The hope is that better governance on the Somali side will allow the building of a superport, pipeline, railway, road and new city on the Kenyan side.Joy for Mrs Tebbutt should not draw attention away from the plight of several hundred sailors and yachtsmen still being held captive by Somali pirates.
The nine single-handed yachtsmen who set off at different times in 1968, bidding to be the first to sail non-stop around the world, shared knowledge and friendship.
Somalis have repeatedly seized foreigners, even holidaying yachtsmen passing their coast, and freed them for cash.
A similar system might ease the pressure on the solitary round-the-world yachtsmen, he adds.In some competitions, including the Olympics, such equipment is not allowed during the event itself.
Whole crews were swept overboard and 15 yachtsmen were drowned.The men who built the lighthouse, usually photographed with their jackets fastened and their ties done up, were not seamen, nor would they have been particularly accustomed to the huge swells that batter that part of Ireland's coastline.
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Some 55 yachtsmen were rescued; six drowned.Mr Ellison was wrong: bad things happen at sea.
GPS has become indispensable for soldiers, pilots, hikers, yachtsmen, even bankers, ever since the American Department of Defence started filling the sky with satellites about 25 years ago, in order to improve navigation for fighters, bombers and warships.
An identical system might ease the pressure on the solitary round-the-world yachtsmen, he adds.
Yacht sales, too, are buoyant again after a period in the doldrums in the late 2000s, and today's yachtsmen often add a helicopter or two to their order.
On the west side of Bora-Bora is a large lagoon in which the smaller islands of Toopua and Toopua Iti protect a spacious harbour, popular with yachtsmen.
