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