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Off Sharjah, January 3: DHL delivered five of the world's fastest monohull sailing yachts after an unprecedented secret operation to evade Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean.
St Peter Port, November 3, 2011: FOOTSIE, a damaged 17.6m Sunseeker Predator 52 is the largest yacht ever shipped by road vehicle from the island of Guernsey. Bugler Transport moved her by night through the streets of the port towards the Southampton ferry. TONY RIVE
Chris Bugler at White Rock in St Peter Port, ready to roll FOOTSIE aboard the ro-ro ferry Commodore Goodwill for repairs in England. TONY RIVE RESCUING USTINOV'S RUSTY NITCHEVO
Plymouth, September 2011: Sir Peter Ustinov's beloved 58ft yacht MY NITCHEVO nears the Underhill Engineering workshops in an eleventh hour rescue from the Côte d'Azur. PHIL RUSSELL
The ketch with a glamorous history, built for ocean racing by de Vries Lentsch in 1929, had been rusting away at at Port Napoléon in the Rhône delta after the death in 2004 of the celebrated film actor, theatre director, writer and raconteur. PHIL RUSSELL
CLASSIC MOVE: CONNECTICUT TO CORNWALL IN 21 DAYS
Liverpool, August 29: A very special parcel clears customs at the ACL Royal Seaforth ocean terminal just three weeks after yacht owners in Mystic CT struck a deal with a yachtsman in Falmouth to bring the Internation One Design sloop Greyhound back to Europe, 74 years after she left the Fredrikstad yard of her Norwegian designer Bjarne Aas. MARK CHAPMAN
Hamble, November 2011: A sister ship for KERONIMO, Jason Ker's 2011 Class 1A winner in the 2011 Rolex Fastnet race, arrives from China for fitting out near Southampton. Builders McConaghy Boats at Zhuhai in the Pearl River Delta packed the Ker 40 One Design hull by slinging her from webbing straps inside an innovative deep sea shipping frame.
Light and fast, 12.2m x 4.15m and only 4600kg displacement, the Ker 40 was designed for the Australian firm McConaghy as the next step for winning mixed fleet races under IRC and ORC rating rules and voted Best Boat Under 45ft at the 16th China International Boat Show in Shanghai. Bugler Transport moved her from Southampton Docks in the novel cradle, to be re-united with her keel at Hamble Yacht Services.
YACHT CARRIER FREE AFTER 5M DOLLAR RANSOM - THREE DEATHS
Mombasa, Kenya, April 18: After 12 weeks ransom negotiation, pirates released the German-owned ship heavy lift ship Beluga Nomination. She arrived in Kenya under tow, still loaded with her full deck cargo of yachts but carrying two bodies in her cold store. Her Polish captain and six of her crewmen were captured alive after defending the ship for 72 hours in their armoured citadel. The pirates broke through with cutting torches. Filipino sailor Farolito Vallega was executed in revenge after the death of a pirate in a failed counter-attack. Two crewmen escaped by lifeboat and a third drowned at sea. German police boarded the ship to examine two bodies. The Bremen-based shipowners applied for insolvency protection in March after their American private equity shareholders filed criminal charges against the founder of the 72-vessel fleet, Niels Stolberg, who denies any wrongdoing. Nine of the yachts are fast motor boats in transit to the Seychelles. Five were shipped by the world's leading yacht transport firm Peters & May. REUTERS / Joseph Okanga.
Copenhagen, March 5: Per Gullestrup, head of the Danish shipowning firm Clipper, said it was 'totally insane' of Danish yachtsman Jan Quist and his partner Birgit Marie Johansen to sail their 43ft yacht 'right into the pirates' arms' after blogging on a yachting website about their 'anti-piracy' plans when homeward bound across the Indian Ocean. Somali pirates have since seized the yacht ING and kidnapped Quist, Birgit Marie, their three teenage children and two other Danish citizens. All are now held 'for their own safety' with other kidnapped sailors on a pirate mother ship off the coast of Puntland in Northern Somalia.
St Helena, December 18, 2010: Every two years the False Bay Yacht Club organises a 1700 mile yacht race, downwind from Simonstown in South Africa to St Helena, the most remote island on earth. The Governor's Cup goes to the winner of a two week handicap race for yachts over 30 feet. Race supporters travel out to the island aboard the Royal Mail Ship St Helena. After a huge reunion on the island, the yachts are loaded aboard RMS St Helena and all concerned travel back to Cape Town, usually upwind, with families and friends celebrating Christmas Day aboard the 7,000 ton mail ship. Billy Leisegang's Simonis 35 monohull sloop Our Dianne won the 2010 trophy. Andrew Weir Yacht Management organised the yacht transport.
Douarnenez, France, November 24: Driver Ruud Vasterburg hauls ELISE OF LONDON out of Tréboul, just 9 months after a disastrous sinking in the Pouldavid River and 98 years after William Fife III laid her keel in Scotland.
October 2010: RNLI Dover snatched the 1903, 35 tonne, Belgian motor tjalk GOL 040310 minutes from disaster after her engine shut down off the Goodwin Sands. Her three crew were saved. Sealand Boat Deliveries and Rice Continental hauled her from Dover to the River Severn after her escape.
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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