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WHAT DO ROUND THE WORLD SAILORS EAT?
20 December 2008 (661 reads)
 When planning Brian Thompson’s diet for the three months he faced at sea in the Vendee Globe, Bahrain Team Pindar came up against some niggling conundrums: heavy food slows you down, Thompson does not enjoy preparing food and he has an age old habit of losing significant amounts of weight when at sea. What to do?
Thompson’s daily calorific intake during the race ranges from 4,500 per day in the Tropics and raises to over 6,000 in the Southern Hemisphere - so meal plans are crucial.
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VENDEE GLOBE - ROUTE GUIDE
01 December 2008 (484 reads)
 A few explanations about the Vendée Globe round the world passage.
The rules of the Vendée Globe stipulate that the competitors must sail around the world without stopovers and without any external help.
If we look at the globe, there are three ways to sail around the world...
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HOTEL NAUTICA - SAILORS HIDDEN GEM IN CROATIA
13 May 2009 (670 reads)
 Most luxury hotels are open to anyone who wishes to stay. So will The Nautica, set in the cusp of a natural bay, in Novigrad, Istria (north west Croatia). However, this hotel was built specifically with sailors and their boats in mind.
Parking is at the back of the building. I must admit that, at first, I was not that keen (because I thought I was looking at the front). It was when I went to the actual front, facing the marina, that my view changed!
Keeping the car park to the back of the building means that the views to the sea are unimpaired. The idea of putting parking somewhere that does not spoil views, is part of the new Istrian Ten Year Tourism Plan.
From the car park, you enter through a tall space like an atrium, that goes all the way from front to back. Off to one side of the atrium, half-way down, is the entrance to the hotel. The concierge is lavishly adorned with leather, brass and luxury fittings.
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SEAWORK 2009 REPORT - UP! UP! UP!
02 July 2009 (313 reads)
 The 12th annual Seawork International exhibition and conference was up all round.
• UP! 479 exhibitors – 10% up on last year
• UP! 7049 visitors – 8% up on last year
• UP! 789 overseas visitors – 11.2% up on last year
Overseas visitors showed a strong increase and were enhanced by naval attachés from South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Chile. Captain Oscar Vargas, Head of the Chilean Naval mission was so impressed with his first visit to Seawork that he intends to return next year with members of his London team.
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ARMCHAIR RACING - THE WONDERS OF SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY
14 January 2009 (430 reads)
 Armchair explorers can be privy to the full Volvo Ocean Race experience these days thanks to some ground-breaking endeavours by the boffins at Inmarsat, the global satellite communications company and a key partner of the race.
Until the 1980s when satellite equipment was first hoisted into the stratosphere, the polling of race boats was a haphazard affair and navigators spent weeks or months submerged under piles of paper charts and pilotage books, making the odd ship-to-shore call over VHF if in range.
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