DJi Mavic flight at Carnon Valley Viaduct on the Coast to Coast trail, Bissoe, Cornwall, UK.
DJi Mavic Carnon Viaduct carries the railway from Truro to Falmouth (branded The Maritime line) over the Carnon river, road and mineral tramway cycle route in West Cornwall, The present nine arch masonry viaduct replaced an earlier structure designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel which pillars still stand beside todays viaduct with similar dimensions of 96 feet high and 756 feet long which opened in 1933 at a cost £40,000 built by Great Western Railways.
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Jessica Whitney Dubroff's Death on April 11-1996
Jessica Whitney Dubroff (May 5, 1988 – April 11, 1996) was a seven-year-old girl who died while attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light utility aircraft across the United States. On day two of her quest, the Cessna 177B Cardinal single-engine propeller aircraft, piloted by her flight instructor, crashed during a rainstorm immediately after takeoff from Cheyenne Regional Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming, killing Dubroff, her 57-year-old father, and her flight instructor.
Jessica was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, to Lisa Blair Hathaway and Lloyd Dubroff and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in California when she was four. Although billed by the media as a pilot, Dubroff did not possess a medical certificate or a student pilot certificate, since they require a minimum age of 16 or a pilot certificate that requires a minimum age of 17, according to U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations. At the time of her trip, there was no record-keeping body that recognized any feats by underage pilots. Nevertheless, local, national, and international news media picked up and publicized her story, and closely followed her attempt until its tragic ending.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the crash and concluded that the fatality was caused by the pilot's improper decision to take off in poor weather conditions, his overloading the aircraft, and his failure to maintain airspeed. The three factors resulted in a stall and subsequent fatal crash in a residential neighborhood. The NTSB also determined that contributing to the [instructor's] decision to take off was a desire to adhere to an overly ambitious itinerary, in part, because of media commitments.
Sea to Shining Sea flight
Dubroff began taking flight lessons from flight instructor Joe Reid on her sixth birthday and became enthusiastic about flying. Her father suggested the idea of a coast-to-coast flight, which Jessica readily accepted, and Reid agreed to provide flight instruction and his aircraft for the endeavor. They decided to name their flight Sea to Shining Sea; Lloyd ordered custom-made caps and T-shirts with that logo to distribute as souvenirs during their stops.
Although she had received over 33 hours of flight training, seven-year-old Jessica did not hold an FAA medical certificate, nor any pilot or student certificate. In the U.S., a person must be at least 16 years of age to be eligible for a student pilot certificate, and 17 for a pilot certificate. Since Dubroff was not certified to fly the plane, a rated pilot (normally her flight instructor Reid) had to be at the controls during all flight operations.
While the coast-to-coast flight was promoted as a record attempt because of Dubroff's young age, there was no known body recognizing record flights by underage pilots at the time of her flight (The Guinness Book of Records had officially discontinued its youngest pilot categories seven years earlier, because of the risk of accidents).
The flight would be made in Reid's Cessna 177B Cardinal, a four-seat single-engine propeller aircraft manufactured in 1975, registered N35207, which like most aircraft had dual flight controls in the front.
Jessica would sit in the front left seat, Reid in the front right, and Lloyd in the back. It was agreed that Reid would be paid for his services at normal flight instruction rates, plus compensation for the layover time. Reid reportedly told his wife that he considered the flight a non-event for aviation, simply flying cross country with a 7-year-old sitting next to you and the parents paying for it.
Nevertheless, Jessica became an instant media celebrity. ABC News gave Lloyd a video camera and blank cassettes to tape the flight; once the journey began, it was vigorously followed by supporters, media outlets, and others who monitored its progress, reporting each time Dubroff landed or took off.
Dubroff slept during one of the flight segments en route to Cheyenne, and was assisted by Reid in one of the landings due to high winds.
Burial: Mount Hope Cemetery
Pescadero, San Mateo County, California, USA
A Cornish Sunset...
What was supposed to be a rainy day, surprised us all by morphing into a lovely sunny late spring evening ! So i took the Alien and flew 4 battery packs over West Pentire as the sun was setting. It was a little windy, but the 5 Alien cut through it like it wasnt there.
