divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/37567?ns=guardianpageName=UK+news%3A+Wife%27s+call+saves+sailor+after+nights+on+liferaftch=UK+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=UK+news%2CSpain+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Giles+Tremlettc7=2008_11_22c8=1122256c9=articlec10=GUc11=UK+newsc12=Spainc13=c14=h2=GU%2FUK+news%2FSpain" width="1" height="1" //divpA British sailor survived on a liferaft for three nights in a storm-tossed sea without food or drinking water after his boat sank off Spain's Balearic Islands./ppJayesh Patel, 43, said he had a miraculous escape from the 44ft (13-metre) yacht Umbalika as it went down at night after taking on water near Mallorca. He and a Belgian colleague were thrown into the sea before they struggled aboard their liferaft and begun a three-day battle against fear, hunger, thirst and the storms that continued to lash the Mediterranean Sea./pp"It was a very, very frightening experience. There were 40-50mph winds, waves of two to three metres," he said. "We had no food. /pp"The boat went down so fast - in a matter of minutes. We didn't have time to grab anything. We made a Mayday call but for some reason it didn't get through."/ppPatel, an experienced yachtsman with a commercial captain's licence, said he was putting out the Mayday call when it became clear that the water was about to fill up the cabin on the Umbalika. "I had to swim out along the cabin roof," he said. /ppWhen he had finally fought his way out, he was forced up to the surface and found himself beside the man who had been helping him sail the boat towards mainland Spain. They grabbed a liferaft before jumping ship but had no time to find flares, food, water or extra clothes. /pp"We were in the sea for about 15 to 20 minutes because we had problems getting the liferaft inflated," said Patel./ppPatel said he realised that it would take a while before rescue services were warned. "We were due in [mainland] Spain on the Thursday and I didn't think anyone would raise the alarm for at least 20 hours when we hadn't arrived," he said./ppAttempts to attract a passing helicopter failed and Patel tried to propel the liferaft to a nearby island. The men also tried to row using a pair of trainers as oars./ppOn the third night Patel began to get worried as winds were driving them away from the area where passing ships might find them. He began dreaming about food and water./ppHis wife Louise, who lives in London, became worried when he had not called to say he had arrived safely./pp"No one was aware of the problem until the sailor's wife dialled 999," a spokeswoman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said yesterday. "They were eventually rescued after four days and three nights in the liferaft and after an air-sea search covering 20,000 sq km."/ppMrs Patel raised the alarm on November 13. The men were rescued two days later. /ppHer husband was barely able to move his legs when the Spanish rescue ship pulled alongside. Once on board the vessel,he dragged himself up to the bridge so he could call and let his family, including his two children Balram, 15, and Ulrika, 12, know that he was safe./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/spain"Spain/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Newscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227321420780112202420450257"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Newscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227321420780112202420450257" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

As we arrive for our interview with Ken Clarke, he is groaning about having to squeeze into his black tie for a dinner. The Conservatives' man of the people is more comfortable in shirt sleeves and suede shoes. He prefers dingy jazz cellars to swanky yachts. He loves birdwatching on the moors but he would never go shooting in plus-fours - “the idea would be hilarious”, he says. For years, he played snooker every week with his son - “I should have been brilliant after a lifetime of dedication,” he says, “but I was never any good.”

Poncin Yachts présentera début décembre au Salon Nautique de Paris (du 5 au 14 décembre) son nouveau catamaran Catana 41 (Longueur hors tout de 14 mètres), version propriétaire. Ce catamaran est produit à Marans près de La Rochelle depuis l'arrêt de la

