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Our sailing product manager Chloe Henderson just showed us this photo of her dad Paul helping to release a 60 year old hawksbill turtle into the wild again.ÂThe endangered creature had been caught in fishing nets on the island of Carriacou, north of Grenada. (Note the vintage Musto hat; we’ve got photos of our gear in action from all corners of the world!)
Visit www.kido-projects.com for more information on this great non-profit preservation organisation in the Caribbean.
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Here at the Musto offices we’re very proud of our equestrian marketing manager Emmie Brown who competed in a local martial arts event at the weekend.
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Earlier this month Bear Grylls and his team completed his latest Arctic adventure to raise awareness of climate change. They traversed the Northwest Passage – which is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans – in an open-topped RIB.
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The Musto team is an active bunch so we were very proud of Emmie Brown, our equestrian marketing manager, who travelled to Japan last month to compete in the Japan Karate Federation (JKF) 36th World Championships. She wrote to us with her itinerary and let us know how she got on:
14 July – arrived in Tokyo and stayed for a day visiting various souvenir shops and temples
15 July – moved to Kyoto, spend the day seeing various temples
The Sumo World Championships
16 July – travel to Nagoya to watch the Sumo Championships – sneak into Sumo warm up area and get pictures taken with a few sumo and also at the ring side17 July – visit more temples in Kyoto
18 July – visit the Gion District, see all the main Tea Houses where Geisha entertain, visit the main Geisha Theatre, see a few Geisha. Then move to Gion High Street to watch the Gion Festival
Geisha girls in Gion
19 July – visit the Ramon Noodle Factory where cup noodles were discovered! Get to make own pot noodle20 July – spend whole day (8 hours) traveling up to Omagari, Akita, ready for training
21 July – Seiwakai training begins.
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It’s always great to hear from sailors around the world with stories of their adventures whilst wearing Musto gear to keep warm and dry.  Michelle from our Exeter store’s husband Rory McDougall recently sailed the Jester Challenge and wrote to us with the following:
‘The thousands of miles upwind against the cold North Atlantic - the Jester Challenge - was all I expected it to be, aboard my 21ft Tiki catamaran ‘Cooking Fat’. We sailed 3,650 miles in under 34 days to reach Newport, USA from Plymouth, UK. We battled through 3 gales, one of them wild enough to sink another competitor, endured calms and finally weaved our way through the capricious Gulf Stream.
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