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A sail training vessel for south africa

A sail training vessel for south africa. Future of South Africa lies in its youth – a problem to find employment Sea offers careers – South Africa should be a maritime nation – reality is different Sail Training vessels used to establish and confirm nations as maritime nations

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A sail training vessel for south africa

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  1. A sail training vessel for south africa

  2. Future of South Africa lies in its youth – a problem to find employment • Sea offers careers – South Africa should be a maritime nation – reality is different • Sail Training vessels used to establish and confirm nations as maritime nations • Job creation and skill transfer during construction

  3. Train officers for the SA Navy, Merchant Navy and School Leaders Why a sailing vessel? The policy of the University of South Hampton nautical school states, Quote:“ A power-driven craft provides little real training for an embryo merchant seaman, except for steering or washing paint. It does not bring him/her any real contact with the seas as does a sailing craft whose motive power is governed by the cadets who man the ship. The school feels that some short period of training abroad a fast, maneuverable sailing vessel is of great help in inculcating integrity, self-reliance and awareness of danger, and that the sea will always find out shoddy or skimped work.” Unquote Quote: ‘A leading article from the Times on 04 Aug 56 is as true today as it was the: Training in sail gives inestimable benefits not only to the youths and men/women who are fortunate enough to have had it, it also gives any maritime nation which can foster it, strong advantages in tradition, in character building, in a more intimate acquaintance with the ways of the wind and the sea and, therefore in seamanship.’ Unquote

  4. Other Departments that will benefit: • Foreign Affairs • Trade and Industry • Arts and Culture • Science and Technology • Tourism

  5. Quotes from Brazilian Experience: 2009 CISNE BRANCO EURO-AMERICAN: Magazine Passadigo Edition 29 Year XXII 2009 page 63. After visiting 17 ports, navigating approximately 18,000 miles, realizing 108 days at sea and receiving 80,000 visitors/guests, the Cisne Branco returned to Rio de Janeiro, having attended to many demands of the Naval Districts, the Naval Attaches and the accredited Ambassadors of the countries visited. We were accompanied by the national and international media, written, spoken and televised showing the Brazilian Flag, our culture and traditions, stimulating young people to a naval career and taking the sea and related activities to the homes of many that came into contact with the Cisne Branco, in the hopes of a greater interest in the sea and the maritime mentality, to be better explored now and in the future.

  6. CISNE BRANCO A MARITIME ODE: Book“…Cisne Branco, ambassador of the beauty and the unique characteristics of Brazil and its people.”“Besides training sailors, she is informally called the Floating Embassy.”“A floating embassy, crossing the oceans which unite nations.”“The Cisne Branco links tradition and modernity. Equipped with modern communication, refrigeration and affluent treatment systems, the ship contributes to shorten the distance between the community and our new Navy, which is committed to civic, economic and social values as well as to issues concerning the use of the sea.”“The Cisne Branco takes our land to other counties. It is our Floating Embassy, representing Brazil our Navy at international evens, making a statement at the main regional festivities in our country and abroad.”“Sailing ships! Powerful icons which symbolize power, beauty and harmony.”“A sailing ship teaches us about pride and humbleness, strength, bravery and grace; individuality and teamwork. Another lesson is that no matter how hard the work turns out to be, fun is always guaranteed.”

  7. SAGRES CONSTRUINDO A LENDA The Chief of the Portuguese Navy Admiral Ribeiro de Melo Gomes stated in the foreword to the book SAGRES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LEGEND: “It is 8 decades that the name SAGRES formed the way of thinking and the character of the sailors of our Navy. During long voyages in an initially adverse ambience, away from those that they would have preferred to associate with, away from home comforts, work the change bit, by bit. This complex process that results, regularly in people who without any reserve, generation after generation, guarantees the continuation of a Portuguese presence at sea, “and the courage to permit us to affirm ourselves as a Nation”. Over and above the mission of the formation of the technical and human side of those onboard, there is the representing of Portugal and the Portuguese Navy, for which the Sail Training vessel SAGRES is well equipped, and it is through this role that she got the elegant name of Roaming Ambassador.

  8. There are two models to choose from to build the vessel: • The Dutch Model a city and business combined • Departments combine to build • Choice of ship design • “At sea, at sea, at sea, at sea • Hey! To have my life at sea, • Exposed to wind and waves.” • Alvaro de Campos “Maritime Ode” 1915 • Conclusion

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