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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Yesterday, we called up a href="/article/news/37149/SleaterKinney_Say_Goodbye"strongformer/strong/a a href="http://www.sleater-kinney.com/"strongSleater-Kinney/strong/a singer-guitarist a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/"strongCarrie Brownstein/strong/a to talk about a href="/article/download/147599-new-old-music-the-spells-carrie-brownstein-and-mary-timony-bat-vs-bird-mp3-stream"strongthe songs she recently unearthed from a 2000 recording session with the Spells/strong/a, her long-lost collaboration with a href="http://www.marytimony.com/"strongMary Timony/strong/a. During the course of our chat, Brownstein filled us in on the story behind the Spells, and a href="/article/news/45235-sleater-kinneys-brownstein-does-comedy-lecture-ads"strongwhat she's /strong/aa href="/article/news/46893-carrie-brownstein-blogs-for-npr"strongbeen up to lately/strong/a. We'll post the full interview tomorrow, but she dropped one piece of news that we just had to let you know about today: Brownstein and a href="http://theshins.com/"strongthe Shins/strong/a' James Mercer will both appear in a forthcoming feature film titled emSome Days Are Better Than Others/em, which is tentatively slated for a fall 2009 release./p p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"emSome Days Are Better Than Others /emis directed by Portland experimental filmmaker a href="http://www.rodeofilmco.com"strongMatt McCormick/strong/a, who has helmed videos for both a href="http://pitchfork.tv/videos/sleater-kinney-jumpers"strongSleater-Kinney/strong/a and a href="http://pitchfork.tv/videos/shins-australia"strongthe Shins/strong/a as well as YACHT and Patton Oswalt, and it's currently in post-production. This is the director's first feature; a href="http://www.rodeofilmco.com/projects/film_and_video"strongprevious works/strong/a include the 2008 shorts emLight Tiger Eye /emstarring Brownstein and Mercer and emThe Problems With Machines (That Communicate)/em, starring the Shins' Marty Crandall and Crandall's ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell. McCormick's 2004 short emTowlines /emfeatured original music by Mercer as well. Neil Kopp and David Cress, the producers of emSome Days Are Better Than Others/em,em /emalso producedem /emGus Van Sant's filmem Paranoid Park /emand Kelly Reichardt's Will Oldham-starringem Old Joy/em./p p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Overall, I'd say that the film is about lonely people trying to create their own abstract forms of communication. You could call it a charmingly melancholy look at abandonment," McCormick says. Brownstein and Mercer play the lead roles, characters named Katrina and Eli, respectively. Various other Portland indie rock luminaries also appear in the film, including Brownstein's former Sleater-Kinney bandmate Corin Tucker, YACHT (who perform in the movie), Corina Repp, and Matt Sheehy. Matthew Cooper of Eluvium is slated to contribute to the flim's music as well./p p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Although McCormick had worked with both Brownstein and Mercer in the past on their bands' music videos, he says that "both of them went through a drawn-out series of auditions before I was sure they were right forbr / the parts." He continues, "With James, the character he plays is in many ways an extension of the character that I created for him in the the Shins' a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/rodeofilmco/past_and_pending.mov"strong'The Past and Pending' video/strong/a I did awhile back. While writing the script, James sort of became this character by default. The character isn't necessarily based on James, it was just James' face that was in my head when writing this character. And then after I did the a href="http://pitchfork.tv/videos/shins-australia"strong'Australia'/strong/a video I was just completely impressed with his poise and ability to take direction, and eventually decided to give him a shot at playing this role./p p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""With Carrie, I had had her in mind for a smaller supporting role that I knew she would just be perfect for, but for formalities' sake we brought her in to audition. While there we also had her read for the lead role of Katrina just to see what would happen, and she completely blew us away."/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"So, should we expect to see Carrie Brownstein in more roles? Is she headed to Hollywood? "That's a mere hobby," she explained. "I told Matt that I was probably a liability for his film, but he cast me anyway. I auditioned; he didn't hand the roles to either of us, we auditioned. That's not where my future lies. I'd rather do spontaneous and silly work like a href="http://www.thunderant.com/"strongThunderAnt/strong/a [a href="/article/download/45671-video-fred-armisen-and-carrie-brownstein-feminist-bookstore-thunderant-episode-2"strongBrownstein's comedy duo with "Saturday Night Live"'s Fred Armisen/strong/a--Ed.] than have somebody's film on my shoulders. But it is challenging./p p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"She continued, "I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance needs are being taken care of in other mediums. I mean, a lot of music for me was about-- I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates-- getting to perform. It's not the same, doing a movie or doing ThunderAnt, but it definitely is akin to that kind of challenge. I get to sleep in my own bed at the end of the day. And my back doesn't hurt as much."/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Stay tuned tomorrow for a lot more from Carrie Brownstein./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vap2MRfvkz5bC6xMqK7DWZITE-E/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vap2MRfvkz5bC6xMqK7DWZITE-E/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/qwvbXzvkLSU" height="1" width="1"/