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Royal Mail Gives RNLI Lifeboats Stamp of Recognition
Pippa Wilson, Sarah Webb (centre) and Sarah Ayton pictured with RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew from Weymouth lifeboat station on board RNLI Severn class all-weather lifeboat ‘Ernest and Mabel’. Photo by Geoff Caddick/PA Wire

Olympic medal hopefuls and current world Yngling sailing champions - Team Mirabaud’s Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson - gave the new Royal Mail ‘Mayday - Rescue at Sea’ stamps their seal of approval aboard Weymouth’s RNLI all-weather Severn class lifeboat, as the stamps go on sale March 13.

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The Tall Ships’ Races Coming to UK Waters
Two Tall Ships’ race series will be held during 2008 with four day visits to Liverpool in July and Falmouth in September. Over 100 Tall Ships are anticipated to take part in the two events, which provide an opportunity for total novices, as well as professional sailors, to sail as a crew member on the magnificent Tall Ships.

The fleet are due to arrive in Liverpool by midday on Friday 18 July where they will be berthed in Albert, Canning and Wellington Docks. Many of the ships will then open their decks for boarders.

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Royal Navy Gives Jonny Malbon A Lift
British skipper Jonny Malbon training programme today incorporated a routine Royal Navy exercise over Portland Harbour, Weymouth (Dorset), part of Malbon’s preparations for his inaugural solo race in May in the Artemis Transat.

The 33 year old was winched from a life raft into a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter from RNAS Yeovilton. This training exercise marked the beginning of a partnership between Artemis Ocean Racing and the Royal Navy. The partnership will help prepare Malbon for a busy season of international ocean racing which starts with the solo trans-Atlantic yacht race, the Artemis Transat in May, and culminates in November with the Vendee Globe.

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