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05-03-08
Cruising Association Centennial Pilotage Fund
This will be announced in the yachting mags and by the CA in the CA magazine Cruising very soon. Imrays will be providing an information pack on application to them. www.imray.com.
MARCH NEWS - Cruising Association Centennial Pilotage Fund
A fund to encourage new writing in the area of pilotage and cruising is being made available by Rod Heikell and Imrays to mark the CA's centenary. The project is open for any cruising area in the world and proposals for conventional pilotage as well as innovative writing will both be welcome.
A fund of �3000 will be made available to cover expenses for research and writing for applicants. The CA will also provide two years free membership to the successful applicant and the winning proposal will then be published by Imrays.
Further information from Fred Barter at the Cruising Association.
BBC shortwave blues
03-03-08
Sadly the BBC has cut most of it's shortwave services for World service broadcasts covering the Med and other large chunks of the world. The rationale is that most people are receiving the beeb's world service by other means which means mostly via the internet. Oh yeah. Apart from those us cruising around on yachts without a huge Inmarsat dome on the back and the money to bankroll the connection, what about all of those people around the world who have wonderful little wind-up radios because there is no electricity let alone a telephone line to pipe a connection down.
This is just miserable cost-cutting to subsidise the beeb's foray into other services to take on it's domestic rivals. While the world service continues on the internet, some FM stations such as in Antigua and Tonga, and a few of it's shortwave services, it leaves a huge gap. Oh I wish they would reconsider but the shortwave transmitters have probably been sold for scrap already.
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