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Despite the many miles under the keel and 4,700 hours on the engine, the boat showed impeccably and surveyed nearly flawlessly. While Pirate Radio passed her seatrial with ease, her international pedigree meant she was in Florida under a Free Trade Zone (FTZ) bond, a complicated process dictated by US tax regulations. Severen was able to work with US Customs to clear the boat out of the FTZ in the Bahamas and get her ready to begin life back on the other side of the globe, where more worldly adventures await.

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SOLD: Nordhavn N86 ‘PIRATE RADIO’

Yachtsmen International is delighted to announce the sale of 86’ Nordhavn Yacht PIRATE RADIO.

Yachtsmen International Managing Director Sean Madgwick introducing the buyer and Garrett Severen from Nordhavn Yachts representing the seller.

The Australian buyer, an avid surfer, had been searching for the perfect yacht to suit the family’s adventurous leanings – the perfect platform for chasing some of the most renown surf breaks in the Pacific, if not the world. From the outset, it was evident that we needed to find the right “tool” to not only travel safely to these regions but also to stow large tenders, jet skis, and the biggest collection of surfboards you’ve seen yet! Additionally, the vessel would need to serve well as the ideal ‘home-away-from-home’, fitted with all the creature comforts you could ever want for relaxing after a big day on the water, as well as being well-suited for entertaining and enjoying with friends and family.

The search was broad in terms of where we were willing to travel to find the right yacht, yet our criteria narrowed down the options to one particular niche, a niche that is increasing in popularity year on year – expedition yachts. We recognised the appeal of this niche (especially to the Australian market) back in 2021 when Yachtsmen International signed a new build with one of the world’s leading expedition builders, Cantiere Delle Marche, for the recently launched 35 meter, RJ115 M/Y PAZIENZA. In 2024 PAZIENZA will proudly call Australia home, she takes the title of the first CdM to be built for an Australian.

“It has been such an absolute pleasure to work with such a congruent down to earth family who shared similar values and aspirations,” comments Sean, “we’re all excited to see the vast array of incredible destinations they will undoubtedly conquer over the coming years.”

PIRATE RADIO was designed by Jeff Leishman and built by Nordhavn Yachts in 2009, she is hull number 4 of Nordhavn’s 86 model. PIRATE RADIO was located in Fort Lauderdale at the time of sale but is now Australia-bound much to the delight of her new Owners. We wish her new Owners many years of safe & enjoyable yachting.

Contact Yachtsmen International direct for media requests and photos, and to learn more about the sale  of PIRATE RADIO,

If you’re interested in buying or selling a yacht, contact the professional team of yacht brokers at Yachtsmen International. Our expert team of brokers at Yachtsmen International can provide exclusive access to thousands of quality, luxury yachts for sale the world-over, including private yachts not publicly listed for sale. From pre-owned yacht sales to new construction, charter to service & refit , discover Yachtsmen International’s full-service approach to yachting today!

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Yachtsmen International Closes Sale of Nordhavn N86 PIRATE RADIO

By Emily Dawkins

Australian brokerage Yachtsmen International has announced the sale of the Nordhavn 86 motor yacht PIRATE RADIO. Sold to an avid surfer from Australia, the sale of the 26m vessel was completed by Yachtsmen’s Managing Director Sean Madgwick, who introduced the buyer, and Nordhavn Yachts’ Garrett Severen, who represented the seller.

Perfect for her new owner and their family’s active, adventurous lifestyle which sees them, ‘chasing some of the most renowned surf breaks in the Pacific, if not the world’, PIRATE RADIO offers everything and more one would want from a superyacht.

Designed by Jeff Leishman, Owner and Chief Designer of Nordhavn Yachts, PIRATE RADIO was launched in 2009 as hull number four of Nordhavn’s popular 86 model. Considered to be, ‘one of the finest Nordhavn’s ever built’, the 26m vessel boasts remarkable size and volume, comparable to yachts from the yard’s 110’ range, and is fitted with a fuel capacity in excess of 26,000 litres, allowing her owner to venture around the world in confidence.

Beautifully adorned in fine hardwoods, intricate mouldings and raised panels which are balanced by cooler stone floors and granite countertops, the interior decor of PRIVATE RADIO offers a warm and welcoming serenity: luxurious but also highly functional. 

