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The Olympics at Weymouth
The venue for the world's Olympic sailors will be the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy - a multi-million-pound project which was already nearing completion before there was serious talk of a successful Olympic bid. Even without the Olympics it was set to establish Weymouth and Portland as one of the major centres in the UK for competitive sailing. The 2012 Games has put extra impetus behind that development, with additional facilities already planned. Olympic sailing squads from all nations will be practising and training in the waters of Weymouth Bay in the years leading up to 2012. Find out more The Official website for the British Sailing team for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The National Coastwatch Institution NCI Lyme Bay station at Burton Bradstock
Lyme Bay just got safer! Thanks to Billy Bragg, and Mary-Lou Sturridge the former director of the Groucho Club, the National Coastwatch Institution have been able to open their forty-fourth Coastwatch Station at Burton Cliff, overlooking Lyme Bay. The station covers a section of the most popular 80 miles of coast between existing NCI stations at Portland Bill to the East and Exmouth to the West. Surveys have shown that in the last two years there have been 15 serious incidents in the six miles of Chesil Beach area alone. The West Bay harbourmaster and the Royal National Lifeboat Institute have both reported significant increases in small boat, windsurfer and other personal watercraft activity. Since the area became known as the Jurassic Coast and was made a World Heritage site there has been significant increase in the number of people using the beach and walking the coast. The NCI exists because they understand that trained watch-keepers can spot things like distress flares, an overturned boat or a walker stranded on the cliffs which computers and radar can’t. Land for the station has been provided by Mary-Lou Sturridge of the Burton Cliff Hotel. The musician Billy Bragg and retired Air Marshall Sir Christopher Colville, now the Chairman of Westland Helicopters, both volunteered to fund raise for the project. The National Coastwatch Institute is a charity and more about its work can be found on their web site www.nci.org.uk. If you wish to become involved as a potential watchkeeper please contact William Knapman on 01308 897808 or e-mail william.knapman @nci.org.uk. For more general information contact the NCI Lyme Bay Station Manager Clive Edwards on 01308 482605 or email clive.edwards@nci.org.uk

www.toeinthewater.org For information on the Toe in the Water project

www.whiteoceanracing.com For information on Steve White

Cowes Week

Cowes Week now stages up to 40 daily races for around a thousand boats and is the largest regatta of its kind in the world.

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Don’t miss Weymouth & Portland’s fourth ‘Spirit of the Sea’ Maritime Festival,
Celebrating the area’s close relationship with the sea, the festival brings together a range of sporting activities, cultural events and entertainment.

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