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17th September '06
The Bideford Bridge Trust has a scheme whereby people with a good idea for a start-up business can be grant aided to help them get their ideas off the ground. One of those helped has garnered a fair amount of publicity in the media – Mukti Mitchell of Clovelly. His idea was to build a new design microyacht with a revolutionary new ‘Swing Bulb Keel’ which combines ‘an unprecedented stability-to-weight ratio’. To show how successful his idea was the boat won the ‘Innovative Boat of the Year’ prize in 2005.
Mukti is also a committed environmentalist and in order to both further refine the boat’s design and to promote the idea of ‘Low Carbon Lifestyles’ he is setting off on a 5 month voyage around Britain calling in at 40 ports on the way. He will leave Clovelly in May 2007 and complete his voyage in October 2007 at Falmouth. At each port he hopes to gain local media coverage – and to spread the message about how each of us can actually lower our carbon output – and before you ask his own output is only half the national average. A pilot tour around the South West in 2005 was a success – a result Mukti hopes to build on but he does need sponsors. If you feel you can help in spreading the message and getting further publicity for this exciting local invention then he can be contacted on 0845 3455075 or mukti@mitchellyachts.co.uk or visit his website www.lowcarbonlifestyle.org.
You may recall me writing about the lakes in the Kenwith Valley and how the Devon Birdwatchers group had drained much of the water from them in order to expedite refurbishment. The remaining water seems to have evaporated following the glorious summer but rather than being left with a muddy basin the area has been colonised by a sea (or should that be lake?) of gorgeous purple flowers. I am no botanist but have been told they are Purple Loosestrife and would be interested if anyone can confirm this identification. Whatever the flowers are they present a wonderful sight and it is well worth walking down to the Kenwith Valley to see them.
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