The show was to have featured displays of boats across the city's docks and a programme of demonstrations including championship sailing, wake-boarding, power boat racing, and water-skiing.

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Howard's 20-foot boat has not only been re-fitted in order to make sailing easier, it is also equipped with essential technologies to ensure the safety of both Howard and other sailors, including an Automatic Identification System (AIS), which alerts Howard to ships within a 50-mile radius.

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The traditional knowledge surrounding Lenjes includes oral literature, performing arts and festivals, in addition to the sailing and navigation techniques and terminology and weather forecasting that are closely associated with sailing, and the skills of wooden boat-building itself.

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We'll do sailing, chores, nightwatches - there's a lot to be done on a big boat like this.

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"My idea of retirement would be having a nice boat, sailing around the world and exploring and being able to relax and enjoy being on the water -- to just enjoy life without running around quite so hectically!"

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