Days like these make me realise i am so lucky to live only a 5 minute drive from some of the best beaches in Britain, not to mention the Surfing capital of the UK ! Flying those 4 packs in the sun with the waves rolling in made up for all the rainy weather we had over winter..
My set up is as follows:
ImpulseRC 5″ Alien Carbon Fibre frame
Cobra 2204 Motors
DAL 5×4.5 Tri Blade Bull Nose Props
Littlebee 20A ESC’s with BlHeli and Oneshot
Naze32 Rev6 Flight Controller running Betaflight
FrSky X8R RC Receiver
Immersion RC VTX
Turnigy Nano-Tech A-Spec 1300mah 4s batteries
Immersion RC Spironet antennas
All looms made by myself
Fatshark Dominator Goggles
FrSky Taranis RC Controller with Telemetry
Xiaomi Yi Action Camera, filming in 60fps
My PID tunings are as follows:
Roll P 4.0 I 0.035 D 35
Pitch P 4.2 I 0.035 D 35
Yaw P 9.0 I 0.040 D 6
Rates were: Roll 0.80 Pitch 0.80 Yaw 1.00
TPA 0.40 TPA Breakpoint 1500
RC Rate 1.00 RC Expo 0.75 RC Yaw Expo 0.30
Jellyfish as big as a human spotted off Cornwall coast
A giant barrel jellyfish, similar to the size of a human, was spotted off the coast of Cornwall by biologist and wildlife presenter Lizzie Daly. She came across the sea creature when she was diving near Falmouth on Saturday as part of her Wild Ocean Week campaign, which aims to celebrate our marine wold and raise funds for the Marine Conservation Society. Barrel jellyfish are the largest species of jellyfish found in British waters.
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England Is Buzzing Over Hundreds Of Curious Orbs That Are Washing Up On Beaches Everywhere
England Is Buzzing Over Hundreds Of Curious Orbs That Are Washing Up On Beaches Everywhere.
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Giant Jellyfish Found By Divers In The UK
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A jellyfish filmed swimming off the coast of Cornwall is thought to be the biggest ever caught on camera in Britain. The four-foot wide barrel jellyfish, which is also known as the dustbin-lid jellyfish, was filmed by diver and archeologist Robert Lenfert. Robert, 42, and his wife Natasha, 39, met the giant creature off Pendennis Point, near Falmouth, Cornwall. The pair swam beside the giant sea beast for half an hour as it glided through the water.
Videographer / Director: Robert Lenfert
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D-Day preparation. Archive film 91568
U.S. preparations for D Day landings on Normandy in World War Two. D-Day. Actual landings and afterwards. Detailed scenes of American troops training and being given equipment in Britain. Marshalling on the South Coast. Ships set off. Bombing of German positions in Normandy, France. Generals Gavin and Eisenhower. Paratroopers set off. Naval bombardment. Air strikes filmed from aircraft.
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta Conference. Roosevelt is the only chatty one, Churchill looks like a toad. Table in the military staff of the allied powers. Close up of general Eisenhower. A map of German occupied France, with guns pointing out showing where the coast is protected. Close up of the northern coast, with Calais, Dieppe, Le Havre, Cherbourg, and Brest marked, Calais is highlighted. Cherbourg is then highlighted as being selected for the place of invasion. Row upon row upon row of jeeps, stockpiled in England prior to invasion. Field guns in the same position. Tanks on a train are moved from the factory. American Soldiers disembarking from a ship. Assault training, bombs explode. Soldier in a amphibious practice of beaching. Soldiers running in groups and along, through assault training courses, carrying guns and/or bazookas. Blowing up a pill box, the soldier plants the bomb and then runs away. It explodes. Flame throwers. Allied bombers, good shots from the air of bombs exploding. A gunner in an airplane, shoots a machine gun. An airplane in target, one of the wings explodes. Bivouac and training areas, soldiers lined up with equipment, a sergeant yells orders and takes roll call. Individual soldiers answer back. Soldiers in the back of troop transport truck, a young boy is handed his gun. Lorries carrying troops drive along an English country road. Landing craft drive along a road. Soldiers wave as they lounge in the back of lorry. Children stand beside the road waving as vehicles drive by with waving soldiers.
