This is one of the new clients that we have at work, really nice USP and a gift that just keeps giving.

Specialist communications company SentForever.com is offering an unusual alternative to the traditional greetings card by using radio waves rather than paper to convey messages of congratulations, remembrance messages and love messages.

Personalised messages and announcements can be created online and are transmitted at the speed of light via a dedicated BT transmission dish situated at the historic Goonhilly earth station in Cornwall. Each message is designed to last – quite literally – forever: an eternal memory of the sender. From transmission, the message travels over the Mediterranean coast at a height of 450 miles and within five hours leaves the solar system to continue its journey through space and remain in the universe for all time.

Other documents such as manuscripts, drawings, photographs, poetry and music - once converted to digital format - can also be sent in this way to provide a lasting and highly unusual gift or treasured keepsake for future generations.

According to market research analyst Mintel, the UK greeting card industry is the most successful of its type in the world and worth over £1.3 billion annually - in 2006 an estimated 800 publishers produced more than 2.87 billion greeting cards for the well wishing British public. Since launching in January 2008, SentForever’s ethereal alternative has been used to relay a plethora of good wishes for all occasions including birthday messages, Valentine’s day and Mother’s day, and even to convey messages intended for the deceased.

The cost of the service starts at £9.95. Once transmitted, a message can be tracked to see how far it has travelled and the recipient will receive a certificate of transmission detailing its contents; a premium silver service also provides the recipient with a solid silver keepsake. An international service is available.

Chris Thomason of Sent Forever says: “In a world where so much is transient in nature, and paper greeting cards are thrown away after a few days, SentForever’s service is the ultimate way of showing commitment to someone special. In a billion years the sun will become a giant red star and engulf the Earth erasing all traces of our individual existence, but the messages will continue their way through the universe for the rest of time.” 

SentForever.com was established in January 2008 and is based in Reigate, Surrey. The business is solely involved in eternal communications. The company is privately owned and operated by Chris Thomason, an innovation consultant, and Stephanie Baillache, former head of marketing for a high street bank.

This amused me this morning when reading the Yachting World news, what some people will do! Morons

Police in Bournemouth have cautioned a woman who modified a Yachtmaster certificate that she downloaded from Facebook and used it to charter a yacht.

The woman hired a yacht last summer from a charter company, who did not notice that the document was fraudulent.

A spokesperson from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said that the yacht was returned undamaged, but the certificate she used was later found to be a forgery.

The 29-year-old woman voluntarily attended Bournemouth Police Station on Friday 22 February where she was formally cautioned for using forged material to obtain a boat.

Police decided against prosecuting the woman as she was of previous good character and had paid for the charter of the yacht in full.

Captain Andrew Phillips of the MCA warned seafarers against posting certification on the internet and advised anyone who has uploaded such documents to remove them. Source - Yachting Monthly, 26 February 2008

Here is some wicked video from this years Barcelona World Race, this is footage from the day that Alex Thomson and Andrew Cape broke the 24 hour distance record, which stands at 501 nm now.

Alex is very happy with this record as it shows how good his Hugo Boss sponsored boat is. Alex previously held the record anyway in the old Hugo Boss, what is remarkable with this new record is that the average wind speed was a lot less than the previous record. Well done lads!!For more information about Alex, Capey and the new Hugo Boss Open 60, click here

p.s. Alex if you read this, please get in contact I would love to go sailing with you!

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The crew of capsized round the world trimaran Groupama 3 arrived at the wreckage site early this morning, to attempt to salvage their craft.

Here is a video taken from the salvage operation.

“According to what I’ve seen” commented navigator Yves Parlier, “from the video footage shot by journalists flying over Groupama 3 on two occasions today, operations are going well. The mast is in three pieces and this and the forward part of the port float have become separated from the boat.

The guys are busying themselves with the aft section of the float, which is trapped under the central hull.”"It would be hard to imagine better weather conditions, despite a long residual swell, which must be hindering their progress”Parlier concludes: “I don’t have much direct contact with the boat but I imagine they’ve got a lot of other things to do. They’re doing a great job and aren’t taking a minute’s respite as they’re keen to right Groupama 3 before nightfall”.

Frank Cammas and his crew were on the way to setting a new round the world record when the huge tri started to break up just 80 miles from Dunedin and they were airlifted off the overturned trimaran, all safely and uninjured, less that three hours after the capsize.

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Baxolve, from Neurotech, is a modern combination therapy for efficient back pain alleviation. It uses two clinically proven therapies - a medical class lumbar backing belt, to back the lower backbone, whilst simultaneously using TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) engineering, which provides a drug available, non-invasive and extremely efficient method of pain alleviation. Neurotech is region of the Bio-Medical Research Group, a medical device party based in Galway, Ireland, and is an European leader in the provision of pain administration devices.

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The Barcelona World Race is something I have been watching for the last 95 days. Organised by Ellen MacArthur company OC Events, it has pitted the skills and strengths of 2 crew on IMOCA Open 60 monohulls, racing nonstop around the world, starting and ending in Barcelona.

I have been following the progress of Alex Thomson closely, he and his co-skipper Andrew Cape have had a strange race, firstly breaking the 24 hour speed record, which Alex held before, which now stands at 501nm, this is strange as the average wind strength on this 24 hours compared to the time before was 8-10 knots difference, also this is the first time Alex has been able to finish a Circumnavigation without serious gear failure since he did the Global Challenge race.

Little video of Alex talking about breaking the 24 hour record whilst racing in the Barcelona World Race.
Hugo Boss, the sponsors of the boat, must be extremely happy with this result, it shows Alex is capable of great things (which we all knew anyway), its only a shame that they had to make a pit stop to make repairs. Any pitstop on the race resulted in a minimum 48 hour stay in port. Alex and Capey were only 57 hours behind the winner on Paprec-Virbac 2. I ask what might of happened if they hadn’t stopped?Alex has shown that he will now be threat in the next Vendee Globe at the end of this year, he has a fair few months to fine tune all that he has learnt from this race, which can only make him faster.

Congratulations to Alex and Capey, well done on 501 nm! More Sailing Articles

At the moment one of the best ways to gain back links, search traffic and even visitors is to produce articles. There are many many site out there that provide free article submission services, but why would you do that?

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Generally with article submission you are allowed a add 2 or 3 links in the resource box of your article, these links will be very useful for you. So you have complete control over the content, then have control over where the relevant links link too and get to choose the link text - win win win situation??? well maybe!

I have been using some great article directory software for a few months now, the software is by Article Dashboard, its very easy to use and is ready to go with very little programming. If you want to adjust template and so on it pretty easy, I have some code skills and found it pretty easy.

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Mounsey talking to us after a few beers about the good old days before Burnham and before BT. Back to the school days.