A notable highlight onboard is her expansive swim platform which features a custom swim ladder and dual wrap-around staircases leading up to the aft deck: another space perfect for entertaining family and friends. 

PRIVATE RADIO has accommodation for ten comprising one incredible full-width master suite on the sky lounge level complete with a private balcony, and four VIP guest suites, all with ensuites. 

With requests from the owner for safe cruising, a ‘home-away-from-home’ atmosphere and comfortability onboard, as well as plenty of storage for tenders, jet skis and, of course, an array of surfboards, the elegant expedition build was the perfect match for her new owner. 

‘It has been such an absolute pleasure to work with such a congruent down-to-earth family who shared similar values and aspirations,’ commented Sean Madgwick. ‘We’re all excited to see the vast array of incredible destinations they will undoubtedly conquer over the coming years.’

PIRATE RADIO has a top speed of 12 knots and a cruising speed of 10 knots, powered by twin 600hp MTU series 60 engines. She was located in Fort Lauderdale at the time of her sale but is now on her way to Australia to welcome her new owners onboard.

According to Yachtsmen International, there has been an increasing popularity year on year for expedition yachts such as PIRATE RADIO, especially in the Australian market. This was first recognised by the brokerage house in 2021 when it signed a new build with one of the world’s leading expedition builders, Cantiere delle Marche, for the recently launched 35 m M/Y PAZIENZA. The 35m is soon to call Australia her home, where she will proudly take the title of the first CdM vessel built for an Australian. 

"It has been such an absolute pleasure to work with such a congruent down-to-earth family who shared similar values and aspirations" Sean Madgwick, Managing Director, Yachtsmen International

"It has been such an absolute pleasure to work with such a congruent down-to-earth family who shared similar values and aspirations"

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How Pirate Radio Ships Paved the Way for Britain's Rock 'n' Roll Revolution

The British pop invasion that took over American airwaves in the 1960s might never have happened, had it not been for a radio revolution in the United Kingdom.

In 1964, there was nowhere easy for British youngsters to listen to rock ‘n’ rollers like The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones. Commercial radio wasn’t yet an option, and the guardians of the publicly-owned British Broadcasting Corporation considered such music immoral, antisocial and unfit for public broadcast. Yet just three years later, on Sept. 30, 1967 — a half-century ago this Saturday — the BBC switched on the transmitters of Radio 1, the country’s first dedicated popular music station.

What happened to change their minds? The answer to that question — and the story of how pop music came to the FM dial in the U.K. — involves illegal offshore broadcasters, a gutsy Irishman and a murder acquittal.

The Irishman’s name was Ronan O’Rahilly, a small-time businessman who dabbled in the record industry. He realized that a station using a transmitter on a ship anchored 5.5km from the coast would be outside British territorial waters, and therefore not subject to broadcasting laws. He named it Radio Caroline, reportedly after seeing a picture of a young Caroline Kennedy dancing in the Oval Office that, to him, represented a playful disruption of authority. The idea wasn’t original: the U.S.-backed Voice of America had already been anchored in the Mediterranean promoting a westernized worldview to communist lands. But Caroline was the first station to make waves in the music radio industry. On March 28, 1964, the pirate radio station made its first broadcast, unsure of who could hear or who was listening.

One of the first DJs on Radio Caroline was Tony Blackburn, whose experience of broadcasting was limited to his love of Radio Luxembourg, a European station playing pop hits that could occasionally be picked up from within the U.K. He applied after seeing a small advertisement in the New Musical Express , the country’s definitive music magazine, and was invited to come aboard. Being free from the British authorities meant being free from record company and artist rights’ restrictions. Radio Caroline could import the American Top 40 format: playing today’s biggest hits repeatedly and giving tomorrow’s the time to climb. “I remember hearing Tom Jones’ ‘It’s Not Unusual’ for the first time, thinking that it was terrific, that was probably the first pirate radio hit,” Blackburn tells TIME. The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks all came after.

There were no ratings. The only way the pirate broadcasters could gauge the station’s popularity was by fans’ direct reactions. And quickly, the signals were good. Listeners sent bags full of mail every day, and some even rode on tourist boats to pull up at the side of the boat and throw gifts on to the deck. Blackburn, now a 74-year-old veteran of British radio, remembers telling listeners he would be giving out Radio Caroline’s obsolete vinyl from his little red sports car when he got off ship in the port town of Harwich the next day. “It took me about an hour and a half to get out of [town],” he laughed. “Just hundreds of people lining the streets. They didn’t know what I looked like but they’d heard about the car.”

