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9:50 AM Sat 3 Oct 2009 GMT

'Just about packed and off it goes... - Melbourne to Vanuatu' John Curnow

OK. Just where am I going with this lot then is that for sure the ORCV is Politically Correct, which is exactly the way it should be. However, the main point is that for the 2006 Melbourne to Vanuatu, the racers got together and sent a container ahead of them to Vanuatu.

In that container was 12 tonnes of humanitarian aid (school supplies, medical supplies etc.), which was then distributed to schools and hospitals throughout the 80 constituent islands that form to make the delightful country of Vanuatu.

Now in part of that aid shipment were some PCs (yep Personal Computers, so I've just closed the link on the title) that were arranged by Paul Anderson from the Gordon Institute in Geelong, who sailed on Ocean Skins. When George Shaw arrived in Port Vila and went to the Port Vila Institute of Technology, he saw that all the donated PCs were up and running.

If you really want to do something for one of the PacRim nations, then think about this. This is 100% REAL. Not one ce

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