Because of his deep love for stories in the Bible, Dutchman Johan Huibers has taken the extraordinary step of putting together an exhibition based around a floating building of unprecedented proportions Noah’s Ark. The Ark that Johan built is a half-size replica of the one described in the Bible, but its still impressive enough to dominate the skyline around the canals of Holland. This is only stage one of Yohans project stage two will be a full size Ark which Yohan hopes will be Direct Link
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Noah’s Ark – replica @ Sailtube
Sorry for the absence of any updates so far on Thursday but together with the rest of the Valencia press we have been on the road in order to cover the press conference on the agreement Valencia, Alinghi and BMW Oracle have reached on the celebration of the 33rd America’s Cup, if of course, the Appellate Division upholds Justice Kornreich’s ruling on Ras al-Khaimah not being a legitimate venue for a match in February.It’s nice to see Valencia Sailing finally writing about sailing in Valencia, especially if it’s the America’s Cup.Alinghi, BMW Oracle and representatives from the local, regional and central government of Spain met today at the headquarters of the Valencia 2007 organization in order to start working on the organizational details of the event. There is finally an agreement!! From left Lucien Masmejean (Alinghi counselor), Rita Barberá (Valencia mayor), Gerardo Camps (Valencia regional minister of Economy) and Tom Ehman (BMW Oracle head of External Affairs)Teams will use current basesAccording to Rita Barberá, Valencia mayor, the first major agreement reached by all parties is that both teams will use their current bases inside the Port America’s Cup as their main operation bases. Both multihulls will be docked in front of the bases, just like they did in the 32nd America’s Cup. Given their extraordinary size, the two teams will have to use the adjacent bases (+39 Challenge in Alinghi’s case and Shosholoza in BMW Oracle’s case) or any other space necessary. In fact, the port’s maintenance crews have already taken apart the fences that separated the bases.Still, the Valencia Port Authority will provide additional space, inside the commercial port, in case the two yachts need it under adverse weather conditions. Both yachts might encounter problems entering the canal under high waves since it hasn’t been designed for such wide boats and as a result they might need to seek refuge somewhere else. Organization of the eventFirst of all, the two organizational aspects of the event will be separated. On one hand the purely sporting issues will be handled by Alinghi while Valencia will organize the rest of the event. For that reason, four working parties have already been constituted and they will start working from Monday morning on a continuous basis. Time is very short and with less than two months until the first starting gun is fired there is no time to waste.The first working party will be in charge of finances, the second one will take care of operational and logistical issues, and the third one will handle television, marketing and promotion of the event as well as hospitality and public entertainment. Finally, the fourth working party will concentrate solely on the organization of the sailing competition. The Alinghi delegation arrives at the headquarters of the Valencia 2007 organization. Valencia, 10 December 2009. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia SailingFinances Rita Barberá, once again, stressed the fact Valencia will not be paying any host-city fee but will bear all the … Direct Link
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