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Not all the DJs were British. Mike Pasternak, 74, a Californian better known on the airwaves as Emperor Rosko, still wears a black baseball cap adorned with a white skull and crossbones. “I saw a floating hunk of rust,” he tells TIME about the first time he set eyes upon the Mi Amigo, the ex-German Navy ship that was home to Radio Caroline. Rosko, unlike Blackburn, had already worked on radio for two years before Caroline, for the military onboard an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. “The poor British guys had the love of it but they didn’t have the technique,” he said.

Both DJs insist that life was wildly different from the booze- and drug-fueled depiction of the boat in Richard Curtis’ 2009 film The Boat That Rocked, which starred Philip Seymour Hoffman as Emperor Rosko. “We were allowed two beers a day,” said Blackburn, who later moved to another offshore station, Radio London. “If you’ve got people drunk and staggering all over the place full of drugs and beer you know it’s dangerous. If you fell over the side you’d drown, never survive it.” Entertainment activities were limited to planning the show, watching TV, sunbathing and playing cards. Sometimes boats would bring tourists alongside the Mi Amigo and a few women would come aboard “for a cup of tea,” as Pasternak puts it.

But if fans loved the pirate radio stations, the record companies losing out on royalties did not.

As lawmakers debated whether or not to act, there came one incident that “more than any other, forced the government into legislating against the offshore stations,” ex-pirate DJ Ray Clark wrote in his history of the ship, Radio Caroline. During a heated dispute over a radio transmitter, a pirate station manager was shot dead by Oliver Smedley, a former Liberal political figure turned businessman. Smedley was later acquitted on grounds of self-defense, but the scandal forced the government’s hand. “The extraordinary and tragic events of the past 24 hours have impressed on everyone… that piracy is piracy,” politician Hugh Jenkin told Parliament. The Marine & Broadcasting Offences Act came into effect on Aug. 14, 1967, making it illegal for anybody to do business with or supply the ships from the U.K.

The pirate radio stations were sunk, figuratively speaking. But the BBC understood that the 15 million listeners who tuned in to them needed a place to go. And so, the decision was made to poach the best DJ talent and create a new, separate radio station just for popular music. Blackburn had the honor of being the first voice on air that day 50 years ago, and credits the BBC with taking on the lessons from pirate radio. “They didn’t try and do it their way,” he says. “They said, ‘Look, these guys know how to do it, let’s bring them in.’ That was sensible.”

Today, Radio 1 is one of the most influential stations in the international music industry, having introduced audiences to genres from prog rock and electronica, to Britpop and grime. And fans of the British invasion have the station — and its pirate forebears — to thank for doing the groundwork for their stateside success, according to Pasternak.

“They all got a boost like there’s no tomorrow,” he says. “Whereas if they’d been same old BBC playing one hour a week, who knows — it would have taken forever.”

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PIRATE RADIO

PIRATE RADIO is a 24.38 m Motor Yacht, built in the United States of America by Hatteras and delivered in 2007. She is one of 26 80 SL models.

Her top speed is 25.0 kn and her cruising speed is 22.0 kn and her power comes from two Caterpillar diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 8 guests in 4 staterooms, with 2 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 127.0 GT and a 6.28 m beam.

She was designed by Hatteras , who also completed the naval architecture and designed the interior. Hatteras has designed 96 yachts, created the naval architecture for 119 yachts, and designed the interior of 92 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

PIRATE RADIO is one of 5877 motor yachts in the 24-30m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her volume is 14.52 GT above the average.

