This is one of the great west coast spectacles, on and off the water. The Crinan Classic Boat Festival Continue reading
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Crinan Classic Boat Festival 2009
The 2009 Crinan Classic Boat Festival runs from 2nd-5th July. This is a feast of classic wooden boats of all kinds – sail boats, fishing boats, motor boats, dinghys… There’s posing, whisky, racing, whisky, haggis-hurling, whisky, ceilidhs and… whisky. Well this part of Scotland is where the best of Scotch is born and made so who’s to complain?
The Classic is open to all wooden boats and the racing is fabulous. These are some of the best cruising grounds in the world and racing around them is not to be forgotten. Crinan is on the west ocast of Argyll – and of Scotland – on the Sound of Jura with the islands of Jura and Scarbha opposite, the Corryvreckan whirpool over the water, the Atlantic beyond and the Scottish west coast islands inshore to the north and out in theAtlantic to the north west.
For more information, contacts are the website – linked from the text above and:
- Mike Dalglish – Mobile: +44 (0)788 793 1921
- Ross Ryan – Mobile: +44 (0)776 627 7818
- Landline: +44 (0)1546 830 261
- Email: crinanclassic@yahoo.co.uk
Maf Smith from Holy Loch Sailing Club wins Flying Fifteen World Championships in Australia
Holy Loch Sailing Club is all of a buzz. Club member Maf Smith and his helmsman Andy McKee from Dovestone Sailing Club have recently won the Classic Division of the Flying Fifteen World Championships in Australia. This comes a week after they won the Classic Division of the Australian National Championships. The club is delighetd that the commitment Maf and Andy have made to their racing in taking their fifteen down under to compete has paid off so handsomely. And not only is this great for the Holy Loch Sailing Club – it’s great news for all of Argyll.
Beijing ‘Flying Saucer’ firm designs Glasgow’s Chris Hoy Velodrome for 2014 Games
Schuermann Architects – one of the best velodrome designers in the world, were responsible for the phenomenally successful stadium for the Beijing Olympics in 2008 – nicknamed the Flying Saucer. The company is already designing the new major Chris Hoy Velodrome for Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games in 2014.
Because cyclists at Beijing said the velodrome there would have been even better if it had been a little steeper, that’s being done for Glasgow. Continue reading