Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2014 | Page 52

ON THE WATER Presentation of K1 Britannia O ver 60 people attended a presentation by K1 Britannia, followed by dinner at the Royal London Yacht Club in Cowes, on the first night of Cowes Classics Week. K1 Britannia’s mission is to complete the build of a replica of the Royal Yacht Britannia, owned and raced by H.M. King Edward VII and H.M. King George V, and for her to be gifted for charitable 52 www.visitilife.com purposes once completed. Rosemary Joy gave a resume of the original Britannia’s history; a short film on the building of K1 Britannia in Russia was shown and Scott Ward, Director of K1 Britannia, gave a presentation on charity platform www. greenzones.org , that will manage the yacht’s charitable aims. See www. k1britannia.org for more details.