PIRATE RADIO is registered under the Marshall Islands flag, the 5th most popular flag state for superyachts with a total of 455 yachts registered

Specifications

• Name: PIRATE RADIO
• Previous Names: MESMERIZE,WESTAR OF THE SEA
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Yacht Subtype: Semi-displacement
• Model: 80 SL
• Builder: Hatteras
• Naval Architect: Hatteras
• Exterior Designer: Hatteras
• Interior Designer: Hatteras

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How Pirate Radio Rocked the 1960s Airwaves and Still Exists Today

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If you've been binge-watching movies lately, you may have come across "Pirate Radio ." Director Richard Curtis' 2009 comedy-drama stars the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count, a disc jockey for an unlicensed rock radio station that broadcast from a rusty, decrepit ship off the British coast in the mid-1960s, defying government authorities to spin the rock records that weren't allowed on the BBC at the time. The plot is based loosely on the saga of an actual former pirate station, Radio Caroline , that was founded by an offbeat Irish entrepreneur named Ronan O'Rahilly , the inspiration for the character portrayed by Bill Nighy.

"Pirate Radio" is a period piece, set in a time when the Rolling Stones' " Let's Spend the Night Together " and the Who's " My Generation " were still scandalous and controversial rather than nostalgic anthems for today's aging baby boomers. So you couldn't be blamed for assuming that it depicts a long-vanished phenomenon, like Nehru jackets with iridescent scarves and psychedelic-patterned paper mini dresses.

To the contrary, though, more than a half-century later, pirate radio is still a thing. In fact, it's possibly more widespread than it was in the 1960s, even in an age when streaming internet services such as Spotify and Pandora put the equivalent of a jukebox in the pocket of everyone with a smartphone. And as a bonus, Radio Caroline still exists — though, ironically, it's gone legal.

In the U.S., pirate stations have popped up in recent years all over the country, from West Virginia to Washington state, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which plays a continual game of whack-a-mole in an effort to keep them off the airwaves used by licensed broadcasters. Unauthorized stations are particularly prolific in the New York City area, where a 2016 study by the New York State Broadcasters Association (NYSBA) found that there actually were more pirates then on the FM band than legal licensed stations.

"Pirate radio continues to exist in the internet age for a variety of reasons," John Nathan Anderson , a broadcasting scholar and author who is working on a book about pirate radio, explains via email. "One is cost. It's eminently cheaper to purchase or build an unlicensed radio station than it is to set up a robust streaming channel online, especially if you're looking to cover a local area. All you need is a location to host the antenna and access to electricity — unless you've got batteries, then just the location."

Additionally, pirate broadcasters don't have to deal with all the legal complexities of setting up and running a streaming internet service, such as writing terms of service or meeting contractual obligations, he notes. And audiences can get the station on inexpensive radio receivers — there's no need to have a computer or a smartphone with 5G , or to pay a monthly subscription fee or worry about blowing through their data limits. They just twist the dial. Very old school, and cheap enough for anyone's budget.

Thanks to e-commerce, it's also easier than ever for a would-be pirate to find the necessary equipment and have it delivered to his or her door, as FCC enforcement official David Dombrowski described in this 2019 podcast . Powerful, uncertified transmitters manufactured in foreign countries easily slip through customs at U.S. ports.

Pirate Radio's Quirky History

Offshore broadcasts become illegal, pirate radio in america.

Unlicensed radio broadcasters have been around practically since governments started trying to control and regulate the airwaves. That was particularly true on the other side of the Atlantic, where the U.K. allowed only state-controlled radio from the 1920s through the mid-1960s. "The government decided that radio was too influential as a means of mass communication to be in private hands," Peter Moore explains in an email. He's the station manager for today's legal, land-based version of Radio Caroline, which obtained a license to broadcast at 648 Khz on the AM band in 2017, but still strives to preserve the rebellious spirit of the original operation.

"Private radio was prohibited and only the British Broadcasting Corporation, which was part of the political establishment, sent radio to the British people with the remit to be morally uplifting, informative and educational," Moore says.

But by the 1960s, the postwar baby boom filled the U.K. with millions of teenagers who were eager to hear the rock 'n' roll records that the BBC declined to play. Enter Ronan O'Rahilly, who learned that the U.K. government's jurisdiction ended 3 miles (5 kilometers) off the coast, and that stations from other countries already were exploiting that loophole by putting transmitters on offshore ships, according to Moore.

"He created Radio Caroline operating in that way and the station was at once called a 'pirate,'" Moore says.

