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As RKJ Day winds down here are some posts I missed earlier
The superb Threesheetsnorthwest blog explains why RKJ is an inspiration.
The aptly named Old Salts Blog details all of RKJ’s accomplishments including his victory in the Jules Verne race with Sir Peter Blake.
Gill of the Post and Courier [...]
Robin Knox-Johnston Day - More from the Twittersphere
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Sir Robin’s Celebration in London
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The 40th anniversary of the Sunday Times Golden Globe was celebrated today in London at St Katherine’s Dock. In attendance were other Great British solo circumnavigators Dee Cafari and Steve White. Here is what RKJ had to say:
‘I am delighted to mark the anniversary of my victory in [...]
Robin Knox-Johnston Day - Facebook Wall
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Here’s what’s on the wall on the FB group so far. The group has 143 members. Pretty cool!
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COSCO HELLAS
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The Cosco Hellas(IMO: 9308510, Port of Registry: Piraeus) is one of the larger container vessels nowadays, together with her sisters: Cosco Beijing, Cosco Ningbo, Cosco Yantian and Cosco Guangzhou. The vessel is 350 metres long, almost 43 metres wide, has a deadweight tonnage of 107,000 and a teu capacity [...]
Robin Knox-Johnston Day - More Posts
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And the blog posts keep on coming!
The Peconic Puffin gives a nod to Sir Robin on behalf of the windsurfing community.
Yachtpals has an outstanding collection of photos of RKJ, Suhaili and the Golden Globe as well as a great account of the race
Yacht Online a German site has [...]
Robin Knox-Johnston Day - First Tweats
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It’s all going off in the twittersphere. To see more go to Twitter and search #RKJ. Here is my latest search of tweats.
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Robin Knox-Johnston Day - Morning Post
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This morning my in-box was chock full of alerts to posts in celebration of RKJ Day
Mark Hendy kicks things off with a run-down of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s accomplishments. Completing the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race was just the beginning. Mark lists the rest. RKJ seems like a [...]
Happy 40th Anniversary Sir Robin
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It was 40 years ago today….
Ever since I worked out last year that this would be the 40th anniversary of what, in my humble opinion the greatest feat in sailing, I felt this was a day worth celebrating. Clearly many many others do.
For all you have done and [...]
Robin Knox-Johnston Day - First Posts
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‘Tis only the eve of April 22nd and there are already a bunch of posts in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s solo non-stop circumnavigation:
Tillerman weighed up the pros and cons of why April 22nd should be RKJ Day AND Earth Day.
Timmynocky posted two weeks [...]
Scuttlebutt has some good advice for you
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As seen on Twitter from the mighty Scuttlebutt. Listen to them. They know what they are talking about.
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NORMAND CUTTER
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Today we have the Normand Cutter (IMO: 9231535, flag:
Isle of Man) featuring as the Ship of the Day. The Normand Cutter is a DP Class II Subsea Construction Vessel purpose built for today’s market place, owned by Solstad Offshore ASA. She was built in 2001 by Maritim Ltd, Gdansk, [...]
Only 2 Days To Go To Make April 22nd Robin Knox-Johnston Day
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OK, so many of you will be reading this and thinking, “Hey Dummy, April 22nd is Earth Day”. Well of course it is, but it is also the 40th anniversary of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s completion of the first-ever single-handed solo non-stop circumnavigation - 30,000 miles, 313 days [...]
Sailing Photo Of The Day - Phoebus II in front of Saint-Tropez
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Phoebus II in front of Saint-Tropez, originally uploaded by mhobl.
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Only 5 Days to Go Till April 22nd - Robin Knox-Johnston Day. How are you going to show your support?
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Depending on where you are in the world, it’s either 4 or 5 days till RKJ Day. Joe Rouse has shown his support with a great couple of photos.
There are many ways to show your support:
1. You can blog about it on April 22nd. Blog now if [...]
Sailing Photos Of The - Alinghi LadyCat
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c/o of Carlo Borleghi
Launch of the Alinghi D35 and Ladycat in Villeneuve in preparation for Challenge Julius Baer which start on May 8th on Lake Geneva
Photo: Carlo Borlenghi/ALINGHI and Bruno Cocozza/ALINGHI
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Surreal Web 2.0 Moment
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Although I have lived here since 1988 (admittedly with a 4 year break back in London), I still have great affinity for the BBC. My iPod is full of Podcasts from BBC Radio. My favorite is the weekly H2O Show from Radio Solent, a local BBC station on [...]
Sailing Photo Of the Day - Thursday night racing
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Thursday night racing, originally uploaded by Spacmonster.
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ESTELLE MAERSK
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The Estelle Maersk (IMO: 9321495, Port of Registry: Hellerup, Denmark) is, together with its sisters (amongst which are the ‘Emma Maersk‘ and ‘Eleonora Maersk‘), the largest containership ever with a total teu capacity 11,000 teu (of which 1,000 forty foot reefer containers) according to the A.P. Moller - Maersk [...]
BREMEN EXPRESS
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The Bremen Express (IMO: 9343728, Port of Registry: Hamburg) is one of the newest containervessels of Hapag-Lloyd’s Colombo Express class. She was delivered in 2008 at Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea. The Bremen Express is propelled by a 68,530 kW Hyundai Heavy 12 cylinder engine which gives the vessel a [...]
Lets Compare SailTime to Other Sailing Clubs
Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog
In Ventura County there are two sailing clubs at the Channel Islands Harbor. We are one of them. Marina Sailing is the other. To be fair, there is a very small rental operation in Ventura Harbor with a dilapidated fleet but I didn’t feel it worth any sort [...]
Song For Friday: Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
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You may remember this from Shrek. I think it’s one of the most beautiful songs. It’s a Leonard Cohen song but this performance is haunting. Jeff Buckley died way too young. You can see it here. Another one of those dumb music industry thing where I can’t embed [...]
If You Sailed Yesterday You Would Be Missing too…
Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog
Yesterday afternoon was nothing but howling wind, sirens and helicopters. Now I know why. It turns out that a boat was lost about 2 miles North (west) of the Channel Islands Harbor entrance. It looks to be a small Cal or maybe a Newport to me in this [...]
Dry Spring Storm Pummels So Cal Coast
Submitted by Team Seacats Blog
So some time around last Sunday afternoon I heard the word “breezy” creep into the local weather forecasting. Having heard this term used before around here, I double tied the boats. Monday and Tuesday it blew non-stop out of the North in the 40mph range with no letup and occasional gusts [...]
Sailing Photo Of The - Suhaili
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This is Robin Knox-Johnston’s on his famous ketch Suhaili, that he sailed round the world in 1968-69. I did a comparison between Suhaili and IDEC, Francis Joyon’s record-winning boat here.
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