The marshalling area, with rows of tents. Handing out of gas masks in white boxes to a line of soldiers, they don't look very excited. A soldier tries his gas mask on. Distribution of 'instantaneous life belts'. The quartermaster with field rations, giving some out to soldiers. Two packs of cigarettes and Hershey's milk chocolate bar. Handing out French money to the troops, two soldiers look at the money with interest.
With tanks and jeeps laid out behind them, a largish group of soldiers sits on the hillside with a special briefing officer talking to him. The officer stands and yells in front of the men, giving them instructions. The soldiers all have fun helmets on, rather like ice hockey helmets. Lines of troops walking through jeeps and tanks on the hillside. Getting ready to move to the embarkation points on 30 May 1944. Slow movement of men and machines. Various shots of different pieces of equipment moving to the embarkation point. An American tank driving through an English village. Loading ships with all kinds of things, including tanks, jeep, guns, and people. LST's and LCI's carried tanks and trucks/lorries, loading them on backwards so they can drive off the right way. American soldiers walking through English towns, or down hillside roads to the port. Troops board their carriers. Shuttling troops from shore to ship with landing craft. Soldiers climbing up a rope net hanging from the side of a ship. The convoy with barrage balloons overhead. Men play dice/craps, two soldiers play with a puppy. Others lie in hammocks and read. One lies on the deck and listens to a gramophone. Soldiers hunkered down on deck, napping. Gun crews get their own briefings on deck, several sailors are paying more attention to the camera. Soldiers getting another rehearsal briefing. Soldiers cleaning and putting their guns back together. A gunnery crew check their machine guns. Rubbing dubbing into boots. On board the Augusta, a last minute meeting of the generals, they decide to delay by a day.
Ships,train and US soldiers at a dock area in England during World War 1. HD Stock Footage
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Ships,train and US soldiers at a dock area in England during World War 1.
View of ships and train at a dock area in England during World War I. American troops with their belongings at the dock. A group of soldiers standing near a locomotive engine pose for the camera. Location: United Kingdom. Date: 1918.
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US Naval Ship BRUCE C HEEZEN n RFA Argus
This ship from the U.S. Navy is some kind of research vessel. Moored beside the RFA Argus in for a refit. Falmouth Yard. S-Cronwall.Curnow. U.K.
Nine Lies - Tragedy
Official music video for the RNLI charity single by Irish Rock Band - Nine Lies from their 2015 album 9 Lies
Tragedy was written about the Penlee Lifeboat disaster which occurred on the 19 December 1981. The story caught the attention of lead singer Stevie Mann during the centenary year of the Titanic Disaster. The Penlee disaster involved another Irish vessel's maiden voyage and the RNLI Penlee life boat. Both crews were lost to cruel Christmas seas. This video was originally released to raise funds for UK and Irish lifeboats through the RNLI.
The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall. The lifeboat Solomon Browne, based at the Penlee lifeboat station near Mousehole, went to the aid of the vessel Union Star after its engines failed in heavy seas. After the lifeboat had rescued four people, both vessels were lost with all hands; in all, sixteen people died including eight volunteer lifeboatmen.
he MV Union Star was launched in Ringkøbing in Denmark just a few days before it was wrecked on the Cornish coast. A mini-bulk carrier registered in Dublin, Ireland, it sailed to IJmuiden in the Netherlands to collect a cargo of fertiliser for its maiden voyage to Arklow in Ireland.[1] It was carrying a crew of five: Captain Henry Morton;[2] Mate James Whittaker, Engineer George Sedgwick, Crewman Anghostino Verressimo, and Crewman Manuel Lopes.[3] Also on board was the captain's family (his wife Dawn with teenage stepdaughters Sharon and Deanne) who had been picked up at an unauthorised stop on the east coast of England.[2][3]
Near the south coast of Cornwall, 8 miles (13 km) east of the Wolf Rock, the new ship's engines failed.[1] It was unable to restart them but did not make a mayday call.[2] Assistance was offered by a tug, the Noord Holland, under the Lloyd's Open Form salvage contract but Morton initially refused the offer, later accepting after consulting his owners.[4] Winds were gusting at up to 90 knots (100 mph; 170 km/h) – hurricane, force 12 on the Beaufort scale – with waves up to 60 feet (18 m) high.[5] The powerless ship was blown across Mount's Bay towards the rocks of Boscawen Cove, near Lamorna.