As this 2009 article from the Independent, a British newspaper, details, O'Rahilly obtained a 63-ton (57-metric ton), Danish passenger ferry, the MV Frederica, and renamed it Caroline, after the daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy. He anchored the ship in international waters in the North Sea, just off Frinton, Essex, and hired a crew of DJs to play music around the clock — at the time, a revolutionary concept. On Easter Sunday in 1964, the station went on the air, playing the Rolling Stones' single " It's All Over Now " as its first song.

"By playing nonstop current pop music in a situation where this had never before been available, Caroline had within months a larger audience than all the BBC stations combined," Moore explains.

Here's a 12-minute recording of Radio Caroline DJ Tony Blackburn's show in 1965, which includes both a breakfast cereal commercial and the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun" and "For Your Love" by the Yardbirds:

Because the station had to fill so much airtime — DJs had to come up with 2,500 tracks to play each week — Radio Caroline helped foster what Moore calls "an explosion of new artists and bands who may have started recording conventional pop music, but who then expanded their musical abilities. The Moody Blues are one example of this." Having that exposure helped boost the careers of scores of British bands whose music eventually made it to America.

The Who actually paid homage to Radio Caroline and other offshore broadcasters by parodying them on their 1967 concept album "The Who Sell Out," as music historian John Atkins has written.

Radio Caroline because so influential that, pretty soon, other ships were broadcasting rock off the coast as well. The Offshore Radio Museum website commemorates many of those pirates.

The British government, though, didn't appreciate what Radio Caroline and other pirate broadcasters were doing. In 1967, Parliament enacted the Marine Broadcasting Offenses Act, which made offshore broadcasts from ships illegal, on the pretext that their broadcast interfered with marine weather radio and distress signals, as this contemporaneous New York Times account notes. Violators faced two years of imprisonment and fines.

But O'Rahilly was undeterred, even after his ship was seized briefly by Dutch authorities. He got the craft back and kept at pirate radio for nearly another quarter century. Ex-Beatle George Harrison was sufficiently appreciative of Radio Caroline's mission that he even wrote a sizable check in the early 1970s to help keep the ship in operation, according to Ray Clark's book " Radio Caroline: The True Story of the Ship That Rocked ."

The original converted ferry sank in 1980, but the five DJs on board — and the ship's canary, Wilson, named after British Prime Minister Harold Wilson — all were rescued, according to O'Rahilly's New York Times obituary . He then obtained another ship, a German trawler called the Ross Revenge, which continued to host the station until it ran aground along the British coast in 1991.

Even then, though, Radio Caroline wouldn't go away. It eventually regrouped and resurfaced as an internet station, which gave it a global reach.

"Caroline now has two stations, one playing album music and one playing the original pop music for which the station is remembered," Moore explains. Meanwhile, the Ross Revenge was repaired and converted into a floating museum for tourists.

"While Radio Caroline is no longer 'illegal' the philosophy is unchanged," Moore says, noting that the station's staff has the motto "New Technology, Same Ideology."

The U.S. has had its share of pirate broadcasters over the years as well. A few of them broadcast from ships, such as Rev. Carl McIntire , a fundamentalist preacher who briefly broadcast fire-and-brimstone sermons from a converted minesweeper off the coast of New Jersey, as this 2014 NJ.com article details.

In the late 1980s, unlicensed operators tried broadcasting from a Honduran-flag freighter in the waters off Long Island, according to The New York Times .

But most of the current American pirates are based on dry land, broadcasting from clandestine antennas on rooftops in places such as Brooklyn. Unlike the rock 'n' roll hipsters of 1960s British pirate radio, who aimed at a mass audience, most of Brooklyn's unlicensed broadcasters seem to be immigrants and members of ethnic and religious minorities trying to reach their own groups and neighborhoods.

David Goren , a veteran radio producer who's created programming for National Public Radio, has spent years studying pirate broadcasters. In addition to this 2019 BBC documentary , Goren also has created the Pirate Radio Map , which documents pirate radio stations in Brooklyn and even includes brief samples from their broadcasts.

"One reason I've found as to why people are still using pirate radio is that these communities have very strong cultural and historic connections to radio," Goren explains. "In Haiti during the Duvalier regime, people depended on radio to get news from independent sources off the island. To have a radio station here helps to establish the station's operator as an important source of information and influence in the community."

For many of the people in those communities, who may not be able to afford a computer or a smartphone and a broadband connection, pirate radio is an affordable medium.

