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In 1999, he sailed from San Francisco to Japan aboard a boat made primarily from recycled materials. The boat, Malt's Mermaid II, designed by Kennosuke Hayashi, was a 32.8-foot (10.0 m) long, 17.4-foot (5.3 m) wide, catamaran constructed from 528 beer kegs welded end-to-end in five rows. Horie joked that 500 of them were empty.
In 1864 it was recorded that the organising committee of the festival let off "258 dozen fire crackers and numerous Roman Candles, Jack-in-box and sky rockets" [5] The day after these celebrations, a 'Midsummer's Day' fair took place on Penzance quay; boat rides and other entertainments were included in these celebrations.
Mermaid House Hotel, located on East St. Louis Street in Lebanon, Illinois, was built in 1830 by the retired New England sea captain Lyman Adams. He named it for the mermaids he reported seeing at sea. The Mermaid House was visited by Charles Dickens in 1842 and received a mention in his book American Notes. [2]
The Lebanon Historic District is a historic district composed of the areas of Lebanon, Illinois, developed prior to 1900.The district includes five distinct areas of Lebanon: the city's main commercial district, the neighborhood around McKendree University, two residential districts, and an archaeological site at the city limits.
She made her first time-tabled, commercial trip from on 2 February 1926 from St Mary's to Penzance. It took her three and a quarter hours. [5] Scillonian was grounded in the St Marys, Annet area on 10 September 1951 [9] but refloated the next day, and kept in service until 1956.
Founded in 1893, its stated aim is 'to encourage amateur sailing and boat racing'. The Club is well known for two designs of boat: the Mermaid (keel boat) and the Sea View One-Design (SVOD), also known as the Seaview Dinghy. Notable members include Olympic Gold Medallist Ben Ainslie.
On March 16, 2008, then 69-year-old Japanese sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie left the Hawaii Yacht Club, Honolulu, in Suntory Mermaid II, bound for Japan. He arrived on July 4, 2008 in the Kii Channel offshore of Hinomisaki cape, Wakayama, without incident. Horie had made the world's longest solo voyage in a wave-powered boat, using ...
An illustration from a 1913 reprinting of Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 fairy tale The Little Mermaid The cover of Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1913 Russian-language novel A Provincial Tale The March 1949 issue of Fantastic Adventures features the story "The Mermaid of Maracot Deep".