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#KintyreExpress – Fast RIB-craft passenger-only ferry operator, Kintyre Express resumes Ballycastle-Campbeltown services this month, and this will be their fourth season since making a debut in 2011, writes Jehan Ashmore.

Sailings of the 1 hour 30 minute crossing between Northern Ireland-Scotland operate every Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Departures from Ballycastle are 14.00 and from Campbeltown they depart two hours earlier at 12 noon.

The route is operated by locally built RedBay Stormforce high-speed RIB craft and all sailings operate on demand only - a minimum 4 booked passengers.

Single fares are £35 and for return tickets they are prices at £60. Bikes are carried free on all journeys. For further information telephone: 01586 555 895 or to book online visit: www.kintyreexpress.com

 

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Wave Regatta provides Howth Yacht Club and the community on the Howth peninsula in County Dublin with a biennial keelboat racing event that aims to be the most attractive sailing event in Ireland.

Maximising many of the local natural resources and involving allied Howth businesses and services, it attracted competitors, visitors and others on its first staging in 2018 with a weekend-long spectacle establishing Howth as a destination of choice for sailors, visitors and allied marine tourism.

Read Afloat's preview and review of the first staging of Wave Regatta.

At A Glance - Wave Regatta 2024

Howth Yacht Club's 2022 WAVE Regatta will be sailed from May 24th to 26th 2024

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