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Yacht Transport News 2012

FINLAND TO VALENCIA ON HER BEAM ENDS

Bosund SF, June 2012: Baltic Yachts tilted the pioneering Baltic 72 Grand Prix hull on her side to reduce her beam from 6.0m to 5.0m for road delivery to Valencia for Alessandro Rombelli, the 2011 winner of the Melges 20 Gold Cup Championship and challenger for the 2012 Copa del Rey.

CLICK for pictures of the Bugler Transport haul that saved twenty thousand pounds for an ambitious Finnish-Italian research project.

ALBION CLIMBS A MOUNTAIN AT 106

Bryn Saith Marchog GB, March 10, 2012: The 106 year old Liverpool nobby ALBION is hauled into the Welsh mountains for restoration, above and beyond the remote hamlet of Derwen in Denbighshire. On the last leg of an amazing journey from the beach at Conwy to the end of a narrow track in the high country, Sealand Boat Deliveries transhipped the 12-tonne Irish Sea fast fishing boat to a farm trailer.

CLICK for full story and pictures of Dr Paul Smith's rescue of one of the most famous of the Morecambe Bay shrimpers.

ICED PUMA IN NORTH YORKSHIRE

Gateforth GB, February 9: After 36 hours icebound in the grounds of a stately home, Sealand Boat Deliveries driver Mark Chapman decided to film his own escape attempt.
On the iced gravel of a steep and treacherous private road he soon passed the point of no return. The load was a 3.8m wide Spanish-built Puma 37 sloop destined for a mid-winter delivery across the high moors of Northern England to Whitehaven on the Irish Sea.

VOLVO 70s OUT OF THE STEALTH ZONE

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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.

A heavy lift ship moved five Open 70s in the 39,000 mile Volvo Ocean Race away from one "unspecified safe haven", beyond the piracy zone to a confidential unloading location in the Persian Gulf beyond the Straits of Hormuz, where Iranian gunboats test-fired a surface to air missile in a confrontation exercise.CLICK Volvo race picture for report.

FOOTSIE FROM GUERNSEY

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 NITCHEVO

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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

CLICK picture for story of MY NITCHEVO.

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

CLICK picture for full story of "the classiest OD of all".

CHINESE FLYER

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.

CLICK picture for full story at SPIEGEL ONLINE.

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.
CLICK for Yachting Monthly story.

EXTREME YACHT TRANSPORT IN SOUTH ATLANTIC

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.

CLICK the LYNNE WARNER picture for story.

WILLIAM FIFE SCHOONER RESCUE

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.

Crisis in Port Rhu
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TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MARINE ART

CLICK to see more researched paintings from the studio of Adrian Rigby.

Our January 2011 selection from the studio of award-winning marine artist Adrian Rigby.

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Griff Rhys Jones's celebrated Rhodes 45 sloop UNDINA alongside at Cherbourg, bound for Les Voiles de St Tropez.

Lifting UNDINA to a Transboat super-low trailer for a BTX move from Cherbourg to St Tropez in 2007.

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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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Griff Rhys Jones's celebrated Rhodes 45 sloop UNDINA alongside at Cherbourg, bound for Les Voiles de St Tropez.

Lifting UNDINA to a super-low trailer for a BTX move from Cherbourg to St Tropez in 2007.

CLICK this picture of UNDINA for boat transport news from 2009.

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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.

Ici on trouve la metéo, des vendeurs de bateaux, les spécialistes du transport bateau et la cyberbourse électronique des transporteurs.

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