TYCOON’S LOST MOBILE IS FAR FROM PLAIN SAILING

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	TYCOON’S LOST MOBILE IS FAR FROM PLAIN SAILING

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8-15-2009 3:15 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06b25d3e-e643-4cb4-8487-9adad5085d09/D0C7277F-940A-4FE0-BAFC-68086B37962F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/120706/Returning-tycoon-s-lost-mobile-is-far-from-plain-sailing/" href="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/120706/Returning-tycoon-s-lost-mobile-is-far-from-plain-sailing/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailyexpress.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/120706/Returning-tycoon-s-lost-mobile-is-far-from-plain-sailing/">IT was the mobile phone that really lived up to its name.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/120706/Returning-tycoon-s-lost-mobile-is-far-from-plain-sailing/">When international businessman Harald Baum found he had sailed to Scotland leaving his precious phone 100 miles away in Redbay, Northern Ireland, he launched Operation Blackberry to have it returned.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/120706/Returning-tycoon-s-lost-mobile-is-far-from-plain-sailing/"><P class="storycopy">First, the 69-year-old boss of a Hamburg-based international insurance firm contacted the yacht club in Redbay where he had left the BlackBerry and persuaded a guest, who was sailing back to Campbeltown, Argyll, to bring the mobile to Scotland with him.</P>                     <P class="storycopy">At the end of a four-hour crossing in rough seas, the off-duty policeman drove 60 miles north from Campbeltown to Crinan on the trip’s second leg.</P>                     <P class="storycopy">At Crinan, the BlackBerry handset was collected by Struan Smith, who runs yacht charter firm Coastal Connections with his twin brother Cameron.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/120706/Returning-tycoon-s-lost-mobile-is-far-from-plain-sailing/">It was then taken by inflatable boat on its second sea journey of the day, a £360 charter to Oban, where it was handed over to Mr Baum on his 48ft yacht, Elan.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0C7277F-940A-4FE0-BAFC-68086B37962F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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