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The 12-foot (3.7 m) hull is a scow design. The craft has a stayed 18-foot (5.5 m) mast set as a Marconi rig with a single mainsail with a 75-square-foot (7.0 m 2 ) surface area. The cockpit is 15 ½" deep, exceptionally deep for this size of sailboat, and can accommodate an adult up to 6 feet in height.
The boat has a draft of 1.33 ft (0.41 m) with the daggerboard extended and 0.40 ft (0.12 m) with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack. [1] For sailing the design is equipped with a 3:1 mechanical advantage boom vang. The mainsheet is led to the daggerboard trunk. [2]
It spent 10 weeks in the UK Top 10 (more than any other ABBA single), [15] and was also the second of three consecutive UK No. 1 singles for ABBA, after "Mamma Mia" and before "Dancing Queen". [16] As of September 2021, it is ABBA's sixth-biggest song in the UK with 903,000 chart sales (pure sales and digital streams).
"Take a Chance on Me" is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in January 1978 as the second single from their fifth studio album, ABBA: The Album (1977). Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad share the lead vocals on the verses and choruses, with Fältskog singing two bridge sections solo.
On 5 November 2021, the Voyage album was released worldwide, and on 27 May 2022, ABBA Voyage opened in a purpose-built venue named the ABBA Arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Since November 2021, Ulvaeus and British actor Ian McKellen have posted Instagram videos featuring the pair knitting Christmas jumpers and other festive ...
It was a top 10 hit in Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and Norway. In the United States, it became ABBA's sixth top 20 single, peaking at #14 on the Hot 100 and reaching #7 on Billboard's AC chart. In the UK, "Knowing Me, Knowing You" was one of the biggest singles of 1977. [6]
Like ABBA Gold, a remaster of More ABBA Gold was released in 1999. [7] The 4:27 promo edit of " The Visitors " was replaced by the original 5:46 version, while the 3:18 alternate mix of "Lovelight" was replaced by the 3:46 version originally released in 1979 , as the B-side of " Chiquitita ".
The second disc contained a variety of television content, including: ABBA's appearance on ZDF's Show Express, that included performances of "The Winner Takes It All", "Super Trouper", and "On And On And On"; a performance of "Happy New Year" from SVT; Words And Music, a documentary produced by Polar Music International that features the group ...