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ELLEN MACARTHUR TRUST
VOYAGE AROUND BRITAIN
The Ellen MacArthur Trust has announced an exciting
new project for 2009. Sponsored by Skandia, 100
young people in recovery from cancer will sail around
the UK in the Oyster Lightwave 48, Scarlet Oyster,
as part of The Ellen MacArthur Trust Skandia Round
Britain ‘Voyage of Discovery’.
Starting out from Cowes in May, the voyage will stop at 20 ports around the UK
including Dover, St. Katharine’s Dock (London), Ipswich, Hull, Newcastle, Edinburgh,
Aberdeen, Fort George, Fort William, Largs, Belfast, Isle of Man, Liverpool, Hollyhead,
Cardiff, Torquay and Southampton before finishing in Cowes in September 2009.
The young crews will visit hospitals and young person’s principal treatment centres,
across the UK, who have helped them recover from cancer and leukaemia.
Both Trust patrons Ellen MacArthur and Shirley Robertson are hoping to join the crews
for part of the voyage. “This is an amazing project for the Trust,” said patron Ellen
MacArthur. ”I cannot fully express the impact that the four-day sailing trips have on
these young people. So I can only imagine the effects that a voyage around Britain will
have. In 1995, I sailed around Britain and it is fantastic to see them follow in my
footsteps, the opportunity for these young people to share their experiences with
others in treatment, and show them that there is a light at the end of the tunnel is very,
very special. I’m only sorry that Gordon Applebey, who made Scarlet Oyster available to
the Trust, is not here today to see these children sail around the country in his boat”.
Oyster looks forward to welcoming Scarlet Oyster and her special crew when they
arrive in Ipswich.
For more information about the Ellen MacArthur Trust see:
ww.ellenmacarthurtrust.org
TO THE GALAPAGOS
Well-known US broadcaster, Gary Jobson,
will be joining the Oyster 82 Zig Zag with
a film crew and heading for the Galapagos
in March 2009. The American TV channel
ESPN has commissioned Gary to make
a movie about a nature cruise through
the islands.
Previous expeditions by the Jobson ESPN
team include sailing to the Antarctic with
Skip Novak and an Arctic cruise to eighty
degrees north aboard Richard Matthews’
Oyster 62 Oystercatcher XXII.