As the ship was close to shore, the Coastguard at Falmouth summoned a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter from 820 Naval Air Squadron (who were providing cover for 771 Naval Air Squadron), RNAS Culdrose. It used the call sign Rescue 80 during the mission.
The aircraft (airframe XZ574) was flown that night by United States Navy exchange-pilot LCDR Russell Smith, assisted by Lt Steve Marlow, S/Lt Kenneth Doherty and Leading Aircrewman Martin Kennie of the Royal Navy.[6] They were unable to winch anyone off the ship as the wind was too violent.
The Coastguard had difficulties contacting the secretary of the nearest lifeboat station, Penlee Lifeboat Station at Mousehole on the west side of the bay. They eventually contacted Coxswain Trevelyan Richards and asked him to put the lifeboat on standby in case the helicopter rescue failed. He summoned the lifeboat's volunteer crew and picked seven men to accompany him in the lifeboat.[2] They were Second Coxswain/Mechanic Stephen Madron, Assistant Mechanic Nigel Brockman, Emergency Mechanic John Blewett, and crewmembers Charlie Greenhaugh, Kevin Smith, Barrie Torrie and Gary Wallis.[8] Neil Brockman, the son of Nigel Brockman, got to the lifeboat station on time, but was turned down for the trip by Trevelyan Richards, who was reluctant to take out two members of the same family that night.[8]
The lifeboat launched at 8:12 pm and headed out through the storm to the drifting coaster.[1] The lifeboat was the Solomon Browne, a wooden 47-foot (14 m) Watson-class boat built in 1960[9] and capable of 9 knots (17 km/h).[2] After it had made several attempts to get alongside, four people managed to jump across;[7] the captain's family and one of the men were apparently safe. The lifeboat radioed that 'we’ve got four off', but that was the last heard from either vessel.[2]
Lt Cdr Smith USN, the pilot of the rescue helicopter, later reported that:[10]
The greatest act of courage that I have ever seen, and am ever likely to see, was the penultimate courage and dedication shown by the Penlee [crew] when it manoeuvred back alongside the casualty in over 60 ft breakers and rescued four people shortly after the Penlee had been bashed on top of the casualty's hatch covers. They were truly the bravest eight men I've ever seen, who were also totally dedicated to upholding the highest standards of the RNLI.
Lifeboats were summoned from Sennen Cove, The Lizard and St Mary's to try to help their colleagues from Penlee. The Sennen Cove Lifeboat found it impossible to make headway round Land's End. The Lizard Lifeboat found a serious hole in its hull when it finally returned to its slipway after a fruitless search.
The wreckage from the Solomon Browne was found along the shore, the Union Star lay capsized onto the rocks beside a lighthouse.
Seaside Holidays 1930s, Film - 37963
Amateur home movie. Cornwall 1938
Colour, St. Michaels Mount. Father and daughter sat on wall. Views overlooking rocks and sea. Boats.
B/W Waves hitting rocks. Boys playing with model sailing boat in shallow water. Gulls sit on boat masts. Fishing village and fishing boats. Swimmer jumps off a rock into pool.
Giant jellyfish spotted by divers - BBC News
Divers have swum with a huge barrel jellyfish off the coast of Cornwall.
Lizzie Daly, a biologist with Wild Ocean Week, said the creature was as big as her body.
It is the largest species of jellyfish which is found in British waters, with the average diameter being about 40cm (16 inches).
Image by underwater cameraman Dan Abbott.
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Holiday In Cornwall, 1950s - Film 80628
Seaside holiday to Newquay Cornwall
Aerial footage over the coast of Cornwall UK. Aerial views interspersed with footage of a family in a plane. The air hostess puts the young boy's seat belt on in readiness for landing. Sandy cove. Overhead view of beach crowded with people. Waves coming in to shore. Family picnic on a Cornish beach. Mother hands the father a cornish pasty. Whole family tuck into their pasties. Cliffs, coastline, gulls - general scenic views of Cornwall.
