NEWS
Visit the PBO website to find more free practical content, watch
videos from last year’s Beaulieu Boat Jumble Ask the Experts Live, or
wade into the reader forums and get your questions answered.DIARY DATES
Send your diary dates
to [email protected],
see more online at
http://www.pbo.co.uk/eventsQ Horning Boat Show, 5
May, at River Bure, Norfolk,
horningboatshow.co.uk
Q Yarmouth Spring
Festival, 5 May, at
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight,
with live MOB
demonstrations with PBO
contributor Duncan Wells
Q Jersey Boat Show 2018,
5-7 May, jerseyboatshow.
com
Q London On-Water 2018,
10-12 May, at St Katharine
Docks, London,
londononwater.com
Q British Marine On the
Water, 10-12 May, at
Cowes Yacht Haven
featuring live MOB
demonstrations with PBO
contributor Duncan Wells,
cowesyachthaven.com
Q National Historic Ships,
Royal Museums
Greenwich, IBTC Lowestoft
and the Association of
Bargemen and Hermitage
River Projects are offering
a weekend of adult
learning in traditional
ship-keeping skills. 12-
May. Cost is £250pp, email
info@nationalhistoricships.
org.uk
Q Solent Spring Boat
Jumble, 13 May, at Royal
Victoria Country Park,
Netley, Southampton. Cost
£4, boat-jumbles.co.uk
Q Scottish Islands Peaks
Race, 18 May, starts from
Oban,
scottishislandspeaksrace.
com
QBritish Motor Yacht
Show, 20 May, at
Swanwick Marina,
britishmotoryachtshow.
com
Q Northern Boat Show
2018, 25-28 May, at
Salthouse Quay in
Liverpool,
northernboatshow.co.ukA reverend and a poet – one a
lifelong sailor, the other an
accomplished adventurer – are
sailing over 2,000 miles around
the UK this summer to explore
Britain’s Celtic roots and its
contemporary secular life.
The two friends, Rev Dr
Howard Worsley, who
previously crossed the Sahara
Desert solo on a motorbike,
and Andy Carnegie, a
descendant of the
philanthropist of the same
name and a lifelong sailor,
will be leaving from Bristol
Docks on 10 May on their Rival
41AC. The vessel is currently
on the hard in Cardiff being
prepared for the voyage, which
will take them to 60 ports over
four months.
The pair will be tracing the
sea routes, landing places and
influences of the early Celtic
Christian saints in order to raise
awareness of the historical link
between the ancient inhabitants
of the British Isles, through
Roman occupation and thearrival of christianity, to the
present day. “The proto-Celts
were seafarers and they traded
widely from before 6000 BC.
Their legacy still exists today in
the UK’s Celtic areas,” explains
Carnegie.
Communities, organisations
and churches are being invited
to host the pair as they sail
around the coast.
They will be encouraging
people to attend talks at their
60 ports of call, discussing
topics including modern
slavery, plastic waste in the
ocean and ‘fake news’, as well
as engaging through social
media and inviting people to
crew or join their support team.
Anyone over 18 can take part
as crew or land support,
although, for the uninitiated,
Carnegie noted that sailing
thousands of sea miles to such
a tight timetable could lead to
‘monastic levels of discomfort’.
Visit navigatorsoffaith.com for
the anticipated locations and
dates of their presentations.Investigations are ongoing to
find out why part of a
191-year-old canal collapsed,
leaving 20 boats stranded.
A 100ft wide hole opened up
on the Middlewich Branch of
the Shropshire Union Canal in
Cheshire after part of the
embankment gave way on 15
March, flooding the river below.
It is thought an increased
flow of water along the canal
due to paddles at lock gates
being left open, together with
an already sodden
embankment, caused the bank
to wash away.
Cheshire Police had to
rescue a man on board a yacht
just metres from the hole.
The Canal & River Trust,
which manages the waterway,
said a section of canal remains
drained between Stanthorne
Lock and Wardle Lock.
The towpath has also been
closed along this stretch.
The trust said repairs will cost
up to £3 million and has now
launched a fundraising appeal.Gaping hole strands boats on
Shropshire Union Canal
Navigators of faith
Rev Dr Howard Worsley (above)
and Andy Carnegie are sailing
around the UK tracing the sea
routes and landing places of
early Celtic Christian saintsRepairs could take
several months and will
cost millions of pounds