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==Legacy== [[File:Lively Lady leaving Portsmouth Harbour (cropped).jpg|thumb|''Lively Lady'', 2006|alt=blue-hulled two-masted yacht with mainsail partly set passing a rocky shoreline with buildings beyond]] Alec Rose Lane in Portsmouth city centre is named after him, as is a [[Wetherspoons|Wetherspoon]] public house in [[Port Solent]], Portsmouth and the 3rd Worthing Scout Groups 'Rose' Cub Pack. An elderly people's residence in [[Gosport]] bears his name.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alec Rose House|url=http://www.gosport.gov.uk/sections/your-council/council-services/housing/older-persons-services/alec-rose-house/|accessdate=15 November 2014}}</ref> Sir Alec's sailing club Eastney Cruising Association in Portsmouth has a Cornish Pilot Gig named after him. There is a plaque commemorating his global circumnavigation near his landing point at [[Southsea]].<ref name=Plaque>{{cite web|title=Memorials and Monuments in Southsea |url=http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/southsea/alec-rose.htm |accessdate=15 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129012328/http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/southsea/alec-rose.htm |archivedate=29 November 2014 }}</ref> Rose gives his name to the [[RNSA]] Sir Alec Rose Trophy for Outstanding Single Handed achievement.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Torpoint Mosquito Sailing Club|url=http://www.tmsc.org.uk/Club/History.htm|accessdate=15 November 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128103956/http://www.tmsc.org.uk/Club/History.htm|archivedate=28 November 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> ''Lively Lady'' was displayed at the 2005 London Boat Show.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|newspaper=Telegraph|date=6 January 2005|title=Sailing into history|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/725925/Sailing-into-history.html|accessdate=15 November 2014}}</ref> A pub in [[Bracklesham]], near Chichester, West Sussex, is named The Lively Lady after Rose's yacht. From 2006 to 2008 [[Alan Priddy]], founder of the ''Around and Around'' charity, circumnavigated the globe aboard Rose's yacht ''Lively Lady''. The 60-year-old boat was crewed in stages by a group of 38 disadvantaged young adults. Which to most of them was "life changing", Priddy attributed his passion for sailing to Rose.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=BBC|date=5 July 2008|title=Lively Lady returns 40 years on|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7491256.stm|accessdate=13 January 2011}}</ref> ''Lively Lady'' was in 2009 leased to ''Around and Around'' for 25 years so the charity could maintain and use her for training.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Yachting Monthly|date=12 October 2009|title=Lively Lady returns to Alan Priddy|url=http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/news/409902/lively-lady-returns-to-alan-priddy|accessdate=16 November 2014}}</ref> In 2011 the charity announced that, after a refit, ''Lively Lady'' would undertake another circumnavigation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Rose's achievement.<ref name=BBC2011 /> The charity restored and extensively refitted the yacht in time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rose's circumnavigation.<ref name="Stickland" />
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