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* A Viking ship made from ice-cream sticks set sail for England from the Netherlands on Tuesday.
The 15-metre (50-foot) long ship, named after the Norse god Thor, is made from 15 million recycled ice-cream sticks glued together by U.S.-born stuntman Robert McDonald, his son and more than 5,000 children.
‘If you can dream it you can do it … I want to teach children that anything is possible,’ McDonald said.
Badly injured as a child in a gas explosion that killed the rest of his family, he has loaded his ship with cuddly toys and plans to reach London and visit children in hospitals.
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Schooner Atlantic Launched
Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Holland: ATLANTIC was designed by William Gardner, one of America’s foremost designers of the beginning of the 20th century. The builders then were Townsend & Downey at Shooter’s Island, New York. She was launched on July 28th 1903 and made her first trial trip in October at the rate of 15 knots. No one could then foresee that the schooner would gain enduring fame in 1905 under command of the renowned captain Charlie Barr setting the record for a transatlantic crossing from New York to The Lizard on the south coast of England at 12 days, 4 hours and 1 minute. A mono-hull record that stood for 100 years.
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* The brief was to design a racing yacht of around 20′ which could be sailed by both able and disabled sailors alike; with the characteristics of a contemporary AC boat … the Artemis 20 was born.
A 6 metre carbon fibre performance keelboat with AC characteristics, yet safe and manageable.
The concept behind Vizual Marine and subsequently the Artemis 20 which the company designed and built in association with Simon Rogers, was to create an ‘even keel’ within the sailing fraternity that will allow both able and disabled sailors to race against each other with the same rules, the same boats and no unfair advantages.
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