Village of St Columb Minor with the Farmers Arms pub in the foreground and church in the background. Family walk along the street and visit the church and church yard. Boy gets stuck in some stocks. Family in the Cornish countryside, walking over a foot bridge beside a small ford. Boy walks up the steps of a mill house or granary. Date above the door is 1630. Family walk up the path to Trerice House. View over the Gannel River. Family take a row boat to Crantock beach. Crantock Village. Women in smart pretty dresses walk amongst the spring flower beds of a landscaped Trenance gardens. Colourful tulips. People in small row boats on the lake. Young children peddling pedalos on the pond. Swans in a pond.
Penguin enclosure in a park setting. Penguins being fed by a keeper with children watching on. Children playing crazy or miniature golf. Men playing golf near Fistral Beach with sea in the background. Games of lawn bowls being played at Newquay Bay. Newquay harbour and fishing boats moored. The Huers Hut Newquay.Group of school children perform a dance on the harbour wall at Newquay. A heather dance?
Fullness | Official Lyric Video | Elevation Worship
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Lyrics:
Fullness of eternal promise
Stirring in your sons and daughters
Earth revealing heaven's wonders
Spirit come, Spirit come
What you spoke is now unfolding
All your children shall behold it
Dreams awaken in this moment
Spirit come, Spirit come
Pour it out
Let your love run over
Here and now
Let your glory fill this house
Now the world awaits your presence
And this power is within us
We will rise to be your witness
Spirit come, Spirit come
Tongues of fire
Testifying of the Son
One desire
Spirit come, Spirit come
Speak revival
Prophesy like it is done
One desire
Spirit come, Spirit come
Let our hearts continue burning
For our King is soon returning
As we hold to this assurance
Spirit come, Spirit come
Spirit come, Spirit come
Written by Steven Furtick, Chris Brown, Matthews Ntlele
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Letras:
[Verso 1]
La Plenitud de Tu Promesa
En tus hijos se revela
Trae el cielo a esta Tierra
Ven Señor, ven Señor
[Verso 2]
Que se cumpla tu Palabra
Que mis ojos hoy te vean
Que mis sueños se despierten
Ven Señor, ven Señor
[Coro]
Fluye hoy
Que Tu amor desborde
Ahora Dios
Con Tu gloria llénanos
[Verso 3]
Soy testigo de Tu gracia
Tu poder en mi habita
Sólo anhelo Tu presencia
Ven Señor, ven Señor
[Puente]
Es tu fuego
Lo que arde en mi interior
Mi deseo
Ven Señor, ven Señor
Dame vida
Santo Espíritu de Dios
Mi deseo
Ven Señor, ven Señor
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Reflection of a ghost ? Slapton Sands, Torcross, Devon, England
This experience had a profound effect on me, mainly negative to be honest but it did heavily sway me towards the existence of ghosts.
Up until this point every experience I have ever had apart from perhaps the card checking OBEs could be put down to my imagination.
All the ghost related TV programs, podcasts, potentially photoshop’d ghostly images, video footage, EVP’s could all be hoaxes. The believer in me wanted to believe for my own yearning for an afterlife but as an interested skeptic I was never fully convinced.
My partner's aunt and uncle own a cottage on the sea front at Slapton Sands, Torcross in Devon. It’s a beautiful cottage perched next to the beach and we have been there now with family and friends a handful of times.
The history of the area is extraordinary.
Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, was the code name for one in a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon. Coordination and communication problems resulted in friendly fire deaths during the exercise, and an Allied convoy positioning itself for the landing was attacked by E-boats of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, resulting in the deaths of at least 749 American servicemen.[1][2] Because of the impending invasion of Normandy, the incident was under the strictest secrecy at the time and was only nominally reported afterward.
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The first time we visited the cottage was in 2013 and I had been meditating obsessively.
One night I woke up in the night to see a shadowy figure beside my bed, I remember lunging at it and then waking up. This was startling experience but to be honest I had experienced these types of thing at home so wasn’t that surprised.
The profound experience happened a few years later at the cottage.
It was July 2014 and we had booked the cottage for us and some friends.
