a navy in the Far East. Designed and built specifically for the military market, FET’s submarine rescue vehicles are designed to free fly
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Winner of Brest Atlantiques: Maxi Edmond de Rothschild 0
- Leisure Marine
- December 4, 2019
After 28 days, 23 hours, 24 minutes and 46 seconds at sea, Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier, accompanied by their media man, Yann Riou, are the winners of Brest Atlantiques. This is the first major offshore victory for Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, after covering a total of 17,084 miles at an average speed of 24.57
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