Foynes Yacht Club has been chosen to host the Mermaid National Championships. The competition, last hosted in Foynes in 2004, will see almost forty sailing boats of a classic 1950’s design, racing daily for seven days on the estuary waters close to the picturesque and historic port village. The competition brings with it a festival atmosphere, as over a hundred sailors with their families and friends settle in for a week packed with competitive and social activities by day and by night.
A special feature of this year’s competition will be the Family Fun Day which will be held on the Bank Holiday Monday (2nd Aug) and will seek to raise much needed funds for the RNLI. With championship racing finishing early on that day, the club will be thrown open to the public for them to enjoy some fun and frolics both on and off the water. Among other events, a sponsored Mud Splat Obstacle Course Race will make for entertaining viewing and a display from the Coastguard Helicopter is expected.
The club is very pleased to announce that Shannon Foynes Port Company (SFPC) will act as ‘Anchor’ Sponsor for the event. Joint planning activities are well underway to ensure that all activities are run in a safe, efficient and entertaining fashion. The committee and members will now be canvassing financial support from the business community in the Limerick area in an effort to defray the considerable expense to the club of running such a prestigious festival event. In return, sponsors who chose to associate their business with this National Championship will be assured of high exposure of their company name and products, achieved through a range of promotional ideas.
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