Brother Matt Atkin photographs the village of Tai O, Hong Kong. Thanks Matt – these are fabulous!
Matt Atkin photographs the village of Tai O, Hong Kong
Category: Small boats
Could your boat be sponsored in the Sail Caledonia Raid?
The organisers of Sail Caledonia the annual sail & oar raid through the Great Glen of Scotland are inviting applications for a sponsored boat entry for next year’s race.
The race runs from the 24th to the 31st May 2014.
The successful applicants could be from a school or college, part of a community-based scheme or looking to raise money for a charitable cause.
Applicants must provide their own boat, safety gear and camping equipment, but the only other cost will be for meals. Sail Caledonia will waive the sponsored boat’s entry fees, and will pay for launching, camping and canal licence fees.
Applications should be sent to info@sailcaledonia.org by no later than 31st January 2014. The race committee will decide the winning application shortly afterwards.
The application should include:
- type of boat
- likely number and age of crew
- experience of skipper
- why the crew feel that they should get the sponsored place
For more details on the raid, including what to expect and pictures from past events, see the Sail Caledonia website. But be warned – the scenery is magnificent, and you’ll want to go there…
Has Scheveningen got the most painted shore in world?
Just this morning I finally realised that the shore of the Dutch resort of Scheveningen – really a suburb of The Hague – has been depicted in an amazing number of treasured paintings by a remarkable group of artists. We’re talking van der Velde II, Van Gogh, Anton Mauve and many more…
I’m not obsessed with the place, you understand, it’s simply that I remember going there as a child and still today have a painting of the beach on my wall. Then today a painting popped up on my Facebook that made me wonder what else might be waiting behind the search engines. I think of it as an open, and rather inhospitable beach for boats and ships, but to my amazement, this is what I found. Each image links to a web page that explains who painted it, and more. Google and Wikipedia will find you many more, of course.
The very modest painting that hangs on my own wall is here.
 
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