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Visitors aloft on Cutty Sark. yard. Visitors must be 12 and over. Those who’d prefer to go the other direction can descend beneath the hull where they are allowed to reach up and touch the coppersheathed hull. The Climb-the-Rig Experience requires reservations in advance. (www.rmg.co.uk/cutty-sark) ... A group of sea shanty musicians and enthusiasts have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new website directory, Maritime Music Directory International,
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which will steer fans to maritime-themed bands and festivals. Dean Calin, website project head and the founder of the maritime musical group, Bounding Main, explains: “When an event is looking to hire performers of sea shanties they can search this directory for experienced bands and individual performers accepting bookings. Likewise, maritime-themed bands looking for performance opportunities can search this directory for likely places to get booked. Fans of the music can find festivals in their area to attend, or they can see what music or videos their favorite bands have recorded and follow a link to where they can order them online.” The Maritime Music Directory International will be a self-populating, central location for fans of sea shanties to discover exactly what they want about music groups, festivals, individual performers, and their recorded music. (You can check out their website—a work in progress—and find links to the Kickstarter website at www.seashanties4all.com.) ... In May, Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Massachusetts announced it has received a $1 million donation from the Safe Family Foundation for the museum’s endowment. The gift will help support the educational mission of Mayflower II. Mike Safe served the museum for many years as a trustee and believed strongly in the museum’s mission. Mayflower II was built in Brixham, Devon, England between 1955 and 1957, after which she set out with a crew of 33 across the Atlantic under her own sail power, arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on 13 June 1957 to great fanfare,
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