On returning back to the cottage one evening we all smelt burning candles and the smell of wet dog. We all found it very odd.
One morning I took two photos outside the front of the cottage of my friends all sitting in a line.
Then one evening reviewing the photos I was zooming in and out of the background as I was aware it was a historical area and I had been influenced by ghost programs where they look at photos and find some odd things in reflections or windows and I noticed something that chilled me to the bone. It was a reflection in the window of a nearby cafe that looked like a soldier from yesteryear.
Having taken two photos of the group less than a minute apart at slightly different angles, it was clear to see something just wasn’t normal with one of the pictures.
That night I got no sleep, It totally freaked me out, there was no rational reason for the reflection.
Haphazard Investigating
We tried to recreate the scene the next morning, we had friends walking in front of the cottage so that from the angle I took the photo we could see when they come in shot of the camera and in the particular pain of glass the alleged apparition was seen. It turned out by our rough calculations that the reflection of the apparition would have roughly meant that it would have been to my left about a metre away as the reflection and the angle put the anomaly just in front of the beach.
I took the photos on the penultimate day of the holiday so after recreating the scene on the final morning we packed up our stuff and headed home early afternoon. We talked about the photo a lot and we all had no rational explanation. I joked that perhaps the soldier just wanted to be in the photo and had I took further photos and we had known, we could have got him or her to wave.
The following few days I couldn’t sleep, I even looked up Phasmophobia or Spectrophobia on the internet and could relate to the symptoms. I would stay awake until 5:45am until the birds outside started to sing.
Why was I scared?
For me it was the closest I had come to proving to myself the existence of ghosts and the concept messed with my mind, it really played havoc with things and I was convinced that it would follow me home or be in my dreams or appear in a mirror reflection.
The fear really took hold, something I will have to battle extensively with if I am to achieve continued successful outer body experiences and potentially raise my spiritual profile and perhaps inadvertently attract attention from beyond.
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Van Den Heede wins GGR 2018, Golden Globe Sailing Race
Jean Luc Van Den Heede shatters Sir Robin Knox-Johnston's Sunday Time's1968 Golden Globe Race record by 100 days finishing first in the 2018 Golden Globe Race. See how JLVDH did it from the start to finish of the toughest race in sailing, the GGR2018. Eighteen sailors got to the start line, but only five remained by day 212 of the fiftieth anniversary GGR 2018. Van Den Heede led most of the way as Are Wiig, Abhilash Tomy, Gregor McGucken, Loic Lepage, and Susie Goodall's sailboats were dismasted. This retro race for 32-to-36-foot sailboats runs through the stormy Southern Ocean and even Van Den Heede could not escape unscathed. His boat was pitchpoled a few thousand miles from Cape Horn and he contemplated dropping out. His shrouds were damaged endangering his mast. Vandenheede was able to enact a repair and sailed on more slowly allowing Dutch sailor Mark Slats to almost catch him south of the Azores High. A tactical misstep of motoring though the center of the high instead of sailing more quickly to its west cost Slats any chance of taking the lead short of disaster as Van Den Heede stretched his lead to over 400 nm. This video features commentary from Sunday Time's 1968 race winner English sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston who was the only finisher of the original race in 312 days. Van Den Heede says he was inspired by his contemporary sailor Bernard Moitessier. Jean-Luc Van Den Head was the oldest entrant in the 2018 GGR. The race is his 6th circumnavigation of the Globe. Besides holding the GGR race record Van Den Heed still holds the record for the fastest east to west solo-circumnavigation of the globe. His 36-foot Rustler yacht is named Matmut after his main sponsor.
Video from VNR/PPL/GGR and Mark Slats was reproduced with the permission of the GGR 2018.
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Associate Producers Larry Wilson, Kevin Yager, and Rick Moore (SSL).
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Life on the canals of northern France
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Freedom, fresh air, beautiful landscapes by the canal... More than just a job, working on a barge is a way of life. Between Dunkirk and the Belgian border, Gino and Jennifer show us their daily life on board the Tennessee. Even though their lives are less tough than those of their parents, who were also boatmen, it’s not always easy to juggle family life and life on the boat.
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