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8th June 2012

Shanty & Seafaring Festival, Rosses Point

#SEA SHANTY FESTIVAL – Want to hear plenty of sea shanties and at the same time support the RNLI, then Rosses Point, Co. Sligo is the place to be during the three-day Sea Shanty & Maritime Festival held between the15-17th June.

This will be the third time that the coastal village is to host the festival, which to those who have attended previously will let you know is a great occasion, with lots of fun, a great atmosphere and a great standard of music, poetry, song and performances.

For this forthcoming festival there will be an increased number of overseas acts and added new dimensions to the festivals activities. The main festival concert will be held on 16th June at the Yeats Country Hotel featuring acts from Norway and several from the UK. Likewise this venue is to raise funds for the RNLI which is to hold a rescue display earlier that day starting at 3pm. This is to be followed by a Go As You Please Race at 4.00pm.

On the following Sunday, there will be a Wreath Laying and Blessing of the Boats ceremony at 12.30pm. There will be more activity on the water with a RNLI Open Day, rowing races and the staging of the Maugherow Cup, for times and festival programme visit www.rossespointshanty.com/programme.html

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The most significant events for the Half Ton Class has been the annual Half Ton Cup which was sailed under the IOR rules until 1993. More recently this has been replaced with the Half Ton Classics Cup. The venue of the event moved from continent to continent with over-representation on French or British ports. In later years the event is held biennially. Initially, it was proposed to hold events in Ireland, Britain and France by rotation. However, it was the Belgians who took the ball and ran with it. The Class is now managed from Belgium.