The Friends of Lively Lady have been lucky enough to be given a number of heavily discounted tickets - available at £8.50 instead of £17.50! (Children under 15 go free with a paying adult) These can be used on any day of the show, including Preview Day.

The London International Boat Show is at Excel London from January 9th - 18th 2009.
To find out more go to www.londonboatshow.com

If you’d like to get one of these tickets then email us at livelylady@livelylady.net and we’ll let you know how to apply for them. All you’ll need to do then is ring the ticketing agency with the code that we’ll give you and that will be job done!

Well what more can be said You Did It
A brilliant party Friday, thanks Lauren and Kat you did a great job everyone seemed to have a good night and you all looked stunning.

For the the three days Lively Lady was at Southampton Boat Show she was definitely Star of the Show with a steady stream of people looking over her and talking to the Young Adults and congratulating them on their achievements.

We also launched the Our Lively Lady Magazine, which is now on sale and well worth the price of £5-00 as it is packed full of information, stories and pictures of the trip, not full of adverts as in most magazines these days.

Carol

As we have said before, Lively Lady likes to be shown off and this week it was the turn of three brothers, Roger, John and Dave Bishop, to see how she looked after her little trip around the world. Roger was lucky enough to have been at Gunwharf for the Homecoming, a day he said he really enjoyed - he had meant to spend just a little while with us but ended up here the whole day!

Dave actually helped with re-rigging her back in 1969 after her first voyage around the world. He noted that the mizzen mast was still rigged the same as back then, and she still had the smell of a good old wooden boat. He now lives in Perth West Australia and was gutted he missed out on visiting us there!! So he was very pleased when Roger and John contacted us to arrange a visit.

Lauren and Kat enjoyed meeting them and we all spent a while exchanging stories, so a good time was had by all.

Carol

If you would like to look around the Lady please email us livelylady@livelylady.net

Lively Lady will be at Southampton Boat Show from Friday September 12 - Sunday September 14 so please do come along and join us. You can find Lively Lady and members of her crew at berth 63 in the Hydropool Marina.

The Friends of Lively Lady have also been lucky enough to have been given a number of discounted tickets - available at £9.50 instead of £17.50! (Children under 15 go free with a paying adult)

If you’d like to get one of these tickets then email us at livelylady@livelylady.net and we’ll let you know how to apply for them.

We look forward to seeing you at the show!
Alan

The Young Adult Team along with many of the co-skippers are getting together to Celebrate their Achievements. They are hoping that they will be joined by family, friends and supporters of Lively Lady. They still have tickets for sale details below;

Lively Lady Home Coming Party
The Royal Maritime Club
Queens Street
Portsmouth

Friday 12th September

7.30pm till 12.00 Black Tie - Evening Dress
£12 to include Cold Buffet and Dancing

For more details or to buy your ticket please contact Lauren Harris
at lauren.harris2@btinternet.com phone no 07917786763
or Carol at livelylady@livelylady.net phone no 07979030461

This is a chance to all get together at the end of this project and reflect on what has been achieved.
This is not a fundraising event but a party and a time to have fun. We hope you can join us.

Carol

The crew of Lively Lady went along to co-skipper Steve Mason’s Rotary Club last Tuesday under the pretence of giving a short talk about the voyage .

What Steve didn’t know was the rest of the team had set him up and the purpose of the evening was actually to celebrate Steve’s involvement in the project.

At the appointed time, he was presented with the Ensign that had gone half way around the world - signed by all the crew and framed ready for hanging!

Steve then finished the evening off by reciting a poem he has written about the voyage from Fremantle to Singapore.

If anyone would like a copy of this, please ask mission control…

Have a good week!
Alan

The crew of Lively Lady has not been idle since she arrived back in Portsmouth some four weeks ago and this Thursday she played host to two foreign exchange students, on behalf of Rotary International.

In a strange coincidence Erin, from Australia, comes from the town of “Armadale” which is just down the road from Carol’s parents; how small a world does that make it!

The other young lady, Natalia, came all the way over from Brazil and was amazed how many people were stopping to take a photo of Lively Lady.

This time it was only a small trip around Portsmouth Harbour but the requests are pouring in from all over Europe for us to bring Lively Lady into ports so she can be shown off.

More about this later
All the best
Alan
PS. My garden is looking good!

….and, as you can see, he’s not even been able to have a shower!

The Raymarine Lively Lady had a passenger on her long voyage around the world; the only one who has actually stayed on board for the whole of the journey and even looked after things in the down time as well.

Sir Alec had Algy.

Alan and his team had Skipper who has been stuck in the corner keeping an eye on everyone as they enter and leave the cabin; the stories he must be able to tell!!!

I think he needs to be seen but is a bit camera shy, who else would like to see a picture of Skipper?? Maybe you had spotted him and already have his photo!!

Let us know

Carol

There is never a dull moment on the Raymarine Lively Lady Project. When most people would expect me to be taking it easy, that couldn’t be further than the truth!
For the past 15 years, the Rotary Club of Southsea Castle has run a Christmas Short Story competition for school children from the Portsmouth area. Last year, because I was away on Lively Lady, the winning entry asked if we could delay the prize giving until Lively Lady was safely back home. So this week I attended Edward’s school assembly to award him the first prize he won in 2007.
Who said life is dull?
Cheers
Alan - still trying to find the time to do the gardening!