A bit taken aback recently to get chatting to the Motor Boats Monthly team about the 25th anniversary of the Cruising Club. Doesn’t seem a quarter of a century since we commenced the first events! At its peak we managed … Read More
After more than three years of hard refit work on our Beecham Searider 45 Formanda, we deemed her ready for a first cross-Channel adventure, with a passage to Cherbourg via an overnight anchorage in Shanklin where we had our first encouter with pistol shrimp.
If ever you want evidence that a job is not done until it is done, then look at this video and have a thought for goalkeeper Loris Angeli from Italian seventh division club Dro facing Termeno’s Michael Palma.
Second website launch of the week, this time for a brand new company – Kahlenberg UK Ltd, formed to handle the European distribution of Kahlenberg Industries, Inc’s range of marine and industrial air horns, electric horns, compressors, sound signal controllers and accessories.
I have just completed the relaunch of the dupre.co.uk website for Newbury, Berkshire based business telephone and IT company du Pré plc.
I’ve noticed that it is almost universally the case (by which I mean I haven’t seen anything different) that lighting designers for amateur shows get a credit that is always one line and buried somewhat in the middle of the backstage crew. Whereas most professional lighting designers seem to pop up with some kind of mini biog in the middle of the production team.
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The lighting cue count for the Mostly G and S production of Yeomen of the Guard and Sainsbury Singers’ Strictly Musicals concert came out at 99 on both occasions, despite the difference in venue, show and equipment.
The 25th anniversary Les Miserables concert at the O2 was a very special occasion indeed, topped by a great cast and tailed by the appearance of leading players from the 1985 cast including Colm Wilkinson and Michael Ball.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has fled the nest of its twin fuselage WhiteKnightTwo mothership Eve and landed on its own for the first time at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, USA.
VSS Enterprise is designed to carry six passengers and fly at up to Mach 3.5 at 68 miles altitude, just under a third of the way up to the International Space Station. The first test release was at 45,000ft; just 5000ft lower than the planned release altitude for space flight.