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Adventure has had trouble with her Satcom so Disco has been providing the daily weather update to all 3 yachts.
Finally, when Challenger was roughed up by the weather bomb, tremendous moral support was given between the 3 skippers in their daily HF calls while Challenger made good the damage to her sails.
If you could distil, bottle and sell the sense of teams working within teams, you would be rich beyond the wildest dreams of man.
"What matters most is that we all get to Fremantle (and ultimately Gosport) safely and do so in the spirit and manner of single-Service and tri-Service teamwork envisaged by the architects of Exercise Transglobe. So far, we are scoring exceptionally well in that area."
The three yachts representing the Navy (HMSTV Adventurer), Army (HMSTV Challenger) and RAF (HMSTV Discoverer) taking part in Leg 4 of Exercise TRANSGLOBE have around 2,000 nm to go to reach Perth, over half way through the toughest stretch so far for the TRANSGLOBE fleet.
Somali pirates who have kidnapped a couple from Kent have issued a ransom demand of $7m (£4.3m) in a call to the BBC.
Paul and Rachel Chandler, aged 59 and 55, from Tunbridge Wells, were taken hostage by gunmen in the Indian Ocean in the early hours of 23 October.
They had been travelling to Tanzania from the Seychelles and their yacht was later found in international waters.
AL T. MARINE ELECTRONICS LLC, the Lake Worth Marine Electronics firm is to join Italy-based Telemar Yachting www.telemar-yachting.com, part of the Italian Shipping Group CG Telemar www.telemargroup.com and become "Telemar Yachting the Americas" based in Fort Lauderdale.
"The opportunities for synergy are tremendous so it's a great opportunity to grow; for us it's a natural fit, giving us international scope not only in the yachting industry but also commercial vessels," commented Al T.'s General Manager Kirsten Tarafa. "Just as important though, we're joining a solid team we have worked with for years who themselves are part of a global group with solid resources."
Paul Chandler has spoken to ITV News this evening about the terrifying night pirates hijacked their yacht. 'I was off watch. I was asleep and men with guns came aboard. It was on Friday last week at 0230,' said Paul Chandler, whose identity was confirmed by Rachel Chandler's brother Stephen Collett.
'They kept asking for money and took everything of value on the boat.' The pirates then headed for the Somalian coast onboard the Chandlers' Rival 38 Lynn Rival, where they were spotted by an airborne patrol.
Paul and Rachel Chandler were being held in the hold of Kota Wajah, a hijacked Singaporean container ship one mile off the coast of Somalia.
EPIRB activated plus statement from Somalis A British cruising couple appear to have fallen victim to kidnappers near the Seychelles, according to reports in the Sun and Telegraph, Reuters and the BBC. Paul and Rachel Chandler posted a pre-departure message on their blog last Wednesday (21 October), then activated their Emergency Position Indidicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) early on Friday just 60 nautical miles west of Mahe.
Tullett Prebon London International Boat Show, 8th - 17th January 2010, Stand N38A C A Clase, one of the UK's leading distributors of marine electronics will launch the new Nauticomp Infinity II and Infinity PRO display screens at the Tullet Prebon London International Boat Show 2010.
Combining cutting-edge display technology with an easy to use interface, the new Nauticomp Infinity II and Infinity PRO CCFL and LED display screens provide customers with high quality, reliable operation in an affordable, flexible and stylish package.
A thirty foot long yacht this evening sailed straight on to Brixham Breakwater to the amazement of several people who were out for a stroll in the fine weather. Two members of the public, realising that there was obviously something wrong, slithered down the steep seaward side of the Victorian Breakwater and boarded the yacht. An other bystander telephoned the Coastguard to summon help from the RNLI Torbay Lifeboat, which was stationed less than half a mile away. To their surprise, the two members of the public found the skipper of the yacht asleep in the cockpit! When they woke him, he was apparently a little the worse for wear, having consumed a little too much alcohol.
It’s taken a long time to get ready for this epic voyage, but finally, Tom McNally (affectionately dubbed the ‘Crazy Sailor’) is almost ready to set off on his epic voyage in the world’s most diminutive trans-Atlantic sailing boat, the amazing 3-foot 10-inch ‘Big C’.
Tom, who is sailing for the Sail 4 Cancer charity, had hoped to embark last year; but his plans were scuppered when thieves stole his main battery-housing and the lead-filled keel bulb for their scrap value.
“Thanks to some help from my sponsors we are back on track and we can see light at the end of the tunnel again; I just hope it’s not another train,” joked Tom at the Southampton Boat Show.
Following the news earlier this year that Princess Yachts is to begin building a new range of tri-deck cruising yachts over 30m (100ft) in length, the UK boatbuilder today revealed that it is receiving "financial guidance and support" from Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets on various international trade issues.
Princess is currently working on the design and manufacture of its new M Class series, the Princess 32m (105ft) and Princess 40m (130ft), at its newly acquired site at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth. The two yachts will be Princess Yachts' first-ever, tri-deck models, and were designed to meet customer demands for increasingly larger, high-performance vessels.