Collective Spirit

There are many lovely boats in Weymouth Harbour from little dinghys to tall ships. A couple of days ago a beautiful new boat arrived: Collective Spirit. It is made from about 1,200 pieces of donated timber to celebrate the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. One of Jimi Hendrix's guitars makes up the tiller while a leftover plank from the London 2012 velodrome was also used. You can read the full story on the BBC News website. When I saw it last night it was sitting on a trailer on the harbourside rather than in the water. It could do with an information board as I heard a few people commenting "it's beautiful, but what's it about?"

The harbour in the evening always looks lovely. It has an east-west orientation so that the sun sets upriver and lights up the boats and harbourside buildings. All the little fishing boats and yachts are decorated with official Olympic bunting so the whole place is just shimmering with colour.