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Avon Inflatables, the UK's leading manufacturer of RIBs and inflatable boats, has revealed that six Adventure 6.20 RIBs were used in the making of one of the biggest ever 007 boat chase sequences featured in the new James Bond film, QUANTUM OF SOLACE, which was released in the UK on 31st October.
The tension never lets up on this Vendée Globe. For his seventh time Seb Josse takes BT to the top of the leaderboard, making high average speeds this morning and overnight.
While Loïck Peyron (Gitana Eighty) makes the dive south, dropping from a lead of nearly 20 miles last night to lie third, 47.8 miles behind Josse, Yann Eliès (Generali) – forever Josse’s shadow, gains to second.
A Royal Navy submarine is making a five-day official visit to the city of Southampton, giving hundreds of sea cadets, scouts and other youngsters a rare opportunity to sample life on board.
HMS Trafalgar is due to arrive at Associated British Ports’ Port of Southampton at around 12 midday on Friday (December 5), berthing at Eastern Docks.
The nuclear-powered submarine is hosting 18 visits by cadet and scout units – plus college students on public service courses - from across the city and Hampshire. Civic dignitaries and senior city council officers will also visit the vessel and meet her crew.
Might we see a lead change? Seb Josse (BT), racing neck and neck with Yann Elies (Generali) retains just a little sliver of an advantage, only 2.5 miles on tonight’s ranking, and Generali has been quicker between the last two polls, and 1.5 knots quicker over the last hour as the fastest of the top 10 on the 1hour ‘speed gun’ poll.
Telefonica shore boss Campbell Field remains unsure whether collisions were responsible for the broken port daggerboards suffered by both the team's yachts in the second leg.
The Blue crew's daggerboard was the first to go, breaking eight days into the leg when they were reaching in 15 knots of breeze, before Black lost theirs a day later in marginally stronger conditions.
The sun is forecast to shine on Sunday's Free the Quay fundraising Jamboree in Mistley.
The jamboree kicks off at noon, and will end at 4pm. Entrance is £5 per adult and children come free. Visitors will be directed to free parking on the quay and in New Road. Mistley Green is across the High Street opposite the quay, down the side of The Thorn pub.
Thousands of fans were screaming, the sailors were cheering and a state bordering on delirium swept the dock in Cochin. You would never have guessed that Team Russia were a distant last in leg two.
In fact, they were so far behind their nearest rival, Andreas Hanakamp's crew were the only boat still on the track and racing over the last 48 hours.
And all because a tactical gamble they hoped would trigger them from last to the podium failed spectacularly.
The all new Moody 41 Classic will make her UK debut at London Boat Show 2009, 9th – 20th January at ExCel.
The Moody 41 will be exhibited by Premier Yacht Sales on stand N5. Premier is expecting a great response to this new model as there has been many requests in recent years for a classic looking new Moody under 45 feet.
Team Russia continues to close in on the finish line off Cochin, India. The Russians are the last team still at sea in leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Overnight yesterday, the team became trapped in a fishing net, which resulted in them having to take down the mainsail to slow the boat in an effort to free the net from the keel. Overall, this cost this team at least two hours of sailing team.