"I spoke with a pastor of a church in the community which had a station and the antenna was taken down by the FCC," Goren says. "He was waiting several months to come back on the air (and therefore was only willing to speak off the record to me). I asked him why he would still take the risk to go back on air and he said he wanted to reach the homeless, the shut-ins, the elderly who couldn't access the internet."

But the FCC, Congress and the commercial broadcasting industry don't see the pirates as serving such a benign purpose. In January, President Donald Trump signed into law the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement (PIRATE) Act, which gives regulators the ability to hit pirate stations with fines of up to $2 million, according to this summary from Radio World .

"These transmissions can interfere with licensed radio signals — including broadcasters' sharing of vital public safety information with their communities," FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement . "To enforce the law and protect American radio listeners and lawful businesses, the Federal Communications Commission has made a concerted effort in recent years to step up our enforcement efforts against pirate radio stations."

But just as the British government's stiff penalties didn't deter Radio Caroline, at least so far, the U.S. government's crackdown doesn't seem to have deterred the pirates. Goren, who's been monitoring the airwaves since the law was passed, notes that on a typical day, he picks up about 26 pirate stations in Brooklyn alone.

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Radio Caroline founder Ronan O'Rahilly had another claim to fame, in that he influenced actor George Lazenby to give up the role of James Bond after playing in just one film, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," in 1969. "He convinced me to not stay on as Bond — I'd be in danger of becoming part of the Establishment," Lazenby wrote on in an Instagram tribute after O'Rahilly's death in April 2020, noting that he had no regrets about taking that advice.

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The Essex ship dedicated to pirate radio which starred in The Boat That Rocked

You can explore the studio just like the ones where DJs played the Kinks and Beatles on the British airwaves for the first time

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Pirate radio shaped the future of music in the UK and has become an iconic moment in British history, leading to a number of films and documentaries about the DJs who lived offshore on huge boats to bring new tunes to people across the country. One of the very first places where pirate radio sprung up was off the coast East Anglia, where Radio Caroline was launched in 1964, and in Harwich there is a floating museum to this era.

The Light Vessel 18 is memento of the past and for the past 11 years has been lovingly maintained by Tony O'Neil and a team of people from the Pharos Trust, in partnership with Essex County Council, Tendring District Council and Harwich Haven Authority. These partners ensure the boat stays docked in Old Harwich, is kept in ship-shape condition, and can be visited by anyone who wishes to learn more about rock 'n' roll history.

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Moored next to the famous Ha'Penny Pier, LV18 is open from 11am to 4pm every day from April to October, costing just £4 for adults and £2 for children to jump on and explore. The boat also starred on the big screen as it was one of three ships used in the filming of The Boat That Rocked. The filming took place in 2008 in Portland, Dorset, and can instantly be recognised for its red hull and white upper deck.

The film, which was released in 2009 and featured a stellar cast of Bill Nighy, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh, Nick Forst, Rhys Ifans, January Jones and Tom Sturridge. It brought the history of pirate radio to an entirely new audience of movie fans and paid homage to Radio Caroline - the very first station to launch.

The story follows the broadcasting of the DJs and the government's attempts to curb their popular shows, which reached the airwaves from ships which remained out of reach of the authorities as Maritime radar was rare and there were no publicly accessible satellites in orbit. Eventually, Harold Wilson's government brought in the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act which put an end to pirate radio and saw the birth of Radio One as we know it.

The hilarious and touching film captured the rebellious spirit of the DJs who were desperate to bring the music of the Beatles, Kinks and rock 'n' roll from America to the young ears of the British public. Incredibly, the LV18 was found wallowing on a mooring on the River Stour and Mr O'Neil bought it for just £1 at the time - worth far more now of course. With the help of the Pharos Trust and other partners, the boat was restored and is now the only Light Vessel to have been preserved in all its glory.

Fans can come aboard the ship and explore the entire thing on their own, or groups can arrange a guided tour. There's a fully working radio station onboard with vinyl and electric music decks, a garden, engine room, galley, messroom, crew quarters and more to see. It has since been used for radio broadcasts and among its patrons is legendary British DJ Johnnie Walker, as well as being visited over the years by many famous DJs from the swinging 60s.

An event on August 13 and 14 will see pirate radio broadcast from the studio onboard once again - though this time it will be a legal broadcast.

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