Shoehorning the white monster's 5m wide hull round Eyre Square in the heart of the mediaeval city was planned by Craig Stanbury at Peters & May in Southampton. Drivers Phil Taylor and Chris Bugler from Transboat Limited hauled the monster from Gosport to Galway Pier in May. Chris Bugler had to negotiate the city centre with WHITE MOSTRO's 32m long mast before she could be rigged and plinthed for the festivities. WHITE MOSTRO later sailed from Galway to Sweden following the next leg of the world's premier yacht race that started in Alicante, visited Cape Town, Kochi, Singapore, Qingdao, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Galway, Gothenburg, Stockholm to finish in St Petersburg.

The vast race logistics job involves dozens of abnormal load movements and worldwide gear transport in over one hundred shipping containers. Shipowners Wallenius Wilhelmsen head the race logistic team, supported by specialists in Peters & May offices on five continents.

RARE SWISS CLASSIC FROM IBIZA TO LAKE TAHOE

They say, 'Pedrazzini runabouts are rare sight. And that's how it should be.'

So when PICO II, a Super Aquamar from the famous workshops on Lake Zürich, came up for sale on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, her superb mahogany hull caught the eye of a connoisseur far away in California. His enthusiasm challenged the 38 years experience of Sealand Boat Deliveries who eventually proposed a complicated move by road and two ferries to Southampton for packing, then ocean transport aboard a round-the-world car-carrying ship to Port Hueneme in California, before another road haul through the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains to Lake Tahoe on the border with Nevada.

Roy Dryer's 37th Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance poster 2009

Within a few weeks of her arrival at the alpine lake, PICO II came third in the international section at the 37th Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance, the premier wooden boat show in North America held on the waterfront at Tahoe City. The 8.6m [28ft 3in] PICO II, built by Pedrazzini in 1975, is powered by twin 520 hp 8-cylinder Mercruiser petrol engines.

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RESCUED AGAIN - THE CAPRELLA STORY

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CAPRELLA, a wartime torpedo recovery boat first rescued in 1946 by the diesel engine pioneer Sir Harry Ricardo, looked doomed to die in 2009.

Experts at the British Military Powerboat Trust feared no-one would come forward to tackle the refit of the fast pinnace. Thieves had robbed her copper and bronze. Her owner, leaving Britain for Australia, offered her free to anyone who could move her away from an old mill yard in the North of England. Only Martin Fisher, from Banff on the Moray Firth in Scotland, answered the call.



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NAVIGARE NECESSE EST, VIVERE NON EST NECESSE
To sail is necessary, to survive is not necessary.

Attributed by Plutarch to Gnaeus Pompeius who sent sailors to sea in bad weather to bring grain from Africa to Rome.

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