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Ben Ainslie Wins Record Sixth Finn Gold Cup Falmouth raised sailor and Olympic hero Ben Ainslie made history in home waters, when he won a record sixth Finn Gold Cup at the Falmouth Finn Festival. Following a week of extremes, fluctuating from no wind at all to strong, challenging conditions, the local hero emerged ahead of the world’s best ... READMORE Sailing | Friday, 18 May 2012 |
Thundercats are go at Watergate Bay A new adrenaline-fuelled surf powerboat racing event comes to Watergate Bay this weekend (Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 May) when the Thundercats take to the water for the first round of the 2012 Thundercat National Championships. The event, nicknamed White Out at Watergate Bay, will feature the high powered Thundercats taking ... READMORE Adventure Sports | Friday, 18 May 2012 |
Ben Ainslie Meets Oldest Surviving Gold Medalist from 1948 Britain’s most successful Olympic sailor Ben Ainslie posed for photos with David Bond, aged 90, Great Britain’s last surviving Olympic Gold medallist from the London 1948 Games at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth recently. They were pictured together for the museum's Sail for Gold Olympic exhibition which is currently ... READMORE Sailing | Friday, 18 May 2012 |
New Cycle Trails Planned at Lanhydrock We've been getting excited about the new cycle trails planned at Lanhydrock, near Bodmin in Cornwall. This will be an awesome facility when finished with trails for riders of all abilities around this vast National Trust estate. Now members of the public are being given the chance to view and discuss ... READMORE Mountain Biking | Friday, 18 May 2012 |
Rock Climbing for Kids at Eden Set your children on the path to an active and adventurous life by signing them up for the Eden’s Kids Rock Club, offering young people the chance to scale new heights at Bodelva’s rock-face each Saturday morning. The rock climbing lessons at this superb facility at Eden are suitable for children ... READMORE Climbing | Friday, 30 March 2012 |
Seek Out the Search & Rescue Exhibition If you have time this Easter it would be worth a trip to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth for their impressive new show Search and Rescue. Honouring the work of the heroic men and women who risk their lives at sea and around our coast, the new exhibition, the first of ... READMORE Adventure Sports | Friday, 30 March 2012 |
Surf Art Show at Surfing Museum Surfers, art lovers and fans of surf art should make a pilgrimage to the recently revamped Museum of British Surfing in Braunton, North Devon to see the new exhibition of surfing artwork which opens on Good Friday (April 6 2012). The inaugural 'The Art of Surf’ show is an ambitious exhibition ... READMORE Surfing | Thursday, 29 March 2012 |
British Woman to Climb Lhotse British adventurer Bonita Norris has embarked on a trip which will see her attempt to climb Lhotse (8,516m) in the Himalayas - the fourth highest mountain in the world. Lhotse will be Bonita’s third climb over 8000m having climbed Mount Mansaslu (8163m) as part of her training for her successful assent of ... READMORE Expeditions | Thursday, 29 March 2012 |
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