All work ground to a halt at Gosport Marina this morning as the presenters of the BBC’s ‘Bang Goes the Theory’ took to an boat built of hemp and ice. The intrepid crew of 4 planned to cross the Solent to Cowes in the boat first dreamed up by war time scientists looking for an alternative to steel. After a champagne launch the crew boarded the iceboat which looked as if it would capsize at any moment and headed off into…

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the Solent based RYA Sailing School floating office and classroom was ready for sandblasting

the Commodore Yachting barge has gone for a refit

Like hundreds of thousands of other travellers they have been caught up the chaos brought about by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland