Yachting Monthly - April 2016

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IN BRIEF

Sunsail yacht found

A Sunsail catamaran, lost at sea

on delivery from South Africa to

Thailand, has been found. The

capsized yacht was 40 miles off

the coast of South Africa. There

was no sign of the crew.

Peter Lewin

Peter Lewin, advertising sales

manager of YM until 1995, has

died aged 84. He introduced

the Tréguier stop-over in the YM

Triangle Race, and his time at YM

coincided with a golden age of

yachting magazine publishing.

Europe’s biggest

brokerage sale

Ancasta’s 2016 Spring Collection

boat sale will run from 25 March

to 3 April 2016 with a huge range

of boats on display and special

offers for buyers and sellers.

Edinburgh Marina

approved

A £300m, 300-berth marina and

boatyard in Granton Harbour,

close to central Edinburgh, has

been approved for development.

Fawley power

station marina

The iconic power station at

Fawley near Southampton could

be demolished and replaced

with a marina and fl ats. Plans

will be submitted later this year.

Yacht insurance

bomb scare

A disgruntled yacht-owner

has been arrested in Liverpool

after a hoax bomb scare. David

Norris threatened staff at

GJW Insurance with a suspect

package, claiming they had

cheated him of money.

All Wales Boat Show

The All Wales Boat Show will

not be held in 2016, but it will be

held in Conwy in 2017.

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SYSTEMS SOLUTION

29 sperm whales have stranded

in the southern North Sea since

mid-January in the biggest mass-

grounding event since records

began in 1913. The casualties,

mostly young male sperm

whales, were found on the North

Sea coasts of England, Germany

and Holland. Human activity is

not thought to be to blame.

Sea Watch Foundation said the

whales were probably feeding

Four whales stranded on the beach in Hunstanton, Norfolk in January

PHOTO: ALAMY

Olympic sailing races will

go ahead in Rio de Janeiro’s

Guanabara Bay this summer,

despite failures to tackle chronic

pollution. Sailors are concerned

that debris in the water might

hamper races and dirty water

could make competitors ill.

The Rio 2016 Organising

Committee has resisted calls to

move the sailing from Marina

da Glória to the cleaner and

established sailing centre of

Búzios, 100 miles east. They have

declared the waters safe, but,

according to Associated Press

(AP), have only tested bacteria.

AP has independently tested

water samples from the sailing

areas over the last year for

bacteria and viruses including

adenovirus and fecal coliforms,

both markers of sewage

contamination. AP reported that

viral levels were 30,000 times

higher than US, UK and European

limits, a similar viral load to that

of raw sewage.

Peter Sowrey, chief executive

of World Sailing until December

2015, argued to move the sailing

event, but left the role after fi ve

months, claiming he was voted

out by the board for his views.

German 49er sailor Erik Heil

developed an MRSA infection

after a test event in 2015 and

believes it was caused by water

contamination in Guanabara Bay.

The British sailing team,

however, is not unduly concerned.

Spokeswoman Lindsey Bell

said: ‘Water quality in Rio hasn’t

prevented the team making

several training trips there. Our

sailors use hygiene measures,

such as disinfecting sailing kit and

using antibacterial mouthwash.’

The 2016 Olympic sailing will

run from 5 to 21 August.

on squid in the Norwegian Sea

but moved south and became

disorientated in the shallow

water. There have been 14 mass

strandings in the North Sea since

the 16th century.

At the same time, the

Zoological Society of London

reported that 1,000 orca and

dolphin deaths in Europe

were linked to banned toxic

polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

PHOTO: OCEAN IMAGES/BRITISH SAILING TEAM

British sailors are looking forward

to the Olympics, despite pollution

Olympic organisers refuse to move

sailing events to cleaner waters

Largest ever

whale mass-

grounding

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