They include keeping the Canongate Venture building and the facade of the Old Sailor's Ark.

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After being selected from almost 800 applicants, the 27-year-old novice sailor quit her retail assistant job, packed up her house and moved to Britain for an intensive sailing course.

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"It was a real challenge to finish once we had lost the foil, our speed dropped so much so we knew we had to do something drastic to fix it, " said Moshin Al Busaidi, the 37-year-old Omani sailor who shot to fame in 2009 when he became the first Arab to sail non-stop around the world in just 76 days.

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But the HMAP is using the evidence of documents such as centuries old tax records and sailor's logs to explore how they have changed - and find the information that will help us understand and protect our oceans for the future.

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The founders of the Navy Memorial envisioned this Lone Sailor at 25 years old at most, a senior second class petty officer who is fast becoming a seagoing veteran.

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Thirty-six-year-old Nneka Green-Ingram, a former sailor who has a coveted general vendor license, got sick of setting up shop along a sidewalk on 125th Street in Harlem where she operated for about four years.

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And that the 36-year-old Simpson -- an understated, hugely talented sailor -- lost his life.

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This tight cleft through the steepling old warehouses is clustered with bars that date back to the drunken sailor's heyday.

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