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All highly-developed societies have governmental bodies to monitor and protect an employee’s physical and mental wellbeing in the workplace.
These groups have an impact upon almost every facet of modern living whether you are driving in a car, visiting a supermarket or building an extension to your house. Without exception, all these groups – the Office of Health & safety (UK); the Department of Occupational Health & Safety (USA); L’Insitut National du Recherche et de Securite (France) or Bundesanstalt fur Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (Germany) and so on – are criticised and ridiculed for overreaction and draconian and often unpractical and extremely expensive guidelines.
It could be imagined that offshore sailors are exempt from the dictates of these organisations as they roam the remote sea areas of the planet out of sight and far beyond the reach of beaurocracy and distant from the current climate of aggressive litigation culture. Certainly, cruising yachtsmen are – for the most part – unregulated and … Details
In a fitting re-birth of the venerable Fort Lauderdale to Charleston Race, Roger Sturgeon’s STP65 Rosebud/Team DYT (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) crossed the finish line just before 10 p.m. on April 10, to break the 35-year-old race record set in 1974 by Ralph Ryder’s C&C 66 Phantom and set a new standard for the modern running of this event. Eleven boats started the 408-nautical mile offshore race at 2:00pm on April 8, just outside of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale and finished outside of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Although Rosebud/Team DYT clocked in at 1 day:7 hours:52 minutes: 49 seconds, on corrected time under IRC rules it finished second overall by less than nine seconds to Teamwork, the J/122 owned by Robin Team (Lexington, N.C.). Full results are posted on the event website www.fortlauderdalecharlestonrace.org.
‘We left a lot of room for other boats to break the (new) record,’ said Sturgeon of his boat’s 90-minute improvement on the 1974 record. ‘This should be great encouragement for others to do this race and go for the record… Details