BOOT DUSSELDORF (January 21-29) Various senior members of the Claasen Shipyards crew will at the upcoming Boot Dusseldorf show as they kick 2017 off together in style. CEO Joachim Kieft would love to meet you at stand G07 in Hall 7A, where Claasen will have a joint presentation with Vitters and Green Marine. There is …
January 6, 1839 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem was inspired by the Blizzard of 1839, which ravaged the North Shore for 12 hours, starting on January 6, 1839. Twenty ships and forty lives were lost during the storm. The probable subject of the story is the schooner Favorite, which sank on a rock called …
December 27, 1998 – The 1998 Sydney to Hobart fleet comprised 115 starters. Of these, only 44 yachts completed the race, after severe weather conditions struck the fleet off the south-eastern Australian coast. An unusually strong low pressure depression developed which resulted in mid-summer snow across parts of south-east Australia. The weather system built into …
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December 26, 1945 – The 1945 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the inaugural running of the annual “blue water classic”, the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales. The race was initially planned to be a cruise planned by Peter …
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Leigh Haggerwood, founder of the Florin Street Band in his words: a unique Victorian-themed Christmas music project that I created to try to bring back some magic with original, heart-warming Christmas songs. I’ve been amazed at the response to My Favourite Time of Year so far, having received thousands of messages from people all over …
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